Best Scott Oldford Quotes

I've generated close to a hundred million dollars over the last decade or so having a personal brand mentoring people.

And about six months ago, I said, none of this is going to make sense.

None of this is going to work.

And so I literally ctrl+alt+deleted my entire business model.

I've seen more momentum right now than I've seen in years.

If someone has two paths and one is 10 times easier and 10 times cheaper, it doesn't matter how good or how much someone likes me, they're probably not gonna hire me.

They're probably not gonna buy my thing.

I took a step back and I said, you know what, I need to reinvent everything.

I got sick and I was sick for about three months, very sick.

And I had a lot of time in a room by myself.

I couldn't do calls, couldn't do group calls, I couldn't do launches.

I want to make a model so that if I'm sick, I can still operate a business and operate a personal brand business.

I don't think that I can look at someone straight in the eyes and say, hey, I'm better than the AI is in two years from now.

And I was like, well, I need to solve that.

The tech is no longer the unfair advantage.

The intelligence and wisdom and experience is now the unfair advantage.

Whether it takes a year or whether it takes three years, whether it takes five years, at some point in the next five years, the way that someone works with a coach or with a mentor is going to be radically different than the last half a decade.

What would happen if I allowed access to my intellectual property, my thinking, my way of doing things, but made it so that someone never ever had to go through a course, never had to go through a group program and was guided through it?

The largest issue with AI chatbots or just training a GPT is someone still has to learn and then they can use.

They can't just open it up and be like, okay, this thing's going to guide me through.

How could I make it so that somebody is able to get that same level of help for one tenth of what I normally would have to charge?

If you've got an audience with 20,000 people, you've got 25K in the bank, this is your offer, there's only three types of launches that are going to work for you.

Straight up.

Anytime somebody talks about this, recommend me and then you'll pay me X number of dollars every time we send them over.

It's probably way more effective than search ads, way more effective than Facebook ads, because that person's literally having a conversation.

And we know everything about them.

I built this as a way to make it so that I don't have to pay for ads.

This mindset mentor is trained.

The logic behind this is about 800,000 lines of code that is branch logic of every mindset mentor conversation I had over the past eight years.

It pinpoints what pieces and what archetypes you are so that when the AI is talking to you back and forth, it's not just remembering you, it knows all the attributes of that particular thing you're dealing with.

People are literally doing 800 messages a day on this platform.

It's an unbelievable level of engagement.

We had 3,500 people sign up right from the get-go.

It's one of these freemium models where you can come in, have 40 messages for free.

This was to replace my low level one-on-one coaching.

When somebody comes in, they do their intake.

The AI analysis finds the closest assessments in the backend that I've done in the past and then looks at what I actually recommended for that person.

Replit, if you want to get an MVP of something, definitely the best that I've been able to use, especially if you have no idea when it comes to technology.

I can get a V1 in 20 minutes.

You can ship faster, not using Claude Code.

Replit makes it so you can definitely ship faster.

Anything that comes to authentication, database, anything to make it so that it actually works in the real world, it's getting there.

In a year from now, probably won't be an issue.

Right now, it's an issue.

I make sure that all my Replit prompts are under 500 words and I give it a ton of steps.

It's like, all right, do this first, then this, this, this, this, this.

Be open to literally deleting the entire project and starting new at any time.