“The horse is here to stay, but the automobile is only a novelty… a fad.”
If you’re not familiar with this quote, it was a well-respected banker who was advising Henry Ford’s lawyer, Horace Rackham, back in 1903 when the automobile was an emerging technology. The lawyer was considering investing, and the “expert” advised against it.
Rackham ignored the advice, observed the wealth window, invested $5K, and later sold out at $12.5 million, which in today’s dollars, might as well be a billion.
Right now, the same thing is happening. It might be an expert on a podcast. A news article. Your neighbor. Or heck, maybe it’s YOU… instead of diving deep into AI, you’re voicing a narrative that’s on par with the banker’s quote about autos being a passing fad. Or, you’re claiming it’s only capitalist “hype”.
You see, every few years, the world cracks open a window that stays open just long enough for billions of dollars to be made. New millionaires and billionaires are minted. Will you be one of them?
I call these rare opportunities Wealth Windows.
These windows follow a predictable, repeating pattern: Early adoption yields the greatest opportunity, and that opportunity yields life-changing wealth creation. Then, the window slowly closes, leaving the latecomers to fight over the scraps of mainstream adoption while accusing the early adopters of being “lucky.”
Examine the chart below. It will make you rich, richer, or keep you poor.
Right now, you aren’t just looking at a window; you are looking at a once-in-a-century structural shift. A freaking CHASM. AI is bigger than anything we’ve seen since electricity and the internal combustion engine.
Yes, another Wealth Window is here, except it is bigger than anything we’ve ever seen. Yep, even bigger than the internet.
Again, examine the chart below.
But here is where most people get it wrong: You don’t need to start an AI company. You don’t need to be a Silicon Valley coder with a Steve Jobs turtleneck and a God complex.
If you own a landscaping company, a law firm, or a local accounting practice, your AI adoption makes you 300% more productive (or profitable) than the average guy down the street, creating unfair, asymmetric leverage. (Choose Hard, Live Easy, The Law of Asymmetry)
Productivity is the new profit margin. It’s the tractor, while your competition uses a mule and a plow. That gap– that productivity chasm– is where the wealth is created.
Entrepreneurs in the Fastlane community are already reporting massive gains by leveraging Agentic AI, tools like OpenClaw, Hermes, or Claude Cowork.
“Holy shit” is often repeated.
Chatbots? LOL, no. They are autonomous workers that execute tasks while you sleep. They are the digital leverage that turns a one-man show into a lean, mean, automated machine.
Mark my words: You will see billion-dollar companies emerging from small teams. Yep, two, three people. Heck, the NY Times recently reported a one-man show has already created a billion-dollar company, thanks to AI.
When I look back at my own history, I latched onto a series of Wealth Windows. I took advantage of the internet’s infancy to build a lead-gen empire. I leveraged early search arbitrage when you could buy leads for pennies and sell them for dollars. I rode the self-publishing boom to move millions of books. (#2, 6, and 8 in the chart). I didn’t invent these Wealth Windows; I just leveraged them while the rest of the world was catching up.
I adopted quick. Invested in learning and skills. Spotted the Wealth Window. (Which I’m telling you now, is here.)
I have zero plans to start an AI company.
But I have every intention to use this tech to automate my current workflows, for example, managing a mountain of licensing contracts. I could hire a license manager at $50K/year, a software product at $3,200/year, or fire up an autonomous agent at $72/year.
The window is open, and it’s the biggest in a 125 years. The question is: Are you going to climb through, or wait until the window slams shut, only to end up on Reddit complaining and then begging for UBI?
No matter what you decide, it is a decision. A commitment. You can Choose Hard now and then Live Easy later.
Or do nothing, and endure the heavily upvoted Hard that awaits you in the future.
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PS2: I recently canceled ChatGPT, however its new image generation function is spectacular! The infographic above was created using it. I gave it a bad Canva image and it spruced it up, even got the words right! Now I got resubscribe!