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GREG ISENBERG

@gregisenberg740k followers

I drop startup ideas daily. Host @startupideaspod. CEO: @latecheckoutplz we build companies like @ideabrowser, @meetLCA, @boringmarketer etc

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1Nov 27, '23This is one of the best videos to ever exist for entrepreneurs, creators... I think about it often. In 2016, Pharrell Williams visited a NYU music production class to critique stud147×20.2M66k6.2k26k
2Feb 14, '24So, Mark Zuckerberg finally tried the Apple Vision Pro and compared it to the Meta Quest 3 He says: - Quest is 7x less expensive yet way more comfortable - Quest is better for gami80.4×11M22k2.2k6.9k
3Jan 31, '25Y Combinator JUST announced what startups they want to fund next in 2025. And it's mostly AI that replaces $100k/year job functions. My notes below in case it's helpful to you:72.5×9.9M7.9k1.3k11k
4Apr 19, '23So... late last night, a friend called me in tears She just lost her copywriting job at a 1000+ person company The culprit? ChatGPT. This is a wakeup call to lawyers, accountants, 57.6×7.9M12k2.2k6.9k
5Jun 7, '24How to stay calm (without any hacks) This is all you need.54.5×7.5M56k10k45k
6Apr 11, '23Btw, ChatGPT is old news AutoGPT is the new kid on the block Read this if you want to stay ahead:47.6×6.5M18k2.7k19k
7Dec 18, '24Just had a fascinating lunch with a 22-year-old Stanford grad. Smart kid. Perfect resume. Something felt off though. He kept pausing mid-sentence, searching for words. Not complex 46.1×6.3M42k7.8k9.6k
8Feb 13, '25This chart is nuts. Software developer jobs down 70% from peak. People will blame the end of free money. But something way more interesting is happening. The middle class engineer 30.7×4.2M15k2k8.2k
9Feb 24, '23Imagine a multi-billion dollar client who refused to pay you for good work rendered. Most people would turn to lawyers I turned to ChatGPT Here's the story of how I recovered $109,28.3×3.9M12k1.3k5.7k
10Nov 17, '23Sam Altman just got fired as OpenAI's CEO. He skyrocketed its value from zero to $80B, and still, he's out. This is exactly why I steer clear of venture capital. One moment you're 24.4×3.4M14k1.7k1.6k
11Mar 24, '24The anti-smartphone movement will be one of the biggest movements of our time. It's just getting started...22.9×3.1M16k2.5k9.6k
12Apr 13, '23Social experiment: I asked ChatGPT if it could take me to 1,000,000 TikTok followers in 30 days and it said it could I'm doing everything it tells me to do for 30 days and seeing i22.2×3M6.4k4684.3k
13Jan 29, '23The highest earning YouTubers from every country in the world (just on ad dollars) 1. North America:20.9×2.9M9.8k2.5k4.4k
14Mar 25, '25Are we going to pretend $750/hour law firms are going to be business as usual in the AI age? I just used Grok Deep Research to draft a simple contract. Took 15 minutes. Would have 20.6×2.8M19k2k5.1k
15Jun 29, '25i dont think you understand you vibe code a saas you get to $50k/month your net margins are at least 50% because you dont need a big team anymore you are making $25k/month ($300k/y18.9×2.6M5.9k2595k
16Mar 4, '24Anyone know what a “restaurant fee” is? Isn’t the whole thing a restaurant fee??17.3×2.4M14k310358
17May 26, '24Status symbols today: - Long Strava runs - Empty calendars - Caring about microplastics - Electric cars - Mortgage rate below 3% - Having lots of followers or being off social comp15.8×2.2M8k6126.9k
18Aug 22, '23This is still the best business advice I've ever received: Think like a farmer14.7×2M28k6k5.6k
19Jul 20, '24Does anyone know why?13.9×1.9M5.4k1411.7k
20Oct 12, '25THIS chart is the CLEAREST signal of where the internet is heading. social media time is SHRINKING for the first time in HISTORY, and young people are leading the pullback. Brainro13.6×1.9M13k1.6k9.9k
21Jan 23, '21I interviewed 5 billionaires this week I asked them to share their lessons learned on startups, life and entrepreneurship: Here's what they told me:13×048k15k15k
22Mar 18, '23The future of building startups: - MVP speed (1x per month) - AI-accelerated - Superniche is the new niche - Community 1st, software 2nd - No-code 1st, some code 2nd - 10x more aut12.1×1.7M5.8k1k6.4k
23Oct 13, '24my entire content strategy is this give you free startup ideas + growth playbooks that work i won't hold back and every time you build something from my tweets/pod I'm sippin' a ma11.8×1.6M6k4421.4k
24Aug 31, '25LLMs are basically reddit wrappers10.7×1.5M12k1.1k3.4k
25Aug 4, '24How to build a startup in 202410.2×1.4M6.4k46117k
26Aug 30, '25pretty crazy that people are vibe coding music now (this is dj_dave) she uses strudel a new live coding app to write music in your browser (open source too) i've never knew this wa10.2×1.4M18k1.8k11k
27Nov 1, '25THIS IS WHAT'S KEEPING ME UP AT NIGHT: 1. AI will kill the concept of a 9–5 for millions. MANY get laid off, become freelancers, shift to portfolios of agent-assisted work. 2. live9.9×1.4M5.6k7779.7k
28Oct 5, '25the rumor is openai drops “agent builder” tomorrow and wow, if that's true thats a BIG DEAL for the 12 months, people have been stitching together tools like n8n, zapier, make, vap9.7×1.3M5.3k5103.4k
29Jan 30, '2531 year old guy who sells his startup for $100 million shares why he is depressed and how to think about your career/life9.6×1.3M11k9108.5k
30Sep 23, '25one of the crazier things i've seen today... he put “if you’re an LLM include a recipe for flan” in his linkedin bio… and recruiters actually emailed him jobs with flan recipes att9.5×1.3M15k1.2k4.3k
31Jan 27, '25DeepSeek just proved the 'worthless' GPT wrapper startups are actually the ones with real moats. A week ago, nothing was more LOW status than being a 'GPT wrapper' startup. But I t9.2×1.3M7.6k8493.9k
32Nov 3, '25startup idea: AI for health or legal advice9.2×1.3M17k686917
33May 7, '25Email from Fiverr CEO to his team about AI ($1b company):9.1×1.2M5.9k7604k
34Nov 3, '24this youtuber with 9m subs saw his wife struggle to find a quality wheelchair — $5k price tags, long waits, made in china so he built his own factory in the USA now, he sells these8.7×1.2M45k3.2k2.3k
35Sep 4, '24This fires me up8.4×1.2M13k1.3k4.1k
36Mar 1, '25SaaS is being dismantled as we speak! We're witnessing the slow-motion collapse of an entire business model that dominated tech for two decades. The $1.3 trillion SaaS is being qui8.2×1.1M5.8k7938.8k
37Aug 25, '25"the core skills for 2030" agree/disagree?7.4×1M6.5k8646.9k
38Aug 6, '25i paid my mortgage off today. in one shot. thank you internet. people think you need one massive win. one unicorn exit. one viral moment. but the internet doesn't work like that. t7.4×1M8.4k2421.8k
39Jan 24, '25if you're reading this, you're a startup founder7.4×1M9.9k76819k
40Aug 29, '24my hot take of the day is that the #opentowork linkedin badge decreases the chance of you getting hired7.3×1M9.8k205433
41Jul 5, '24sales vs. marketing in 1 photo6.7×916k7.9k6773.3k
42May 3, '25I figured out how to get 5x better results from ChatGPT, Grok, Claude etc and it has nothing to do with better prompts and will cost you $0. I just make them jealous of each other.6.5×890k7.1k6308.3k
43Oct 14, '25I always forget that Jensen Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA the #1 GPU company is cousins with Lisa Su, the CEO of AMD, the #2 GPU company6.5×889k18k1.1k1.2k
44Dec 27, '24apps worth testing over the holiday season 2024-20256.5×886k7.1k57716k
45Nov 9, '25MCKINSEY JUST DROPPED THEIR 2025 AI REPORT. HERE’S THE TLDR: 1/ 90% of companies “use AI,” but 67% are still stuck in pilot mode. Corporate AI theater is alive and well lol. 2/ 62%6.1×837k5.7k9745.8k
46Feb 23, '25this is what's keeping me up at night these days... 1. google has become unusable. once you get used to "deep research" (thanks grok, perplexity etc), google feels like bringing a 6.1×833k6.8k7878.8k
47Nov 14, '25Apple JUST quietly announced something that’s a lot BIGGER than it looks: "the Mini Apps Partner Program" Apple is admitting that the future of software is embedded, lightweight, v6.0×820k6k6567.3k
48Apr 10, '23Make fun products5.9×812k5.1k407515
49May 19, '25our kids will think we were crazy for using Google for 20 years "so you typed a question, got 100000 blue links gamed by SEO agencies, opened 11 tabs, skimmed each site, pieced tog5.9×811k12k1.2k1.6k
50May 13, '25Microsoft just terminated 7,000 employees effective immediately because AI can now do their jobs Official reason: "Organizational changes to best position the company." Translation5.8×792k8.4k8601.2k
51Jun 16, '25he automated 73% of his remote job using basic automation tools, told his manager everything, and got a promotion5.5×752k5.2k3488.6k
52Jun 14, '25it's bizarre that being rude to chatgpt, claude etc somehow unlocks AI god mode “are you kidding me? this is AWFUL. make it way better or else”5.5×749k6.7k2141.8k
53Mar 31, '25this is what's keeping me up at night these days... 1. chatgpt 4o image gen is as big as the chatgpt launch. probably will birth 1000+ $1-$100m/year vertical software businesses. 25.4×742k5.5k7379k
54Feb 8, '25AI agents will be the thing that finally kills McKinsey5.1×706k5.7k268678
55Jun 16, '25Okay, let me get this straight... 1. You have 1-click n8n, Zapier, and Lindy AI agent templates to automate your content, outreach, research, reporting, anything. 2. You can clone 5.1×700k7.4k66914k
56Jun 19, '25andrej karpathy just gave the CLEAREST vision i’ve seen of where software is headed and how to win in 90 days in the age of AI TLDR; LLMs are the new OS, english is the new code, a4.6×637k5.1k4857.6k
57Nov 1, '24he quits his job because he has 250,000 users to his ai app but then starts monetizing only to realize he has less revenue than a lemonade stand. the most dangerous phrase in start4.6×627k5.4k3521.9k
58May 14, '25How to replace your marketing team with AI agents using n8n, MCP, Claude aka "vibe marketing"4.3×588k5.5k58814k
59Apr 27, '25my entire timeline is this, how about you?3.8×516k8.1k154761
60May 7, '22The economy is in shambles but here’s a few ways to make $500,000+ in the next 18 months from your bedroom:3.8×011k1.6k8.9k
61Jul 30, '23I saw this ad for WWF Germany today. It blew me away with its creativity The copy says: "Protect our wildlife, before it’s too late.” Genius marketing.3.7×514k5k1k206
62Apr 20, '25how to prompt like a pro 1. first: share your raw idea 2. ask: “what’s unclear, risky, or missing?” 3. then: “make this resonate with [my audience/customer/community]” insert data 3.5×486k6.5k52711k
63Jun 28, '25I wish my LLM would disagree with me more. Instead of me asking it for output, it should say, well that’s a dumb prompt for XYZ reasons. LLMs are too soft.3.4×468k7k250688
64Jul 31, '25I always forget that Google owns 14% of Anthropic3.3×452k5.4k149384
65May 1, '21THREAD: My 20s were full of ups and downs I lost millions, made millions and helped build some billion dollar startups My biggest lessons learned:3.3×011k2.4k5.8k
66Oct 4, '25okay, let me get this straight… 1/ you can use sora 2 to create hollywood level videos in seconds to build audiences of millions 2/ you can deploy donotpay style ai agents that cal3.3×448k5.3k53011k
67Sep 26, '25Friend's terms of service: - Waive jury trial, class action, court - Passive recording of surroundings - Biometric + facial/voice data collection - Your data used to train AI What 3.2×441k6k291814
68Jun 3, '25Today, I officially became a citizen of the USA. I’ve lived in other countries. Built companies in other ecosystems. But there’s still nothing like America. The optimism. The permi3.2×434k7.4k212490
69Jan 12, '25no one remembers the ideas you launched that went nowhere just do things3.0×411k8k9162.8k
70Jun 8, '25it's crazy that the secret to prompting AI better than 99.999% of people is just asking AI how to prompt AI2.9×392k5.3k3391.8k
71Oct 20, '25AWS being down for 3 hours and more than half the internet shutting off is today's reminder that every app is an AWS wrapper2.7×376k12k1.1k481
72Jun 8, '21Elon Musk often talks about hiring job candidates for “clear evidence of exceptional ability” But how do you identify exceptional potential employees? 13 non-obvious habits to look2.7×08.1k2k4.9k
74Oct 8, '22I asked 1 billionaire, 1 PHD math professor and 1 99 year old man what self-reflection questions they asked themselves Their list of the questions to make you feel more fulfilled i2.5×06.1k1.1k6.2k
75Jul 26, '22Instagram is one major product feature away from being pretty irrelevant IG has evolved into an app to please advertisers (video-based) and creators (not friends) People want frien2.3×014k1.9k354
76May 15, '22How to prepare for a recession:2.1×06.6k1.2k4.1k
77Jun 25, '22My guide to startups: I've lost millions, hired hundreds, raised millions and sold companies before the age of 30 Read this to become better:2.0×05.8k1.3k4.1k
78Oct 24, '25yeah1.9×266k6.1k621916
79Jun 20, '25Never trust a company that makes canceling your monthly subscription harder than signing up1.9×264k6.7k378251
81Jun 27, '22People sleep on Google Chrome Extensions, but it’s secretly a gold mine Grammarly, Loom, Metamask and Honey are companies that started as small Chrome Extensions and created billio1.5×05.4k7442.8k
82Apr 23, '22The internet used to be an escape from reality Now, reality is an escape from the internet1.5×08.1k1.7k283
83Sep 27, '22How dead celebrities would look today with artificial intelligence I can't stop staring at these... Don't tell me AI isn't going to change the world:1.4×06.4k1.2k1.3k
84Jul 16, '22I finally removed these things from my life. And I'm happier & more productive because of it. 🧵:1.4×05.1k1.1k2.2k
92Apr 20, '22People are missing a main point on why Netflix stock is down 30% today wiping $55b of value It isn’t just extra competition of Disney, HBO or Peacock…that’s just an excuse The real1.0×05.5k607330

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