Evan Ratliff

I got to thinking, could I be that one person?

I'd made AI agents before for my award-winning podcast, Shell Game.

This season on Shell Game, I'm trying to build a real company with a real product run by fake people.

Out of the blue, I see this huge sign next to somebody's house.

First episode, how Southwest Airlines used cheap seats and free whiskey to fight its way into the airline business.

The most Texas story ever.

There's a lot of mavericks in that story.

We're going to have mavericks on the show.

We're going to have plenty of robber barons.

I decided to create Kyle, my AI co-founder, after hearing a lot of stuff like this from OpenAI CEO Sam Aldman.

There's this betting pool for the first year that there's a one-person billion-dollar company, which would have been unimaginable without AI, and now it will happen.

I got to thinking, could I be that one person?

I'd made AI agents before for my award-winning podcast, Shell Game.

This season on Shell Game, I'm trying to build a real company with a real product run by fake people.

Listen to Shell Game on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

I was going through a walk in my neighborhood.

Out of the blue, I see this huge sign next to somebody's house.

Okay.

I'm Evan Ratliff, here with a story of entrepreneurship in the AI age.

Listen as I attempt to build a real startup run by fake people.