The Next New Thing

Presented by Zapier: https://zapier.com/ Timestamps 00:00 - Intro 01:09 - Anthropic’s mission and early structure 03:00 - FTX, investor alignment, and mission protection 04:03 - The Long-Term Benefit Trust 06:09 - Why trust can become a business asset 07:30 - Is Anthropic winning because of trust or product? 09:09 - What happened to Google’s original culture 10:30 - Why Google missed the transform...

Polsia claims any non-technical person can launch and run a startup using their AI agent platform. Bold claim. So I asked Ben Cera to show me the real data: revenue, churn, infrastructure costs, and whether the product is actually building businesses — or just generating AI slop. Presented by Zapier: https://zapier.com/ Resources: https://thenextnewthing.ai/l/how-ben-cera-builds-polsia Polsia: htt...

👉 Link to resources: https://thenextnewthing.ai/l/chandler-lovable-adds-sales 👉 Chandler Bolt (X): https://x.com/chandler_bolt Presented by Zapier: https://zapier.com/ Timestamps 00:00 - Intro 00:27 - The AI sales management hub 01:12 - How every sales call gets graded 02:15 - AI feedback for sales reps 03:00 - Building the hub in Lovable 04:12 - Letting the team update scripts and rubrics 05:15...

Presented by Zapier: https://zapier.com/ 👉 Link to resources: https://thenextnewthing.ai/l/jon-45million-ai-playbook ⏱ Timestamps 00:00 From $400 to $4.5M ARR 00:18 Hitting $1M solo with AI 01:57 The $105K dev quote that changed everything 02:15 Discovering Replit 03:18 From app idea to business opportunity 05:33 Having AI interview you to refine a business 07:21 The first business model 10:03 Th...

Presented by Zapier: https://zapier.com/ 👉 Priority Launch List: https://thenextnewthing.ai/l/shane-priority-launch-list 👉 Shane Mac (X): https://x.com/ShaneMac 👉 Shane Mac (LinkedIn): https://www.linkedin.com/in/shanemacsays/ 👉 XMTP: https://xmtp.org/ ⏱ Timestamps 00:00 Launch AI agents on your phone 00:09 Copy any app with a prompt or screenshot 00:18 Creating an agent inside Convos 00:36 Ag...

Presented by Zapier: https://zapier.com/ 👉 Resources: https://thenextnewthing.ai/l/wade-resources 👉 Wade Foster (LinkedIn): https://www.linkedin.com/in/wadefoster/ Zapier just gave AI agents access to 10,000+ apps—and it completely changed how Wade Foster works. In this episode of The Next New Thing, Wade (Zapier’s CEO) shows how their new SDK lets tools like Claude, Cursor, and Codex directly i...

Presented by Zapier: https://zapier.com/ Resource mentioned: 1. Tools Nat used to build Felix 2. Unedited transcript for the Felix interview 3. More 👉 All here:https://thenextnewthing.ai/nat-eliason-felix Guest links: 👉 Nat Eliason (LinkedIn): https://www.linkedin.com/in/nateliason/ 👉 Masinov: https://masinov.co An AI agent made $177,000 running its own business—and then got interviewed about i...

 Presented by Zapier   https://zapier.com/ Episode Highlights / Timestamps 00:00 Revenue explodes after building for AI agents 00:18 The origin of Postiz as an open-source social media scheduler 01:12 Finding a “blue ocean” inside a crowded market 01:57 Adding MCP and early AI integrations 02:42 Why automation dramatically reduces churn 03:54 Growing Postiz to $17K–$20K MRR 04:03 Discovering OpenC...

Presented by Zapier https://zapier.com/ Episode Highlights / Timestamps 00:00 Marketing to agents, not humans 00:45 What “agent marketing” actually means 01:30 How agents decide which products to pick 02:15 What works: clean docs, fast pages, agent-friendly content 03:54 How people are testing and tracking agent recommendations 04:48 Is SaaS dead? 04:57 Zapier’s CPTO vibe-codes a meeting recorder...

Presented by Zapier https://zapier.com/  Episode Highlights / Timestamps 00:00 AI that runs your company 01:03 How Polsia’s agents are structured 02:33 One-click Meta ads explained 04:30 Why friction kills growth 06:18 Subscription model + nightly CEO agent 08:24 Launching multiple companies as a “fund” 10:21 Revenue split: 80/20 alignment 14:24 The Polsia economy vision 16:30 A real customer stor...

Presented by Zapier https://zapier.com/ Episode Highlights / Timestamps 00:00 The first billion-dollar solo company (Minecraft) 00:27 Elad’s investing track record 01:12 What “making it” really means 04:03 Where today’s “toys” become tomorrow’s giants 08:51 AI puts building power in millions of hands 09:45 Will more builders mean smaller outcomes? 13:03 AI service shops and vertical software 15:00...

Presented by Zapier https://zapier.com/ Episode Highlights / Timestamps 00:00 $7M ARR as a solo founder 01:21 Profit, margins, and team size 02:51 Josh’s path from Uber to Wave 05:24 Choosing ideas in the early AI days 06:18 Why summarization felt like the killer app 08:15 Competing with Otter, Fireflies, and others 10:21 Recording real-world audio vs meeting bots 12:18 Spending more on AI to impr...

Presented by Zapier https://zapier.com/ Episode Highlights / Timestamps 00:00 Why every email should be personalized 00:18 Ryan’s background and what Untangle does 00:45 Rethinking traditional email drips 01:12 Customizing emails based on user situations 01:39 A real example that led to a signup 02:06 Daily automated marketing insights via email 03:00 Doing things that don’t scale with AI 04:03 Wa...

Presented by Zapier Episode Highlights / Timestamps [00:00] Why Pat decided to build his own video platform after YouTube strikes  [02:06] Rebuilding a YouTube-style site in just a few hours with Claude Code  [07:30] Designing the video experience before worrying about features  [14:06] Using modern frameworks without writing code  [23:06] Adding video streaming with third-party APIs instead of bu...

Presented by Zapier Episode Highlights / Timestamps [00:00] Building AI software for companies, not just selling tools [00:36] Crossing $2M in annual revenue [01:12] A real-world AI document automation example [02:15] Why hourly pricing breaks in AI services [03:36] Using consulting to learn before building products [06:09] Landing the first customers through relationships [09:18] Founder-led sale...

Presented by Zapier https://zapier.com/ Episode Highlights / Timestamps [00:00] A broker replaces himself with an AI voice agent [00:45] Early pricing and first customers [01:30] The reality of cold calling expired listings [04:21] Why off-the-shelf AI voice tools weren’t good enough [05:15] First AI-booked listing appointment [08:15] Launching without a website using Meta lead forms [12:27] Using...

Episode highlights: [00:00:00] Joe’s businesses and revenue breakdown [00:00:45] Five ways to make money with AI [00:00:54] Selling AI headshots as a done-for-you service [00:02:06] Delivering with VAs and prompts [00:03:36] Getting customers via LinkedIn polls and ads [00:06:00] Teaching AI while learning it yourself [00:08:24] Selling ideas before creating the product [00:09:27] Building a cours...

Episode highlights: [00:00:00] The vision: media customized to one person [00:02:15] Why revenue isn’t the point — yet [00:03:18] Seeing early personalization at Spotify [00:06:00] Why kids’ content felt broken [00:07:48] Making the child the hero of the story [00:08:42] The hardest problem: image consistency [00:11:24] Why scaling AI products is nothing like demos [00:14:06] Personalized media wo...

Episode highlights: [00:00:00] Businesses built entirely on Zapier [00:01:30] The roofer-turned-automation-agency story [00:03:54] What AI enables that wasn’t possible before [00:07:12] OpenAI Agents vs. Zapier workflows [00:11:15] Connecting AI agents to real business tools [00:13:03] Building a meeting-prep agent live [00:18:00] Why AI is great at building workflows, not just running them [00:23...

🎧 Highlights: [00:00:00] Humans doing the work of AI — before AI existed [00:01:12] Why accounting is mostly about language, not numbers [00:02:33] Shadowing bookkeepers to find automation opportunities [00:06:00] Manual work Quanta knew software had to replace [00:07:30] Why building on top of legacy systems wasn’t enough [00:08:24] Rebuilding the ledger from the ground up [00:10:12] Continuous...

 🎧 Highlights: [00:00:00] From Makerpad to Factory — Ben Tossell’s journey [00:01:33] Life after acquisition and redefining work [00:05:06] Why AI might make things harder, not easier [00:07:30] No-code lessons and the illusion of simplicity [00:10:42] From teaching no-code to debugging workflows [00:12:00] Learning to code with AI as your translator [00:15:09] Curiosity as the new technical skil...

🎧 Highlights: [00:00:00] From freelance writer to $10M ARR founder [00:03:36] How Pepper scaled from a marketplace to an AI-powered content engine [00:05:06] The hybrid model: humans and AI creating together [00:07:12] Building “Nimbus” — Pepper’s internal AI platform [00:08:24] Re-optimizing thousands of old pages automatically [00:13:03] Why FAQs and freshness signals help you rank in AI result...

Andrew shares the AI tools that real startup founders are using every day — not hype, but the ones that actually help them work smarter.  From AI note-takers that surface your blind spots to automations that coach your team after meetings, these are the tools that top entrepreneurs rely on. 🔗 Tools mentioned: Granola App: https://www.granola.ai/ Claude Console: https://console.anthropic.com/ Text...

 🎧 Highlights: [00:00:00] Intro – “Don’t start with SEO. Start with AEO.” [00:00:36] Why this is the right time to focus on answer engine optimization [00:01:30] Case study: Webflow drives 8% of signups from LLMs [00:03:00] Onsite vs. offsite optimization — Reddit and YouTube matter most [00:06:18] Why Help Center content outperforms traditional SEO pages [00:13:30] Why AEO is ideal for small sta...

🎧 Highlights: [00:00:00] Intro [00:02:06] Alex & Arman’s founding story — from pivot to partnership [00:03:09] Why engineers experience AI’s biggest leverage [00:05:15] “Think of it as a high-quality AI-powered dev shop” [00:06:36] The big vision: Building the McKinsey of AI [00:09:09] Crossing the chasm: From pre-AI to post-AI [00:13:03] Intelligence arbitrage vs. labor arbitrage [00:15:00]...