How The Best AI Products Grow | Brian Balfour (Reforge)

Plus how I use AI to extract insights from podcasts in minutes instead of hours

Dear subscribers,

Today, I want to share a new episode with Brian Balfour (CEO Reforge) on how the best AI products grow.

For my paid subs, I also want to share how I use Claude to extract insights from podcasts and edit long documents in minutes instead of hours.

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How the best AI products grow | Brian Balfour

Watch now on YouTube, Apple, and Spotify.

Here’s what Brian and I covered:

• [00:00] A funny rant about Google Search

• [02:13] Why no one should try to copy ChatGPT's growth

• [07:39] Why OpenAI built custom GPTs

• [13:56] Midjourney’s $200M ARR off Discord

• [21:49] Perplexity's challenge to Google Search

• [29:22] The good, the bad, and the cringe of LinkedIn's collaborative articles

• [35:08] AI’s impact on the growth profession

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How to use Claude to extract insights from podcasts and edit long documents in <5 min

I never thought that I’d pay $40 / month for both ChatGPT and Claude, but here we are. The best thing about Claude is its long context window and near-perfect recall.

That makes it much better than ChatGPT for the following use cases:

1. Extract insights from long podcasts

2. Edit long documents

Both prompts below save me hours every week: