The WallStreetPapi Podcast

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Weekly interviews with X-native founders and operators building in business, finance, and tech.

Recent Episodes

MAY 30, 2026
Episode 52: America Gave Away Its Creatine Supply Chain. One Man Is Taking It Back. | AJAC (250k followers) on X
If you think this episode is about creatine, you're wrong.Alexander Cortes known as AJAC spent his entire adult life in the fitness industry. Ballet dancer turned personal trainer turned one of the most followed fitness writers on the internet. 250K followers on X. 41K Substack subscribers. A decade of building an audience from zero with no backing, no connections, and no plan.Then one day he looked at a tub of creatine and asked a simple question: why don't we make this in America?What he found changed everything.Creatine is only manufactured in two places on earth... China and Germany. China controls 90% of global supply. The United States has been 100% import dependent since the 1990s when American producers were wiped out by Chinese dumping at 120-150% below fair value. And the supply chain behind creatine a molecule called cyanamide feeds fertilizers, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, airbags, flame retardants, and military explosives.This isn't a supplement story. It's a civilization story.In December 2025, AJAC posted a call to action on X. 40 people showed up in Austin. A company was formed Athanor Inc. He recruited some of the top nitrogen chemists in the world, all on sweat equity. They synthesized American Creatine Batch #1 themselves. What we cover: How China took over the global creatine market in under 2 years and why America never came back What cyanamide actually is and why it sits underneath food, medicine, defense, and electronics How AJAC recruited world-class scientists with zero capital and a tweet Going from ballet dancer to personal trainer to hard tech founder at 37 The Five Focuses of Life framework and why you can't be elite at everything Why X is the highest talent concentration platform on earth The difference between chasing fame and building an honest audience How fitness and company building map to the same mental frameworks Why knowledge is the foundation of money and why America is still the greatest engine for human creation Connect with AJAC:X: https://x.com/AJA_CortesSubstack: broscienceclub.comAthanor Inc: athanor.incLIKE & SUBSCRIBE!
48 MIN
MAY 29, 2026
Episode 51: Ben Cera Hiked Mount Fuji Alone and Polsia Was Born. Six Months Later $8M ARR and No Employees
n this episode I sit down with Ben Cera, the solo founder behind Polsia... an agentic AI company that hit $8M ARR in just 6 months with zero employees.We go deep on Rick Rubin's spiritual philosophy and how his book The Creative Act changed Ben's entire approach to building. Ben opens up about his solo journey to Japan, hiking Mount Fuji alone, and how that trip sparked the idea for Polsia. Then we get into all the ins and outs of how Polsia actually works.How people are literally swimming in the pool while the AI sends emails, runs ads, builds websites, and creates Stripe accounts on their behalf.I genuinely believe this is the most revolutionary thing since ChatGPT. This is one of them ones.what we cover rick rubin, the creative act, and why taste can't be automated ben's story from travis kalanick and cloudkitchens to building alone the mount fuji moment that gave birth to polsia what agentic AI actually means and why it's different from chatgpt how polsia makes money and the business model behind it the alignment problem, the paperclip scenario, and how polsia stays safe god mode and what 24/7 autonomous AI looks like in practice why distribution is still the one thing AI can't solve if you want more lessons from founders, entrepreneurs, and CEOs like this delivered straight to your email subscribe below.wallstreetpapi.substack.comX @BenCerapolsia.com
37 MIN