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YouTube Video XXYj1OkDW9c It feels like the door is closing on people who start with very little. Prices are high, rates are high, and plenty of people are asking whether there’s still a way in. Tonight, Brian North joins us live. Brian founded North & Co., an Arizona residential real estate brokerage that grew past 200 agents and later joined Compass. He also teaches what he calls the Anti-Victim Method, a way of focusing on what you can actually control, without pretending the rest isn’t real. Join us live and ask your questions in the chat. We want to hear from you. 🎙 Guest: Brian North | Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/briancnorth/ 🌐 More from Coder Convos: https://coderconvos.com For sponsorships and bookings: coderconversations@gmail.com #CoderConvos #BrianNorth #Entrepreneurship #RealEstate #CareerAdvice
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Taking Control When Life is Out of Control | Brian C. North
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It feels like the door is closing on people who start with very little. Prices are high, rates are high, and plenty of people are asking whether there’s still a way in. Tonight, Brian North joins us live. Brian founded North & Co., an Arizona residential real estate brokerage that grew past 200 agents and later joined Compass. He also teaches what he calls the Anti-Victim Method, a way of focusing on what you can actually control, without pretending the rest isn’t real. Join us live and ask your questions in the chat. We want to hear from you. 🎙 Guest: Brian North | Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/briancnorth/ 🌐 More from Coder Convos: https://coderconvos.com For sponsorships and bookings: coderconversations@gmail.com #CoderConvos #BrianNorth #Entrepreneurship #RealEstate #CareerAdvice
Taking Control When Life is Out of Control | Brian C. North
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Taking Control When Life is Out of Control | Brian C. North

It feels like the door is closing on people who start with very little. Prices are high, rates are high, and plenty of people are asking whether there’s still a way in.

Tonight, Brian North joins us live. Brian founded North & Co., an Arizona residential real estate brokerage that grew past 200 agents and later joined Compass. He also teaches what he calls the Anti-Victim Method, a way of focusing on what you can actually control, without pretending the rest isn’t real.

Join us live and ask your questions in the chat. We want to hear from you.

🎙 Guest: Brian North | Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/briancnorth/

🌐 More from Coder Convos: https://coderconvos.com

For sponsorships and bookings: coderconversations@gmail.com

#CoderConvos #BrianNorth #Entrepreneurship #RealEstate #CareerAdvice ...

From a homeless 10-year-old who couldn’t read until the 9th grade, to the Managing Partner of Thrive Capital leading a $285 Million firm sale In this episode of Coder Convos, we sit down with entrepreneur and private equity investor Clayton Porsha (known online as Clayton Shyne) to uncover one of the most unbelievable business backstories you will ever hear. Clayton opens up about navigating an incredibly volatile childhood, living in a park, bouncing through foster care, and working as a 13-year-old barback in a Russian nightclub serving celebrities like Mariah Carey and Jay-Z. 🔔 Subscribe to Coder Convos for more raw, unfiltered interviews with top tech founders, investors, and elite operators. 💬 We want to hear from you! What part of Clayton's journey resonated with you the most? Drop your comments and questions below! 🔗 CONNECT WITH THE SHOW & GUEST: • Website: https://coderconvos.com • Clayton Shyne (Instagram): instagram.com • Thrive Capital: https://thrivecapco.com ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS: Clayton Porscha shares his journey from a homeless ten-year-old to a managing partner who led a $285 million firm sale. This interview details the reality of building thirty companies while navigating foster care and extreme adversity. Clayton discusses how he deprogrammed the fear of failure often taught in traditional schools to scale a venture accelerator in Silicon Valley that co-invested with NBA owners. Learn how to raise capital and build elite business relationships, including insights from working alongside Kobe Bryant. We cover the psychology behind entrepreneurial success and the importance of finding personal alignment through faith and community. Be sure to join us live and ask your questions! We want to hear from you! Subscribe for raw interviews with top tech founders and investors. 00:00 - Introduction & Meeting Clayton Porsha 00:47 - Growing Up Homeless, Foster Care, & Learning to Read Late (0:47) 02:03 - Working at a Russian Nightclub at 13 (Serving Jay-Z & Mariah Carey) (2:03) 03:09 - Moving to Silicon Valley & Navigating Wealthy Tech Circles (3:09) 04:38 - Building 30 Companies & the $285 Million Thrive Capital Sale (4:38) 06:42 - Partnering with NBA Kings Owners & Stadium Projects (6:42) 11:08 - How Trauma & Wounding Drives Extreme Entrepreneurial Success (11:08) 14:13 - The Secret to Getting Into Rooms You "Don't Deserve" To Be In (14:13) 15:52 - Deprogramming School Mindsets & Learning to Fail Forward (15:36) 18:44 - The Power of Words & Choosing to Capitalize on Faith (18:44) 25:00 - Overcoming Severe Social Anxiety Through Self-Awareness (25:00) 28:06 - Finding God in a Foxhole & Finding Alignment with Faith (28:06) 37:33 - Single Fatherhood, Chosen Family, & Building Core Communities (37:38) 41:12 - Cultural Mindsets: Contentment vs. The American "Grind" Culture (41:06) 45:43 - The Psychology of FOMO & Marketing by Building Best Friends (45:43) 49:02 - Chasing a Sports Team Majority Ownership & Not Wealth Alone (48:55) 57:31 - Sitting Next to Kobe Bryant & His Unique Student Mindset (57:31) 59:15 - The Story Behind the Name "Clayton Shyne" & Closing Advice (59:15) For sponsorships, bookings, or inquiries, contact us at: coderconversations@gmail.com #Entrepreneurship #VentureCapital #PrivateEquity #SiliconValley #ThriveCapital #FailingForward #CoderConvos #RagsToRiches #KobeBryant #Mindset
From Homeless at 10 to a $285 Million Exit w/ Clayton Porscha
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From Homeless at 10 to a $285 Million Exit w/ Clayton Porscha

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How a restaurant server with zero coding background used Claude to build a $15K/month automated marketing system. (5:43) In this episode of Coder Convos, we sit down with AI integration strategist Hugo Barbosa to unpack how non-technical founders and small business owners can leverage the AI frontier to drastically outperform their competition (55:39). Hugo opens up about the reality of "AI Slop" (5:07), his step-by-step framework for embedding a restaurant’s true brand voice into large language models (15:06), and how he built the "Yanni's Barill Estimator"—an automated high-ticket event quote builder that generated massive high-margin revenue through an email newsletter list (2:37). Whether you want to escape tech-bro trends and find real business legitimacy with AI numbers (8:04), learn how to utilize a human-in-the-loop workflow for high-ticket hospitality events (33:34), or discover the best resources like Product Faculty to learn prompting on the frontier (23:46), this interview is a masterclass in solo operator execution. 🔔 Subscribe to Coder Convos for more raw, unfiltered interviews with top tech founders, investors, and elite operators. 💬 We want to hear from you! Do you think AI will eventually eliminate traditional software engineering jobs, or make operators more valuable? Drop your thoughts below! (52:24) 🔗 CONNECT WITH THE SHOW & GUEST: • Website: https://coderconvos.com • Hugo Barbosa (LinkedIn): linkedin.com ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - Introduction & Meeting Hugo Barbosa 00:48 - Deploying AI Inside a Live Small Business (0:43) 01:43 - Transforming a Restaurant Model into a High-Ticket Event Venue (1:15) 02:30 - How to Turn Daily Operations into Social Proof Content (3:51) 05:07 - Navigating "AI Slop" & Why Iteration is Part of the Process (5:07) 05:43 - Building Software Systems with Zero Technical Coding Background (5:43) 06:26 - The Anthropic Code Base Debate: Will AI Replace Software Engineers? (6:26) 07:23 - The $15,000/Month Newsletter: Real Numbers vs. AI Buzzwords (7:36) 09:46 - The Claude Epiphany: Rewriting a Broken Corporate Website with No Experience (9:24) 10:57 - Building the Yanni’s Barill Quote Estimator Landing Page (10:57) 12:34 - Why Building a Web App Takes Minutes Instead of Weeks of Code (12:34) 15:06 - The Folder Database Trick: Injecting Brand Voice into LLMs (15:06) 17:41 - Email Conversions vs. Social Media Fluff: Tracking True ICP Value (17:29) 19:18 - Working the Restaurant Floor while Running an AI Native Automation Strategy (19:18) 21:36 - The Future of Video Production: Moving from Text to Claude 5.5 and Opus Clips (22:18) 24:15 - Product Faculty: Learning Prompting Secrets from Ex-OpenAI & Google Managers (24:15) 26:10 - How to Automatically Categorize and Filter Raw SD Card Video Footage (26:10) 32:35 - Token Safeguards: Managing Subscriptions and API Budget Limits (33:06) 35:17 - Why Robots Should Never Talk Directly to Your Premium Hospitality Guests (35:11) 41:45 - The Next Frontier: Interactive AI Robotics, Language Tools, and Bilingual Toys (42:02) 44:15 - Cyber Security Risks: How AI Can Hack Simple Passwords in Minutes (44:32) 48:28 - Ambitious Tech: Improving the Livelihood of Rural Mexico with Automation (47:48) 49:53 - A16Z Portfolio Tracking: What Logistics Companies Like Happy Robot are Doing with Voice (49:53) 52:12 - The Universal Basic Income Debate & AI Native Job Forms (52:40) 55:22 - The Biggest Hurdle Facing Small Businesses: AI Adoption & Market Performance (56:12) 57:32 - The Data Center Controversy: Should Companies Invest in Backyard Education? (57:39) For sponsorships, bookings, or inquiries, contact us at: coderconversations@gmail.com #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Claude #PromptEngineering #NoCode #VentureCapital #A16Z #SmallBusiness #Automation #CoderConvos (49:53)
I Built a $15K/Month AI System With Zero Coding Experience | Hugo Barbosa
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I Built a $15K/Month AI System With Zero Coding Experience | Hugo Barbosa

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