The Solid Giant Podcast

Josh Starr
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Josh Starr runs Solid Giant, an AI product studio. Every week he screens the internet's best posts on AI, automation and building businesses, then breaks down what they actually mean for operators in 9 minutes. Real takes from a founder who ships AI systems for healthcare networks, home services companies and his own product portfolio.

Episodes

  1. 1d ago

    Boring AI Agents, Selling Outcomes, and the 7-Day Trap

    Episode 6 walks through four X posts about building AI agents that actually sell, moving fast as an operator, and selling outcomes instead of content. Josh breaks down why the most sellable AI agents fix boring problems like overdue invoice chasing, and closes on the seven day work week reality for entrepreneurs in the AI age. Josh pulls from his own experience building products with Front Desk Pro to back up the take that businesses will pay for software that handles the annoying, time consuming work they don't want to do. He also gets honest about the operator tradeoff, sometimes shipping broken things to production and fixing them live, and why you have to be secure enough in your decisions to move fast without breaking everything. This week's posts: The Boring AI Agents People Actually Buy Corey Ganim (@coreyganim)Operators Test, Executives Schedule Meetings Clifton Sellers (@CliftonSellers)Stop Selling Content, Sell The Inbox Kevin Szabo (@KevinSzabo14)Working All Seven Days, Flex Or Warning Daniel Smidstrup (@DanielSmidstrup)Every episode: solidgiant.com/podcast

  2. Sep 4

    The Marketing Engineer, The Evaluation Wall, And Contagious Energy

    Episode 5 walks through the week's best AI and business posts, from the rise of the marketing engineer who collapses whole sales and marketing teams into one person, to the evaluation wall slowing down private equity portfolios. Josh also digs into why outbound is landing back on the phone, how AI could atrophy our minds like escalators softened our bodies, and why energy might be the most attractive trait you can have. Josh ties these posts back to what he's seeing in the PE-backed home services world, where companies that started with AI six to eighteen months ago are already on the upswing of the curve and pulling away. He also shares how this very podcast is an example of the marketing engineer idea in action, recorded in about ten minutes a week with tools handling the cutting, posting, and distribution. The through line is simple: adopt these tools now, keep exercising your own judgment and taste, and bring real energy to the room. This week's posts: The Marketing Engineer Is The New Hire GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg)Small And Big Companies Want Opposite Things Luke Pierce (@lukepierceops)The Evaluation Wall Is The Real Bottleneck Mark Ajzenstadt (@mardehaym)Outbound Is Getting Rebuilt Around The Phone Jerimiah Lee Lancaster (@JerimiahLee)AI Might Do To Minds What Escalators Did To Bodies Isabella M Weber (@IsabellaMWeber)Energy Beats Looks, Wealth, And Status Sahil Bloom (@SahilBloom)Every episode: solidgiant.com/podcast

  3. Aug 27

    The Broken Agency Model, Auto Mode, and PE Cooling Off

    This week Josh breaks down why the best SEO agencies in 2027 won't look like agencies at all, and how two engineers can now do the work of 15 to 20 staff. He also digs into why the tool stack matters less than the brain you build around your company, Claude Code making auto mode the default, a clever cold calling text hack, and the first signs that private equity money in home services is cooling off. Josh runs Solid Giant with his co-founder Craig, so a lot of this episode comes from the two of them actually building the software, ads, CRMs and automations that used to take a full agency team. He talks through running n8n on a Mac mini, switching between Claude, ChatGPT and cursor models depending on the job, and why none of that choice really matters compared to the infrastructure underneath. The private equity segment is worth a listen if you run or sell into home services, since he points to AI-powered inbound call centers as one of the clearer cost saving plays right now. This week's posts: The Broken Agency Model Is Finally Getting Fixed Jake Ward (@jakezward)The Tool Stack Doesn't Matter As Much As You Think Luke Pierce (@lukepierceops)Claude Code Makes Auto Mode The Default Boris Cherny (@bcherny)Text First, Then Call Thirty Seconds Later Andy Walker - SMB Marketing (@andywalkerhq)The PE Money In Home Services Is Cooling Steve Hunsaker | Home Service Accelerator (@stevehunsaker1)Every episode: solidgiant.com/podcast

  4. Aug 21

    Stripe Calls The Singularity While A Plumber Ships Agents

    Episode 3 walks through the week's best AI and business posts, from a plumbing company owner using Grok bot to field calls and save $2,000 a month, to Stripe telling investors the singularity has already begun. Josh digs into why the number of agents you run doesn't matter as much as what they can do, and why taste and focus get more valuable as intelligence gets cheap. This week leans into the gap between hype and what actually ships. On one side you have a plumber automating real office work in 24 hours and saving real money, and on the other you have Stripe claiming we crossed into the singularity on January 1st, 2026. Josh threads it together with takes from Altimor on why one good agent beats an army of them, Sun Yi on learning to code before you vibe code, Steve Hunsaker on fixing follow up instead of fussing over fonts, and Peter Diamandis on taste becoming the scarce resource. This week's posts: Plumber Automates His Office Manager In 24 Hours Jon ONeill (@HouseHackerJon)How A 7:30am Call Saved Two Grand Monthly Jon ONeill (@HouseHackerJon)The Army Of Agents Is A Vanity Metric Flo Crivello (@Altimor)You Can't Break Rules You Never Learned Sun Yi (@_sun_yi)Stop Fussing Over Fonts, Fix Your Follow Up Steve Hunsaker | Home Service Accelerator (@stevehunsaker1)Stripe Tells Investors The Singularity Already Started Andrew Curran (@AndrewCurran_)When Intelligence Is Cheap, Taste Gets Expensive Peter H. Diamandis, MD (@PeterDiamandis)Every episode: solidgiant.com/podcast

  5. Aug 14

    The Batphone, The Daily Text, and Freelancing's Last Days

    Episode two walks through seven X posts about AI and business, from giving your AI agents a panic button to why the golden age of billable hours is over. Josh digs into selling a text message instead of software, why the best buyers are people who already bought before, and how one person with three bots can out-compete a whole company. This week leans hard into the freelancing and agency shift. A few of these posts overlap in a useful way: John Rush shows real examples of AI replacing design, legal, and coding spend in his own org, while Aaron Will lays out both the three-bot stack and the 2026 skills list you need to keep up. If you sell services to businesses, Corey Ganim's point about not handing strangers homework and Codie Sanchez's point about selling to people who already pay for things are worth sitting with. This week's posts: Give Your AI A Panic Button Patrick McKenzie (@patio11)Sell The Message Before The Software GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg)The Golden Age Of Billable Hours Is Over John Rush (@johnrush)Never Give A Stranger Homework Corey Ganim (@coreyganim)The Best Buyers Already Bought Before Codie Sanchez (@Codie_Sanchez)One Person, Three Bots, Whole Company Aaron (@IAmAaronWill)The 2026 Skills List Is A Trap Aaron (@IAmAaronWill)Every episode: solidgiant.com/podcast

  6. Aug 7

    Five archetypes, dead pricebooks, and the end of tokenmaxxing

    Episode 1 of The Solid Giant Podcast covers the week's best X posts on AI and business, from Boris Cherny's idea that org charts are melting into five archetypes to Uber's CFO revealing that token costs dropped even as AI usage quadrupled. Josh also digs into why chat rewards experienced users, why handmade is the new premium, and why the rollout, not the demo, is the real product in the trades. This week's rundown spans big platform shifts and practical playbooks. You will hear takes from Anthropic's Boris Cherny, a CFO commentary shared by Praveen, OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Dmytro Krasun, Sab8a, Garry Tan, Greg Isenberg, Todd Saunders, Chris Hoffman, Altimor, and cbwritescopy. Themes include treating AI efficiency as an engineering problem, building one deep product instead of five shallow ones, keeping your pricebook current in home services, and adding real human personality to stand out from AI slop. This week's posts: The org chart is melting into five archetypes Boris Cherny (@bcherny)The tokenmaxxing era is ending Praveen Neppalli (@praveenTweets)Nobody wants your bot in their DMs Greg Brockman (@gdb)Chat rewards people who already know the answer Dmytro Krasun (@DmytroKrasun)The old SaaS playbook is breaking Sabba Keynejad (@sab8a)Nobody complains their fork was machine made Garry Tan (@garrytan)Handmade is the new premium GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg)Your pricebook is leaking margin Todd Saunders (@toddsaunders)The demo is impressive. The rollout is the product. Chris Hoffmann (@STLChrisH)Founder life, now quantified: 2x busier Flo Crivello (@Altimor)A Loom video is still the highest converting cold email Christian (@cbwritescopy)Every episode: solidgiant.com/podcast Watch the video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJidPzdre28

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Josh Starr runs Solid Giant, an AI product studio. Every week he screens the internet's best posts on AI, automation and building businesses, then breaks down what they actually mean for operators in 9 minutes. Real takes from a founder who ships AI systems for healthcare networks, home services companies and his own product portfolio.

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  • Creator
    Josh Starr
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    6
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Solid Giant LLC
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