$10M CEO: How to Get Ahead while Others Get Replaced | Daniel Priestley

AI over the next five years will probably massively decimate wages, and that is because there are always these jobs that are repetitive, functional, annoying, frustrating jobs that we can actually, uh, replace.

Named UK Entrepreneur of the Year, Daniel Priestley has built and scaled multi-million dollar businesses worldwide, generating more than $10 million in revenue. In recent years, he has successfully turned some of them into AI-driven ventures. Today, he reveals how AI can give you the edge in a world where jobs are disappearing. We dive into the future of work, how to protect your career, stay ahead of automation, and use AI as your unfair advantage.

There's more money than ever before. There's more opportunities than ever before. So in theory, it should be the easiest time. The reason it's not the easiest time is because our schooling system is rooted in the industrial age, and it's built around getting people ready for factories and offices that no longer exist, really. Now, all the smartest people in Silicon Valley, they're expecting wages to go through the floor. They're expecting jobs to go away.

You think it's gonna happen?

So my honest answer- [beep]

Hello, everyone. Welcome to Silicon Valley Girl. I have an amazing guest today, Daniel Priestley. I've been trying to get [chuckles] you on this podcast for a while.

Amazing.

Finally, finally, we're here in London. I just had a co-founder of Hugging Face on my podcast, and he told me that the only way to survive in this AI game is to become an entrepreneur in the next five years, or otherwise, it's just gonna be, you know, impossible to, to make a living. Do you agree with this, and what's your perspective?

This technology is gonna totally change the way that we all live and work, and it's, it's one of these big general-purpose technologies that pulls us from the old ways into the new ways. Now, if we go back 250 years, people were pulled from the land into the city, right? So they were, they were working in agricultural farming conditions, and there was this kind of like magnet, this pull that brought people into the cities, and they had to learn these new ways of working, this new style of urbanization, industrialization. And essentially, you know, it was like a completely new way of living and working. And if you had have gone back and spoken to people and said, "Look, in the future we're gonna live in these high-rise buildings, and we're gonna have this like, infrastructure all around us, and, you know, some of the jobs are gonna be these jobs where we like, drag numbers from this spreadsheet to that spreadsheet," they... Like, they just wouldn't have been able to comprehend, but they would've felt the pull from the land into the city. Now, what's happening at the moment is that everyone feels this pull to be more entrepreneurial. It's like something is pulling me, that I have to have a plural career. I've gotta be doing a podcast. I've gotta be speaking. I've gotta be doing a startup. I've gotta join a board. I've gotta, um, you know, read the latest entrepreneur books. And it's like, hey, wait a second. When I grew up, everyone said, "You just have to have a normal career and work for one company."