The Entire AI/Startup/ Vibecoding Scene Explained (in 60 seconds)

So literal 18 year olds are raising millions of dollars from venture capital companies or creating AI apps that generate over $1 million in revenue every single month. And I think that's kind of why so many young people are drawn to AI right now because they've seen the literal instant gratification that so many people are experiencing right now. But there's also so much noise around it. You might hear people saying, oh, you have a year left to make money with AI, while there's a lot of truth to that urgency. I'm gonna kind of explain what's going on in the next 60 seconds. So there's essentially three different ways that people are actually making money with AI right now. The first and probably most user friendly right now is building AI apps for consumers. These are gonna be your AI consumer apps like Cal AI where you're selling a subscription in exchange for your app. And while this has become a lot more saturated, this is probably the easiest to build because you can vibe code it with apps like lovable, cursor, or base 44. The second is building a real startup when you have a little bit more technical depth. So this is when you have a strong idea at an infrastructure level or a vertical AI tool level and you wanna go implement it at a startup level. Because these VC companies are just investing billions of dollars into these new AI companies that are creating agents that can do tasks for you. And then Number 3 is learning about these tools and then integrating it for other people. A lot of people just have no idea where to start with this stuff, but it can literally save businesses thousands of dollars to integrate AI. So while I wouldn't say the window is closing, I'd say there's a big advantage in being an early adopter to the new tech that's coming out cause new models, new apps, new information comes out every single day and being an early adopter to that can literally make a huge difference. I was talking to the founder of Chatbase today and he was saying how he was building tools with AI before ChatGPT and because he was such an early adopter of this when the playing field was so wide open, I think he could have been successful in any industry endeavor that he went on because the golden formula to making money in this right now is being the first and executing it well. If you wanna talk about this stuff or learn more about it, join the discord or the school community.