$100B Founder Breaks Down The Biggest AI Business Opportunities For 2025
Episode 653: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talks to Furqan Rydhan ( https://x.com/FurqanR ) about the biggest opportunities in AI right now.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro
(4:42) Define the Job-to-be-done
(8:20) How to build an AI Agent workflow
(11:16) AI Tools break down
(27:05) How Polymarket won
(31:48) Why VR is a sleeping giant?
(44:43) Be a lifelong player in tech
(58:52) The unbeatable combination
(1:02:27) Adam Foroughi’s A+ execution
(1:18:35) Betting on -1 to 0
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Links:
• Furqan’s site - https://furqan.sh/
• Founders, Inc - https://f.inc/
• Applovin - https://www.applovin.com/
• Claude - https://claude.ai/
• OpenAI - https://platform.openai.com/
• Langchain - https://www.langchain.com/
• AutoGen - https://autogenai.com/
• Crew - https://www.crewai.com/
• CloudSDK - https://cloud.google.com/sdk/
• Perplexity - https://www.perplexity.ai/
• “Attention is all you need” - https://typeset.io/papers/attention-is-all-you-need-1hodz0wcqb
• Anthropic - https://www.anthropic.com/
• Third Web - https://thirdweb.com/
• Luna’s AI Brain - https://terminal.virtuals.io/
• Oasis - https://oasis.decart.ai/welcome
• Polymarket - https://polymarket.com/
• Gorilla Tag - https://www.gorillatagvr.com/
• Yeeps - https://tinyurl.com/59z2yrdu
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#180 with Furqan Rydhan - What it's Like Co-founding a $20B Company, Hardware for Mind Control & Vertical Farming
Shaan (@ShaanVP) and Sam (@TheSamParr) are joined by Furqan Rydhan (@FurqanR). Furqan was Shaan's CTO at Bebo and previously co-founded AppLovin -- a $20B+ company that recently went public. Shaan and Furqan host a weekly "Cool Sh!t Hour" between themselves to discuss the coolest innovations Furqan's seeing. We basically took that and made it into a podcast. Furqan talks about mind-control hardware, vertical farming, and a lot of interesting crypto projects. He also talks about what it was like starting a multibillion-dollar company and his mindset around making decisions on what projects to work on.
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Show notes:
* (5:33) Background on Furqan and his new venture (f.inc)
* (7:48) How AppLovin became a $20B+ company
* (24:20) The hardware Furqan is bullish on
* (35:33) DeFi and borrowing against crypto
* (48:38) The opportunities in vertical farming
* (59:59) The power of proximity and serendipitous opportunities
* (1:13:40) What are DAOs?
#45 - Drones Washing Windows, Airpod Guided Tours & Mario Kart VR with Furqan Rydhan
Sam (@thesamparr) and Shaan (@shaanvp) are back talking news, trends, interesting products and businesses. Today we’re joined by Furqan Rydhan (@FurqanR) who is a tech badass. He was paid $120K as a 15 year old programmer during the Dot Com Boom, made a million dollar e-com biz at 17 and was an early employee at Applovin that was valued last at $2 billion. Remember Ramon’s soap opera blog that he sold for $9M in cash? He did that through the online business broker Quiet Light Brokerage. We’ve partnered up with them to give you guys a FREE 25-point checklist to see how sellable your online business is. To receive this free guide, visit quietlightbrokerage.com/myfirstmillion. Topics for today: Our Guest’s @FurqanR Background (00:36), Funny Story about Vungle’s Jack Smith and Lance Armstrong (07:12), The Process of Brainstorming Ideas (09:36), VR/AR Experiences (10:16), Opportunities in Reviving Stale Franchises and Company Turnarounds (17:07), iPad Whiteboard Meeting Idea (22:44), Reinventing the Phone Call through Airpods (27:51), Furquan’s House Hackathon Ideas (29:49), Serialized Story Apps like Hooked (37:09), Drone Washing Windows on Big Buildings (38:38), Money Printing Mobile Apps (44:44) and What Furqan learnt being Applovin (50:20).
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Product Hunt Radio: Episode 1 w/ Shaan Puri & Furqan Rydhan
In the inaugural episode of Product Hunt Radio (PHR), Shaan Puri and Furqan Rydhan joined me (Ryan Hoover) to geek out about product. We chatted about the Bebo reacquisition, backstory behind Monkey Inferno's new video walkie talkie app, Blab, shared our favorite Product Hunt discoveries, and brainstormed epic product ideas. Overview: - 00:00 - Intro to Monkey Inferno, Shaan, and Furqan - 1:34 - Blabbing about Blab and Bebo - 23:00 - Favorite Product Hunt Finds - 34:02 - Billion $ Product Brainstorm Related links and products mentioned: - Blab on Product Hunt - http://www.producthunt.co/posts/blab - Momentum on Product Hunt - http://www.producthunt.co/posts/momentum - Tickle on Product Hunt - http://www.producthunt.co/posts/tickle - Homescreen 2014 on Product Hunt - http://www.producthunt.co/posts/homescreen2014 - #Homescreen2014 by John Borthwick - https://medium.com/on-startups/4d07472265c7 - Snappy Checkout on Product Hunt - http://www.producthunt.co/posts/snappy-checkout Intro/outro music by eldienneproductions -(https://soundcloud.com/eldienneproductions/hip-hop-beat-instrumental --- Product Hunt is a daily leaderboard of brand new products. Visit producthunt.co.