Bootstrapped for Cash

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This is a podcast about two techies, Iván and Giorgio, who once worked at a startup that got acquired and thought: "Hey, we can do this ourselves!"—only to realize they have no clue what they’re doing. Now bootstrapping their own indie venture, they’re navigating business, marketing, and sales while awkwardly exposing themselves as introverts on social media. Along the way, they’re using AI to build new products because "chatbots are boring, and we can do better". Expect plenty of facepalms, questionable decisions, and the dry, sardonic humor that unites Southern Europeans.

  1. 10/09/2025

    Is AI Replacing Entry-Level Jobs? Gen Z's Career Crisis

    See why AI is replacing entry level jobs as Giorgio Azzinnaro and Ivan Pena break down the workforce crisis locking Gen Z out of their first careers. Drawing on Ivan’s engineering tenure at Accenture and Giorgio’s software startup background, they cut through the headlines with real labor market numbers. - Why Goodwill’s CEO warns of a youth unemployment crisis as companies cut over 946,000 jobs. - How to use apps in ChatGPT to book hotels, play Spotify, and run mobile tasks via the new SDK. - Why OpenAI is hiring monetization leads and whether ChatGPT will have ads to cover massive energy costs. - The reality of OpenAI AgentKit vs n8n, and why single-provider builders won’t crush workflow automation. 💬 Drop your take in the comments: Can Gen Z survive the AI wave? Interesting links: - Giorgio's new YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@borgoat - Goodwill CEO says he’s preparing for an influx of jobless Gen Zers because of AI—and warns, a youth unemployment crisis is already happening https://fortune.com/2025/09/21/goodwill-ceo-preparing-for-influx-of-jobless-gen-z-ai-automation-kill-entry-level-jobs-youth-unemployment-crisis/ - Concern un US and major European economies over job security due to AI https://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/RI-PROD/PDFVIEWER.calias?pdfViewerPdfUrl=PROD0000000000602059 - Lufthansa to slash 4,000 jobs in push towards AI and digitisation https://www.businesstravelnewseurope.com/Air-Travel/Lufthansa-to-cut-4000-jobs-and-increases-mid-term-profit-targets - Accenture lays off thousands of employees globally, citing their inability to retrain in AI skills https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/accenture-lays-off-more-than-11000-employees-ceo-julie-sweet-says-we-are-exiting-employees-we-cant-/articleshow/124205771.cms - Accenture plans on ‘exiting’ staff who can’t be reskilled on AI amid restructuring strategy https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/26/accenture-plans-on-exiting-staff-who-cant-be-reskilled-on-ai.html - So far this year, companies have announced 946,426 job cuts, the highest YTD since 2020 when 2,082,262 were announced https://www.challengergray.com/blog/september-job-cuts-fall-37-from-august-ytd-total-highest-since-2020-lowest-ytd-hiring-since-2009/ - San Francisco will allow police to deploy robots that kill https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-u-s-news/ap-san-francisco-may-allow-police-to-deploy-robots-that-kill/ - Google releases Gemini Robotics 1.5 https://deepmind.google/models/gemini-robotics/gemini-robotics/ - Google releases Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/gemini-computer-use-model/ - Meta releases Vibes: A New Way to Discover and Create AI Videos https://about.fb.com/news/2025/09/introducing-vibes-ai-videos/ - OpenAI releases Sora 2 https://openai.com/index/sora-2/ - Viral call-recording app Neon goes dark after exposing users’ phone numbers, call recordings, and transcripts https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/25/viral-call-recording-app-neon-goes-dark-after-exposing-users-phone-numbers-call-recordings-and-transcripts/ - Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.5, which according to the Software Engineering (SWE) benchmark, beats GPT-5 Codex https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-5 - Anthropic releases Imagine with Claude https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGiqrsv530Y - Lovable releases Lovable Cloud & AI - OpenAI and NVIDIA announce a strategic partnership to deploy 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems https://openai.com/index/openai-nvidia-systems-partnership/ - OpenAI is looking for someone to oversee all monetization efforts, including bringing ads to ChatGPT https://sources.news/p/openai-ads-leader-sam-altman-memo-stargate - Buy it in ChatGPT: Instant Checkout and the Agentic Commerce Protocol https://openai.com/index/buy-it-in-chatgpt/ - OpenAI introduces AgentKit, including Agent Builder, Connector Registry, and ChatKit https://openai.com/index/introducing-agentkit/

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This is a podcast about two techies, Iván and Giorgio, who once worked at a startup that got acquired and thought: "Hey, we can do this ourselves!"—only to realize they have no clue what they’re doing. Now bootstrapping their own indie venture, they’re navigating business, marketing, and sales while awkwardly exposing themselves as introverts on social media. Along the way, they’re using AI to build new products because "chatbots are boring, and we can do better". Expect plenty of facepalms, questionable decisions, and the dry, sardonic humor that unites Southern Europeans.