Kirk Kodre On How to Make Money With AI in 2026

Meet Kirk Kodre (KVK Automates), an AI entrepreneur, content creator, and founder helping businesses implement AI automations, AI employees, and scalable systems that save time, reduce costs, and drive growth.

In this episode, we talk about Kirk's journey from building AI-powered dropshipping systems and automation workflows to launching a successful AI agency, growing a thriving Skool community, and building a personal brand around AI education and entrepreneurship.

We dive deep into AI agencies, AI employees, automation opportunities, client acquisition, pricing AI services, lead generation, outreach strategies, YouTube growth, LinkedIn marketing, and why so many entrepreneurs are rushing to build AI businesses right now.

Kirk shares his thoughts on the future of AI, the difference between traditional automations and AI employees, how businesses can implement AI today, and why personal branding may become one of the biggest competitive advantages in the AI industry.

We also discuss AI tools like Claude Code, AI-generated content, automation workflows, building communities, scaling service businesses, landing your first AI client, overcoming beginner mistakes, and how creators can use YouTube to generate leads and authority in competitive industries.

Whether you're an entrepreneur, agency owner, freelancer, creator, marketer, business owner, or someone curious about AI, this episode is packed with practical insights on automation, business growth, content creation, and the future of work.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Kurt is 19 years old and already running an AI agency, a YouTube channel, and a 600-member online community. In this episode, he breaks down how we went from zero to closing clients with AI and why most people are overthinking it. So, for people discovering you for the first time, how would you describe what you do today?

SPEAKER_00 0:19

Hi everyone, my name is KVK. I basically am mainly focused on AI, but I've into a bunch of whole different other stuff like self-improvement, fitness, meditation. But right now, what I've been focusing on is my online school community where I teach people AI and my YouTube channel into my AI agency. So that's what I've been doing recently. I've been making YouTube content about AI. I've got a bunch of other stuff coming out for my YouTube channel, like Day in the Lives, here's what happened after 30 days of meditation. But that's what I've been doing so far, and I've been loving it. So before I got into YouTube, I was learning I started an AI project with one of my best friends. He's my co-founder for the AI agency, but we started an AI automated drop shipping sort of like workflow/slash system. So before I started YouTube, I was doing that. So basically, I'd have AI auto scrape products, then it'd have AI auto-make product videos for these products, then we'd have AI auto-post them to like a whole bunch of different social media, the bigger like Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, all of those, and we'd have all of that automated. So that entire system was automated. That's what got me into AI. But due to AI videos, like we were using Sora and VEO at the time, they're just some AI video generation models, they weren't as good, so the quality wasn't good, and people could sort of tell that it was AI. So we stepped away from that, and then I started looking into workflows and automations, and then from there I started I started contacting my friends and family. That's where it started. I started selling AI workflows and automations to them, just like simple chatbots, AI voice receptionists, lead scrapers, email responders, all these different types of little AI, little AI like pieces, just putting them inside inside businesses, making a bit of money from that, and then I started my own SAS. So Software as a Service, it is basically a white label service where entrepreneurs can come in and build their own AI voice receptionists, and then can go ahead and then go contact businesses, do outreach for businesses, say hey, I built you an AI voice receptionist, and this was all inside of my platform that I built myself using AI. So, like I'm doing stuff lots of other people can do. I've just got experience and I've put in time into that, and then after that, I started my YouTube. Started YouTube at the start of this year, so five months ago, and I've been making content since then. Opened my online community with over 600 members, and that's what I've been up to recently.

SPEAKER_01 2:54

When did you first realize AI was a real opportunity for business?

SPEAKER_00 2:58

I feel like everyone knows AI is the future, it's just gonna keep getting better and better. So I decided, why not? Why why can't I get into this now and learn it now? So that's basically just how I started my AI journey and what motivated me to do it.

SPEAKER_01 3:15

What was the first way you actually made money using AI?

SPEAKER_00 3:19

Um, it was just building, I think my fur it was an AI service that I sold to a business. So that would have been, I think, maybe like a chatbot for a website, or maybe building a website. That was my first money. I remember the very first time I made that money. I was like, oh shit, this is like it's actually real. So that's what I was yeah, that's sort of what opened my mind for me. How different was your first offer compared to what you do now? There's been a massive um shift in AI recently. Uh like we're selling AI services to businesses. I've been making a bunch of content on this recently. I just uploaded a video on this, and no one, when I say this, no one in the AI space or the massive like content creators, so think of like Liam Otley, Nate Herc, all of those guys, no one's been making content on AI employees. So instead of automations and workflows, there's been a shift that has happened with AI employees. So you can build an AI employee for a business where it's it gets okay. There's a whole bunch of criteria that makes it better than automation and workflow. Because think of an automation and a workflow, that's like a it it's basically it runs forever, but it's never gonna get better. Like it's just starting from one sequence and going to another. Whereas an AI employee, it's got access to tools, like think of Gmail, Google Drive, all these different tools, web search, it's got access to that, it's got a memory as well. So when it performs a task, it remembers it writes down everything it did in that task, the what it learned from it, the pros and cons of that task, saves that all inside of its brain, inside of its memory, and then the next time it does a task, then it's gonna remember that previous task and it's gonna learn from it. So, what makes an AI employee different from a workflow in automation is that it remembers and it is gonna keep getting better and better. So after a week of having an AI employee, it's gonna be better than what it was a week ago. Then after a month, it's gonna be even better, and that's the new shift that I've been doing with my AI agency, and that's what we've been pricing and packaging different because for like workflows and automations, you can charge $1,000 to $3,000 for like a workflow and automation for a business, but with AI employees, you can charge $5,000 to $15,000. And it's it's that like the I like let's say someone who's building workflows and automations, they can also build AI employees. It's not that diff, it's not that hard to build. Like, if you know how to do one thing, you know how to do the other. So that's what a massive change has been happening. That's what I've been doing recently with AI services and making money with AI.

SPEAKER_01 5:56

What do you think most people misunderstand about AI services right now?

SPEAKER_00 6:01

Um, that I guess what people misunderstand that it will break it's there's security and safety issues. So when you're always dealing with these um issues or these limitations that business owners have or just what people have building it, it's you just gotta really take your time and be careful when doing it. Make sure everything's safe and secure, you're doing it the right way, you're not rushing stuff.

SPEAKER_01 6:25

Why do you think so many people are trying to start AI agencies right now?

SPEAKER_00 6:29

Um, why are people starting AI agencies? Because all businesses need AI. So if you can get an AI agency going now, you can position yourself for when that because right now we are in the early stages of AI. And mainly if you understand AI now, you may not you may not think oh, we're in the early stages like everyone you see online is posting about it. But think of the amount of businesses that haven't implemented AI yet. I'm pretty sure what when I last checked, when I made a video on this, I think only three percent of businesses have implemented some sort of AI into their system. So there's 97 other business 97 of businesses in the world who have not implemented AI. So that is so much money on the table to be taken, and that's why the all these people are starting AI agencies, they're getting in early because when that massive AI wave hits, because when it hits, it's gonna be absolutely massive. Those people who have made the AI agencies, they've built their portfolio, they've gotten these connections, they're they're gonna make a shit ton of money.

SPEAKER_01 7:34

What separates people actually making money from people just consuming AI content?

SPEAKER_00 7:39

When I remember, or I don't remember, but when internet came out in the in I think it was the 90s, it came out. People at first they were always hesitant about it, they didn't they didn't trust it. Someone came to them and said, Hey, can I build your website because you're gonna need a website? They're just looking for excuses or not excuses, they're just always trying to find something that's gonna stop them from actually doing or stepping out of their comfort zone.

SPEAKER_01 8:03

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SPEAKER_00 8:45

Okay, a business, let's say a salon business, um, they get lots of phone calls. A service in demand would be an AI voice receptionist that picks up those phone calls and books in customers when after hours when a customer calls in. Like that's customer gets booked and buy an AI voice receptionist. Another one could be like a email responder. So whenever a um a customer sends an email to a business, it can run through a workflow or an AI employee, whatever it is, and the AI can flag it out of like maybe a hundred. So if it's over 70, then the AI will respond to it if it like it will give the score out of how urgent the owner needs to respond to it. This is what I've done. It might might be a bit complicated in how I'm explaining it, but um it can score out of a hundred, and then whether or not it needs human um response, it was it can send an email off to a business owner, and then the business owner can manually respond to that customer email, or an AI can just respond to the customer. Like there's there's a whole bunch of different services you can do for businesses, websites, chatbots, or anything that's um losing revenue for a business, or anything that's or anything that's also taking up time, so that can be making um ads for a business. You can get AI to do that, an AI employee to do that. So there is a whole bunch of AI serv or a whole bunch of services where you can find a problem in a business and offer a solution with AI.

SPEAKER_01 10:21

What types of clients are willing to pay real money for AI solutions?

SPEAKER_00 10:26

Um well, so that's really depending on how much you want to charge. So you can what I've been doing recently, or what me my agency has been doing recently, we've been targeting targeting larger companies. So companies with hundred to or 50 plus employees and they're making a lot more revenue. So what we do is we go into the business, we do an audit for them, we figure out where we can where they've where they have specific problems, and we offer a specific solution for that problem. So let's say um a bit um a company is um, I don't know, just taking up too much time responding to emails. We go in there, implement a little uh AI employee that response to emails and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_01 11:11

What problems are businesses actively trying to solve with AI today? There's a whole bunch, whole bunch.

SPEAKER_00 11:18

Like a general problem would be was to do when leads come in on a website, it saves all that lead data, and when whenever they fill in a form of something, it saves all of that, then adds it to a spreadsheet, so then in the future a business owner can actually um contact that lead maybe with a special offer or something like that. Also, another uh service we did for that business is lead reactivation. So all their previous because they uh are an older business, they've been around for 10 plus years. So and every single time someone has clicked on that website, has filled in a form, we've got in all that information and basically just reactivated it. So we sent out like a sponsored or not like an email to them, just just keeping them in the loop, basically, offering a service, whatever the business owner wanted to do. How are you getting clients today? Okay, so today it's a lot easier than what it was when I first started. Right now, I've got people coming in to me, so either they see um either from referrals. So when I've worked with other businesses, they've referred me and they're like, Okay, I've worked with KVK, it's been great working with them. Um, I'm gonna send this off to my my friend, my business friend, and they can have a talk to me, and then we go through this. How did you get your first few clients? The referrals is one, then people from my YouTube channel they just see videos on my YouTube, they see okay, this guy's an expert in what he's doing. Let me send him an email. They go either send me an email or go through my AI agency. Um, those are two LinkedIn is a really good one. I've got good connections on LinkedIn, and I make posts on LinkedIn, so uh I've connected with a bunch of business owners, they see my posts on LinkedIn, they see what I'm doing, all these services, all all my testimonials, my portfolio, they see all of that, then contact me. But what I used to do, but that's that's inbound. Inbound is very like once you're getting inbound leads, you you're set from there. Whereas when I first started, I had to do outreach, and that was very difficult for me. And if you're new to AI and you're trying to make money with AI and you haven't made yeah, you're not happy with the amount you're making, or you haven't closed your first client yet, I've got a whole bunch of outreach methods that I've talked about in my videos.

SPEAKER_01 13:32

What client acquisition strategies work best in this space?

SPEAKER_00 13:36

If you can get AI to do it for you, there's now ways where you can automate it and get AI to find qualified leads for you in your niche, send emails and send emails off for you. I I just record I haven't uploaded it yet. It's probably gonna be out once this podcast is out, but I just recorded a video on how I build my own AI employee that actually does that for me.

SPEAKER_01 13:58

How do you structure your offers?

SPEAKER_00 14:00

Um, so what we first do is we hop on a a consultation call, so we figure out everything, and then from there we give them a rough price because I'm I'm with my uh co-founder, he's mainly the person who does all of the pricing and um pricing and dealing with the clients. I'm more so with the back end and the creating side of that. But what we typically do is we hop on a call, figure out pricing, we then send them off a contract. Side of the contract is the pricing, the service they're getting, they sign it, they pay for it, and then we deliver their service.

SPEAKER_01 14:39

How do you think about pricing in this space?

SPEAKER_00 14:42

Well, it really depends on the size of the business, it depends on how valuable the service is. So if you have an AI voice receptionist that is picking up 50 phone calls a day and is booking in 10 10 customers a day, you can charge the you can you can figure out a pricing there and see okay, this is actually this is making them a good amount of money. So if they're making fifty dollars per customer that comes in, that's 10 customers booked in per day, so that's $500 revenue per day, then five times seven, three hundred three thousand five, three thousand five hundred, then three thousand five hundred times four is like fourteen hundred or whatever fourteen thousand, you can charge for an AI voice receptionist per month five thousand dollars. What makes an AI service feel valuable to a client? If it's saving them time or money, that's what makes it valuable, and it and then it depends on how much time and money, time or money, it's saving the business.

SPEAKER_01 15:41

How do you think about scaling an AI service business?

SPEAKER_00 15:44

After what we've considered with my AI agency, you can for scaling, you can either so there's two options you can do. You can if you're if most people start off with working with small to medium-sized businesses, and let's say each client they sign is like I don't know, two thousand dollars a month. It's sort of hard to scale there. So option one, you can do if you're gonna continue to work with small to medium-sized businesses, is you hire subcontractors. So, what we've thought about is people from my school community, we hire them, and they can actually earn a split revenue of a service that they build for a business owner, so they can then get a portfolio, they can get some experience building these automations and workflows for businesses that have come to us, and they can just make money from that. Or the second option is for scaling, you can just size up, so you can start doing bigger projects, but that's also more time consuming, and but the revenue or the profit you make from it's a lot higher higher, so you can target larger companies and charge fifty thousand dollars per project with them.

SPEAKER_01 16:56

What systems matter most as you scale?

SPEAKER_00 16:59

Well, what the systems now that matter the most are I'd say AI employees, where they're they're the it's a whole shift that's happening, but yeah, that's the most important service that's matters. Is that is that what you asked me, sorry?

SPEAKER_01 17:17

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 17:17

Okay, yeah. I I'd say the most important service now when working with okay, with smaller to medium-sized businesses, that can still be workflows and automations. But if you if you yeah, it's with larger businesses, AI employees are the future, and just with all types of businesses, that service right there.

SPEAKER_01 17:34

How important is technical skill in this space?

SPEAKER_00 17:37

I it's it's not. Look, I if if I were to choose, I'd rather be 10 out of 10 in sales and one out of 10 in technical than 10 out of 10 in technical and 1 out of 10 in sales because sales is where you actually make the money, and if you can actually close a client, you can find you can either learn yourself to build the service for them or you can pay someone else to build the service for them.

SPEAKER_01 17:59

Do people actually need to know how to code to succeed here?

SPEAKER_00 18:02

No, no, no, no. Like when I started, I had no idea how to code. I learned a tiny bit of coding when I first started building my AI automated drop shipping uh project that I did, but I still don't know. I'm I'm a vibe coder, that's and that's what the new generation or the the new AI people are coming to. And also, don't get me wrong, coders are still they're important, but AI is just taking that over.

SPEAKER_01 18:28

What tools are you actually using day to day?

SPEAKER_00 18:31

Okay, so what I am using day to day is just it's clawed code. Like, I don't really like clawed code's the main one. Claude, yeah, clawed code for everything, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:44

What tools do you think are overhyped right now?

SPEAKER_00 18:47

Overhyped. Um for people that don't know um AI and aren't in the AI space, I'd say chat GBT is overhyped. They think oh chat GBT is the craziest thing out there, but we we got Claude now. Clawed's absolutely dominating.

SPEAKER_01 19:02

How do you stay up to date in such a fast moving space?

SPEAKER_00 19:05

So, how do I stay up to date? I use Twitter to stay up to date, I use YouTube to stay up to date, just scrolling through the feed. I don't have TikTok or Instagram, I've deleted all those doom scrolling waste of time apps, but Twitter and YouTube are are what help me stay up to date. When I make content, it's what it's everything that's up to date and like the future of everything. So that's what helps me stay up to date.

SPEAKER_01 19:30

How important is content for building an AI business today?

SPEAKER_00 19:34

Okay, so I think content for me is the most important thing because ever since I was ever since I was young, like ever since I was a kid, I still am, I guess, a kid or whatever, but when I was 12 years old, nine years old, always I always wanted to be a YouTuber and I'm just following my dreams, and I love doing AI, but as I said, many other things. I love basketball, I love fitness, I love nature, I love all these different types of things, hanging out with friends. I I just I want to create content, and that's what I'm my end goal is to do that long term, and then right now I'm also I I love AI, I'm very passionate about that. I love being technical, keeping up to date. I think learning is very important for people.

SPEAKER_01 20:17

When did you decide to start creating content?

SPEAKER_00 20:19

So I started creating at the start of this year, but when I wanted to was when I started my SAS, so the AI voice receptionist white label platform, and also after I'd started making a bit of money with my AI agency, I was like, okay, I've got the skills now, I've got the experience, I've got the expertise. Let's start teaching some people on how they can start making their own money and just creating a bit of a community just where everyone can come in to learn from each other, help each other out.

SPEAKER_01 20:49

What role does YouTube play in your business?

SPEAKER_00 20:52

Um, leads quite a few, like maybe 20 plus just from YouTube, but then YouTube also promotes my school community. Then I earn revenue from my school community because I've got an inner circle where I hop on calls one-on-one with students, help them with whatever they're doing, stay up to date with AI, build automations and workflows. Now, AI employees have been teaching them all about that, and if they have any questions and help, I hop on calls with them. So I also YouTube helps me generate revenue with that as well.

SPEAKER_01 21:22

How do you decide what content to make?

SPEAKER_00 21:24

Okay, so I make content based on two factors so how relevant it is and how valuable it is. So that's really what I take into consideration when I do my AI content. But I'm now starting, I've I've just finished recording a here's what happened after 30 days of meditation, like video. So day one versus day 30. I I literally recorded like a real life vlog sort of thing, like each day. I haven't posted that yet, that's still being edited. But when it comes to AI, yes, I take into consideration the value that the video is going to give and how irrelevant it is. It is. So for example, the AI employee videos that I've been making, they've genuinely mean 10 out of 10. They've been 10 out of 10 stuff, 10 out of 10 value, 10, 10 out of 10 relevancy.

SPEAKER_01 22:11

What kind of content actually converts into clients?

SPEAKER_00 22:14

I I think AI content is the best way of generating leads related to AI. Why did you decide to build a community around this? So I decided to build ac well, first my co-founder of mine, my AI agency, he had his own school community, and that was based on self-improvement stuff. So I was like, he told me, you know, you should get into it. I was like, yeah, you're right. I've seen all these massive AI creators have their own AI community. Why can't I? And then started from there.

SPEAKER_01 22:47

How does your community tie into your business model?

SPEAKER_00 22:51

Um, well, with my AI agency, it doesn't really help with getting business clients, but it's another form of revenue. People pay me for the inner circle, which is good. But yeah, as I yeah, it's it doesn't help with my AI agency at all because when I work with um people inside of my inner circle, uh yeah, inside of my inner circle, they're paying a lot less than how much a business client would pay me for a service. Because like in the inner circle, not too long ago, one of my inner circle members, I helped them build a chapel and a voice receptionist. They made 500, I don't know, a thousand uh maybe 750 USD, and they're paying me, I think right now it's $197 a month, and I literally hopped on the call with them and helped them build it manually. So the the value that they're getting inside of inner circle is worth it. So they'd rat like a business owner would rather just join a inner circle than send me a message to work with them.

SPEAKER_01 23:51

What do most beginners get wrong when trying to learn AI?

SPEAKER_00 23:55

Um, most people are confused about on how to make their first money with AI, but that's the con it's it's just a matter of time. Like if you just put in the time, put in the reps, and you will eventually get your first client. So I feel like that's what most people are confused about. Other than that, um just keep learning, try to learn as much as possible, but also don't do don't branch out to too many different things. So you don't focus on if you're trying to land your first AI client, don't focus on building 50 different AI services and just focus on one AI service and go pitch them to businesses. It's pretty straightforward.

SPEAKER_01 24:36

Why do most people never make money in this space?

SPEAKER_00 24:39

It's all a mental thing. I think everyone goes through it. I went through it first, I don't know, three months or whatever. Over whenever I was doing AI services, I didn't make any money, I didn't believe in myself. But once you first get that AI client, everything gets a lot easier, and that mental blockage inside of your head, because it's all inside of your head. Once you get your first AI client, it's just gonna be gone, and then you're gonna realize okay, how can we make 10 clients? How many can how can we get 50 clients? So it's all a mental thing. What parts of business can AI realistically replace today? On onboarding is a good one. So let's say for a medium to larger size business, they've got lots of employees coming in that are new. You could potentially have an AI that teaches the new employee everything about the business. The a the new employee can then send like messages to this AI agent saying, Okay, what does Zed do? What does XYZ do? You know, like there's always there's always these different things that AI can help with, and I think onboarding is also a really cool one that it can do.

SPEAKER_01 25:43

What barts will always need humans?

SPEAKER_00 25:45

Manual stuff, businesses can be like um builders, like all of this type of stuff AI can't replace, but AI can replace this the system for those building bits or these construction businesses or whatever these different types of businesses are that can't be replaced by AI. So, like for example, in a construction business, they're on they need to focus on being on the site and building a house. AI can replace the back end. So, whenever you can, for example, do an AI voice receptionist. I know I keep mentioning this a lot, but it's very easy to explain. You can have an AI voice receptionist as the back end picking up those phone calls instead of a human while they're on the job building a house, they have to pick up the phone calls, say, Okay, I need to wait till I get home to book you in for this time, and I don't know when I'm available available. I need to check my availability, I'll let you know. An AI employ uh AI voice receptionist can literally replace that itself.

SPEAKER_01 26:40

Where do people waste time trying to automate things?

SPEAKER_00 26:43

I don't really think there's wasting time when automating things because you're always learning when like every I think I see everything as a learning opportunity. Like when that AI, when my my first project I started, the AI automated drop shipping um whole system, I literally made I wasted I think six months of my life every single day, 10 hours a day, and I made zero. I literally I didn't make a single I lost money on it. I I lost probably like a th hundreds and thousands of dollars, thousands of dollars, whatever it is. I lost money and time on it six months, but I don't actually see it as a loss because I learned so much from it. So when you're building these automations and workflows and they're taking up your time, you're learning. So next time you build that automation and workflow, you're gonna be faster than the next time you build it. So I really don't think there's anything.

SPEAKER_01 27:33

How do you balance the speed versus quality when delivering AI solutions?

SPEAKER_00 27:38

Okay, so when you're trying to speed and quality, yes, I think quality is better, quality is better than speed. But if if you'll get it, if you don't have enough time, then the quality is gonna fall short. So then maybe you're gonna have to take a step back and realize how can I provide value without um jeopardizing my my time because that's the speed basically. How do you see AI services evolving over the next few years? That's a good question. Okay, so AI services in five years from now. I went to an AI conference not too long ago. Um, some of the biggest like entrepreneurs and business owners and AI employees, and I was talking to the biggest guys, they're the people who are hosting the event, and I asked them what their forecast on AI is in five years. None of them could answer. Like it's it's sort of just an unanswerable question, I feel like.

SPEAKER_01 28:38

Do you think this space will become saturated?

SPEAKER_00 28:41

Yeah, for sure. Look, same, it's gonna the same thing with drop shipping, how drop shipping became so oversaturated. The same thing's gonna happen with AI. Yeah, so it will get saturated in terms of like technicians selling AI, but there's still so many businesses out there that haven't implemented AI, so there's always still gonna be money out there to grab. Whereas with drop shipping, you're selling a specific product, it's different to actually selling AI services to businesses.

SPEAKER_01 29:13

What gives someone a real advantage in AI services long term?

SPEAKER_00 29:17

Having a personal brand. Having a personal brand is very important, to be honest, because that's what's gonna differentiate you to all the other people there. So either having a LinkedIn with lots of connections, lots of engagement, having a YouTube channel, having Instagram, TikTok, anything where you can go to a business and say, hey, I've got supporting, I've got a community, I know what I'm talking about. These other people who are contacting you, they're randoms who you know, like that's what's really gonna be a game changer. And that's also another reason why I started content as well. Because it helps with my personal brand and talking to business owners, etc.

SPEAKER_01 29:53

If someone was starting from zero today, what would you tell them to focus on first?

SPEAKER_00 29:58

Just upload. Just upload anything.

SPEAKER_01 30:02

If you had to rebuild from scratch, what would you do differently? To be honest, what I would change nothing.

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I'd probably do it the same thing over.

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If you could give one piece of advice to someone trying to build a business in AI today, what would it be?

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So if you're trying to build a business in AI, I would recommend you find like-minded people that are doing the exact same thing as you and connect with them. So when you guys or when you're learning, you can also learn from their mistakes. And once you make mistakes, they can learn from you. So if your friend makes a mistake, you can be like, Okay, I need to avoid that. So when I'm building my AI business, I don't do that. Same thing with him, and you're building a connection and you're learning from each other, and that's very important.

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