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5 min read“If something is making a million dollars a month, there’s always an opportunity to niche this down.” That observation, from co-host Jonathan Courtney, captures the operating philosophy of The Startup Ideas Podcast as Greg Eisenberg and Jonathan Courtney screen-share their top takes on AI, startups, and building in 2025. The episode is a brisk tour through concrete examples — a baby food app doing $1M/month, an iMessage agent store, the death of the two-pizza team — with the throughline being that the AI era rewards people who can move from general tools to specific, verticalized applications, and who pair building with selling.
Going AI Native: Legibility First, Loops Second
When a listener asked how to make a company “AI native,” Greg gave a two-step answer that he called worth four hours of conversation. Step one: make your company legible to large language models. That means structuring meeting notes, SOPs, and internal documents so an LLM can read them. “If you’re using an LM, you need to have the LM be able to talk to your company.” Step two: go role by role, breaking each job into jobs-to-be-done — research, creation, scheduling, analytics, feedback — and building AI loops (Greg calls them “AI employees”) that handle the repeatable parts while leaving the human work human.
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What you'll learn
- 1 Screensharing top takes in AI/startups — The Startup Ideas Podcast
- 2 (00:00) **Opening & Format** - Greg Eisenberg and Jonathan Courtney introduce the live stream format, promising to answer audience questions and share "timeline takes"
- 3 (01:01) **Making a Company AI Native** - Greg answers a question about transitioning a business to be AI-native
- 4 (02:54) **Jonathan's Organic AI Adoption Strategy** - Jonathan shares how his existing businesses integrated AI without a top-down mandate
- 5 (04:58) **Take #1: The Baby Food App Making $1M/Month** - Greg presents Solid Starts, a baby food app generating $1M/month in revenue
- 6 (08:15) **Sip or Skip: Opportunities from the Baby Food App** - Greg and Jonathan brainstorm derivative ideas
- 7 (10:18) **Take #2: An App Store for iMessage AI Agents** - Greg highlights Stanley's directory of AI agents you can text on iOS
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Show Notes
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, a baby food app that earns a million dollars a month, iMessage agents, human customer support as a brand advantage, small teams, reading habits, and sales advice for builders. Listeners get concrete first steps, business ideas they can copy today, and two clear opinions on each take.
Timestamps
00:00 – Intro
00:59 – Where an AI-Native Company Starts
04:48 – The $1M-a-Month Baby Food App
10:31 – An App Store for iMessage Agents
16:32 – Customer Support Is Eating Engineering
23:38 – RIP to the 2-Pizza Team
26:36 – Paul Graham on Reading as an Advantage
33:31 – The Worst Moves for 2026
37:01 – From Designer to Salesperson
Key Points
- Make the company legible first: keep meeting notes and SOPs in files that an LLM can read.
- Let the team explore AI tools freely, then ask one department, such as admin, to lead.
- A million-dollar-a-month app leaves room for niche copies that earn 10K to 30K a month.
- Build loops that turn daily support transcripts into prototypes and measurable goals.
- Human support works as a marketing advantage, and premium buyers pay for it.
- Sales stays part of the owner's job, so learn the frameworks and start cold calling.
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