Jake Van Clief is the Alex Hormozi of AI

Okay so, there's a man. I think about him more than my own quarterly goals.

My wife, currently growing an entire human and well within her rights to cite emotional infidelity with a YouTube channel and a skool community, has caught me whispering "just one more video" at 1 AM. His name is Jake Van Clief, and I am, clinically, a groupie.

To be clear, worship is spoken for. There's exactly One who gets that, and Jake isn't Him. But fandom? Loud, wearing-all-the-merch, third-row fandom? That slot was open. Jake got drafted.

So, quiet part at a normal volume:

@Jake Van Clief

is the Alex Hormozi of AI.

I present to you the receipts:

He gives the good stuff away. Hormozi could've sold his playbook for $25,000 in a ballroom with a countdown timer. Instead he put it in a book that costs less than lunch. Jake's the same. No secret vault, no "DM me the word ABUNDANCE." Just the real builds, free, here and on YouTube.
He names things you can use Monday morning. Hormozi gave us the Value Equation and the Grand Slam Offer. Jake gave me organized context that might not save my marriage (because it's not in jeopardy) but is saving me mucho tokeno. Labels I can grab and run with, not a vibe I reverse-engineer at midnight.
He builds with the door open. You watch the thing get made, including the parts that aren't working yet. No highlight reel, no confetti cannon. The messy middle, on camera.
He gives away the how because the how was never the hard part. The doing is. He's betting most of us watch, nod, and never run it. He's talking to the builder, not the think-piece guy.

But the big one. The reason I started watching at all:

The man translates.

Bringing it to real life: there's an idea going around AI, prompting as context, intent, and spec. I first hit it through Nate B. Jones. Nate's sharp, operates at an altitude where the air's thin and the insights are real. I listened once. Then again. Then a third time, taking notes like a freshman who wandered into the wrong grad seminar.

Then Jake explained the same idea. One video. One. I got it, and I walked away with two ways to use it before lunch. (Two. Always two. My team will confirm I can't give feedback in any other number.)

Nate gave me the lecture. Jake handed me the cheat sheet and pointed at the field.

Fandom that costs nothing and makes you better is the best kind there is. Jake isn't selling a dream from the back of the room. He's showing the work, free, while he's still doing it. Cheapest professional development on my calendar, and I've paid real money for much worse.

So yeah. I'm the guy in the comments. I'm the loud grroupie in the third row. If Jake ever runs a meet-and-greet, I'll make it weird as hell, and I've made my peace with that.

New here and haven't binged his stuff yet? Go do that. Then come back and tell me I was right. I'll be insufferable about it.

Jake's truly,

Ruben

P.S. Now if you'll excuse me another groupie

@David Vogel

just notified me that another YT video just dropped, an hour ago. I'm 59 minutes late already.

UPDATE: I even checked the video before posting this note. It wasn't a Jake video. Not gonna lie, I'm a little disappointed.

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