This week, we put a bow on our 5-week entrepreneurial breakdown by revealing our top 15 lessons learned from a combined 90 years in business.

We discuss the following topics...

• Most things don't matter, and a few things matter a lot
• Big things take time
• Everything is a product/service problem
• Simple scales and fancy fails
• Beware of the managerial class
• Consistency beats complexity
• Be unbullshitable
• Reputation is the ultimate deal lubricant
• Proximity to power matters
• Focus is a superpower
• Hard decisions, easy life
• Be greedy, be lazy
• Understand the price of choices
• If you can't be with the one you love, then love the one you're with
• Lose the emotion, trust the gut and let logic rule all

This week, we discuss the final instalment in our entrepreneurial breakdown: building a team. We discuss when and how to hire your first team members and how to make them effective.

More than 50% of young people don't vote; we discuss the lack of political awareness and touch on some potential solutions for a more educated electorate.

Finally, we unpack all the latest AI tools and tech innovations from Google's Cloud next event.

This week, we discuss the highlights from the Nvidia GTC conference, including their AI hardware roadmap.

Andy, the asshole, unpacks segment 4 of our breakdown of the entrepreneurial journey, Sales and Marketing, providing killer and actionable insights on how to identify and land your first 10 customers.

Finally, Stevie Telavive brings us home with a discussion about tariffs and the stock market implosion over the last few days.

This week, Andy the asshole kicks things off with a breakdown of Google's new Gemini 2.5 pro model.

Uncle Paddy leads us in a conversation about MCP (model context protocol). What is it, how do you leverage it, and what are the implications for an agentic AI future???

Finally, we discuss business planning and strategy as part 3 of our multi-part episode on unpacking the entrepreneurial journey. Uncle Paddy provides a handy downloadable template for budding entrepreneurs to leverage (see link below)

Simple Business Planning Template
https://drive.proton.me/urls/ZZ1ZJREA28#xF86ykE34iH1

Of course, we can't wrap up any episode without a stream-of-consciousness speed run from Stevie Telavivie on AI education and its implications for society.

This week Andy, the asshole, unpacks Global GPT, maybe the only GPT you'll ever need.

Uncle Paddy joins from the Cotswolds with a Manus AI update, segwaying into segment 2 of our entrepreneurial breakdown, "Understanding Your Market."

Finally, we wrap up with a speed run on values, Tesla and ANY DAMN THING WE PLEASE!!!

Useful Links

Global GPT
https://glbgpt.com/

Google Trends
https://trends.google.com/trends/

Answer The Public
https://answerthepublic.com/tiggdq/member/searches

Manus AI
https://manus.im/app

This week, Andy the asshole breaks down a groundbreaking new AI agent, Manus AI, its capabilities and what it means for jobs.

In our practical AI segment, we discuss applying AI to the Facebook marketplace arbitrage game and how we made 78 bucks with little to no effort!

Finally, Uncle Paddy kicks off the first of a series of conversations over the next 10 weeks, breaking down the entrepreneurial journey, a fascinating trip down memory lane for us all!

This week we discuss Dodge, the story so far.

What's happening with Tesla and the outlook for the coming months and years

Tariffs, what are they, and why are they being levied?

Entrepreneurship, the first in a series of deep dives into the entrepreneurial journey; more to follow in the coming weeks!

This week, we discussed Claude 3.7 and ChatGPT 4.5. These new models dropped shortly after the podcast last week. We reveal their capabilities and what makes them different from other leading models.

Agentic AI! What is it, what can it do for you, who are the key players, and how it's going to disrupt EVERYTHING?

Finally, we discuss the cost of waging war, technological breakthroughs, and what the future may hold!