July 11, 2025

Brainstorming $10M AI Business Ideas w/ the Airtable Founder

Brainstorming $10M AI Business Ideas w/ the Airtable Founder

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Episode 725: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talks to the founder of Airtable, Howie Liu ( https://x.com/howietl ), about 7 AI business ideas he would start if he was in his 20s.


Show Notes:

(0:00) IDEA: Live Shopping w/ AI avatars

(5:34) IDEA: AI personalized news

(10:36) IDEA: AI Personal Finance Advisor

(18:27) IDEA: AI PE model of buy an existing business

(24:20) IDEA: Cursor for email

(36:53) IDEA: AI-native social apps

(38:42) IDEA: Uncensored AI search

Links:

• Sesame - https://www.sesame.com/

• Whatnot - https://www.whatnot.com/

• HeyGen - https://www.heygen.com/

• Superhuman - https://superhuman.com/

• Kubera - https://www.kubera.com/

• Addepar - https://addepar.com/

• Airtable - https://www.airtable.com/

• Chief.so - http://chief.so/




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• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/



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