Riley Brown posted the first TikTok video about ChatGPT the day it launched. It got 20 million views and took him from zero to 200K followers in less than two weeks. Since then, he's built an audience of 1.5 million across platforms, raised $9 million to co-found a vibe-coding startup in San Francisco, and developed a content system so systematic that a single viral video gets reposted across seven accounts every week for the rest of the year.

In this episode, Riley shares his philosophy for staying on the edge of any niche, why playing beats structure when it comes to content, how he runs a content operation with two overseas editing agencies and a separate thumbnail designer, and the Twitter strategy — posting viral videos across seven accounts — that tripled his company's revenue in two months. He also makes a strong case for educational screen-share YouTube videos as the single biggest content opportunity right now, and explains why using AI to write your scripts is, in his words, "suicide."

Riley Brown on X/Twitter
Vibecoding
Tella — screen recording tool Riley recommends
Typefully — Twitter scheduling tool Riley uses

Full transcript and show notes

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TIMESTAMPS

(00:00) How Riley's first ChatGPT TikTok got 20 million views

(04:56) First mover advantage:

(07:50) How Riley films his videos

(11:24) Why structure made his content worse

(13:06) Jay's honest moment

(21:33) The case for educational screen-share YouTube videos

(26:45) His content strategy

(30:43) The seven-account Twitter strategy that tripled revenue

(37:37) Gimmicks that actually boost retention

(41:00) Why AI writing your scripts is suicide in the long run

(42:37) The content farm future and how to survive it

(50:14) Platform rankings: where to start today

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