My guest is Ty Ahmad-Taylor.

Ty is a founder and two-time CEO who has spent his career at the center of media and tech. He started at The New York Times, built and sold his startup FanFeedr to Samsung, and later became a product VP at Meta and Snap.

Today, he’s on the boards of GoPro and SFMOMA—and working hands-on with AI.

One of the wildest parts of this conversation: Ty rebuilt a startup that once took four and a half years to build… in just five minutes with AI.

Ty and I talk about what the AI shift really means for media companies.

Not theory. Real examples.

We focus on content, distribution and money.

Key Takeaways:
• How Ty rebuilt FanFeedr—a startup that took four and a half years to build—using one AI prompt in just five minutes (using ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity)
• Why Yahoo Sports shows up everywhere in AI tools—and why The Athletic from The NY Times does not
• What media companies gain and lose by blocking AI bots like ChatGPT and Google/Gemini
• Why AI agents and scheduled tasks change how products get built
• How tools like Granola, ChatPRD, and Lovable compress months of work into minutes
• What Ty learned running AI workshops with OpenAI, Perplexity, Delphi, and Listen Labs
• Why affiliate revenue may replace ads as Google traffic falls
• Ty’s simple 3-part framework for AI product development

Family too — We also talk about how Ty thinks about AI and his kids, and why human skills still matter in an AI world.

If you run a media business, build products, or create content, this episode will help you understand what’s actually changing—and what to do next.

Thanks, Rob