🏠 Inside the “AI CEO Stack” of MasterClass Founder

GM! It’s Brett. After presenting to the CEO of Google, I realized how dumb I’d been my whole career.

I always assumed other people knew better - the CEO, my boss, that rich guy with opinions. But here’s the truth: no one knows anything.

My 25-year-old self knew more about a topic than a room full of billionaires after one month of work.

The moment you internalize that, everything changes - confidence, decisions, and even fundraising. You stop seeking permission and start trusting your own judgment.

He says any CEOs not using AI daily are only 80% as good as their peers. He’s built what he calls his “AI CEO Stack” - 8 tools that collectively save him an entire day of work each week

He says AI has turned into his ultimate cofounder - freeing his time to focus on what truly needs his leadership.

The Airport Lounge Effect is one of the best business lessons no one talks about.
It’s what happens when growth kills the very experience people came for.

I was in one of the “best” lounges recently - the kind with marble floors, brand sponsors, and an “exclusive” entry line.

Except it was packed. Every seat taken. The food was sad. The furniture felt like an old WeWork. You could feel the shift - it didn’t feel premium anymore, just… crowded.

That’s when it hit me: most lounge businesses are designed to fail as they grow.
They make money by adding more members - but people buy memberships to avoid other people.

The incentive (more members) directly conflicts with the promise (peace and exclusivity).

You see it everywhere - CLEAR, TSA PreCheck, “priority” boarding, “exclusive” cards with millions of holders.
Every layer of convenience gets duplicated, sold, and diluted until it stops being convenient.

Startups fall into the same trap all the time.
They grow revenue by chasing more users, but forget to ask if each new user makes the product better or worse.

If your core value erodes with scale, you’re not compounding - you’re decaying.

So when building your own business, you need to ask yourself if the product EXPERIENCE (not just the unit economics) get better or worse as you grow.

When growth depends on breaking the promise that made users love you, that’s not a moat - it’s a timer.

Gmail is free, but you pay with your data. Proton Mail is different.

We don’t scan your messages. We don’t sell your behavior. We don’t follow you across the internet.

Proton Mail gives you full-featured, private email without surveillance or creepy profiling. It’s email that respects your time, your attention, and your boundaries.

Email doesn’t have to cost your privacy.

Ditch the Gmail data grab

Voice Over Typing
Instead of typing everything out, use AI dictation tools like Willow or Wispr Flow - they let you write by speaking. It’s faster, more natural, and perfect for capturing ideas before they disappear.

Turn Commutes into Focus Blocks
Use every minute in transit - whether it’s a daily commute or a long flight - for a single purpose: learning (audiobooks, podcasts), planning (voice notes), deep work (flights are perfect for it), or unwinding (meditation or reflection).

Last week’s poll:

Is this AI generated?

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜️ Yeah (~84%)
🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Nope (~16%)

Micro is a CRM that doesn’t feel like homework and an email client that knows what matters. Simply put, it’s an all-in-one productivity tool that organizes itself so you don’t have to.

LHV is a community-driven, early-stage venture fund backing ambitious founders at the earliest stages.

If you’re building tools that help founders, investors and other professionals who want to be 100x more productive with 100x less work, and you’re interested in advertising with us, send an email over to [email protected] with the subject “Homescreen Ads”