3 Niche Business Ideas: AI Psychics, Creator-Owned VPNs & Guns with Soylent co-Founder John Coogan

Episode 496: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) talk with John Coogan (https://twitter.com/johncoogan), co-Founder of Soylent & Lucy and EIR at Founders Fund. John shares the most underrated creator-business no ones talking about, what Peter Theil and Keith Rabois are like, why he thinks lifestyle businesses are worthless and much more.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(3:15) Soylent origin story

(14:50) Lucy background

(17:00) Business Idea 1: Creator-owned VPN

(23:20) Business Idea 2: Ammunition Rollup

(28:45) How often does Sam think of the Roman Empire?

(32:20) Thoughts on Keith Rabois

(34:40) Best Twitter follows

(36:15) Debate: Lifestyle businesses vs. VC-backed

(48:15) Who John’s voting for

(51:00) Why AI wrappers are great businesses

(53:30) Business Idea 3: Lensa for ChatGPT

(57:40) Scam artist telemarketing

(1:04:05) Closing thoughts

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Links:

• John Coogan Twitter - https://twitter.com/johncoogan

• John Coogan Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/johncooganplus

• Soylent - https://soylent.com/

• Lucy Gum - https://lucy.co/

• Sam's Soylent article - https://tinyurl.com/mu8yhbyv

• Linus Tech Tips - https://www.youtube.com/user/linustechtips

• Anduril - https://www.anduril.com/

• Founders Fund - https://foundersfund.com/

• Keith Rabois - https://twitter.com/rabois

• Sean Parker - https://twitter.com/sparker

• Ligma Johnson - https://tinyurl.com/yx598zcc

• Peter Thiel - https://twitter.com/peterthiel

• Will Hurd - https://twitter.com/WillHurd

• Lensa - https://prisma-ai.com/lensa

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