I built an AI tool to mimic my work. It's helped create passive income from my solo business.

Tech Insider : Business, Style
Julia Starr
Julia Starr vibe coded an app using the platform Lovable.

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I read 'Never Eat Alone.' Here's how it helped me become a top voice on LinkedIn and grow my personal brand.

Tech Insider : Business
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Tina Nenshi Gada shares the lessons she learned from reading "Never Eat Alone" by Keith Ferrazzi.

Tina Nenshi Gada

My parents opened a bowling center when I was an infant. Now, I'm a millionaire thanks to my professional bowling career.

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Jason Belmonte bowling
Jason Belmonte holds 32 professional bowling titles.

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I built an AI app with a tiny team. We scaled it to millions and sold it to MyFitnessPal in under 2 years — here's how.

Tech Insider : Business
A young man with tousled dark hair and a small goatee faces forward wearing a gray sweatshirt against a plain background.
Jake Castillo cofounded Cal AI in 2024.

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I retired, then happily unretired. Now, at 82, I'm a pickleball coach.

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A man swinging his pickleball paddle.
Robert Warden is an 82-year-old pickleball coach in Utah.

Club Pickleball USA.

At 48, I left my teaching job in Virginia and moved to Italy. Now I run a business with my husband in Tuscany.

Tech Insider : Travel, Business
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After 25 years of teaching kindergarten, Linda Meyer was ready for a change and moved to Tuscany.

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My 8-year-old and I vibe-coded an app in 3 hours. AI is moving fast, so I figured it's better to start her early.

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Kiki and Boo Kok Chuon
Boo Kok Chuon started his 8-year-old daughter early on AI.

Boo Kok Chuon

I found boxes of my dad's McDonald's memorabilia from the '70s and '80s. I decided to sell them all.

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Woman posing with McDonald's memorabilia
Sarah Israel's dad was a McDonald's executive and kept tons of memorabilia from the 80s.

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I started buying properties with family and friends in my 20s. I've bought 10 total, and one has made over $400k on Airbnb.

Tech Insider : Business
A woman stands in front of a tall staircase with a sign that reads
Kristina Modares has bought 10 properties over the last decade and still owns five.

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We moved to Mexico in our 60s because US retirement was unaffordable. We started an AI business and rent a house here for $1,250 a month.

Tech Insider : Economy, Business, Technology
Karen Watts Nauman and Jeff Nauman
Karen Watts Nauman and Jeff Nauman moved to Mexico and founded The AI Boomers.

Karen Watts Nauman

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