3 low competition businesses with massive demand in America
In this live 'Shoot Your Shot' edition in San Francisco, Sam Parr and Shaan Puri interview three founders building fast-growing businesses across food tech, consumer AI, and automated video distribution. Rishi Talati breaks down how Hotplate powers independent food pop-ups and cottage-law bakers, Ajay Mehta shares how Tolan scaled an emotional AI companion app to over 100k subscribers, and Jonathan Baer explains how Overlap uses autonomous AI agents to edit and distribute social video clips at enterprise scale.
- Tolan reached over 100,000 paying iOS subscribers by ditching the "AI companion" label and framing the product as a friendly guide for life. Read →
- Hotplate has processed over $100 million in gross sales by turning cottage-law bakers and independent chefs into drop-based digital brands. Read →
- Ajay Mehta scaled his AI companion app Tolan to more than 100,000 subscribers by positioning it as a tool to close open mental tabs for overwhelmed parents. Read →
- Overlap built autonomous AI agents that generated over 2 billion social media impressions without human editors in the loop. Read →