Pomp and I worked together at Facebook a decade ago before he became an investor, best-selling author, and public company CEO with an audience of 3.3M. We had a great chat about how to build an extraordinary career and life and how he's building Silvia, an AI CFO for independent investors, to take on the AI labs.

Pomp and I talked about:

(00:00) Why Pomp never had a career plan

(04:43) Why an audience is the best way to win deal flow

(10:33) Paid work trials instead of job interviews

(18:35) Hire for revenue, not margins

(20:32) Silvia: An AI CFO for independent investors

(25:00) How AI found a tax strategy worth $100Ks a year

(32:05) How a team of under 10 plans to compete with the AI labs

(35:58) Pomp’s latest take on Bitcoin

(39:21) How Pomp teaches his four kids to solve problems

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📌 Get the takeaways: https://creatoreconomy.so/p/we-built-an-ai-cfo-to-help-you-grow-net-worth-anthony-pompliano

Where to find Pomp:

X: https://x.com/APompliano

Silvia: https://www.cfosilvia.com/

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Micky is a full-stack engineer who has taught 100K+ people how to build with AI. In our episode, he walked me through his 4-step agentic engineering workflow to avoid pumping out slop: Isolate every task, build to a clear structure, prove via validation loops, and ship after agents review your PRs or escalate to you for a manual look.

Micky and I talked about:

(00:00) Why most software factories pump out slop

(02:06) Step 1 (Isolate): How to run multiple agents at once

(07:18) Step 2 (Build): Give agents a structure to build on

(10:44) Step 3 (Prove): Build agentic validation loops

(16:48) The one step Micky never hands to agents

(21:30) Step 4 (Ship): Getting agents to review PRs reliably

(28:20) Why Micky doesn't write specs

(33:08) Comparing Astra and Fable for coding

(43:08) Are AI skills obsolete with today's models?

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📌 Get the takeaways: https://creatoreconomy.so/p/agentic-engineering-workflow-ras-mic

Where to find Micky:

X: https://x.com/Rasmic

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@RasMic

Skills: https://github.com/michaelshimeles/skills

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Sam is the co-founder of Granola, the AI meeting notes app now valued at $1.5B. Granola has helped me survive (and even enjoy) countless meetings, so I was excited to learn how Sam uses AI to show up prepared. We also talked about building an AI-native company without the 996 grind and what design means when agents skip your app entirely.

Sam and I talked about:

(00:00) The AI brief Sam now relies on before every new meeting

(01:27) “What did I miss?”: Granola’s most used recipe

(03:45) Why Granola hides the transcript despite user complaints

(09:37) A Granola recipe to get feedback from founders

(13:54) Why Sam feels a pang of sadness when agents skip your UI

(19:30) Why Sam’s Figma use fell to 20% and how Granola stops slop

(26:14) Nacho: The agent every Granola employee asks first

(30:58) Why most people stop improving their product way too early

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Where to find Sam:

X: https://x.com/samstphenson

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephensonsam/

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