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0:00 Oh my gosh. Where's that last one? Oh my gosh. Wow. My heart is actually racing. Wow. All right, I got to take a picture of

0:15 this. You know, my friends asked me if I was going to cry when I hit it. I was like, "No, of course not." No. All jokes aside, this is just a really special day

0:27 for me. I've got this filter right here set up to be September 19th of 2024 all the way until today, which is just under two years. It's obviously a huge milestone and it's a very surreal moment

0:38 for me because man, the past two years have gone so so fast. I've learned so much. I've had so much fun. I've also been very stressed out, but it's just been a crazy two years. Oh my gosh, look

0:49 at this. My heart rate right now, 93. My resting it says is normally like 54, but wow. I mean, that really hits you. Wow. Seeing that 1M right there looks great. But man, if we come down here to the

1:04 videos and we go to the oldest, look at look at young Nate. Young Nate in here. If I click on this first one, so AI agents, there's so much information out there. It can be overwhelming trying to

1:14 learn about them. So, I wanted to come in here and break it down simply just the way that I wish someone would have explained it to me. >> Oh my gosh, he's got a lot. this young

1:22 guy. But man, it is September 19th, 2024. So, about six months before I made this video, I graduated from the University of Iowa and I moved out to Salt Lake City, and I was starting my

1:34 full-time role with Goldman Sachs, and I was automating stuff, and I started to fall in love with the process of making videos and and educating. And it took me a while from when I started basically

1:44 making money with AI to being able to, I guess, sort of work up the courage and also, you know, get my parents on board with letting me, you know, quit this stable job and and, you know, go out on

1:55 my own and try to build something. And obviously, I'm just so glad I took that leap. And I cannot thank my parents enough for, you know, always supporting what I want to do. My friends, my

2:04 family, you know, everybody in my ecosystem, my whole support system. I cannot thank all of you guys enough. my team at, you know, upai, what we're building here with a automation society.

2:15 We are almost at half a million members here in the free group. And this has just been the most rewarding thing that I've ever done. Like, it's truly, I know it's cheesy, but this has truly been a

2:24 dream come true to be able to wake up every day and be so excited to come sit or stand here in front of you guys and play around with tools and try to show you what I'm learning. I truly do wake

2:34 up every day just feeling very fortunate for what I get to, you know, call my job. And I could not have done any of this without my team. John, I've got a huge thank you to you for being such a

2:45 great mentor to me, for being the first person that I brought on the team, for teaching me so much and for helping me understand who I want to be and how we want to shape, you know, the brand of AI

2:56 automation society. A lot of you guys in the communities ask me how I'm able to make so many videos. And yes, I have AI agents that help me with, you know, looking through comments and ideation

3:07 and packaging and all of these things now, but the answer is it's John. It's John and the team. There's no way I could be putting out the, you know, amount of videos that I put out if it

3:17 wasn't for the team. And that's not something that any AI agents or automations will ever be able to replace or should ever replace. Huge shout out to Yash, our community manager. He has

3:28 been around watching my channel since I was at like 8,000 subscribers, I think he said. And before we brought him on, he was actively participating and engaging in the community. Just an

3:38 amazing person. Every single person on the UPAI team, I love you guys. Thank you so much for everything you guys do. And to all you guys, you know, obviously it goes without saying none of this

3:48 could happen without all of you guys. the supportive comments, the ones that are a little bit sarcastic, um, all of them, you know, they they fire me up and they they make me want to do more. And

3:58 for all the times that you guys have had to put up with me saying costed instead of saying cost, thank you for your patience. I remember making every single one of these thumbnails. I remember

4:07 editing every single one of these videos. I remember not even having a microphone for so long and just using the little, you know, $30 webcam that I had right here. I remember you guys

4:15 saying in the comments, "Please get a microphone. Please get a better webcam." I remember I kept this towel on my desk so I could put it under my keyboard so that when I would type in videos, it

4:25 didn't just like bang bang bang bang the microphone. When you guys in the community, whether it's AIS or it's AIS plus or it's a certification program or our events or whatever it is, when you

4:34 guys tell me that I was able to contribute a little bit into something you built or into you closing a client or signing a big deal or getting a crazy job opportunity or anything like that,

4:44 those things just make my day. I have just met so many cool people through, you know, making content. So many cool people from the communities that I've gotten to meet in person. So many cool

4:55 people that I've gotten to meet in these Q&A or at these live events, and so many other cool content creators in the space that are making AI content or business content or whatever it may be. It's just

5:03 been a really incredible two years. I am, you know, very happy right now, feeling very blessed, and I'm really excited because there's still so much that I want to do. You know, there's so

5:12 many things that I want to try. There's so many things that I want AI automation society to achieve and that I want UPAI as a whole to do. And I think the coolest part about this is I have so

5:22 much to learn. Every single day I learn something new. Every single month I learn something new. Every conversation I have with someone else on my team, I learned something from. I very

5:31 specifically remember losing this deal when I had gone through maybe this was the fourth or fifth call with this potential client and they ended up not going with us because they said that we

5:39 were too young and they didn't like the fact that at this point I was only 23 years old. And I honestly understood like I get that. But I think what's really cool about life is that everyone

5:48 has a different experience and everyone can teach someone something. And it's really just about finding what is it that you're passionate about and what is it that you know a lot about. And how

5:56 can you fill in a gap that someone else might have? Expertise is always relative. And I I I truthfully don't think that the imposter syndrome ever goes away. It just depends on the room

6:04 you're in and the people that you're around. So anyways, I'm going to go ahead and stop yapping here. I'm going to get back to work. But I'm so so excited for everything that I still get

6:13 to do and everything that I still get to learn and I'm so excited about the people that I get to learn and build and share things with. So, so thank you guys again so so much. Um, seriously just

6:24 making my dreams come true and you know this was obviously a big milestone and it's making me super happy today. So that is going to do it for today. If you guys enjoyed or you learned something

6:32 the new, please give a like. It helps me out a ton and as always I appreciate you making it to the end of the video and I'll see you guys all in the next one. Thanks everyone.