Anthony Pompliano built an AI financial assistant people loved. Then his most engaged users started costing him too much money. That’s a good problem to have. But it’s still a problem. His solution came from an unlikely place. Olive Garden’s breadsticks. Here’s how Silvia cut costs without cutting what users love, and got 25% of monthly active users to pay.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:38 The idea of a “better problem”
2:05 Anthony’s book, How to Live an Extraordinary Life Volume Two
5:00 Silvia’s power-user problem
6:50 The Olive Garden breadstick lesson
9:15 Weighing every possible fix
11:07 Building a model router
12:55 Bracketing: a military trick for making decisions
16:50 Experiments vs. archaeology
18:15 Training their own model (97% cheaper)
19:10 Rolling out the paywall
20:40 Why people pay
21:45 How to spot this problem in your own business
24:16 Where to find Anthony and Silvia
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