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Entrepreneurship · Greg Isenberg

The Startup Ideas Podcast

by Greg Isenberg

Get your creative juices flowing with The Startup Ideas Podcast. Published twice a week, we bring you free startup ideas to inspire your next venture. Hosted by Greg Isenberg, CEO of Late Checkout and former advisor to Reddit and TikTok. Subscribe so you don't miss out. For more startup ideas, we created a database of 30+ startup ideas you can take at https://gregisenberg.com/30startupideas

Latest episodes

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Become a $1M/yr FDE (Full Course)

#17 trending · Entrepreneurship

Google's most advanced audio models are LIVE, try them for yourself: Gemini 3.8 Live: https://startup-ideas-pod.link/gemini-3.8-live Gemini 3.5 Transcribe https://startup

Oct 1
53 min

OpenAI DevDay: Dots, Agents & $100B Opportunities

I watched almost 60 minutes of Sam Altman on stage at OpenAI Dev Day 2026. Out of 20-plus launches, I pick the three or four that I think can make people billions of doll

Sep 29
18 min

$5T opportunity: AI Roll Ups

In this solo episode, I break down the $5 trillion wave of small businesses set to change hands as their owners retire, and why AI agents make this wave a real opening fo

Sep 28
29 min

Muse AI Connectors: The Next App Store Moment?

In this solo episode, I break down the huge business opportunity because Meta has opened Muse, its personal AI agent, to developers. You can now submit a connector, which

Sep 24
26 min

The Right Way To Write With AI

Get Your Complete Financial OS at https://startup-ideas-pod.link/brex_SIP In this episode I speak with Nicholas Cole about the real value of everything you write on the

Sep 21
1 h 09 min

Jev is HERE. How to use it

In this episode, I talk with Ryan Vogel about Jev, a new type of AI built for classification. Ryan shows how Jev takes an input plus an output schema and returns a probab

Sep 18
28 min

Instinct AI: The AI Assistant for normal people

I sit down with Remy to go through Instinct, the new invite-only personal agent that runs inside iMessage. Remy shares his raw chat history on screen: a haircut booking i

Sep 15
27 min

Building a Software Factory that actually works (Full Course)

Get Your Complete Financial OS at https://startup-ideas-pod.link/brex_SIP I welcome Ras Mic back to the pod to explain the phrase "software factory." Mic shares his scre

Sep 14
31 min

You're using GPT-6 Astra WRONG

I talk with Ras Mic about GPT-6 Astra. We skip the game demos and the 3D toys, and we focus on use cases to earn money or improve products. I share 9 Astra prompts that I

Sep 10
22 min

Local AI Clearly Explained

I run this episode solo. I explain local AI in plain terms: the model runs on hardware I control, and a cloud model runs somewhere else. I map the four pieces of the loca

Sep 8
38 min

These 5 Github Repos are a goldmine

On this solo episode, I review five free, open source GitHub repos that help you build products, make money, or save time: Peter Yang's No AI Slop Skill, the CRM by TryCo

Sep 2
24 min

Making $$$ as a Marketing Engineer

In this solo episode I explain a role that I call the marketing engineer. I believe this person becomes one of the most valuable hires in tech in the next 18 to 24 months

Aug 31
35 min

WebMCP clearly explained (and how to make $$)

Vinny is back on the pod, and he explains WebMCP. WebMCP puts MCP tools inside the browser UI, so any agent that you bring can read a page and act on it. Vinny demos an e

Aug 26
28 min

Screensharing top takes in AI/startups

On this week’s SIP Live we dive deep on the X timeline to give each post a sip or a skip, and we answer questions from the chat. This episode covers AI-native operations,

Aug 25
41 min

Grok Bot: make a 1 person company with agents

I sit down with Billy Howell for an inside look at a real business that runs on Grok Bot agent teams. Billy tests hundreds of tools for The Rundown, and he uses Grok Bot

Aug 21
44 min

You need to be skillsmaxxing (10x your Claude/Codex)

Get Your Complete Financial OS at https://startup-ideas-pod.link/brex_SIP I talk with Remy, known online as AI with Remy, about agent skills and how to share them across

Aug 19
32 min

How to use Claude Code better than 99% of People

Get Claude Code: https://startup-ideas-pod.link/claude-greg In this solo episode I lay out the exact system I use to turn Claude Code into what I call an AI employee. My

Aug 17
48 min

How to Build an AI-Native Company in 2026

I sit down with Allie K. Miller to talk about the shift from managing AI agents to enabling them. Allie runs a workforce of 34 AI agents led by an AI chief of staff named

Aug 12
48 min

Making $$$ selling to AI Agents

In this solo episode I break down Cloudflare's AI agent announcement in plain English and explain why I see it as the new business model for the internet. I walk through

Aug 10
34 min

These AI Marketing Agents Get You Customers

I bring Cody Schneider back on the show to build two marketing agents end to end, live. The first one monitors LinkedIn posts from creators in your category, scrapes ever

Aug 5
43 min

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#29
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Chart positions

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#92 ▲ 4 Entrepreneurship US

What listeners say

A curated, balanced selection of Apple Podcasts reviews.

Can we talk about that opening song. It lives rent free in in my head and I’m not even mad about it. But for real….as a non-tech founder who built an AI SAAS tool that is KICKING I find myself in this “ai bro tech world”….and so much of them and IT is cringe. But NOT GREG. I listen to his show every AM post 3 kid drop-off and I have been known to force my team and friends to listen to certain episodes (the FOUNDER story one is an all-time fave). Greg has given me so much inspiration to keep on going with my AI tool (he doesn’t know this but now he does). You don’t need to be “tech or even ai savvy” to get so much insights from his podcast. He also seems like a genuine nice guy… which counts for so much these days.

23opme · May 2025

This podcast proves that all the bells and whistles like glossy sets and cover art are unnecessary if your content is solid. Brilliant ideas every week. IMO, it’s the most useful podcast out right now if you’re ready to run with a winning product idea!

C-Milli · Dec 2024

The Dream 100 episode was amazing! Perhaps the most practical advice to build a business without the added social media grind of content creation and audience building. I’m starting right away. 1. Entrepreneur’s Organization 2. Chamber of Commerce 3. Silicon Slopes (Local Tech Community) 4. Startup Community (thanks Greg)

Alex Huhn · Dec 2024

Greg is the best podcast host in the startup space. He listens, he’s calm and soothing, he is thoughtful about his ideas, and he is genuine. I love listening over a cup of coffee or on a walk. Even a long car ride. Greg is a genius with product strategy and design. I hope to one day meet him. He has no idea how much of a friend he’s been to me. That might sound weird, but you’ll know what I mean after an episode or two. Nick

Nick_Gene · Oct 2024

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