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AI Mastery

From complete AI novice to building and selling products independently

Quick summary

A seasoned management executive with decades of cross-border business experience transformed from complete AI novice to builder—now launching websites, creating automations, and selling AI-powered products to real customers, all without a technology team.

My AI journey did not begin with technology. It began with curiosity.

I have spent much of my career in management, building businesses and working across borders, including cross-border M&A. But when it came to AI, I was a complete novice. I understood what AI might mean strategically. What I did not know was how to actually use it myself. How to build something. How to connect the pieces. How to take an idea from a conversation to something that actually works. That is what has changed. Over the past months, I have learned the basic skills one step at a time.

Today, I can build and launch my own websites without waiting for a technology team. I have built automations, connected different tools and platforms, created products, set up the systems around them and taken those products into the market. Some have already been sold to real customers. Perhaps the biggest change is not that I can now do these things myself. It is that I understand them. That changes the way I can lead a team. I can ask better questions. I can see what is possible. I can understand where something is getting stuck. And I can move from an idea to a working prototype before asking others to scale it.

For someone who came into this with very little hands-on technology experience, that has been an important personal transformation. But I don't see this as mastery. I see it as the beginning.

The applications I have built are now running across several platforms, and every week I discover how much more there is to learn. AI has not replaced the management and business experience I accumulated over decades. It is beginning to amplify it. And that combination — experience, judgment and the ability to actually build with these new tools — is opening up an entirely new chapter for me.

I am deeply grateful to Mindvalley and to Vishen for creating an environment that encouraged me not simply to learn about AI, but to get my hands dirty and use it. There is still a long way to go. And that may be the most exciting part of the journey.

My concluding advise is - The minimum I would encourage everyone is to invest your time, your money into this program. This is vital and critical for not only your future but for generations to come.


George Molakal

CEO

Chicago, United States

Written 8 August 2026 From our original stories site

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