Dan Martell

Companies like FlexPay or Intercom, et cetera.

These are all companies I was involved in in the early days.

And what's cool about it is that if you have the capital and you invest in them, when they win, you win.

When you get equity without running the company yourself, you get a lot of time back.

So this is a great way to create leverage and create an empire.

I've personally invested in over 100 companies using this method.

And starting from 2026, this is gonna get way bigger.

A lot of people are gonna be able to do this one.

Next, we got software AI products.

Essentially, this is my world.

This is what I build at Martell Ventures.

We have built or partnered with people that have launched a new AI company every month for the last year and a little bit.

And I'm telling you, this one has made me more money than anything I've ever done my whole life.

The key to make it work is you've gotta build tools that solve real problems in a way that's unique.

Most of the applications that I'm working on, honestly, the AI isn't powerful enough yet for it to work.

Not only is it a great way to generate reoccurring revenue because it's software, but you build some value where people will pay you 10 to 50 times more than your top line revenue for the business.

Next is buying small businesses and using AI to automate 30 to 50% of it.

It's so crazy how there's like these really simple businesses that are still stuck in the 80s.

My friend Jason bought a campground a couple of years ago and all he did was put in AI powered booking software, management software, maintenance software, and the thing prints cash today.

But buying a boring business that somebody else is done with using AI is a great way to create real wealth.