Snapshot · My First Million
By rotating into gold ahead of tariff chaos and then back into equities when deals emerged, Pincus gained approximately 35% on his entire liquid portfolio in a single year.
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Prompted by Shaan's question about where to find opportunities today, Pincus imagines the world two years from now when per-token AI costs are essentially free — 'like water.' He believes we have already passed AGI by its original definition, and that if you could have a knowledgeable human available 24/7 at zero cost, you would always use it. This opens the door to premium upsells for high-stakes moments: a traveller stranded in London on July 4th would pay $50 to $100 for a human agent to rebook a flight correctly. [1] He also identifies the bigger shift: the move from consumptive to generative social experiences. The dopamine from creating — making music with AI, designing logos on Midjourney — is many times larger than the dopamine from passive scrolling, and people feel worse after passive consumption. AI will enable ordinary people to feel creative in ways previously reserved for professionals. He references the Blake Mycoskie quote about masters who blur the line between work and play, and connects it to his own vision that AI will let everyone 'live like Elon' — turning intentions directly into products without the friction of fundraising, legal, and hiring.
Sam built Algrow from zero to $14,000 in monthly revenue within just six months of shipping his first MVP.
Algrow reached over 10,000 users in roughly six months, driven almost entirely by organic Discord community growth.
Sam acquired his first 400 users entirely through Discord communities, without paid advertising or traditional outreach.
Algrow added exactly 480 new paying customers in its most recent month, demonstrating strong ongoing growth.
Sam's Stripe dashboard showed over £10,000 in revenue in the last four weeks, equivalent to roughly $13,000–$14,000 USD.
Sam gave all early users free access so they could show the tool to friends, turning them into live demos and advocates who helped the product spread virally.
By silently screen-sharing his tool in Discord voice chats rather than posting links, Sam attracted curiosity without violating no-self-promo server rules.
Before building Algrow, Sam and two friends made over $10,000 in revenue through affiliate marketing for RizzApp by posting faceless texting story content.
Bhanu grew SiteGPT to $13,000 monthly recurring revenue entirely through organic channels, spending nothing on paid marketing.
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