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VOL. 02

Inside Claude Code: Building for the Model, Not the Moment

How a tiny terminal chat app became Claude Code and rewrote the developer workflow, told through its creator Boris Cherny — a WOW Mentor teardown.

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33 min
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14min

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VOL. 03

$9M ARR in 8 Weeks: Inside Muse's Hypergrowth Playbook

How a founder contracted $9M ARR just eight weeks after rebranding to Muse — hiring, positioning, and the ontology-layer bet — a WOW Mentor teardown.

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34 min
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13min

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VOL. 05

$215M AI CEO: How to Build a Profitable AI Startup in 30 Days

The 30-day playbook of the Opus Clip founder who built 50M users and a $215M valuation in 2.5 years — niches to avoid, pricing as a science, and discipline — a WOW Mentor teardown.

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35 min
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VOL. 06

The Role That Surged 5,000%: How Clay Became a $5B Company

The go-to-market engineer role whose job postings surged 5,000% in a year, and the two-team flywheel that turned Clay into a $5B company — a WOW Mentor teardown.

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VOL. 07

Is AI Breaking the Lean Startup Playbook: The Patrick Collison Teardown

Stripe CEO Patrick Collison on the lean startup playbook in the AI era — a WOW Mentor teardown.

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VOL. 10

How Supabase Became One of the Fastest-Growing DevTool Companies in the World

From a 2020 open-source Postgres tool to a decacorn in a handful of years, the strategy behind Supabase's rise — a WOW Mentor teardown.

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33 min
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VOL. 11

We Cut 80% of Claude Code's Prompt: Boris Cherny on Radical Simplicity

Why deleting 80% of Claude Code's system prompt made the model smarter, told through creator Boris Cherny's context engineering and the discipline of subtraction — a WOW Mentor teardown.

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VOL. 12

Waymo's Dmitri Dolgov: The Demo Is Only 1% Of The Work

Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov on the seven lessons of physical AI — the demo-to-product gap, the ladder of nines, the long tail, and the discipline of earning trust — a WOW Mentor teardown.

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34 min
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VOL. 13

How to Design in the Agent Era

When AI agents do the actual work, what still sets a designer apart? A strategic breakdown of Paper founder Steven Haney's mindset and hands-on workflow — a WOW Mentor teardown.

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33 min
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VOL. 17

If You Hate Selling: Reframing Sales for Founders — Scale or Fail Episode 3

How a founder who hated selling learned to sell well and help more people — a WOW Mentor teardown.

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33 min
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VOL. 19

How to Sell Like the Top 1%: Escaping the Hourly Trap — Scale or Fail Episode 1

How an hourly moving business breaks out of the commodity race with a premium offer and a real sales process — a WOW Mentor teardown.

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33 min
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12min

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VOL. 20

How Stripe Built Their New Website

Why a payments company's homepage relaunch was really an act of rewriting its own identity, and what design engineering and craft have to do with trust — a WOW Mentor teardown.

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VOL. 23

How the First Customer Actually Arrives: A Teardown of Five Millionaires' Acquisition Playbook

WOW Mentor dissects what five self-made entrepreneurs actually did to win their very first customer, distilled into five field-tested tactics with the sponsorship stripped away.

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51 min
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22min

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VOL. 24

The $5K Bedroom Business: How One Candle Became a Wellness Empire

WOW Mentor dissects how Lily turned a single $5.99 candle sold to her mother into a $5,000/month wellness brand, and reverse-engineers the exact blueprint to double it to $10,000 a month.

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62 min
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25min

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VOL. 25

The Man Who Interviewed 107 Billionaires: The Real Formula for Getting Rich

Venture capitalist Harry Stebbings made £1.75M in 24 hours at nineteen and interviewed 107 billionaires. WOW Mentor dissects the wealth patterns he extracted — sales, distribution, ethics, and decision-making.

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59 min
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26min

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VOL. 26

The Wealthy Buy Through a Different Door: Three Principles for Selling to the Top 10%

A teardown of how to reach the top 10% who hold 60% of a market's capital. Through three principles — a powerful pitch, contextual adjacency, and land and expand — we dissect the real cases that turned a $2,000 day rate into $20,000.

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53 min
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22min

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VOL. 27

The Million-Dollar Landing Page: How an Online Assessment Turns Strangers Into Qualified Leads

WOW Mentor dissects a lead-generation system built by an entrepreneur who spent twenty years scaling companies. Not clever ad copy, but one structural device — the online assessment — that converts anonymous scrollers into qualified, self-revealing leads.

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57 min
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23min

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VOL. 28

Your Business Is Already Dead: The Three Mental Models AI Rewards

WOW Mentor dissects serial entrepreneur Daniel Priestley's three mental models for the AI disruption—"your business is dead," "Atlantis has risen," and "the new moats"—and the 12-to-24-month window to reinvent before it closes.

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52 min
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22min

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VOL. 29

Make Them Line Up: The 8 Laws of the Oversubscribed Business and How to Engineer Demand

A teardown of how "oversubscribed" businesses engineer demand so intense they can double their prices, illustrated through Rolex, Glastonbury, and Metallica. Covers signal collection, official capacity, the 7-11-4 method, and the campaign-driven engine that plans a full year in three moves.

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61 min
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25min

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VOL. 30

Glorified Freelancer or Founder: The Blueprint for a Highly Profitable Lifestyle Business

How to build a highly profitable business that runs from anywhere with a team of four to twelve. WOW Mentor dissects the team, the product ecosystem, the weekly rhythm, and the three growth campaigns, step by step.

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53 min
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21min

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VOL. 31

The Closing Window of Personal Brand: What Only a Human Can Sell in the Age of AI

Before AI swallows the content market, WOW Mentor dissects a three-step system that turns your lived experience into a seven- or eight-figure asset — reconstructed from Daniel Priestley's talk.

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56 min
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24min

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VOL. 32

Boring Builds Millions: The 7 Unsexy Habits Behind a $1M Business

No 5 a.m. wake-ups, no ice baths. WOW Mentor dissects the seven boring, high-leverage habits Daniel Priestley has repeated for 25 years to build seven- and eight-figure businesses.

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59 min
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VOL. 33

The More You Let Go, The More Powerful You Become: How the Top 1% Think — The Phil Jackson Paradox

Through the contrast between Phil Jackson, who won 11 titles, and Michael Jordan, who admitted he could never coach, WOW Mentor dissects why leadership is about how you think, not what you do — following one founder's confession that the day she hit fifty million was the worst day of her life.

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56 min
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23min

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VOL. 34

Real Confidence Isn't Faking It: Five Shifts That Make You Look 10x More Certain

Neither daily affirmations nor last-minute cramming before a big moment build real confidence. WOW Mentor dissects Leila Hormozi's decade of hard lessons into five practical shifts: killing hedging language, setting your body first, using silence, holding under pressure, and owning your opening.

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58 min
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24min

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VOL. 35

Success Isn't Willpower, It's Architecture: Five Systems That Put Your Life on Autopilot

WOW Mentor breaks down doctor-turned-entrepreneur Ali Abdaal's talk on systems. It reframes success as a design problem rather than a willpower problem, and dissects five domains—goals, time, health, relationships, and money—that can be run on autopilot.

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53 min
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22min

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VOL. 36

Starting Content Over in 2026: A Teardown of Ali Abdaal's Five Rules

Ali Abdaal has made over a thousand videos. WOW Mentor dissects the five principles he'd rely on if he had to start over in 2026 — competitor analysis, the compounding asset, the AI trap, inoculation against cringe, and leaning into unfair advantages.

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53 min
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VOL. 37

Jeff Su, From $98 to $835,000: How a Risk-Averse Googler Built a Million-Dollar Channel

WOW Mentor dissects how Jeff Su, a self-described extremely risk-averse Googler who never wanted to be an entrepreneur, built a multi-million-dollar business on YouTube while keeping a demanding full-time job.

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65 min
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28min

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VOL. 38

From Freelancer to Founder: The 4-to-12 Blueprint for a High-Profit Lifestyle Business

Why does working harder alone trap you on a treadmill? WOW Mentor dissects the anatomy of a high-profit lifestyle business — team structure, product ecosystem, weekly rhythm, and three growth campaigns.

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57 min
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24min

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