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The AI Company Everyone Slept On Just Broke Every Record

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My First Million My First Million host
Sam Parr co-host
Shaan Puri co-host
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Sam Parr and Shaan Puri discuss extraordinary AI developments reshaping business and healthcare, including Anthropic's explosive $6 billion monthly revenue milestone, an entrepreneur using AI tools to cure his dog's cancer through custom vaccine design, and emerging opportunities in AI transformation consulting. The episode showcases both the transformative potential and practical applications of AI across industries, from healthcare breakthroughs to service-based business optimization.

Key takeaways
  • • Anthropic has achieved unprecedented growth with 10x year-over-year revenue expansion, reaching $6 billion in a single month—outpacing decades-old software giants like Snowflake in annual revenue
  • • An Australian entrepreneur used ChatGPT, AlphaFold, and Grok to sequence his dog's tumor DNA, design a custom vaccine, and successfully cure the cancer, demonstrating AI's potential in personalized medicine
  • • Different AI models serve distinct use cases: legal/technical work benefits from Grok's rigor, writing/creation from Claude, and quick tasks from ChatGPT, suggesting users should adopt a "polyamorous" multi-tool approach
  • • Service-based businesses are becoming more attractive than pure SaaS due to AI-driven efficiency gains (75% gross margins vs. 40-50% historically), enabling one person to deliver what five previously required while maintaining premium valuations
  • • The biggest near-term business opportunity is selling AI transformation consulting—auditing existing businesses and implementing AI solutions without upfront capital, replicable across niches like dentistry or retail
  • • Younger entrepreneurs (ages 13-25) are increasingly building successful companies at scale due to normalized exposure to entrepreneurship content on social platforms, creating a generational shift in startup culture and accessibility

Recommendations (5)

Gemini
Gemini uses

"I'm maxed out on everybody. I got Gemini. I got Perplexity. I got Claude. I got ChatGPT. Give me all the intelligence."

Sam Parr · ▶ 5:54

Perplexity
Perplexity uses

"I'm maxed out on everybody. I got Gemini. I got Perplexity. I got Claude. I got ChatGPT."

Sam Parr · ▶ 5:54

Claude
Claude uses

"I have Claude read my Slack and it gives me advice on how to reply to our slacks based off of each other's personalities. It's insane."

Sam Parr · ▶ 3:06

Grok
Grok uses

"I had a legal question yesterday and I just was like, I'm just going to go to Grok cuz if I need the right answer here, I need a thorough, rigorous answer, I'm going to go to Grok."

Sam Parr · ▶ 6:31

Notion
Notion uses

"I don't need to use Tableau anymore, you know? Like I just make my own dashboards in notion and I created a script to auto update it."

Shaan Puri · ▶ 39:38

Mentioned (11)

Anthropic
Anthropic "Anthropic did $6 billion in revenue in a single month last month, which is insane." ▶ 5:08
AlphaFold
AlphaFold "He used AlphaFold which is the Google DeepMind product for predicting protein folding structure." ▶ 11:49
Alpha School "They're creating a new high school using alpha schools technology, which we've talked about befor..." ▶ 17:31
Ozempic
Ozempic "The fact that Ozempic and these weight loss drugs seem to have done something that sounded like t..." ▶ 15:48
Pokemon Go
Pokemon Go "Pokémon Go was like the hit game. You would take out your phone and your phone would just be on l..." ▶ 29:21
Niantic
Niantic "Pokémon Go, the company behind it, Niantic, has that data for real world behavior." ▶ 30:56
Google Street View
Google Street View "If you've ever seen like the Google Street View thing, right? Like Google would send out a car wi..." ▶ 31:01
Handshake
Handshake "We talked about Handshake that company that was basically like a college student internship job b..." ▶ 33:03
The Game "They were talking about like dating and I referenced the book The Game and they were like, 'What'..." ▶ 28:57
Karpathy.ai
Karpathy.ai "He made this thing called karpathy.ai/job and you can see this on the screen here. Basically what..." ▶ 36:01
Tableau
Tableau "I don't need to use Tableau anymore, you know? Like I just make my own dashboards in notion." ▶ 39:37

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