AI Told You So: The $1M Business I Actually Built Using ChatGPT
by Lou Abramowski | at Minnebar 19 | 10:30 – 11:10 in Theater | View Schedule
Two years ago at Minnebar, I told you I could "Build a $1M business in 30 minutes using ChatGPT."
Well, I'm back. And I did it. And I brought receipts.
What started as a presentation demonstrating AI's potential has transformed into Combat Candy, a creatine gummies supplement company that's secured half million dollars in seed capital and generates five-figure monthly sales in a rapidly expanding market.
I'll take you behind the scenes of how I applied the exact AI strategies & tactics to:
- Discover a market gap so obvious (once AI pointed it out) even someone not taking creatine could find it
- Design packaging that makes competitors look like they were sketched by toddlers drinking red bull
- Design a Shopify store so effective it makes you question free will
- Create formulation innovations despite zero supplement industry experience
- Stretch our marketing budget so thin, quantum physicists called to take notes
- Secure $500K in investment using pitch decks built by my ghostwriter "botlou"
- Automated tedious marketing efforts in SEO, social media, email, sms, etc.
This isn't theoretical anymore—it's a proven case study with real stakes, real challenges, and real victories. I'll share the prompting strategies & tactics that worked, the AI outputs that failed, and the genuine intelligence decisions that made all the difference.
Whether you're an entrepreneur looking for your next venture, a skeptic who needs to see results before buying in, or someone who attended my previous talks and wants to see how the story ends—this session offers tangible proof that AI can be the co-founder you never knew you needed.
This will be an interactive, fast-paced, dense session so bring your questions, your skepticism, and your entrepreneurial spirit.
Lou Abramowski
Lou Abramowski or -- as he's known to many -- "Hot Lou" has spent the last 20 years building startups from OurFamilyWizard.com (the biggest family management tool on the web, acquired in 2020) to 8thBridge (MN Cup 2009 Grand Prize winner, acquired in 2014) to today Evergreen (a social media automation tool for SMBs) and Combat Candy (a creatine gummies supplement DTC brand).
He's also helped build gigantic social media communities on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, TikTok, etc. for billion dollar brands like Jack Link's Beef Jerky and the Minnesota Vikings, to just a couple thousand for small non-profits like Simon Says Give, to hundreds of thousands for obscure children's entertainers like Twig the Fairy.
Outside of the software startup and marketing world, he's a national and world championship ultimate player and coach.
Links:
@hotlou everywhere on social media
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