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In today’s issue:
📺 Netflix & Spotify paid $100M to Jay Shetty to take his podcast off YouTube
🎓 Banks are paying these AI educators up to $25K per day to teach AI to their employees
🚀 Why the best prompt engineers stopped typing (it's further down) - Wispr Flow
💼 1,000+ OpenAI and Anthropic roles and the surprising ones paying $250K+
Do You Watch Netflix During Work Hours?
The latest show I binge-watched on Netflix is Beef. Season 2 is an intense drama inside a Californian private members club owned by a Korean woman with more than a few secrets of her own (no spoilers). After I watched finishing the show, Netflix recommended a behind-the-scenes podcast with the directors and producers walking through their thought process.
Then last week, Netflix and Spotify jointly acquired the video rights to Jay Shetty's podcast On Purpose for $100 million. As part of the deal, Jay Shetty will take his podcast off YouTube.
Made me wonder: why is Netflix suddenly trying to be a podcast platform?
A few reasons that actually make a lot of sense (also what the management said on their earnings call):
Podcasts are cheap to produce and generate loyal repeat audiences. $100 million split between Spotify & Netflix over multiple years is a rounding error compared to what a single prestige TV season costs.
The time-of-day problem. Most people don’t watch Netflix during daytime . Podcasts are a daytime format—commutes, lunch, errands. Podcasts allow Netflix to capture a time where it has had historically less engagement.
Mobile. People don’t watch TV and film on mobile phones. Podcasts are native to it. Netflix showing up on a screen where it had almost no presence.
The real competitor for Netflix isn't HBO or Disney+. It's YouTube. You never run out of things to watch on YouTube. Netflix is betting that if it can pull premium creators like Jay Shetty off YouTube exclusively, audience habit follows.
Congrats to Jay Shetty - his career is a masterclass in how to build a media empire. He was a Hindu monk before he became a content creator. 25 million+ Instagram and TikTok followers, 9 million YouTube subscribers, 1 billion listens on his podcast in seven years — guests like Michelle Obama, Oprah, Tom Holland.
The Netflix / Spotify deal puts him in the same bracket as Joe Rogan ($250M with Spotify) and Alex Cooper ($125M with SiriusXM).
Not bad for a monk.
If you've been sitting on a podcast idea or a content series you haven't started yet — this is your sign.
You Don't Need to Build the Next ChatGPT to Become an AI Millionaire - You Can Become an AI Educator
Ask anyone at your lunch table how they use AI. Most will say ChatGPT or Claude. Ask them if they have created a skill on Claude or what an MCP is—blank stares. 90% of people still use AI as a glorified search bar and have never spent a single weekend learning any real skills.
Two ex-Investment Bankers noticed this gap and have built a multi million dollar business around it called Wall Street Prompt. They are charging Wall Street banks and investment funds up to $25,000 a day to teach senior staff how to use the AI tools their employers have already paid for.
Most of the stuff you could learn in an afternoon. Banks pay it without blinking. They're sold out for the next 60 days..
MIT has also noticed the same thing. Their executive AI courses have seen an exponential increase in demand that cost over $12,000 for five days. Senior executives are scared of getting replaced, their companies are paying for it, and an MIT badge still means something on LinkedIn (even if its 5 days).
If you're a finance person? Teach AI for financial modeling. You're in content? Teach AI for content creation. You're an artist? Teach AI for design. You don't need to build the next killer app. You just need to be one step ahead of the room you're standing in.
Just start sharing what you know online and develop a product around it.
This might not be the sexiest AI business. But probably one with the lowest barriers to entry and the highest margins. It also allows you the time to figure out what to build (if you want to build a product).
The best prompt engineers aren't typing. They're talking.
Power users figured this out early: speaking a prompt gives you 10x more context in half the time. You include the edge cases, the examples, the tone you want — because talking is fast enough that you don't skip them.
Wispr Flow captures everything you say and turns it into clean, structured text for any AI tool. Speak messy. Get polished input. Paste into ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, or wherever you work.
89% of messages sent with zero edits. 4x faster than typing. Works system-wide on Mac, Windows, and iPhone.
Hottest Jobs in the AI World
Open AI has 716 open roles while Anthropic is marketing at least 350 open roles on its careers page. The most interesting ones I find are the field marketing, content & FDE roles that pay upwards of 250k.
I personally believe its the best time in the history to be a marketer.
Open Roles at Anthropic
Communications Manager, Research NYC / SF / Seattle
Field Marketing Manager Remote (Travel) / SF
Head of Creative, Creative Studio SF / NYC
Marketing Events Content Manager SF / NYC
Marketing Events Lead, Enterprise SF / NYC
Open Roles at OpenAI
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