Chris Dore: AI Made Building Easy. Getting Customers Is the New Moat.

Chris Dore is back — four months after his first episode, and the AI landscape has already flipped again. His thesis this round: the development piece is solved. Anyone can vibe code an MVP in a weekend. Which means the entire game has moved to the two things everyone skips — talking to customers before you build, and go-to-market after.

Chris runs Scarlet Nova (AI consultancy), teaches entrepreneurship at Algonquin College, and just launched Rogue Ventures, a venture studio building AI-native disruptors. We cover which LLM to actually pick (Gemini vs. ChatGPT vs. Claude), agents and swarms, the Applebee's AI that changed my mind, what he tells his students about careers AI will eat, and why every 20th Canadian being an entrepreneur isn't enough.

⏱️ Timestamps
00:00 Cold Open
00:30 Chris Returns: Four Months Later
01:15 What Is a GTM (and Why It's Everything Now)
03:00 Why Go-To-Market Skills Are About to Skyrocket in Value
03:17 Lovable, Base44, Fable: Picking Your Vibe Coding Tool
05:00 ChatGPT's 1.1 Billion Users — the Fastest Growth Ever
06:40 Overwhelmed? How a Beginner Should Start
08:22 Gemini vs. ChatGPT vs. Claude: The Real Differences
12:07 Claude for Enterprise (and the "Cool Factor")
16:40 David's Rule: Pick ONE Tool
19:18 AI-Native Startups vs. Legacy SMEs
21:38 AI Saves Time — But What Do You DO With It?
24:29 The Mindset Piece: Fear, Backlash & the 19-Year-Old Who Refuses AI
25:17 When the Government Pulled Fable 5 Off the Shelf
28:22 AGI: If Anyone Gets There, They Win
32:53 Agents, Swarms & Where This Is All Heading
36:00 Development Is 20X Faster — Spend Your Time on Distribution
39:42 "If Nobody Gives You Money, You Have a Hobby" (Tony Belletti)
40:28 The Three-Prong Approach to Getting Customers
45:43 AI Cold Callers & Agents Talking to Agents
49:00 The Applebee's AI That Converted David
51:41 The Niche Playbook: Build Where Google Won't
54:18 Are Canadians Too Risk-Averse? (1 in 20 vs. 1 in 10)
55:59 AI Sovereignty in Canada (Can You Name Our LLM?)
59:00 $400K for an Idea: The US Risk Appetite
01:00:11 Rogue Ventures: Inside the Venture Studio
01:05:41 Why They Say No to Almost Every Pitch
01:11:56 Coding Went From Junior to Senior Level in 8 Months
01:12:45 What He Tells Graduates Now
01:19:14 Do You Even Need to Know Accounting Anymore?
01:19:51 The Experience Gap: Why We Can Spot AI Slop (and They Can't)
01:25:26 "I Want to Be a Coder" — the Answer He Hates Giving
01:30:41 Degree vs. Doer: Who Gets Hired
01:32:20 Outcome-Based Pricing: The Business Model Society Isn't Ready For
01:34:17 AI Literacy: His One Ask
01:37:33 The Middle Class Math Doesn't Work — Business Is the Way Out
01:38:37 Connect With Chris

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