TEA 250: We Stopped All Work Every Friday To Learn AI (Was It Worth It?)

About this episode

Josh and Dylan discuss their experiment of dedicating Fridays to learning AI and the impact it had on their business.

We went all-in on AI as a company, pulling our entire team off work every single Friday for six weeks, and it cost us thousands of dollars and a completely flat revenue month to pull off. That same experiment is now saving us well over six figures a year in automations alone. In this episode, Josh and Dylan break down exactly what happened during "AI Fridays," what blew their own minds, what it cost, and the four lessons every founder needs before throwing their own team into the deep end wit...

People in this episode

Host: Josh Coffy

Guest: Dylan

Topics covered

• AI
• team training
• automation
• entrepreneurship
• business strategy

Keywords

• AI
• automation
• business
• entrepreneurship
• team training
• revenue
• lessons learned

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: AI Fridays

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