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What Happens When A $30B Founder Uses ChatGPT

2025-07-16 Entertainment
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My First Million
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Leveraging AI Context Windows, Tool Calling, and Future Agent Teams

Understand the technical constraints of Large Language Models (LLMs) like the context window, and learn advanced techniques (RAG, tool calling) that unlock real-world automation and the future potential of digital teammates.

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  • Master concepts like context window limitations and how Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) overcomes them.
  • Adopt the worldview that AI is an amplifier ("You to the power of AI"), not a competitor, requiring active usage to increase personal value.
  • Prepare for the inevitable shift toward hybrid teams composed of human workers and increasingly capable AI agents requiring new management structures.

This episode details critical AI concepts, moving beyond simple generation to explain how to inject proprietary knowledge into models and enable them to take action using "tool calling." The discussion provides a framework for understanding current AI capabilities and cautions about its limitations, like hallucinations, while positioning AI as a massive amplifier for individual and organizational productivity.

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*Want Sam's playbook to turn ChatGPT into your executive coach? Get it here: https://clickhubspot.com/mdh* Episode 726: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Dharmesh Shah ( https://x.com/dharmesh ) about how he’s using ChatGPT. — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (2:00) Context windows (5:26) Vector embeddings (17:20) Automation and orchestration (21:03) Tool calling (28:14) Dharmesh's hot takes on AI (33:06) Agentic managers (39:41) Zuck poaches OpenAI talent w/ 9-figures (49:33) Shaan makes a video game — Links: • Agent.ai - https://agent.ai/ • Andrej Karpathy - https://www.youtube.com/andrejkarpathy — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

Top Comments (10)

@MyFirstMillionPod 2025-07-16

*Want Sam's playbook to turn ChatGPT into your executive coach? Get it here:* https://clickhubspot.com/ofn

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@Paths2business8406 2025-07-28

ChatGPT is the best thing that has ever happened to starting new businesses!

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@evalnetwork 2025-07-19

Keep these types of episodes coming. They help me figure out new ways to use gen AI and more importantly, expand my thinking and understanding regarding it.

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@navdeepredefine 2025-07-20

Instead of saying things out loud. Dharmesh should open-source all the projects he is building with breakthrough technology and open-source them. This is what I call leading with example

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@nitesh-maharaj 2025-07-18

It's crazy that MFM hasn't surpassed 1m subs already. Every pod with Dharmesh is amazing!

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@vj8724 2025-07-16

@dharmesh shah... First impression.. extraordinary...❤

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@the_quietmark 2025-08-19

Vector embeddings! I just realized this is what smart connect plugin in obsidian does. Except it does it for files already on your computer and updates the context in realtime, aka sync google docs with api. Pull any document from anywhere and automate so your sources are always up to date. Baller that its the same technology as chatgpt.❤

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@BenNirzan 2025-08-02

One of the best discussions on AI so far.

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@LevelUpGamer-b3u 2025-08-19

finally making sense of vector embeddings thx

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@STELLASCUTENESS 2025-08-21

The minute 17 mark is precisely my experience as well.

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