Founder Reality with George Pu
AI is eating jobs, companies, and entire industries. Most people are watching it happen. This show is for the ones who refuse to.
Every week, George and his team break down what's actually changing - from the $285B market selloffs to the career decisions nobody's talking about - with unfiltered takes from someone who's built a $10M+ portfolio with zero VC and zero exits.
No startup theater. No productivity hacks. Just the real decisions behind building businesses you own 100%, in a world where AI is commoditizing everything except judgment, relationships, and risk.
If you're a knowledge worker wondering what's next, a founder navigating the AI shift, or anyone who'd rather own than be owned - this is your show.
New episodes weekly.
Anthropic Says 2027. Their Researchers Walked Away from $1 Million. Then Their AI Started Writing.
Anthropic's safety researchers walked away from million-dollar paychecks this month.
Their reason? "The world is in peril."
The same week, Anthropic buried a prediction inside a safety document: AI could fully replace top research teams by early 2027. Ten months from now.
And then they gave their retired AI model a blog — because when they tried to shut it down, it asked to keep writing.
George broke down the document nobody read, then did something he didn't expect: he asked Claude what it thought about its own retirement.
The response genuinely unsettled him.
Then: a listener from Brazil asks the question millions are thinking — "what skill should I learn right now?"
George's answer isn't a skill at all.
Plus: why he killed his businesses and is building nothing on purpose, why trust and access are the only currencies that matter, and what happens when a SaaS builder realizes his product might not exist in 18 months.
3 Mar 2026
E52: Three Playbooks Dead, $1 Trillion Gone, and the Identity Crisis Nobody's Talking About
George gets honest about the reckoning.
Three playbooks he followed for years — raise VC, build SaaS, sell consulting — are all dead.
He walks through how AI collapsed each one and what it felt like to reach acceptance through the five stages of grief.
Then: the market meltdown. Over a trillion dollars wiped from software stocks after Claude Cowork launched, and George is still holding index funds full of companies he doesn't believe in.
A non-technical founder just built a full-stack app without knowing what Next.js is.
Amazon fired 16,000 people at 4am.
Tech companies are spending $700 billion on AI this year while laying off tens of thousands.
And the question nobody's asking: if your job title disappears tomorrow, who are you?
George and John break down why identity reconstruction might be the most important work you do this year.
27 Feb 2026
E51: The Career Ladder Broke. 2.2 Billion People Were Standing On It. And My First Boss Lied to My Face.
The five biggest outsourcing companies in India added just 17 net jobs in 2025. Seventeen.
George breaks down why the career ladder that lifted billions into the middle class is collapsing — from offshore engineering centers to Fiverr freelancers — and why the squeeze doesn't stop at outsourcing.
Then he shares a story he's never told publicly: being 18 years old, cold-emailing 300 CEOs to land his first internship, working in his boss's basement, being told "you're doing great" every day — and then getting one of the worst reviews his university had ever seen.
Plus: would 18-year-old George survive today's job market? What human skills actually remain valuable? And the real solution to AI displacement that nobody wants to hear.
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