Generative AI: The $13 Billion Beast

Building Startups by Ajay Yadav

The ‘No-BS’ BS Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the first issue of the Building Startups Newsletter!🚀 

Let’s start with the basics, shall we?👇️

💻️ AI

➡️ Generative AI: The $13 Billion Beast

Here’s what I tell every student and professional, young or seasoned:

Generative AI is the biggest thing to happen to tech since the Internet— don’t sleep on it.

There’s lots to explore and uncover, start here.

What’s new: Microsoft in partnership with LinkedIn Learning has launched “Career Essentials in Generative AI by Microsoft and LinkedIn,” a certified AI course for professionals starting out with generative AI. Highly recommend.

➡️ AI Tool of the Week: Simplified

A little self plug-in. We built Simplified to be your go-to AI platform for all your content and marketing needs. If you’re a creator, freelancer or solopreneur looking for AI to simplify your life, try Simplified. It’s free.

➡️ AI Trivia

We talk about how AI is the future, here’s a fun insight to validate it:

There will be more AI assistants than people in the world. Forecasts suggest that by 2024 there will be 8.4 billion AI-powered digital voice assistant units!🤯 

🚀Entrepreneurship

I moved to the States when I was 17 with not a lot to bank on.

Which is to say, I’ve been on an entrepreneurial journey for more than a decade now. Like many of my contemporaries, I’ve changed jobs, taken up different roles, even switched industries.

Many people don’t actively remember this, but change truly is the only constant. Your college, jobs, companies, successes and failures— all of it changes.

So when you attach your identity to a particular institution, experience or job, when you move on from it, people don’t really know who you are.

How do you then make sure that all those things continue to attach to you as a human being?

➡️By building your personal brand.🖋️

Personal branding means creating an identity for who you are and what you do. It helps people identify who YOU are, as an individual, as a

Personal branding requires creating content, and creating content for the digital world is terrifying. But many people are losing on some fantastic opportunities because they give in to that fear.

A personal brand can help you connect to like-minded individuals, professionals in the same field, potential customers as well as employers. It can also help you market your skills and gain freelancing opportunities.

You gain credibility when you are able to add value to someone’s digital experience. But more than that, you gain an identity that is not transient.

I talk extensively on my LinkedIn about AI, funding, entrepreneurial leadership and marketing. I have said knowledge and experience and my audience knows it.

The key is consistency.🔑 

Get on LinkedIn. Start creating content around what you’re passionate about. Quality will come with time, focus on being consistent.

📌 Here’s a task: Create your first LinkedIn post after reading this newsletter.

👔 Leadership Lifestyle

Bringing you some wise words from John Henry, co-founder and co-CEO of LOOP. John is self-made in every sense of the word, a first-generation American, community-college dropout, and started his career as a doorman.

He sold his first business when he was 21, became an angel investor at 23, and a venture capitalist by 25.

This is what he has to say about “speed” in the startup culture:

Have a good weekend, I’ll see you in the next one! Until then, share this newsletter with people you think might enjoy it by sharing the link below.