Tom Bilyeu

"I haven't yet. No, until I finish One Piece, like get caught up. I'm not watching anything else"

"You start learning about things like control nets and things like that where you can control the outline, you can control what feels in the outline, you can control style"

"I spent my Christmas vacation learning how to do where you control the open-source AI so that you can control every aspect of the image"

"I am an avid collector, not of Pokemon, but of One Piece cards, but I don't do it for the monetary value."

"So now that I have an underlying understanding of parent and child nodes inside of Unreal Engine, I can now go edit that or create new relationships."

"I've played Hightail. Hightail is fantastic. There are things that they do that I think will always make it a shadow of Minecraft."

"Then the very next day I experienced ChatGPT Pro and was completely blown away."

"I've since migrated mostly to Claude and that has blown me away."

"If you have anything you find, drop it in the Discord. I'll make sure to shout you guys out."

"We are using it here at Impact Theory. And the team that we have is just like at first they were like, 'This is all crap. It doesn't work. It's not very interesting.' And then slowly over time I was like, well actually like you know it's completing some of the lines of code for me."

"I'm on X at Amasad ASA. That's where people I engage with people, reply and just try to help."

"I just tried the pro version a couple days ago. It's huge. I forced it into pro mode and it will take like 15-20 minutes to think about something but then the answer it gives you is like holy shit it's spectacular."

"I think Truflation is the most accurate real time read of actual prices that people are paying. And Truflation says that inflation is dropping like a rock."

"I went to Grok and Grok was like, 'Yeah, no problem. Here's all the stats.' So, it's very interesting"

"I collect manga. Manga costs like $9, $12. Those kind of things, they don't have to be expensive to be something that really bring you joy."

"Today I got an output from Gemini that was like, Kevin Warsh has not been nominated as the new Fed chair. I can't find any news on that. And I was like, what?"

"Go to Gemini. Hey Gemini, give me the breakdown of the facts on this. I cannot find any reports that this is accurate. And I was like, please. Like, this is wild. So, I was like, listen, don't spin me. Don't ever spin me. I'm not going to use you if you can't give me the truth."

"If you really want to have your eyes open to Israel, read the book Rise Early and Kill First. I think that's the exact title, but somebody check me."

"get in the Discord, drop some links, drop some memes. Um, we're building out that finance channel. Thank you guys. There's been like an active community giving us quotes and stuff."

"One Piece is I'm 400 episodes into One Piece and it is extraordinary on par with Harry Potter. If you have kids of appropriate age, this is a must."

"One Piece and it is extraordinary on par with Harry Potter. If you have kids of appropriate age, this is a must... Harry Potter is another one, which is why I drew the parallel."

"Amazon does next day delivery. Just make sure you don't give her the Amazon box. You put it in something else."

"Go over download right now. I would say the one that's probably going to blow your mind the most is going to be Anthropic's Claude. If you can stomach it even for a month, get the full version. It's like $100 or $200 a month."

"And by the way, they will just not produce. Read Atlas Shrugged."

"Read The Gulag Archipelago for an endless string of proof that the line between good and evil really does run right through the center of every human heart."

"Shout out to Jonathan Haidt, who just doesn't fit the channel anymore, but love his work. Love that he's banging this drum."

"Attack on Titan is so good. It's not the greatest anime, but it shows the horrors of war in a way that is breathtaking. You watch a cartoon and you'll be like, 'Oh, damn.'"

"The book is called Endurance, I believe. And it is so good when you read how long these guys were trapped. You got to read it. That one will make you go, 'Oh, I've never done anything hard in my life.'"

"If you want to understand more about this, there is an exceptional book and Drew is going to get me the author on the show, book's called 1929 and it talks about what led up to the stock market crash."

"There's like another book that's Burnham asks. It's called The Sovereign Individual. I don't know if you've read that. It's a fantastic book. It predicted Bitcoin."

"Have you read the book Determined by the Stanford professor whose name I'm currently blanking on? He literally all the way down to quantum collapse and tubios and all that. He just debunks one after another any room for free will."

"His mental model for dealing with all of this is what he calls the all-weather portfolio. He doesn't advise people try to predict exactly when the dollar will fail. Instead, what he says is to build a portfolio that is balanced to thrive whether the economy is growing, in a recession, experiencing high inflation, is dealing with outright war, or just plain catches you offguard."

"I was completely transformed as an individual by Mike Benz. When I did the research for that episode"

"Bitcoin is your life raft. By Bitcoin, I mean gold, Bitcoin, like things that are alternative assets."

"When BlackRock launched its Bitcoin ETF, ticker symbol IBIT, they needed companies to actually make the system work behind the scenes."

"Back in 2022, Terraform strangely pulled $150 million from the Curve liquidity pool without telling anyone."

"Jack Dorsey, one of the most prolific modern founders, has just laid off nearly half the staff of a company making more than $2 million in profit per employee"

"On Wednesday, Perplexity AI launched a new product called computer. It orchestrates 19 different AI models working in parallel to research, code, and execute complex tasks end to end."

"When Claude couldn't go any further, like I was saying, the hacker just went over to ChatGPT and was like, 'Hey, I need guidance on how to move through the system without being detected.'"

"I am wearing a shirt of one of the characters that I created, did a clothing line collaboration with a company called Dimmak, which is Steve Aoki's clothing company"

"Perplexity has oneshotted Bloomberg's multi-billion dollar financial terminal empire."

"they don't have their own foundational model, but they do operate off of Llama. So they've built if you think of llama or stable diffusion as stable diffusion I think it's truly open source llama is open source with catches"

"Claude hacked the Mexican government. I'm not joking about this. This one is insane."

"What's going on with Open Claw. I think that was the name they finally went with. Where what they're doing is trying to answer the call of like, okay, listen, I know there's a lot of companies, you're terrified of people accessing your private data, so you want to run this on your own computer."

"It supports TurboTax along with over 3,500 exchange wallet and crypto integrations."

"Get ready for Deep Seek 4, 20x over current US company LLM, even Opus 4.6 and Codex."

"You've already got the rise of companies like Palantir where we want the tools, we don't want them to be weaponized against the public."

"He was sitting down with Tucker Carlson and the America First agenda is slightly slipping."

"Get ready for Deep Seek 4, 20x over current US company LLM, even Opus 4.6 and Codex."

"Not sure if you're interested in studying the cartel deeper. If so, I would recommend interviewing Victor Galarza from the Vigilance Project."

"There is a new game coming out called Crimson Desert. And Crimson Desert looks amazing. First of all, they are obviously way farther ahead than us."

"Polymarket is heating up right now. The highest volume is 37 million. Says we're going to have a strike by February 28th."

"Iran's foreign minister went on CBS's Face the Nation and said Iran's nuclear enrichment program is a matter of national dignity and pride."

"You open ChatGPT, you ask it to do something, it does it, then you close the tab and forget about it until next time."

"Now let's flip over to the Polymarket because it seems like bets are piling in. $288 million in volume. This is on whether strikes Iran. Yeah. This is 14 Pokemon cards. That's the total volume."

"look it up really fast. It's um it was a very interesting like micro documentary in the early days of YouTube and I remember watching it going whoa"

"the best analysis that I've seen came from Citadel's Q1 outlook and JP Morgan's quantitative team"

"if you guys don't know Citadel Securities, the guy from there, Scott Rubiner, he reported that in January of 26, we saw the highest retail net stock inflows ever recorded"

"there's stuff of people doing Sora where it's like they're in their living room laying on the floor holding on to a pillow and then you AI it so it looks like they're floating in the ocean"

"Sam Altman just tweeted that Peter Steinberger, the dude who created OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents"

"I know Palantir's capabilities. The FBI was a founding Palantir client. 6 million files is basically nothing."

"we are like Minecraft with guns. It's an oversimplification, but that gets you pretty close."

"yes, we will be on Steam if people are asking or I know people are. I see it in the chat."

"Peter Steinberger, the dude who created OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents"

"SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the moon as we potentially achieve that in less than 10 years whereas Mars will take 20 plus."

"A Waymo hired a Door Dash driver to close doors in Atlanta."

"A Waymo hired a Door Dash driver to close doors in Atlanta."

"Pokemon Go has officially removed the Pokétop that was on Epstein Island."

"A Waymo hired a DoorDash driver to close doors in Atlanta."

"The most recent book is The End of the World is Just the Beginning."

"Now we got ChatGPT and Claude and Anthropic and all the rest."

"Now we got ChatGPT and Claude and Anthropic and all the rest."

"Lisa and I filmed an episode together on the Women of Impact channel, which this is the second time that we've done something together."

"I could download Duolingo. It's going to teach me about cows and blue and all these things that I don't necessarily need to learn."

"If you really want to get a sense of what exponential looks like, go copy a single cell in an Excel spreadsheet and paste it in."

"This is from Shamath from the All-In podcast. With Zuck's move to Cal to Florida, California's total taxable wealth from billionaires has plummeted"

"Take Palantir. They use something called data fusion. It's the merging of scattered, boring pieces of information into a single operational picture."

"Start your One Piece journey. Yeah, we can get a crew. We could get around."

"So there's Seaart, which I believe is an offshoot of ByteDance, which did TikTok. This is out of China and supposedly they're not letting people outside of China use it."

"I don't know enough about Zcash. I'll have to dig into that before I can meaningfully answer."

"CBD and marijuana both have implications in that we want to see"

"CBD and marijuana both have implications in that we want to see"

"If you are looking at AI and it's making you anxious and you want to know the path forward, it is very simple."

"According to Polymarket, this one's fun. Kamala Harris is now the frontrunner for the 2028 Democratic nomination"

"Reading James Burnham, the author who talks about the iron law of oligarchy, the need to control narratives."

"I seen House of Cards vibes. My writer brain is going off."

"claims of Epstein's Fortnite account being active after his death are actively being scrubbed from the internet in real time."

"This robot solves a Rubik's cube in 0.1 seconds."

"Have you read The Blank Slate by Pinker? He talks about a lot of what happened like last century in terms of human destruction and tragedy is intellectually at heart is about this idea of humans as robots, as blank slates."

"By embedding AI, so Grok in this case, directly into the Starlink satellite constellation, Musk is aiming to create ultra low latency intelligent global networks."

"SpaceX and XAI have merged. The combined entity is now valued at $1.25 trillion. It's 1 trillion for SpaceX and only 250 billion for XAI."

"SpaceX and XAI have merged. It's likely the largest private sector merger in history. This is really extraordinary."

"They also ended Model S and Model X production going all in on Optimus robots. The S and the X redefine electric vehicles globally."

"They also ended Model S and Model X production going all in on Optimus robots. The S and the X redefine electric vehicles globally."

"They also ended Model S and Model X production going all in on Optimus robots. He knows that the robots are going to be a far bigger revenue generator."

"I spent a lot of time over the weekend writing code with Claude, and it was very clear that we will never ever write code by hand again."

"Sam Altman tweeted: I built an app with Codex this weekend. That's their version of cloud coding. It was very fun."

"There was this same similar debate when ProTools and Studio Equipment became largely perforated and people were like now that you can have an entire band inside of a laptop, it's going to be the death of music."

"Amjad Masad who's the CEO of Replit believes we will hit a ceiling, Yann LeCun believes we will hit a ceiling but we haven't actually hit that ceiling at all yet."

"Netflix is going to know on Tuesday nights you tend to click on these things. So that's what's going to be at the top of your feed. We know when your eyes start moving in a certain pattern, we're going to change this story in real time."

"The amount of surveillance that Palantir is able to do, the way that they're able to make essentially reality queryable and predict behavior and nudge you off course makes me deeply uneasy."

"By adding Grok directly to these satellites, the AI can think and respond faster and it could cut response times back on Earth by 30 to 50%."

"We're also seeing the aggressive roll out of the ECNY, China's digital yuan, which allows nations to settle trades instantly without ever touching a western bank account."

"This is exactly what we're seeing with the rise of BRICS Pay, a decentralized messaging system designed specifically to bypass the US controlled SWIFT network."

"A MALT bot agent is suing a human in North Carolina for unpaid labor. Emotional distress, hostile work environment over code comments."

"By then, what version of GENIE will we be on? So the version of GENIE today is nothing to worry about."

"When you look at Roblox, dude, Roblox games are mindless. I can't fathom how much time kids spend on Roblox. And yet they do."

"Supposedly it runs like butter locally on a Mac Mini, and that actually caused a bunch of DIYers to go crazy and buy the Mac Minis."

"Multbot is being rebranded as Open Claw for reasons that I'm sure are apparent. They've had a couple name changes."

"My three books, The Art of Spending Money, Same as Ever, and The Psychology of Money. Every half decent thought I've had about money are in those books."

"My three books, The Art of Spending Money, Same as Ever, and The Psychology of Money. Every half decent thought I've had about money are in those books."

"My three books, The Art of Spending Money, Same as Ever, and The Psychology of Money. Every half decent thought I've had about money are in those books."

"Claude apparently shows more emotion than Grok or GPT or the deep dive."

"Claude apparently shows more emotion than Grok or GPT or the deep dive."

"The ECNY or the digital yuan is the world's first fully operational central bank digital currency and the SIP's payment system that it uses is set to work around the US financial system entirely."

"all of the signal groups that were infiltrated. So, we see just how much coordination there is."

"did a guest on Joe Rogan predict today's immigration riots back in 2023?"

"For the cost of a Netflix subscription, which isn't free by any means, but is very reasonable for the amount of entertainment that you can get."

"From a Polymarket standpoint, I would be surprised if the odds of a 2027 invasion didn't just go down on this news."

"now that we've seen the signal chats get hacked and what's going on"

"There is a trading firm in Manhattan that made more money last year than Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, and Citigroup's trading desks. They're called Jane Street."

"Jane Street had insider information that made it possible for them to trigger a meltdown of the entire Terra ecosystem, taking $40 billion of value with them."

"We just found out that an insider at Meta had said like three years ago, hey, we're working on this thing called Project Lazarus. It is designed to allow if somebody dies, Meta will be able to take over their account, as an AI, act like that person and keep commenting and interacting with the digital world in the way that the other person still did. And they were saying, you know, at first we thought this was very interesting. Now it's getting like super creepy and very Black Mirror-y."

"people woke up one day and Anthropic had shut them all down. And so they were just like, 'Oh, I built this app. It's now broken.'"

"this was a very shrewd move on his part and as many people are noting a very big ball fumble from Claude, the Anthropic"

"I'm not suggesting for a second that MMT is going to work, but it's one of the few examples out there of people experimenting with something new."

"You fire up Google's Gemini and you ask it a simple question. summarize the Epstein files... It simply says, 'I can't help you with that.'"

"Try to send the word Epstein, even in a direct message, and the app would sometimes slap you with an automated warning and refuse to send it."

"Waymo, they have admitted that their cars are at times not necessarily being driven by people, but they are being influenced by people in the Philippines."

"That's one of the ways they were sex trafficking. It would be like a couch that's $20,000 and you're like, 'Why is there a $20,000 couch on Wayfair?'"

"I'm having an interaction with Gemini. This this real story. So, I'm writing a different I'm trying to brainstorm what my next deep dive is going to be. And in one of the questions to the AI, I mention Epstein. And it just goes, I can't help you with that."

"If you want to know how dangerous that is, read Mein Kampf. That's a book where he goes, 'You know what we need? We need an enemy. We need a singular enemy.'"

"I got GI Joe as a kid, and now they get Cocomelon. And it's like Cocomelon is basically the tick tock version of a kid's show."

"there are unverified reports that the gun was a Sig Sauer, a gun with multiple lawsuits alleging that it misfired."

"going after somebody like a precog from Minority Report is completely out of the question for me."

"there are unverified reports that the gun was a Sig Sauer, a gun with multiple lawsuits alleging that it misfired"

"This is exactly why we've shifted all of our focus on Impact Theory University away from previously I was helping the high-end people... we've just completely refocused everything to people that are going to start that first company using AI."

"I did this on Kaizen, our video game. I encountered something in what are called blueprints. I didn't understand it."

"We're basically in the middle of overhauling zero to founder to show people how to use AI for their business. This is how to do business in the age of AI."

"Welcome to the Tom Bilyeu Show live. We had a wild weekend if you were at all paying attention to international affairs."

"When I'm teaching entrepreneurs, I teach something called the physics of progress. The physics of progress is the scientific method recontextualized for business."

"Our Impact Theory University, which teaches people how to start a business called Zero to Founder, I'm no longer focused on businesses that are already working. I'm now focused entirely on what I think is going to be an entire generation or maybe two generations of people that will get eaten alive by this transition and I want to help them build companies."

"Our comic book Neon Future, one of the lead characters is Egyptian and this woman brought her mixed race daughter up and she was like, 'Oh my god, my daughter sees herself in this character. This is so cool. Thank you so much.' And legitimately the little girl was standing there and she was so excited. I was like, 'Fuck, that's dope. I didn't even think about that when we made the character.'"

"I have nightmares about something happening to Kaizen's code and just poof, it's gone. But if we had to start over again, it would take us maybe 20% of the time to rebuild everything because the vast majority of the time is like figuring it out."

"they should watch Impact Theory's compelling interview with Arthur Laffer, the creator of the Laffer Curve"

"That's why with Kaizen, I'm building a game I think is awesome and that's it. If I won't play it, it doesn't matter."

"It plays right into my thing about Project Kaizen and me just giving it screenshots and it telling me how to do very complex things in terms of game development."

"Take Quest, the company that I built. We would have been in trouble. Not us because we were the three of us that founded it, but our investors would have been because our investors owned more than 5% of the company and the company had gone screaming up in value."

"I had the most incredible experience of my AI life working on my game Kaizen with AI yesterday. It was insane."

"We used to do a show called Relationship Theory. Lisa wants to relaunch it as love theory. It's like basically a call-in show."

"Recently been getting into Quest bars after learning you made them. They're everything you said they were. 10 out of 10. Would recommend."

"I used to do a YouTube series called Impact Quotes. There are still people that'll come up and be like, 'Oh my god, I was just listening to one of those this week.' And I filmed those like seven years ago."

"I often get asked why I teach Impact Theory University because people, if you've never encountered me before, you don't know my story, you just assume that I made my money selling courses"

"Truth Devon, first of all, thank you because anybody that even knows Neon Future Exists, which is a comic that I wrote like five or six years ago now"

"Our business, if I may so say it myself, I'm probably a little biased, is unquestionably good for the world. We make it so that anyone can make software to improve their business, to improve their lives, for artistic expression."

"This is like back at Quest, exact same place we were in there. We had to be moral. We're trying to make food that literally my mom can choose based on taste and it happens to be good for her."

"I run into this all the time. I'm working on Kaizen. AI has made the game that I'm making possible. I just couldn't have done it before."

"I have an existential crisis around the creation of Kaizen literally every weekend. The scope of what we're building is insane."

"This weekend, I was working on the video game I'm building, Project Kaizen."

"I take half a dose of Ketone IQ and it keeps me alert and focused for hours. No jitters, no afternoon fog."

"I'd heard so much about it. I tried it myself. It is fantastic. Fermented pu-er tea from 250-year-old trees provides sustained energy and supports metabolic health."

"I take half a dose of Ketone IQ and it keeps me alert and focused for hours. No jitters, no afternoon fog."

"That's why I'm a fan of Ketone IQ. I take half a dose and it keeps me alert and focused for hours. I use these when I'm riding my deep dives very frequently."

"Quo is the number one rated business phone system on G2 with over 3,000 reviews built for how modern teams actually work. Quo's AI automatically logs calls, generates summaries, and highlights next steps."

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"Plaud records everything, then delivers accurate transcripts, summaries, and action items automatically. You can literally just wear it."

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"They're powered by Animus AI, an award-winning system that doesn't sleep and does not panic."

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"sign up for Zero to Founder if that's even on your radar at all. We are making a massive pivot into that because I can just feel an absolute tsunami coming of people starting their own thing"

"Sign up for Impact Theory University zero to founder. I'm obsessed. We're swinging all of our resources now to zero to founder because with what's happening in AI, we are finding people flooding into that."

"The whole reason that I do Impact Theory University is one to fund my video game obsession and also I believe that the thing that's going to help the most people is understanding the principles of entrepreneurship."

"If you're thinking about starting a business, join Impact Theory University. I teach this idea over and over and over."