Guest
Will Bailey
1 indexed appearance on the show — Creative, AI, Founder & Team, Consumer Trends, Product Development
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2026-03-25 AI
Claude Code's Discord integration is a far better way to run AI agents remotely than a VPS/Termius setup, making tasks like updating a website hero image near-instant.
I just uploaded my creative into Discord and said, hey, I need you to update the hero image. And then 30 seconds later, it's done
▶ 27:05 2026-03-25 Founder & Team
AI agents will let brands consolidate creative, media buying, email, dev, and CX roles into a single operator, eliminating the need for separate hires.
all brands are just going to need one Will... there is nobody else
▶ 35:45 2026-03-25 Retail & Wholesale
Landing a first major retail placement like Erewhon is driven more by luck and timing than by having a polished data story.
It's all about data story, which is what people will tell you. I mean, for us, it was really luck and timing
▶ 1:19:05 2026-03-25 Creative
Dismissing viral AI-generated content as lowbrow is a mistake when it's driving tens of millions of views.
that thought and opinion should be thrown in the trash... because it's getting 13 million views per video
▶ 9:45 2026-03-25 Consumer Trends
In the K-shaped economy, Target is being squeezed out of the middle as Amazon wins on speed and Walmart wins lower-income and grocery shoppers.
we see now in the K-shaped economy, the middle's getting squeezed out
▶ 53:05 2026-03-25 Product Development
Absurd, meme-able food products like sleep ice cream are deliberately engineered by savvy teams to spark conversation and drive trial, not accidental novelties.
I think there's a lot of intelligence behind this... cause you to go to the grocery store and get that thing
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