How a $5B founder is using AI (3 tutorials)

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

August 26, 2026

Duration

1h 6m

Channel

My First Million

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

*How Wade uses AI (steal his prompts):* https://clickhubspot.com/ylon Episode 856: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Wade Foster ( https://x.com/wadefoster ) about how he uses AI to save himself hours of work every day. — Show Notes: (0:00) intro (2:27) The sales pitch (7:04) My Robot Executive Staff, Waking Up Like The President (14:13) Evening brief (17:39) AI that argues with you (19:32) War Council skill (31:53) How to use AI to hire better (48:15) being a billionaire before 40 (51:17) a case for not having a chip on your shoulder (54:36) 1-dimensional winners (1:00:55) recommended reading — Links:

• Zapier - https://zapier.com/ — Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton (joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm — Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com
• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.
• Mercury - Shaan uses Mercury across all of his companies. you can too: http://mercury.com/

Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., Members FDIC

• I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out: beehiiv.com/mfm-challenge My First Million is a HubSpot Media Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano /

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Shaan Puri

  host

  Co-host of My First Million and entrepreneur/investor.

• Sam Parr

  host

  Co-host of My First Million and founder of The Hustle (Hustle Con).

• Wade Foster

  guest

  Co-founder and CEO of Zapier.

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of My First Million, featuring Shaan Puri and Sam Parr, How a $5B founder is using AI (3 tutorials) explores A Zapier founder’s AI “robot staff” for briefs and decisions Wade Foster explains that the key step beyond using AI as a chatbot is connecting your business tools so the AI can answer with company-specific context and then deploying agents that run reliably via workflows.

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