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by Михаил Тимочко · 5,313 words · 783 segments · language en · Watch on YouTube

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  1. 0:00For almost all of human history, it was
  2. 0:02like this: born poor, you die poor. And
  3. 0:05only in the last 30 years did an
  4. 0:06ordinary person get a chance to learn
  5. 0:08something, go sell it, then build a
  6. 0:10business around it, and make something
  7. 0:12of themselves without money,
  8. 0:14connections, or wealthy parents. And
  9. 0:16that window of opportunity is closing.
  10. 0:18I think we have about 5 years left, and
  11. 0:20then neural networks will shut that
  12. 0:22door for good. And if you don't manage
  13. 0:24to break out by then, you'll most
  14. 0:26likely stay exactly where you are
  15. 0:27forever. I realize this might sound
  16. 0:30like clickbait or a horror story, but
  17. 0:31here is what pushed me to make this
  18. 0:33video. I recently fired my designer—a
  19. 0:36great one, with good taste, who I’d
  20. 0:38worked with for a long time and enjoyed
  21. 0:40working with. And I didn’t fire her
  22. 0:42because she did a bad job, but because
  23. 0:44she simply had no work left to do. All
  24. 0:46the design work she used to do is now
  25. 0:48handled by the Claude AI, and it’s
  26. 0:50much faster and cheaper. This hit home
  27. 0:53for me because, well, first, I started
  28. 0:55out as a web designer myself, and
  29. 0:57second, if even an experienced person
  30. 0:59with good taste can be replaced now,
  31. 1:01what about the beginners just starting
  32. 1:03their path in this field? After all, I
  33. 1:07climbed that very ladder myself, and
  34. 1:09now I see its bottom rungs being sawed
  35. 1:12off. In this video, we will take a
  36. 1:14closer look at what is happening with
  37. 1:15these neural networks and what to do in
  38. 1:17the next 5 years so you don't get left
  39. 1:18behind. And at the end of the video,
  40. 1:21I’ll tell you what I would do today
  41. 1:23if I were 17 and starting from scratch.
  42. 1:25Part one. The ladder to success. Anyway
  43. 1:27, here is the story. I was an ordinary
  44. 1:29schoolboy in Dniprodzerzhynsk and had
  45. 1:30no idea what to do with my life. The
  46. 1:32options were clear. We had a factory in
  47. 1:34town, and most of the population worked
  48. 1:36there. There was a university with some
  49. 1:39basic professions where people would
  50. 1:40work for a salary of like 200–300
  51. 1:42dollars a month. And if you didn't want
  52. 1:44to go to university, there was the army
  53. 1:45. And I didn't really like any of those
  54. 1:47three options. So, while I was still in
  55. 1:48school, I just started learning web
  56. 1:50design before classes. I just sat there
  57. 1:52, practiced using YouTube, watched some
  58. 1:54videos, and downloaded and took various
  59. 1:56courses. And in about a few months, I
  60. 1:59had already learned how to create
  61. 2:00simple one-page websites on platforms
  62. 2:02like Tilda or Flexbe. Yeah, it wasn't a
  63. 2:05super high level, but I was at least
  64. 2:07capable of the basics. And as soon as I
  65. 2:08finished school, a week later I was
  66. 2:10sitting on a bus, heading to Moscow,
  67. 2:12and arrived there. And these skills
  68. 2:14that I acquired, well, in just a few
  69. 2:16months, were already enough for me to
  70. 2:17be able to sell something and earn some
  71. 2:19money. I went to meetings with
  72. 2:21entrepreneurs, they had various
  73. 2:23businesses. I told them all: "Listen,
  74. 2:25you need clients, I know how to make
  75. 2:26websites and run ads, let me do that
  76. 2:28for you." I started selling for cheap
  77. 2:30at first, like 15-20,000 rubles. Then I
  78. 2:32increased the price, reaching 100,000
  79. 2:33rubles. per project, and started
  80. 2:35building a team. And this allowed me to
  81. 2:38stay in Moscow, rent an apartment, buy
  82. 2:40food, just survive basically, and
  83. 2:42establish a starting point for my life.
  84. 2:45It literally saved my life. So, 2
  85. 2:48months of easy training built a bridge
  86. 2:50for me between a bleak, somewhat scary
  87. 2:52existence in Dniprodzerzhynsk and a
  88. 2:54life in Moscow, with earnings and
  89. 2:56freedom. I thought: "Wow, that's cool."
  90. 2:59And I started sharing this with other
  91. 3:00people. I created my own web design
  92. 3:02school and named the course "Lock,
  93. 3:03Stock and Two Smoking Barrels". Well, I
  94. 3:05started teaching people how to do that
  95. 3:06same web design, essentially repeating
  96. 3:08my path. 15,000 people took this course
  97. 3:10. Ordinary people came to it, even
  98. 3:12girls, even 15-16-year-olds in tenth
  99. 3:14grade, they came, quickly figured out
  100. 3:16how to make websites, went to sell them
  101. 3:19, and earned their first 50-100,000
  102. 3:21rubles. and then continued their path
  103. 3:23in freelancing. For many, it was simply
  104. 3:24a ticket to a better life. And it
  105. 3:26really worked. But what about now?
  106. 3:28Let's recall my designer now, whom I
  107. 3:31laid off. He is better than 99.9, or
  108. 3:34perhaps even 100%of those course
  109. 3:36graduates, because they were beginners
  110. 3:38taking their first steps in design, and
  111. 3:40he is an experienced designer who has
  112. 3:43been working for many years, but even
  113. 3:45he is effectively out of work now. And
  114. 3:48what awaits beginners then? They have
  115. 3:49absolutely no chance. And the path that
  116. 3:52once worked for me, and later worked
  117. 3:54for 15,000 other people who bought my
  118. 3:56products, has simply stopped working.
  119. 4:01Nowadays, such sites cost pennies, and
  120. 4:02anyone can just dictate a voice note
  121. 4:04like: "Listen, I have a barbershop, I
  122. 4:06want a website in this style, here are
  123. 4:0810 photos of my clients, go ahead and
  124. 4:10put it together, upload it to Tilda."
  125. 4:13And it will do it, and it doesn't need
  126. 4:14an intermediary like Misha Timochko,
  127. 4:16who would also charge 30,000 rubles for
  128. 4:18it. It was a ladder that worked. You
  129. 4:20master a skill in a few months, make
  130. 4:22your first money with your own hands,
  131. 4:24then sell it and scale up even further.
  132. 4:26And that is how thousands of people
  133. 4:28from my generation rose up. Various SMM
  134. 4:30specialists, marketers, web designers,
  135. 4:32programmers. They would learn something
  136. 4:34, quickly figure it out, implement it,
  137. 4:36sell it, and then some even became
  138. 4:38millionaires. And all these ladders are
  139. 4:40now ceasing to work, and their bottom
  140. 4:41rungs are being sawed off. If you still
  141. 4:43don't understand what I'm talking about
  142. 4:44, let's look at this in more detail
  143. 4:46with examples. Let's take a designer,
  144. 4:47for starters. In the past, you’d take
  145. 4:49a course for a couple of months, build
  146. 4:51a portfolio, and could already take
  147. 4:53your first orders, like making banners
  148. 4:55or covers. Now, banners and covers are
  149. 4:57made through a neural network just like
  150. 4:59that, with ease. It costs pennies. And
  151. 5:01for you to get hired now, you need to
  152. 5:03be able to do much more. Have taste,
  153. 5:06know how to do branding, help
  154. 5:07businesses attract customers, and
  155. 5:09develop a corporate style that is a
  156. 5:11level above the neural networks, which
  157. 5:12already do it better than beginners
  158. 5:14anyway. In short, it’s not a couple
  159. 5:17of months; it’s at least a year, and
  160. 5:18that’s only if you’re talented. So,
  161. 5:20in the past you needed a couple of
  162. 5:21months, now you need at least a year. A
  163. 5:23copywriter. In the past, you’d take
  164. 5:25one course, practice for a couple of
  165. 5:27months, and you’re already writing
  166. 5:28very good newsletters for businesses.
  167. 5:30You can make money from it. Now, any
  168. 5:33neural network like ChatGPT, with
  169. 5:35properly set prompts and good
  170. 5:38references, writes better than 90%of
  171. 5:41all beginner copywriters. And to write
  172. 5:44better than ChatGPT, you need, well, at
  173. 5:47least a year of experience. Maybe more;
  174. 5:50you might need 2 years of experience in
  175. 5:52copywriting just to outpace a neural
  176. 5:54network that cranks out these posts one
  177. 5:56per second. Video editor, translator,
  178. 5:59ad specialist, assistant, programmer.
  179. 6:01Everyone has the same story right now.
  180. 6:03The simplest part of the work in all
  181. 6:05these professions is now going to
  182. 6:06neural networks, leaving only the
  183. 6:08high-end work for the very best. These
  184. 6:10aren't just my feelings. Researchers
  185. 6:11looked at Upwork, the largest freelance
  186. 6:13marketplace in the world. And in the 8
  187. 6:16months after ChatGPT was released,
  188. 6:18orders for text dropped by 21%, and
  189. 6:20orders for images by 17%. And that was
  190. 6:22just in the beginning. Much more time
  191. 6:24has passed since that moment. I think
  192. 6:27now any sane person sends a request for
  193. 6:29text or image generation directly to
  194. 6:31ChatGPT, not to some freelance exchange
  195. 6:33. I mean, honestly, I don't know. You
  196. 6:35would have to be really out of touch
  197. 6:36right now. I mean, really, to place an
  198. 6:38order on an exchange to create an image
  199. 6:40or write a text. 99%of people will go
  200. 6:42to ChatGPT with this, you have to agree
  201. 6:44, and I think you would too.
  202. 6:46Furthermore, the company Anthropic,
  203. 6:48which makes Claude—my favorite Claude
  204. 6:50—calculated how their users are
  205. 6:52actually using them. And they found
  206. 6:54that in 49%of professions, Claude is
  207. 6:56already doing a quarter of the tasks,
  208. 6:58while the figures just a year ago were
  209. 7:00an order of magnitude lower. That is,
  210. 7:02in a year it won't be doing a quarter
  211. 7:04of the tasks, but half of them. In 3
  212. 7:06years, it will be doing 60%of the tasks
  213. 7:08. In 5 years, it will be doing about 78
  214. 7:11%of all tasks. In short, it will all
  215. 7:13lead to it doing 80%of the tasks for 80
  216. 7:16%of all businesses. Something like that
  217. 7:17. And that's just Claude, not to
  218. 7:19mention that there are a bunch of other
  219. 7:21great neural networks besides it. And
  220. 7:23here is another unpleasant figure.
  221. 7:25Stanford looked at salary data for
  222. 7:27millions of people in the US and found
  223. 7:30that in fields where AI could be
  224. 7:32implemented at all, there is 20%less
  225. 7:35work. Well, that’s also
  226. 7:36understandable. Wherever AI is
  227. 7:38implemented in any way, the amount of
  228. 7:39work immediately decreases. At the same
  229. 7:41time, experienced people in those same
  230. 7:43professions show no drop-off. Do you
  231. 7:44understand what is happening? People
  232. 7:46who are already working are left alone;
  233. 7:48they are just not hiring new ones. And
  234. 7:50it's the same thing in Russia right now
  235. 7:51. According to HeadHunter, there are 19
  236. 7:54resumes for one entry-level vacancy,
  237. 7:56while for one vacancy for an
  238. 7:57experienced person, there are only 2.5.
  239. 8:00So competition at the bottom is eight
  240. 8:02times higher. And the problem isn't
  241. 8:04even that people are competing too hard
  242. 8:06with each other. The point is that they
  243. 8:08are competing with AI, which is very
  244. 8:10difficult to beat. And here is the most
  245. 8:13unpleasant thought in this video: in a
  246. 8:15few years, even a designer with 3 years
  247. 8:18of experience may become uncompetitive.
  248. 8:21An editor, programmer, copywriter, SMM
  249. 8:23manager, marketer, or accountant with 3
  250. 8:25years of experience may become
  251. 8:27uncompetitive. Only people with
  252. 8:29experience in their profession of 5, 7,
  253. 8:3110 years or more will remain. That is,
  254. 8:34the elite, the very best specialists—
  255. 8:36only they will have work, and the
  256. 8:38minimum bar will rise every year. In
  257. 8:40simple terms, it's like an escalator
  258. 8:42that used to stand still, but now it's
  259. 8:43moving down. And before, you could just
  260. 8:45be, just stand in place, and nothing
  261. 8:47would happen to you. But now, even if
  262. 8:50you are moving uphill at a good pace,
  263. 8:52you are still being dragged down. And
  264. 8:54let's ask an honest question right away
  265. 8:55. Pause this video and answer yourself
  266. 8:57honestly. Can what you are doing now,
  267. 9:01what you sell to other people, be done
  268. 9:03by AI at least halfway, or even at
  269. 9:05least 20-30%? If it can already do it
  270. 9:0920-30%right now, you understand what
  271. 9:12that means. Well, if there is less work
  272. 9:15for people, then where does all that
  273. 9:16money that was supposed to be paid to
  274. 9:18them go? And this, I think, is the most
  275. 9:21important question in the video,
  276. 9:22because they don't just disappear; they
  277. 9:24get redistributed, and certainly not in
  278. 9:26our favor. Look, any job exists because
  279. 9:29there is a task that needs to be solved
  280. 9:31. You need to answer calls, the
  281. 9:32business hires an administrator. You
  282. 9:34need sales, it hires a sales manager.
  283. 9:36You need a beautiful website, it hires
  284. 9:38a designer. You need to edit a video,
  285. 9:40it hires an editor. Now imagine that
  286. 9:43the tasks haven't gone anywhere, but
  287. 9:44now they are being solved using neural
  288. 9:46networks. And if before you needed five
  289. 9:49people to cover five tasks, now one
  290. 9:51person with a neural network is enough.
  291. 9:54So where do the savings go? Let me give
  292. 9:56you a hint: look at what is happening
  293. 9:58now with the biggest companies in the
  294. 9:59world. Take, for example, Salesforce—
  295. 10:01it’s an American CRM system, very
  296. 10:04popular, practically all businesses
  297. 10:06operate on it there. A multi-billion
  298. 10:07dollar company. It had a support staff
  299. 10:09of 9,000 people. They cut it down to
  300. 10:125,000, and shifted the rest to neural
  301. 10:14networks. I think there will eventually
  302. 10:16be 500 people in support at most.
  303. 10:18Furthermore, the head of Shopify sent
  304. 10:19out a letter to everyone that before
  305. 10:21hiring a new employee, prove that this
  306. 10:23task cannot be done with AI. Duolingo
  307. 10:25declared itself an AI-first company and
  308. 10:27stopped hiring contractors for work
  309. 10:29that can be done via neural networks.
  310. 10:31And the head of Amazon wrote a letter
  311. 10:33directly to all employees that there
  312. 10:35will soon be layoffs because of AI;
  313. 10:36these aren't startups with starry eyes,
  314. 10:38these are companies that count every
  315. 10:40dollar. So where do the savings go? To
  316. 10:43whom are they being redistributed? And
  317. 10:45let me explain with an example. If
  318. 10:46there were a million designers before
  319. 10:48and each of them received, say, $ 1,000
  320. 10:50, then a billion dollars a month was
  321. 10:52divided among a million people, a
  322. 10:54little bit for everyone. Now, roughly
  323. 10:56the same amount of money remains, but
  324. 10:58it's being divided differently. 80%of
  325. 11:00it is now taken by the neural network
  326. 11:02through which the design is being done.
  327. 11:05Another 15%goes to the top, most
  328. 11:08experienced designer specialists with
  329. 11:1010+ years of experience. They still
  330. 11:13have work, but for the rest of the
  331. 11:15million designers, only 5%remains. That
  332. 11:17is, from an even distribution of money,
  333. 11:20the bulk has gone to some main neural
  334. 11:22network that solves this task the best.
  335. 11:25A little more goes to just good
  336. 11:27designers, and scraps—leftovers—go
  337. 11:29to everyone else. And the figures here
  338. 11:30are, of course, conditional, but the
  339. 11:32trend is exactly that. And the same
  340. 11:33thing is happening with programmers,
  341. 11:35copywriters, and editors. This is
  342. 11:37exactly the stratification of society
  343. 11:38that I mentioned at the beginning. If
  344. 11:41before money was divided evenly among a
  345. 11:42large number of people, now it will
  346. 11:44settle among a small group of the most
  347. 11:46advanced. And let's look at how this
  348. 11:48will affect the lives of two types of
  349. 11:50people. The first type is a business
  350. 11:52owner. Well, for example, me. Is this
  351. 11:54whole thing happening good for me, or
  352. 11:56bad? Honestly, it's great for me,
  353. 11:58because I save on staff and increase
  354. 12:00productivity. Essentially, I can now do
  355. 12:03much more with much lower costs. I can
  356. 12:06earn much more. And for me, as a
  357. 12:08business owner, all of this is very
  358. 12:10profitable. It all plays right into my
  359. 12:12hands. Before, I had to pay 200,000
  360. 12:14rubles for presentations. per month.
  361. 12:16Now I get them practically for free,
  362. 12:18for a $ 100 subscription that includes
  363. 12:20many other tasks as well. If, for
  364. 12:22example, each direct manager for my
  365. 12:24Instagram used to receive a salary of
  366. 12:2740,000 rubles. , and there were
  367. 12:29sometimes 4-5 people, then now Claude,
  368. 12:31with that same $ 100 subscription, can
  369. 12:32sit and reply. I mean, that's at least
  370. 12:35just on these two tasks. That is a
  371. 12:36saving of around 400-500,000 rubles.
  372. 12:39per month. Of course, it is profitable
  373. 12:40for me. And it’s not just me, but
  374. 12:42everyone who owns something. Their own
  375. 12:45company, business, real estate, a
  376. 12:47restaurant chain, a dental clinic, or
  377. 12:49some service agency. All these people
  378. 12:52save on production and staff, become
  379. 12:54more efficient in the process, and, in
  380. 12:56fact, even richer. They are already
  381. 12:57wealthy as it is. And then these
  382. 13:00wealthy people buy shares of Claude,
  383. 13:02GPT, and other neural networks, and
  384. 13:03earn income from there too. And well,
  385. 13:06the whole system effectively closes
  386. 13:08itself off. But the second type is a
  387. 13:09person who has nothing yet, and for
  388. 13:11them, everything is the exact opposite.
  389. 13:13Remember how I started? For hundreds of
  390. 13:15years, there was a wall between the
  391. 13:16rich and the poor. Then came the free
  392. 13:18market, the internet, and social media.
  393. 13:20They punched a hole through it, through
  394. 13:23which I and many people of my age
  395. 13:25climbed out. And now this hole is
  396. 13:27closing up. And the wall itself is
  397. 13:28becoming much higher. Because if before
  398. 13:31it was enough to study for a couple of
  399. 13:33months and you could go sell something
  400. 13:35and make money, now you need to be very
  401. 13:36good to get a foothold. You need to
  402. 13:39study for years and practice a lot,
  403. 13:41because the entire lower layer of
  404. 13:43simple work is already being done by
  405. 13:45neural networks. And this bar will rise
  406. 13:47every single year. In 2024, a neural
  407. 13:50network edited better than a person who
  408. 13:52had been learning to edit for a week.
  409. 13:55In 2025, better than a person who had
  410. 13:57been editing for a month. Now in 2026,
  411. 14:00it edits better than an editor with
  412. 14:02about 3-4 months of experience. In a
  413. 14:04year, it will be better than an editor
  414. 14:06with a year of experience. Then better
  415. 14:07than an editor with 3 years of
  416. 14:09experience. Then better than an editor
  417. 14:10with 5 years of experience. I mean,
  418. 14:12better than 99%of people in that niche.
  419. 14:14The rich will get even richer. And
  420. 14:17those who end up on the other side of
  421. 14:19the wall will stay there, because it
  422. 14:20will be very hard to climb over it. And
  423. 14:24yes, of course, I'm exaggerating a bit;
  424. 14:26the wall won't rise in a year, and
  425. 14:27maybe not even in five, and possibly in
  426. 14:29five years there will still be some
  427. 14:31jobs you can learn and sell your skills
  428. 14:32in. But overall, the trend is clear,
  429. 14:36and I think it's obvious to everyone
  430. 14:37around, and you notice in your own life
  431. 14:39, that everything is heading exactly in
  432. 14:41this direction. And right now, most
  433. 14:43people are doing one of two things.
  434. 14:45Either they say: "Well, this doesn't
  435. 14:46concern me, I'm not a programmer." And
  436. 14:48they do nothing. Or they run around in
  437. 14:49a panic like a chicken with its head
  438. 14:51cut off, and essentially, they don't do
  439. 14:52anything either. None of that works.
  440. 14:54This is what works. Previously, a few
  441. 14:56months of training were enough to give
  442. 14:57you a profession. Now you need to
  443. 14:59invest more time. You will need to
  444. 15:01study for a year, maybe even two. Yes,
  445. 15:03it's unpleasant, but it's the truth.
  446. 15:04And the good news here is that everyone
  447. 15:07else won't be doing this. And while
  448. 15:10everyone is arguing in the comments
  449. 15:11about whether it will replace us or not
  450. 15:13, what it can and can't do, you will be
  451. 15:14able to reach a point where you will be
  452. 15:16truly very difficult to replace. Next.
  453. 15:19What exactly do you need to learn
  454. 15:20during these years so you aren't
  455. 15:21replaced? Look, here is how I divide it
  456. 15:23. There are "button skills" and "
  457. 15:24decision skills." Button skills are
  458. 15:26things like making a banner, writing a
  459. 15:28text, or editing a video using a
  460. 15:29template. AI is already taking these
  461. 15:31over. And decision skills are about
  462. 15:33understanding what to sell to whom,
  463. 15:35negotiating, organizing people,
  464. 15:36building a strategy, understanding what
  465. 15:38will work well here and what won't,
  466. 15:40initiating a new direction, and
  467. 15:42following it through to a result. And
  468. 15:44ultimately, taking responsibility for
  469. 15:46the result and the money. AI definitely
  470. 15:48won't be taking over this work anytime
  471. 15:50soon. And second, learn to manage AI
  472. 15:53the way you manage a team. Not like
  473. 15:56asking a chat for instructions and then
  474. 15:58going to do it yourself, but by setting
  475. 16:00a task, giving it instructions on how
  476. 16:03to do it correctly, ensuring it
  477. 16:05completes the task from start to finish
  478. 16:07, and then thinking about how to make
  479. 16:09it perform that task without you every
  480. 16:11single time, consistently, without
  481. 16:13extra effort. And remember, I asked you
  482. 16:16what percentage of your current work AI
  483. 16:19can already do. And here is your second
  484. 16:21task. Sit down and list which tasks
  485. 16:24within your job are "button skills."
  486. 16:27Well, meaning where you are actually
  487. 16:29doing some mindless manual work that,
  488. 16:31in essence, could already be handed off
  489. 16:32. And, well, where is your work, you
  490. 16:36know, truly human? Where are you
  491. 16:39applying your skills and decisions that
  492. 16:41AI won't be able to handle anytime soon
  493. 16:43? And focus your efforts on developing
  494. 16:45exactly that second part. Learn to
  495. 16:47delegate everything else, and in short,
  496. 16:49learning takes longer now, but the spot
  497. 16:51at the top is more valuable because far
  498. 16:54fewer people will make it there. Okay,
  499. 16:56so where is the good news here, and why
  500. 16:59do I say that you still have 5 years
  501. 17:01after all? The fact is that we are
  502. 17:03currently living in a very strange
  503. 17:05period. On one hand, AI is already
  504. 17:08strong enough to handle really complex
  505. 17:10tasks, create applications, edit videos
  506. 17:13, make top-tier designs, develop
  507. 17:15products, and build teams of AI agents;
  508. 17:17it can already do all that now.
  509. 17:20Everything. You can watch various
  510. 17:22YouTube videos showing what people do
  511. 17:23with Claude, GPT, and different games.
  512. 17:25In short, it is already very
  513. 17:27intelligent. But on the other hand, all
  514. 17:29of this is distributed very unevenly
  515. 17:31across the world. I recently received a
  516. 17:34document at a government office. An
  517. 17:36elderly lady was slowly typing up a
  518. 17:38page and a half in Word by hand, taking
  519. 17:41about 2 hours. And she also made a lot
  520. 17:44of grammatical errors, added extra
  521. 17:45periods, extra spaces, and skipped some
  522. 17:47words here and there. We sat there
  523. 17:49reading it, checking it, and then
  524. 17:51rewriting it. It took us 2 hours for a
  525. 17:53page-and-a-half document. And the
  526. 17:55people in line behind me were giving me
  527. 17:57unfriendly looks the whole time because
  528. 17:58they were waiting for their turn. At
  529. 18:01that moment, I thought that, well,
  530. 18:02firstly, it would be cool to at least
  531. 18:04figure out the internet. Secondly, if
  532. 18:06there had been a Claude in place of
  533. 18:07that lady, we would have finished in,
  534. 18:09like, 30 seconds. And there are plenty
  535. 18:11of such places where, for some
  536. 18:12inexplicable reason, unjustifiably
  537. 18:14mindless manual labor thrives. Various
  538. 18:18micro-businesses in the regions that, I
  539. 18:19don't know, just created their first
  540. 18:21website a week ago, haven't really
  541. 18:23figured out the internet yet, and
  542. 18:24haven't even posted their first social
  543. 18:26media updates. They are probably
  544. 18:28another 10 years away from hiring AI
  545. 18:30agents or integrating full-fledged AI
  546. 18:32into their business. And the main
  547. 18:34limitation is precisely the mindset of
  548. 18:35these owners, who simply aren't even
  549. 18:37interested in this yet. This imbalance
  550. 18:39exists; somewhere, I don't know, in New
  551. 18:41York, in some company. Right now,
  552. 18:4310,000 AI agents are working on a task
  553. 18:46and solving it. Somewhere else, an
  554. 18:48elderly lady is typing by hand, and
  555. 18:50maybe not even on a computer, because
  556. 18:52she’s more used to keeping her
  557. 18:53bookkeeping in a notebook. This is a
  558. 18:55massive imbalance. And the people who
  559. 18:57will level out this imbalance and
  560. 18:59implement all of this in places where
  561. 19:01it hasn't been yet will be able to earn
  562. 19:03a lot. I have already lived through
  563. 19:05this once. When I was just starting my
  564. 19:07journey, there was such an imbalance
  565. 19:09with the internet and online promotion
  566. 19:11that any regional business that simply
  567. 19:13created a normal, basic one-page site
  568. 19:15plus turned on some simple Yandex ads
  569. 19:17and threw 15,000 rubles into it......
  570. 19:19would get hundreds of clients—10
  571. 19:21times more than all its competitors who
  572. 19:23were trying to catch the same clients
  573. 19:25on the streets. A just crazy imbalance,
  574. 19:29where one simple action gave a gigantic
  575. 19:32competitive advantage. And a great many
  576. 19:35people became millionaires from this.
  577. 19:38They would take some shoe factory in
  578. 19:40Saratov, make a website, post all the
  579. 19:43shoes there, and then become
  580. 19:44millionaires. They would take some
  581. 19:48construction company in Ryazan, or a
  582. 19:50log bathhouse builder in Sterlitamak,
  583. 19:52say it was awesome, make a site, get
  584. 19:54hundreds of clients, and become
  585. 19:56millionaires. Then I lived through a
  586. 20:00similar disproportion with social media
  587. 20:02, when you just make some information
  588. 20:03product, a course for 100,000 rubles.
  589. 20:06You make content about it, post a link,
  590. 20:081,000 people buy it, and you have 100
  591. 20:10million rubles. You're like: "What the
  592. 20:12hell? How is this even possible?" In
  593. 20:14general, such imbalances happen
  594. 20:15sometimes. And right now, this is the
  595. 20:18strongest one, and possibly the last.
  596. 20:20So, what is your opportunity right now?
  597. 20:22Become a person who alone replaces 10
  598. 20:26other team members. Become a person who
  599. 20:30is simultaneously a marketer, a sales
  600. 20:32manager running five bots, a designer,
  601. 20:34a financier, a strategist, a social
  602. 20:36media manager, and a copywriter. And
  603. 20:40all this is done by your agents while
  604. 20:41you just keep an eye on them. Become a
  605. 20:43person who can simply walk into any
  606. 20:45business and save the owner a million
  607. 20:48rubles by replacing a bunch of other
  608. 20:50inefficient employees. And these kinds
  609. 20:52of people are going to be in very high
  610. 20:53demand right now. And it is on this
  611. 20:55that you can build your capital now.
  612. 20:56What do I call capital? Actually, not
  613. 20:58just money. Three things. First, these
  614. 21:00are your solution-finding skills that I
  615. 21:02talked about. When you become a person
  616. 21:05who knows how to solve big problems,
  617. 21:07like attracting clients, being
  618. 21:08responsible for revenue, and scaling
  619. 21:10businesses, then for the next 10-20
  620. 21:12years, nothing will replace you. If you
  621. 21:15become such a person over the next 5
  622. 21:17years, you can consider yourself secure
  623. 21:19; you will have ended up on the other
  624. 21:20side of the wall with the wealthy. The
  625. 21:22second is your own venture or audience.
  626. 21:25Remember, we said that this whole story
  627. 21:27is playing into the hands of people who
  628. 21:29already have some kind of business. It
  629. 21:31helps them grow. It only hinders those
  630. 21:33who are just starting out. And within
  631. 21:35these 5 years, you must become either a
  632. 21:37person who has their own audience,
  633. 21:38clients, a blog, or a person who has
  634. 21:40their own real estate, locations, or
  635. 21:42business. In short, you need to build
  636. 21:44something in these 5 years so that it
  637. 21:46works, and then, once again, you will
  638. 21:48end up on the other side of the wall.
  639. 21:51And lastly, money, with which you can
  640. 21:52always buy something, because when
  641. 21:54labor loses value, assets will become
  642. 21:55even more expensive. And these are the
  643. 21:59three things you will need in 5 years
  644. 22:00so that when the hole in the wall of
  645. 22:02opportunity finally closes, splitting
  646. 22:03the classes into rich and poor for good
  647. 22:05, you end up on the side of the rich. I
  648. 22:07know what you are thinking right now.
  649. 22:09Like: "Misha, what capital? My salary
  650. 22:11is 40,000 rubles." I also started as a
  651. 22:13student from scratch. I had no money at
  652. 22:15all, so the order is this. First, a
  653. 22:17skill that is increasing in value, then
  654. 22:19your own business built on that skill,
  655. 22:21and only then money and assets. Not the
  656. 22:23other way around. I sincerely believe
  657. 22:25that the next 5 years are the worst
  658. 22:27time to relax and rest. Because we are
  659. 22:30living through the final opportunity to
  660. 22:33go from not rich to wealthy. And at the
  661. 22:35same time, 5 years is a lot of time. In
  662. 22:38that time, you can manage to master
  663. 22:39in-demand skills that are currently
  664. 22:41rising in value, start earning from
  665. 22:43them, build a business, form some
  666. 22:44capital, buy real estate or assets, and
  667. 22:46have something to show for it. And for
  668. 22:50the next 30-40 years of your life, you
  669. 22:52will either be grateful that you made
  670. 22:54it through this window or regret that
  671. 22:56you missed this final opportunity. And
  672. 22:59lastly, what I promised you at the
  673. 23:00beginning. Imagine I am 17, I have no
  674. 23:02experience, no money, yeah, absolutely
  675. 23:04nothing at all. And I want to become
  676. 23:06rich in the next 5 years. What would I
  677. 23:09do? I would start by studying for 2
  678. 23:11hours a day in parallel with school.
  679. 23:14Only I wouldn't be learning websites,
  680. 23:15but would take Claude and learn to
  681. 23:17solve entire business tasks. Finding
  682. 23:19clients, creating a product, packaging
  683. 23:21it, selling it. The neural network does
  684. 23:24all the manual work, and I think and
  685. 23:25guide it with my head. Then I would get
  686. 23:28a job at any business, any company, any
  687. 23:31job that would take me, and think about
  688. 23:33how to replace all the employees there
  689. 23:35with just me and Claude, understand
  690. 23:37what everyone actually does in that
  691. 23:39company, what final valuable product
  692. 23:41they create, and think: can I do it
  693. 23:44myself together with Claude? And in 90%
  694. 23:47of cases, the answer will be yes.
  695. 23:50Literally one person can be automated
  696. 23:52with a simple program using a voice
  697. 23:54command. Then I would become a very
  698. 23:57valuable employee for any company,
  699. 23:59replacing a marketer, editor, designer,
  700. 24:02and strategist, becoming someone worth
  701. 24:04200,000–300,000 rubles. Next, I would
  702. 24:07start selling services to businesses.
  703. 24:10Perhaps I would build an agency or
  704. 24:12create a product so that I wouldn't
  705. 24:14have to work for just one person paying
  706. 24:17me a salary, but could take on 10 such
  707. 24:19businesses, 10 different clients, and
  708. 24:21sell them something for 200,000 rubles.
  709. 24:24And again, I would implement this
  710. 24:26either with my own hands using Claude
  711. 24:28or have my team do it using my neural
  712. 24:30networks. I would sell this, gain
  713. 24:32experience, get better each time, raise
  714. 24:34my rates, and eventually reach a decent
  715. 24:37income level. Then I would think about
  716. 24:39how to build my own business around all
  717. 24:41of this. And by the way, this is
  718. 24:43exactly what I am preparing a new
  719. 24:44product for. How to become a person who
  720. 24:46replaces ten company employees. This is
  721. 24:48not a figure of speech; it's really
  722. 24:50doing what 10 people used to do.
  723. 24:52Remember, I started with an example
  724. 24:53about a designer. Previously, the kind
  725. 24:55of design you see on the screen right
  726. 24:57now cost me 200,000 rubles. per month.
  727. 24:59I learned to do it through Claude,
  728. 25:00developed my own design system, and now
  729. 25:02it costs virtually nothing. And we know
  730. 25:04how to make presentations, study notes,
  731. 25:06and websites like these. Anyone I give
  732. 25:08this design system to will be able to
  733. 25:10create the same design and essentially
  734. 25:13replace a person earning, say, 100,000
  735. 25:15–200,000 rubles. This is one of ten
  736. 25:17skills. Also editing, copywriting,
  737. 25:21competitive analysis, scriptwriting,
  738. 25:24YouTube scriptwriting, thumbnails,
  739. 25:26launch sequences, websites, and bots.
  740. 25:31The essence of the product is that I
  741. 25:33provide you with 10 ready-made skills
  742. 25:34that you install into your Claude, and
  743. 25:36you don't even really need to learn
  744. 25:38them. Your Claude will know how to do
  745. 25:40it immediately. You will only need to
  746. 25:42learn how to use it. You won't need to
  747. 25:45learn how to build websites; it will
  748. 25:46know how. You won't need to learn how
  749. 25:48to edit; it will know how. You will
  750. 25:49only need to know how to manage it. And
  751. 25:52that is what my new product will be
  752. 25:53about. I have very big plans for it.
  753. 25:55There is a massive amount of
  754. 25:57development and preparation going on
  755. 25:59because all these agents and skills
  756. 26:01really need to be trained to a high
  757. 26:03level so that they each work like a
  758. 26:06person worth 100,000 rubles. So it
  759. 26:08won’t be anytime soon, I think in
  760. 26:10about 2-3 months. Anyway, if you're
  761. 26:12interested, just wait for this product.
  762. 26:15I’ll be announcing everything soon.
  763. 26:16And I want to end this video with one
  764. 26:18main thought. The ladder I once climbed
  765. 26:20is still there, but the lower rungs are
  766. 26:22already being sawed off. The bar for
  767. 26:25entry rises every year, and the money
  768. 26:27goes to those who already have a
  769. 26:28business and capital. But right now,
  770. 26:30there is a window of opportunity.
  771. 26:32It’s that neural networks are already
  772. 26:34very cool and capable of so much, and
  773. 26:36they are working, yet most businesses
  774. 26:38and people aren't using them properly
  775. 26:40yet. Years ago, six months of study and
  776. 26:44one imbalance in the world that I
  777. 26:45noticed pulled me out of
  778. 26:47Dniprodzerzhynsk. Now there is the same
  779. 26:49kind of imbalance, only much stronger.
  780. 26:52But as long as it exists, the door is
  781. 26:53open. And I really want you to make it
  782. 26:55through before it closes. That’s all
  783. 26:57for now. Bye.

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