Ep. 219 DeMario McIlwain - Being Early To AI Cost Him

Podcast: Hello Chaos · Jennifer Sutton

Opublikowano: 2026-09-20

DeMario McIlwain built the future before there was a market for it, and the head start cost him more than it paid. He was teaching prompt engineering before ChatGPT existed, and he became the first in the US to put AI avatars in front of a learning platform, back when the rest of the world was still arguing about Bitcoin. Being early got him on the news and in the magazines. It also handed him a problem nobody warned him about. The moment everyone else caught up, the $20K he paid a Tel Aviv company to license that avatar...