The 23-Year-Old Building a $10 Billion AI You Text

Noah Shinn is 23. His free AI assistant, Instinct, is worth $10 billion and spent $0 on marketing. Subscribe and get next week's market report: https://trends.vc/?utm_source=youtube... In August, investors valued Instinct at $2.5 billion. Thirty-three days later, Sequoia and Benchmark were among the backers of a new round at four times that. ChatGPT waits for you to ask. Instinct texts you first. It reads your email, messages, calendar, screen, audio and location to follow up on threads you've dropped. Testers told TechCrunch it kept summarizing their email after they revoked its access. It also sent email without their permission. Fortune puts purchases made through Instinct at about $1 billion a year. Instinct itself reports no revenue. Real-estate agents earn from past clients. Reminders about those clients live in their heads while their software texts new leads. A small team could text each agent three past clients to call each morning, with a draft message for each. I mapped this market for the Trends.vc report. This video walks through the opportunity I see. Chapters 00:00 A free AI worth $10 billion at 23 00:59 ChatGPT waits. Instinct texts first. 01:52 A text sent before anyone asked 02:12 OpenAI and Meta ship agents too 02:32 What testers found in their email 02:58 About $1 billion in purchases a year 03:29 Who pays for this help today 03:57 What a real-estate agent has to remember 04:26 A drafted message beats a list 04:42 The morning text a small team could sell 05:14 What Instinct's investors are betting on --- Subscribe and get next week's market report: https://trends.vc/?utm_source=youtube... #TrendsVC #AIAgents #Startups