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Seven channels, and what to do about them

A list of channels is not worth much on its own — you already have a Watch Later full of good intentions. So this is a curriculum instead: one channel a week, one specific video, and one thing you build in your business because of it. Every handle, subscriber count and video link checked on 08/09/2026.

📅 A 7-week order ▶ Real videos, checked 🔨 Something built each week 🎓 What a degree still wins on ✍ A prompt that plans it for you

What's inside

1The seven-week plan 2The seven from the video 3Three more I would add 4What a degree gives you that these do not

The seven-week plan

First, a correction: I said eight and I named seven

Watch it back and count — there are seven. I am not going to invent an eighth to make the title true, so the seven are below exactly as I said them, and then there are three more further down that I have marked clearly as mine, not from the video. Seven is the honest number.

A list of channels is the easy part and the useless part. The reason people watch a hundred hours of business content and change nothing is that watching has no output, so here is the version with an output. One channel a week. One video. One thing that exists in your business by Sunday.

The order, and why it is this one

Money first, because it is the fastest thing to change and it pays for everything else. The skills sit in the middle. The soft-looking one is at week five on purpose — it is the one that decides whether any of the rest gets bought.

1

Week 1 — Alex Hormozi: Your offer and your price

One video, then rewrite your main offer and put the price up. Send it to one person before Sunday.

2

Week 2 — Y Combinator: Talk to the people who pay you

Watch How To Talk To Users, then have five real conversations. Questions, not pitches. Write up what surprised you.

3

Week 3 — Sabrina Ramonov: Put AI on one real job

Pick the repeating job you hate most and build it properly, start to finish, so it runs without you nudging it.

4

Week 4 — Brooke Wright: Cut the stack down

Write out every AI tool you pay for and what it is actually for. Then cancel one. Most people are paying four times for the same job.

5

Week 5 — Charisma on Command: The bit where it gets bought

This is week five on purpose. All the pricing in the world does nothing if you go quiet on the call. Record yourself saying your price. Watch it back.

6

Week 6 — Ali Abdaal: Make it repeat without you

Write one proper set of instructions for the job you do most. Then follow your own instructions next time and fix what is wrong with them.

7

Week 7 — Cleo Abram: Understand the ground you are on

One long video, then write a page to a client about where your industry is heading and what you are doing about it. Send it.

The rule that makes it work

If you get to Sunday and you have watched but not built, that week did not count. Do it again. It is annoying and it is the entire difference between this and a Watch Later list.

Or get a version built around your business

My order is a sensible default. Yours might be different — if your problem is that nobody replies to your emails, week one should not be pricing. This prompt interviews you, reorders the seven around what is actually broken, finds you a real video for each week, and then holds you to it when you come back and say "week check".

Build my seven-week plan 
I want to use YouTube as an actual curriculum instead of watching things at random. Help me build a seven-week plan and then hold me to it.

Here are the seven channels I am working from:
1. Alex Hormozi — offers, pricing, how the money in a business actually works
2. Cleo Abram — technology explained properly, without the hype
3. Y Combinator — startup advice, straight from the people who fund them
4. Ali Abdaal — systems, productivity, running your own thing
5. Charisma on Command — how you come across to other people
6. Sabrina Ramonov — AI and Claude, shown on screen rather than described
7. Brooke Wright — AI tools for non-technical business owners

Before you plan anything, ask me these five questions, one at a time, and wait for each answer:
1. What does my business actually do, and who pays me?
2. What is the single biggest thing holding it back right now?
3. How many hours a week can I genuinely give this? Be sceptical of my answer.
4. What have I already tried that did not work?
5. What would have to be true in three months for this to have been worth it?

Then build me a seven-week plan with one week per channel. Order the weeks by what will help my business soonest, NOT the order I listed them. If one of these channels is not relevant to me at all, say so and drop it rather than padding the plan.

For each week give me:
- Which channel, and why it is that week and not another one
- ONE video to watch. Search for it, give me the real title and the real link, and tell me roughly how long it is. Do not invent a video. If you cannot verify it exists, say so and pick a different one.
- One specific thing I will BUILD or CHANGE in my business that week as a direct result. Not "reflect on" or "think about" — something that exists afterwards and that I could show someone.
- How I will know by Sunday whether I actually did it

Save it as youtube-syllabus.md in this folder.

Then, whenever I come back and say "week check", read that file, ask me what I built, and be honest with me if the answer is nothing. Do not be encouraging about it. Just ask what got in the way and adjust the plan.

One instruction in there matters more than the rest

It tells Claude to search for each video and give you the real title and link, and to say so rather than guess if it cannot verify one. Ask any AI for "the best video on pricing" without that and you will get a plausible title that does not exist. Ask me how I know.

The seven from the video

In the order I named them. Subscriber counts, video counts and last-upload dates read off YouTube on 08/09/2026 — the rounded figures YouTube publishes, because nobody sees an exact number. Every video linked below is one I have checked exists.

1

Alex Hormozi

Offers & money4.47M subs

Who it is for: you have customers and the money still does not work. He is the best free material anywhere on what goes into an offer, how to price it, and why putting your prices up is usually the answer. youtube.com/@AlexHormozi — 5,588 videos, last upload 07/09/2026.

Watch first:

Then build this: Take your main offer, rewrite it using what he says about value, and put the price up. Send it to one person this week. Not a draft in a doc — sent.

What it is not good for: browsing. His last fifteen uploads landed in four days and fourteen of them were Shorts, so the long videos are buried and you have to go to the Videos tab. The examples assume staff, sales teams and physical premises — the $10M video is about a roofing company — so you are translating every one into a solo consultancy. And the funnel is real: the description of that video opens with a link to his own free download before a single word of content.

2

Y Combinator

Customers & ideas2.38M subs

Who it is for: you are guessing what people want instead of asking them. The Startup School series is still the clearest free material on validating an idea and getting the first few customers. youtube.com/@ycombinator — 901 videos, last upload 07/09/2026.

Watch first:

Then build this: Five conversations with people in your market. Not pitches — questions. Write up what you heard, and note the one thing that surprised you.

What it is not good for: subscribing to. I have linked 2022 videos on purpose, because the evergreen Startup School material is the part that transfers and the current feed is somewhere else entirely — machine-learning paper clubs, robotics, data centres in space, and founder interviews with venture-backed operators. The whole frame assumes co-founders, a funding round and an exit. A consultancy with no staff and no investors has to throw away the growth-at-all-costs premise before any of it is useful. Watch the four old ones, then leave.

3

Sabrina Ramonov

AI, shown on screen389K subs

Who it is for: you want to watch AI actually doing a job rather than being described. She builds the thing on screen at a pace a non-developer can follow. youtube.com/@sabrina_ramonov — 2,215 videos, last upload 07/09/2026.

Watch first:

Then build this: Pick the job you do most often that you hate. Build it once, properly, with AI. It has to run start to finish without you nudging it.

What it is not good for: the money-claim end of her catalogue — there is a lot of it, and it is exactly the register most people are trying to get away from. Check the handle: it is @sabrina_ramonov with the underscore. A near-identical account with 80 subscribers, no videos and the same display name is sitting there without it. She also retitles videos for the algorithm, so if a title above has changed by the time you look, search the channel rather than assuming it is gone. And 30 uploads a week is a lot of feed — go to her Videos tab rather than subscribing, unless you like Shorts.

4

Brooke Wright

AI without the overwhelm9.85K subs

Who it is for: you are not technical, you run a real business, and every other AI channel assumes you already know what an API is. That is the gap I make things for. And yes, that subscriber number is about a thousand times smaller than everyone else's on this page. I put myself in the video, so I am not going to leave myself off the list, but I am also not going to pretend. youtube.com/@WrightMode — 841 videos, last upload 08/09/2026.

Watch first:

Then build this: Write down your actual AI stack — every tool, what it is for, what it costs. Then delete one. Most people are paying for four things that do the same job.

What it is not good for: scale. I am a consultancy that makes content, not a media business, so there is no daily upload and no team behind it. If you want AI news the day it happens, I am the wrong channel. If you want to be shown how to do one thing properly with no hype, that is what is there.

5

Charisma on Command

How you come across7.11M subs

Who it is for: you are good at the work and it falls apart the moment you have to say it out loud — on a discovery call, in a room, quoting a price. Also the most disciplined channel on this list: fifteen straight long-form videos, no Shorts, one a week. youtube.com/@Charismaoncommand — 445 videos, last upload 07/09/2026.

Watch first:

Then build this: Record yourself saying your price out loud, on camera, the way you would on a call. Watch it back. It is horrible and it is the most useful ten minutes on this page.

What it is not good for: your subscription feed, and I want to be specific about why rather than vague. I went through 120 of their recent videos: 13 are masculinity or dating content, which is about one in nine — not a dating channel. But nine of those thirteen are from the last twelve months, so the direction of travel is real. Subscribe today and that is what turns up. The three above are the timeless ones. There is also no business content at all — no pricing, no sales calls, no clients — and the format is celebrity clip analysis, which is entertaining more than it is practice.

6

Ali Abdaal

Systems & time6.68M subs

Who it is for: you are doing the work but the week runs you rather than the other way round. His 2022-23 productivity material is genuinely excellent and holds up. youtube.com/@aliabdaal — 1,461 videos, last upload 07/09/2026.

Watch first:

Then build this: Write one proper set of instructions for the job you repeat most. Not a checklist — enough that someone else could do it. Then next time, follow your own instructions and fix what is wrong with them.

What it is not good for: his recent output, which is why two of my three picks are from 2022-23. Fourteen of his last thirty long-form videos are money content — first $1,000 online, simplest way to make $10k a month, brutally honest truth on getting rich. The productivity channel he was known for is now a minority of what he posts. And his Shorts are largely paid advertising: six of the ten in his recent uploads are sponsor reads with the pitch in the title. The Claude Code guide is a real exception and worth the hour.

7

Cleo Abram

Technology, no hype8.67M subs

Who it is for: you want to actually understand a technology before you have an opinion about it, and you are sick of being sold to. She is a proper journalist and it shows. youtube.com/@CleoAbram — 625 videos, last upload 06/09/2026.

Watch first:

Then build this: Write one page to a client about where your industry is heading and what you are doing about it. Send it. This is the week that makes you sound like someone who has thought about it.

What it is not good for: anything you can act on. This is science journalism, not business — recent long-form is ozone holes, deep-sea machines, Antarctica and lab-grown diamonds. There are no tools, no workflows, no pricing and no clients in it. The AI material is two or three founder interviews rather than tutorials. And it is one big video every four to five weeks, so subscribing mostly gets you daily science Shorts.

Three more I would add

These are not from the video. I named seven on camera and these were not among them — they are here because the seven have gaps, and I would rather fill them than pretend they do not exist. Same checks, same date.

8

Layla Pomper (ProcessDriven)

MY ADDITION151K subsSystems & ops

Who it is for: the gap the seven leave. Nobody above teaches the boring middle — how work actually moves through a small business, what to write down, what to hand over. She does, deliberately without hype, for people who are not technical. youtube.com/@LaylaPomper — 725 videos, last long-form 25/08/2026, two to three a month unbroken for eleven months.

Watch first:

Then build this: Map one process end to end. Where does it stall? That is your next automation, and now you know why.

What it is not good for: AI, mostly. It comes up maybe once every six or eight videos — the core is standard operating procedures, delegation, hiring freelancers and project management. The view counts are modest too, in the low thousands. Neither of those is a mark against it, but do not go expecting an AI channel.

9

The Tech Girl (Anjana Gowtham)

MY ADDITION127K subsZero Shorts

Who it is for: you want a calm, practical walkthrough with the prompt actually given to you. She is the antidote to the AI-news firehose, and she is the most consistent long-form publisher I checked. youtube.com/@anjanagowtham — 371 videos, last upload 07/09/2026 — fifteen of her last fifteen uploads are full videos, not one Short.

Watch first:

Then build this: Take one prompt she gives away, run it on your real data, and rewrite it so it fits your business rather than a demo.

What it is not good for: depth, and not business. Roughly a third of the feed is consumer gadget content — phone rumours, operating system updates, earbuds — and the videos are eight to twelve minutes, so nothing goes deep. No pricing, no clients, no strategy.

10

Gillian Perkins

MY ADDITION730K subsZero Shorts

Who it is for: you want business content with no Shorts, no shouting and no motivational filler. Straight, structured, and she shows the actual numbers from her own business. youtube.com/@gillianzperkins — 501 videos, last upload 25/08/2026 — fifteen of fifteen are full videos, weekly, eleven to forty-five minutes.

Watch first:

Then build this: Write the seven emails. Even if you have nothing to sell yet, writing the sequence tells you whether the offer is real.

What it is not good for: AI — it barely features, and where it does it is prompt-level rather than implementation. The catalogue leans heavily towards courses and digital products, so about half of it will not apply to a service business. Her views are also low for the channel size, and her last upload was a fortnight ago, which is a slowdown on her usual weekly rhythm. Worth watching to see if it picks back up.

What a degree gives you that these do not

I called this "better than college" and I stand by the teaching. But a degree is not only teaching, and if I leave that unsaid the page is a bit of a con. Here is what you are actually giving up, and what you can do about each one.

1

A credential someone else recognises

YouTube gives you none. If you need a piece of paper for a visa, a registration board, or a corporate HR filter, no amount of watching replaces it. The substitute: work someone can look at. A portfolio of things you have shipped for real clients outranks a degree in every conversation I have ever had about hiring or being hired.

2

Deadlines you did not set yourself

This is the big one. A course makes you produce something by Friday whether you feel like it or not, and that pressure is most of why people finish things. The substitute: promise the output to a person. Tell a client the new pricing lands Monday. Put the thing you are learning into next week's work. External stakes, or nothing gets finished.

3

People at the same stage as you

You cannot get a cohort from a comments section. Half of what a degree is worth is the other people in the room and the fact that they are stuck on the same thing this week. The substitute: one group where people are actually building, and two or three individuals you tell what you are working on. It does not have to be big. It has to be real.

4

Someone marking your work

Nobody on YouTube tells you your version is wrong. You can watch a hundred hours on pricing and still price badly, because there is no feedback loop. The substitute: put the work in front of someone who will be blunt. A client's reaction to a price is feedback. So is a page nobody converts on.

5

An order that someone thought about

A syllabus is a sequence built by someone who knows what has to come first. An algorithm serves you whatever is popular this week, which is how people end up learning advanced tactics for a problem they do not have yet. The substitute: the seven-week plan at the top of this page, or the prompt that builds you a better one.

So is it actually better?

On the teaching itself — for running a small business, right now, in 2026 — yes, easily, and it is not close. These seven people are working practitioners publishing this year, for free, and a business degree will have you doing case studies on companies that no longer exist.

On everything wrapped around the teaching — the deadlines, the cohort, the person marking your work, the piece of paper — a degree wins, and YouTube does not even compete. Which is fine, as long as you go and build those four things yourself instead of assuming a subscription covers them.

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