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2025-08-28 · Short · Ali · recording, 1:11 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Work and career · mode: Answering questions · tags: AI

Asked by Kika, a flight attendant and college dropout, how to raise her market value, Ali says the internet short-circuits the university route and the easiest way is to learn to code; a friend who learned through side projects built an app making $1.2 million a year, and with AI tools coding is the single biggest thing to raise your market value.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Kika's question: what is my market value if I quit my job?

00:00:05 — Market value, learning to code as the hack, the friend's app, coding with AI

  • ★★★ Being able to make things on the internet short-circuits the market-value equation of going to university, Ali says, and the easiest way to raise your market value is to learn to code, which he calls an unfair hack. — 00:00:29
  • ★★ A friend of Ali's who came over from the UK, after five years in management consulting, had learned to code by building side projects at university, although coding was not part of his degree. — 00:00:29
  • ★★ The app Ali's friend decided to build is now making $1.2 million a year in annual recurring revenue, Ali says, or $90,000 a month. — 00:00:50

  • ★★★ Anyone can learn to code, especially with today's AI tools, Ali says; someone who can code and use AI can do phenomenal things, and he calls it the single biggest thing that will 100x your market value. (overstated) — 00:00:50

    “the single biggest thing that will 100x your market value”

Threads in this video

  • refine · Should you learn to code? — Anyone can learn to code, especially with today's AI tools, Ali says; someone who can code and use AI can do phenomenal things, and he calls it the single biggest thing that will 100x your market value. (00:00:50)

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