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Can confirm Whop payment elements rock.
Direct response can now run end-to-end.
> Order bumps
> OTOs
> Etc.
A-Z funnel on Whop.
Now move your funnels & join WhopX.
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.@OpenRouter co-founder Alex Atallah on the "everyone is building the same thing" take:
"This reminds me of this tweet I saw... Everybody's building an agent loop with notifications, third-party connectors, context management, memory, sandboxes, agentic web search, an always-on agent on top."
"This product is showing up everywhere. It is showing up everywhere, but these are just the new table-stakes primitives."
"A 2005 version of that tweet would be: 'Oh, everybody's building the same thing. A database, a users table, a sign-in page, a sign-up page, a profile page, a logout page. Everything's the same.'"
"There's like a lot of differentiation really. There's table-stakes needs for AI just like there's table-stakes needs for the web."
@alexatallah @amasad
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.@OpenRouter co-founder Alex Atallah, in his first podcast since Stripe acquired the company, joins @Replit co-founder Amjad Masad and a16z's Erik Torenberg on why the future of AI is independence and specialization.
In this conversation, Alex walks through how the Stripe deal unfolded, why he wasn't originally looking to sell, and why "payments and inference are going to blend together."
Pre-OpenRouter, the typical AI workflow had one model provider to choose from, and little pressure on that provider to lower prices. Now enterprises are diversifying across labs and open-weight models, and every board is asking about AI costs and benchmarks.
Amjad argues if your company depends on one AI lab, it can turn into your competitor. So Replit is building the layer that lets enterprises use any model and any cloud, without being locked into either.
Alex and Amjad are split on personal agents – Amjad runs one agent across his whole company and loves the cross-domain joins, while Alex says general agents cause you to sacrifice understanding, and argues 10 specialized chiefs of staff beats one superagent.
0:45 How the Stripe deal unfolded
5:05 Why mixing models beats one model
7:25 Forcing the labs to compete on price
8:50 Enterprises want open-weight models
10:30 Every board asks about AI every month
12:25 Why companies must own their intelligence
14:15 Replit as the independence layer
15:10 Everyone is building the same agent
16:35 Why Amjad built bring-your-own-cloud
18:10 Amjad's agent that runs his whole company
19:55 Why 10 specialized agents beat one
23:35 Machines, not humans, should specialize
27:30 Guardrails for agents talking to agents
31:10 Models training their own replacements
33:45 Most tasks don't need a frontier model
40:50 Training small models on Qwen 8B
43:25 The Rust cycle is coming for AI
45:10 Fusion models: frontier quality at half the cost
YouTube: youtu.be/ekK8urKHPMQ
@alexatallah @OpenRouter @amasad @eriktorenberg
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company valuations are now including pure value of data if it were sold off
do you understand what this means?
this means that basically overnight, if you're in a desirable industry to AI labs, you've increased your exit value
a friend of mine is currently having his company valued by a FO and told me that part of the process is them seeing what kind of data they are collecting, what they currently have documented and charted, attribution, problem targeting -> decisions made -> outcome, etc
all of that is being assessed in order to determine the true value of their company
the company that has documented every decision and outcome since their inception, along with how they carry out their decisions, will be worth more than the exact same company who didn't.
the implications of this, and the new businesses that can spawn because of them, are massive
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Replying to @MrFourToEight
Always enjoy our 2-3 hour catch ups. You’re one of the few I’d call an actual role model to this generation, alongside being an absolute biz savage.
I appreciate you.
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4) Because they have rolled out the ability to help other partner and earn in return... I want to help 5 companies that are RevOps / systems shops (HubSpot = massive plus) to replicate it. Full playbook, internal process, A to Z. Goal: $50K/month residual profit each by year end.
5) I will help you set up, implement our same process / approach, and will be personally helping you get to where I am at today. If that is you shoot me a message and lets chat for 15 minutes. I will be finding these 5 companies over the next couple days.
If you know someone that this might be a good fit for introduce them to me and I will pay you $500 for the introduction.
I am going all in on this.
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Today, Whop is introducing Economic Intelligence, a decision making system built from business actions on platform.
Billions of people should have the ability to build profitable businesses.
Economic Intelligence answers "what next?" for businesses at all levels.
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Zuck holding back laughter is killing me
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🚨 NOW: Anthropic chief DARIO just walked up and said President Trump helped put his Super Intelligence worries at ease
"If we do this right, we work with the President and everyone here, we can win safely!"
Imagine that, all it took was DONALD J. TRUMP getting involved and the tables are turning!
No more SI dooming, no more surrendering to China.
America will remain number one BOTH for national and economic security, as long as Trump is president 👏🏻
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no lies told here @lamxnt
@X has been the #1 place for me to build a network and find high quality guest for my podcast.
No other platform even comes close it’s leaps and bounds greater than anything else.
Picking the right platform is like the equivalent of the Five Chimps Theory, but online.
You are literally the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with.
Choose your chimps wisely. Find your tribe.
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You can be a copywriter…
An email marketer…
A media buyer…
A creative strategist…
A funnel builder…
A CRO specialist…
A designer…
A video editor…
An appointment setter…
A high-ticket closer…
An affiliate marketer…
You can even own an entire agency...
You can be all those things and more, but at the end of the day, you're working for offer owners.
Selling your skills gets you a nice monthly allowance.
Owning the offer is where the real money is.
So the only thing worth being is an offer owner, because that's who gets paid 1st and then decides how much everyone else gets paid.
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People thought Mark Zuckerberg was crazy when Meta paid Alexandr Wang $5 billion to be Meta’s Chief AI Officer.
At the time, the price looked outrageous.
Fast-forward to today: Meta’s new AI products developed under Wang’s leadership have added roughly $200 billion in market value.
Suddenly, paying billions to secure world-class talent doesn’t look quite so crazy.
That’s how great entrepreneurs think.
The question isn’t:” How much does this person cost?”The question is: “How much value can this person create?”
If someone can help you create $10 billion in value, paying them $1 billion can be an absolute bargain.
And the same principle applies if you are an employee.
If you want to earn a higher salary, don’t just ask, “How can I get paid more?”
Ask yourself: “ How can I create so much more value for the company that they would be happy to pay me more?”
If you want to be paid $1 million a year, start thinking about how you can develop the skills, capabilities, relationships and judgment to create $10 million or more value for your company.
Don’t focus only on increasing your income. Focus on increasing your value.
When the value you create grows dramatically, your earning power will naturally grow with it.
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Soon everyone will finally realize that Whop isn’t playing the same game as Commas, Skool, Kajabi, etc
Whop isn’t a payment platform, it isn’t a course creating tool
It’s a builders tool
Whatever you have to do to get involved in their ecosystem - do it now
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You’re not tired, you’re afraid
“Being tired” instantaneously goes away when you actively get UP & walk toward & THROUGH your fears
From your current POV, You genuinely think “i don’t have enough energy” or “i’m too tired”, and you wonder what’s wrong.
Here is wild part:
You have all energy you need. But only spawning the courage to walk forward INTO your fear will reveal that truth to you.
Your vitality/energy is waiting for you, behind/on other side of your fear of action
Face your fear of LIVING, and the energy appear to come from nowhere