Tom Bilyeu
Founder and operator who publishes KPI frameworks for performance management and role-level scorecards.
Skip the Pep Talk: 5 Steps to Launch a Business
If you cornered me at a dinner party and asked how to start a business, I wouldn't give you a pep talk. I'd walk you through these 5 steps.
Prioritize, Don’t Fill Your Calendar, Avoid Overwhelm
You’re overwhelmed today for one simple reason: You filled your calendar instead of fixing your priorities. Busywork is killing you faster than the competition ever will. Back at my first company, I learned this the hard way.
17 Essential Prompting Lessons for AI‑Driven Business
17 months ago, I realized how important AI would be in my business. Here are 17 lessons you MUST keep in mind while you prompt:
AI Agents Replace Developers for Everyday Software Needs
When I need software today, I don’t hire developers. I don’t learn the language. I direct an agent. That sentence would’ve sounded insane just a few years ago.
Fast Growth Breeds Hubris; Diversification Can Crash
#2 fastest-growing company in North America. 57,000% growth rate. Then we got cocky and lost millions. We were in the middle of building Quest Nutrition into a billion-dollar company. So we launched a clothing line called Quest Apparel. It was a catastrophic...
AI Boosts All Support Agents, Not Just Top Performers
Everyone says AI will replace the worst workers. MIT studied 5,000 employees and found the opposite: Stanford and MIT researchers tracked 5,179 customer support agents for a year. Half got access to an AI assistant. Half didn't. The results were shocking.
Five Claude Features Power 80% of Our Workflow
5 Claude features are doing 80% of the work at my company. I didn't find half of them on my own. My team did. Here's the exact setup we run daily.
Launch a $M Business in 90 Days with AI
If I had to start over tomorrow with nothing but a laptop and Claude, here’s how I’d build a multi-million dollar business in 90 days. I'd create a 5-person AI department that works 24/7. Let me introduce you to the team…
AI Enables Solo Founders to Build Fast, Cheap
I've watched hundreds of founders quit their jobs too early and go broke. They all made the same mistake… no systems. AI makes that inexcusable. Now you can build in 4 weeks what used to take a team of 5 people and...
Rude Prompts Boost AI Performance with 5 Comebacks
I get better results from AI by being rude to it. I use these 5 comebacks that force AI to stop coasting.
50 Lessons From a Billion‑Dollar Exit and Marriage
It’s my 50th birthday. Here are 50 lessons from 50 years of life, a beautiful marriage, and a $1B exit.
Mistakes with Claude Teach More Than Successes
My team and I have been using Claude every day for months. We've gotten it wrong more than we've gotten it right. But the mistakes taught us everything. If you're switching to Claude right now (and a lot of people are), here's...
Solve Costly Problems, Not Just Cool Ideas
I don't look for good ideas. I look for expensive problems. The difference built me a billion-dollar company. So many founders start by asking "What cool thing can I build?" That’s the wrong question.
AI Threat: Losing Jobs to Better AI Users
The most dangerous thing about AI isn't that it takes your job. It's that it gives your job to someone who uses AI better than you. Andrej Karpathy just published a tool that maps every job in America by AI exposure.
Founder Uses ChatGPT to Cure Dog’s Cancer
A man reversed his dog's cancer with AI. No degree. No lab. No team. Just ChatGPT and a dog named Rosie who had 6 months to live. Here's exactly how he did it, and what every founder needs to steal from his...