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I Turned $1M into $2.3B (Then Blew It Up and Rebuilt)

30 juni 2025 · 1 uur 6 min

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Episode 722: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) sits down with Mike Novogratz ( https://x.com/novogratz ) about risk tolerance and coming back from massive losses.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Mike’s first million

(8:37) Starting Fortress

(13:55) $30M to $2.3B

(25:28) Operating system for life

(35:41) Being early on crypto

(40:26) Risk tolerance

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Links:

• Fortress - https://www.fortress.com/

• Galaxy - https://www.galaxy.com/

• Business Untitled - https://www.youtube.com/@BusinessUntitled

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• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

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• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

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He Bought a Local Newspaper… Now He Makes $600K/YR

27 juni 2025 · 58 min

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Episode 721: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about a billionaire’s recipe for happiness, Shaan’s stock picks, plus the new mayor of NY.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Billionaire recipe for happiness

(5:12) Shaan gives a talk at Berkeley

(12:01) Steve Ballmer on Acquired

(17:02) Gary V is bullish on everything

(26:28) The new mayor of NY

(35:45) Multilingual politicians

(38:43) Vibe voting

(41:20) Idea: "The President"

(45:58) Businesses w/ 50X potential

(49:07) Shaan's first 6 stocks

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

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Business as a sport, Surge AI, and Waymo vs. Robotaxi

25 juni 2025 · 1 uur 9 min

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Episode 720: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about how Surge built a $1B business in 5 years and the second-order effects of self-driving cars.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Best idea of the month

(6:00) Business as a sport

(10:57) The inner game of tennis

(14:21) Shaan writes a letter to himself

(19:15) Patron View

(27:42) Surge

(35:00) Handshake

(39:47) Waymo vs Robotaxi

(50:30) Elon replies to Shaan's tweet

(53:13) Shaan gets in a fight with his moms doctor

(1:02:50) Sam wears overalls

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Links:

• The Inner Game of Tennis - https://tinyurl.com/mphz9zkr

• Patron View - https://patronview.com/

• Museum Hack - https://museumhack.com/

• Surge AI - https://www.surgehq.ai/

• Handshake - https://joinhandshake.com/

• Gemini - https://gemini.google.com/

• Grok - https://grok.com/

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

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I talk to Ben about creating luck, his barbell method, plus 6 half-baked business ideas

23 juni 2025 · 1 uur 11 min

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Episode 719: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talks to his business partner Ben Levy about creating luck, his barbell method for building relationships and 6 half-baked business ideas.

Apply to join Club LTV - https://tinyurl.com/3y478hm2

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(4:01) Your first believer

(6:11) The K Academy

(9:38) Ben as a product

(17:53) Measuring luck

(23:43) Barbell method

(30:24) Idea: Court side seats

(33:44) Idea: Lunch Bounty

(36:51) Idea: Birkins for everyone

(45:31) Idea: Survivor for post-economic people

(50:50) Idea: Cool carpel tunnel brand

(53:42) Idea: Coach K in a box

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

We found the top 1% of the internet this week (so you don't have to)

20 juni 2025 · 56 min

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Episode 718: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about stuff that hit the group chat this week. Lees meer

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Apple Just Unlocked a $1B App Idea

(04:13) McKinsey got $55M for This?

(10:28) Frank Slootman’s Ice-Cold Advice

(16:20) “Treat people well, and you’ll win.”

(24:41) Man steals $122 million from Facebook and Google,

(28:17) ChatGPT’s $10B ARR retention curve

(34:58) Elon v. Trump Meltdown

(39:54) Ramp’s Monopolist Pitch Deck

(46:22) Rich Guy House Alert: Gary Tan Edition

(48:55) Sam’s First Ever Bookmark

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Links:

• Want Sam's top 7 books for entrepreneurs (& his reading strategy)? Get it here: https://clickhubspot.com/kmb

• Apple AlarmKit announcement (WWDC) - https://developer.apple.com/wwdc23/

• Waymo Self-Driving Cars - https://waymo.com/

• Ramp (Eric Glyman’s company) - https://ramp.com/• Brex - https://www.brex.com/

• Amp It Up - https://tinyurl.com/5ak4ckux

• Les Schwab: Pride in Performance - https://tinyurl.com/5ch39nrv • TBPN - https://www.youtube.com/@thebrospodcastnetwork

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

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The Side Hustle King: “I’m making $8K/DAY from easy businesses”

18 juni 2025 · 1 uur 16 min

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Episode 717: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talks to Chris Koerner about how to make millions from local side hustles. Lees meer

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(2:13) Idea: Hole-in-one golf challenge

(12:24) Idea: Bitcoin mining

(16:00) Idea: Garage shelving

(17:18) Idea: Tourist traps for home markets

(20:13) Idea: Toasted tours

(24:56) Idea: Buc-ees snack arbitrage

(38:01) Idea: Pet cremation

(45:29) Idea: b2b stump grinding

(48:13) Idea: Pickleball court

(58:15) Focus is overrated

(59:34) Say yes to everything

(1:05:11) copy-paste millionaires

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Links:

• Want to scale? Get the Side Hustler's AI Prompt Database: https://clickhubspot.com/wnd

• The Koerner Office - https://tkopod.com/

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

We found the weirdest ways to make $1M, $1B, and $5B

13 juni 2025 · 1 uur 8 min

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Episode 716: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the 6 weird ways to make millions. Lees meer

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Show Notes:

(0:00) $1M Twerking Class

(5:55) Fecal transplants

(12:00) A brief history of butts

(15:05) $1B BBLs

(20:26) $5B hookup app

(31:16) $200M bonus: DUDE Wipes

(37:19) How many millionaires from the pod?

(47:17) Having it all

(50:18) Shaan's reading list

(53:28) Wisdom extraction

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Links:

• Want Sam's Top 7 Books as a Founder (& his Reading Strategy)? Get the guide here: https://clickhubspot.com/apw

• OpenBiome - https://openbiome.org/

• Grindr - https://www.grindr.com/

• DUDE Wipes - https://dudewipes.com/

• Tushy - https://hellotushy.com/

• Modern Wisdom - https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisWillx

• Save The Cat - https://tinyurl.com/4nwpec6z

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

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“$100M dollar brands are being built for boring products” - Harley Finkelstein of Shopify

12 juni 2025 · 1 uur 1 min

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Episode 715: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Harley Finkelstein ( https://x.com/harleyf ) about boring products that could be worth $100M. Lees meer

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Disrupting boring products

(15:05) Swiss Army knife founders

(21:42) "People only remember your weird"

(31:45) Considering an exit

(39:32) Becoming a better storyteller

(46:17) Shopify's leaked memo about AI

(51:26) Biohacking Longevity

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Links:

• Shopify - https://shopify.com/

• Touchland - https://touchland.com/

• Firebelly Tea - https://firebellytea.com/

• Ember Mug - https://ember.com/

• David’s Tea - https://davidstea.com/

• AG1 - https://drinkag1.com/

• Method - https://www.methodhome.com/

• Olly - https://www.olly.com/

• Welly - https://www.getwelly.com/

• Ritual - https://ritual.com/

• Seed - https://seed.com/

• Prose - https://prose.com/

• Prenuvo - https://www.prenuvo.com/

• CLEERLY - https://cleerlyhealth.com/

• 29029 - https://29029everesting.com/

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

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How to Scale a Profitable Agency with 0 Employees (Using AI Agents)

6 juni 2025 · 1 uur 5 min

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Episode 714: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) sits down with Matt Mazzeo ( https://x.com/Mazzeo ) about using AI agents as your go-to-market. Lees meer

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(3:30) AI as the Go-to-Market

(8:50) The Billion Dollar Secret

(12:03) Mario Kart Theory

(18:55) Being a Tinkerer/Supabase

(25:38) Amjad Masad/Replt

(28: 41) Taste

(36:44) Agents replacing VCs

(37:57) Agent Employees

(42:28) Story Game

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Links:

• Want Sam's guide to use ChatGPT? Get it here: https://clickhubspot.com/wpv

• Supabase - https://supabase.com/

• Replit - https://replit.com/

• Clay - https://www.clay.com/

• Alpha Go Movie - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXuK6gekU1Y

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC

How the Smartest Founders Are Quietly Winning with AI

4 juni 2025 · 1 uur 18 min

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Episode 713: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Jason Lemkin ( https://x.com/jasonlk ) about cloning yourself with AI and how ChatGPT will be the end of incumbent apps. Lees meer

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Show Notes:

(0:00) AI body doubles Users tell AI things they won't tell humans

(15:15) The incumbents are dying

(27:25) Inside the office of OpenAI

(34:12) How to be an AI billionaire

(44:40) The story of Saastr

(55:49) Being a relentless recruiter

(58:52) Seeing through the fog of war

(1:07:53) The future of work for gen alpha

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Links:

• Want Sam's playbook to turn ChatGPT into your executive coach? Get it here: https://clickhubspot.com/ejv

• Saastr - https://www.saastr.com/

• Delphi - https://www.delphi.ai/

• Windsurf - https://windsurf.com

• Coursiv - https://coursiv.io/

• Lovable - https://lovable.dev/

• Higsfield - http://higsfield.ai/

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC

How to build a $1M+ startup using AI (Full Tutorial)

30 mei 2025 · 58 min

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Episode 712: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talks to Greg Isenberg ( https://x.com/gregisenberg ) talk about how to find a startup idea and build it in a couple hours using AI.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Step 1: Find an idea

(7:57) Step 2: Sketch out the idea

(9:48) Step 3: Scope out the MVP

(18:25) Step 4: Vibe code a prototype

(36:06) Step 5: Vibe marketing the business

(49:14) Step 6: AI agent product manager

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Links:

• Want Greg's guide to Build an AI Startup in 3 Hours with <$500? Get it here: https://clickhubspot.com/wrc

• Idea Browser - ideabrowser.com

• TLDraw - https://www.tldraw.com/

• Wispr Flow - https://wisprflow.ai/

• Manus - https://manus.im/

• Bolt - https://bolt.new/

• The Vibe Marketer - https://www.thevibemarketer.com/

• Kubera - https://www.kubera.com/

• Lindy - https://www.lindy.ai/

• Lovable - https://lovable.dev/

• Windsurf - https://windsurf.com/

• Cursor - https://www.cursor.com/

• Supabase - https://supabase.com/

• Prospect AI - https://www.prospectai.co/

• Boring Marketing - https://www.boringmarketing.com/

• Gumloop - https://www.gumloop.com/

• N8N - https://n8n.io/

• Ahrefs - https://ahrefs.com/

• Semrush - https://www.semrush.com/

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC

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• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - htt…

How I built a $3B AI Startup + 7 AI Business Ideas

28 mei 2025 · 1 uur 17 min

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Episode 711: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talks to Guillermo Rauch ( https://x.com/rauchg ) about building Vercel plus 7 business ideas to start in AI. Lees meer

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Dropout to job offer from Facebook

(3:38) Genius vs accident

(21:04) Building Vercel

(25:26) AI startup ideas

(31:38) IDEA: V0 for Video Games

(33:09) IDEA: Doom CAPTCHA

(40:04) IDEA: AI Typeform

(46:54) IDEA: AI Camera

(54:06) IDEA: Auto Complete

(58:51) IDEA: Granular V0

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Links:

• Guillermo Rauch - https://rauchg.com/

• Vercel - https://vercel.com/

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

5 Startups That Looked Dumb—Until They Were Worth Billions

23 mei 2025 · 46 min

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Episode 710: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about how to evaluate risk and upside of new ideas. Lees meer

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Bessemer's $140B misjudgment of Shopify

(5:47) Shaan's Anti-portfolio

(15:26) Goal: Avoid Ruin

(21:30) Outlier personalities

(24:51) Underestimating Uber

(32:16) "You can't overinvest in AI"

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Links:

• Want Sam's Playbook to Uncover Business Opportunities? Get it here: https://clickhubspot.com/bzo

• “How to miss by a mile” - https://tinyurl.com/2rxubfwa

• Leaked OpenAI emails - https://www.techemails.com/p/elon-musk-and-openai

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

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Hinge expert shares dating advice for ambitious nerds

21 mei 2025 · 1 uur 17 min

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Episode 709: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Logan Ury ( https://x.com/loganury ) about how young men can be more successful in dating. Lees meer

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(6:28) The secretary problem

(14:43) What's happening with men right now

(21:07) How to do the apps right

(27:32) Meeting someone IRL

(30:03) The power of weak ties

(36:56) How to be a better date

(40:37) Date like a scientist

(45:44) Fuck the spark

(49:02) What's your tendency

(51:00) AI partners

(57:15) Pro tip: join a mens group

(1:03:23) Mental Health vs Mental Fitness

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Links:

• Want Sam's Company Research Playbook? Get it here: https://clickhubspot.com/wve

• Logan Ury - https://www.loganury.com/

• 3 Tendencies Quiz - https://www.loganury.com/quiz

• The School of Life - https://www.youtube.com/@theschooloflifetv

• Mating in Captivity - https://tinyurl.com/bddrnw9c

• How to Not Die Alone - https://tinyurl.com/mupe2ntc

• Seven Principles for Making a Marriage Work - https://tinyurl.com/jvz9hhu6

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• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

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How Scott Galloway Turned $8M into $120M Through Investing

16 mei 2025 · 1 uur 8 min

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Episode 708: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Scott Galloway ( https://x.com/profgalloway ) about his wildest investments, plus advice for men in their 20s and 30s.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) FTX bankruptcy claims (Turning $2M into $15M with one trade)

(6:56) NJOY (Turning $2.5M into $75M)

(15:58) YellowPages (Turning $4M into $20M)

(21:10) Prediction: The U.S market is about to have a 15-year downturn

(27:55) The inverse galloway index

(31:55) Who Scott admires

(33:14) Advice for young men

(37:19) Scott spots the next $1B trend: European markets

(44:18) How does one ball?

(46:00) Trump's meme coin and transnational oligarchs

(53:25) More advice for young men

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• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

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• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

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How to retire with millions (and pay $0 taxes)

14 mei 2025 · 1 uur 10 min

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Episode 707: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Ankur Nagpal ( https://x.com/ankurnagpal ) about IRS loopholes that can help you grow your net worth plus Ankur shares 6 business ideas. Lees meer

See Ankur in person at the OOO SUMMIT on Friday, May 16th - https://lu.ma/2025

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Ankur's portfolio experiment

(10:46) A case for direct indexing

(16:29) Super backdoor roth conversions

(20:59) Mega backdoor conversion

(23:52) IDEA: Executive Clinic for Aesthetics

(32:32) IDEA: Amish Farm Imports

(36:18) IDEA: Credit Card Agent

(43:01) IDEA: Homeownership app

(47:35) IDEA: Padel club

(56:31) IDEA: Buying a sports team

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Links:

• Steal Sam's guide to turn ChatGPT into your Executive Coach: https://clickhubspot.com/dvj

• Teachable - https://teachable.com/

• Carry - https://carry.com/

• Frec - https://frec.com/

• Superpower - https://superpower.com/

• Flightfox - https://www.flightfox.com/

• Seats.aero - https://seats.aero/

• Home Depot Workshops - https://www.homedepot.com/c/kids-workshop

• The OOO Summit - https://lu.ma/2025

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• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

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$1M+/yr Local Businesses Hidden in Plain Sight

12 mei 2025 · 1 uur

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Episode 706: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about offline businesses that are crushing it. Lees meer

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Be a $1M dollar business spotter

(4:56) Swim lessons franchise

(6:34) AWS for the Amish

(17:25) At home pet euthanasia service

(25:37) Take out order call center

(42:35) Cheat code: Coaches

(52:13) Add a performance

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Links:

• Steal Sam's guide to turn ChatGPT into your Executive Coach: https://clickhubspot.com/ogh

• Goldfish Swim School - https://goldfishswimschool.com/

• IbyFax - http://ibyfax.com/

• Lap of Love - https://www.lapoflove.com/

• Tarro - https://www.tarro.com/

• Owner - https://www.owner.com/

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• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

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Asking a Billionaire Investor How to Turn $10,000 into $1M ft. Mohnish Pabrai

9 mei 2025 · 1 uur 21 min

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Episode 705: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) sits down with Mohnish Pabrai ( https://x.com/MohnishPabrai ) about how to turn $10K into $1M. Lees meer

Show Notes:

(0:00) Simple = Genius

(28:00) Never over-leverage

(30:30) Risk vs uncertainty

(33:00) Too hard pile

(35:30) Be 1 inch wide, 1 mile deep

(39:00) Learn from losers

(43:30) A case for napping

(48:00) Having an owner’s manual

(53:00) Dying with zero

(1:10:00) India’s Greatest Investor

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Links:

• Want to invest like a Billionaire? Get Mohnish's investment playbook: https://clickhubspot.com/mnp

• Value Investors Club - https://www.valueinvestorsclub.com/

• Japan Company Handbook - https://tinyurl.com/489czpkp

• Dakshana - https://www.dakshana.org/

• BJ21 - https://bj21.com/

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• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

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• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

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I dropped out of high school…Now I’m building a $1T dollar company

7 mei 2025 · 1 uur 11 min

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Episode 704: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Blake Scholl ( https://x.com/bscholl ) about he went from high school dropout to Groupon to the founder of a supersonic jet startup. Lees meer

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Find your red line

(4:29) Problems hidden in plain sight

(13:00) The making of Boom Supersonic

(23:00) No rules of thumb

(29:13) Blake's favorite interview question

(34:22) Demo Day at YC

(38:13) Selling Richard Branson

(47:46) Being a dark matter founder

(52:14) What does the most ambition of yourself look like?

(55:51) Progressively overturning of the skeptics

(1:01:06) Working with Jeff Bezos at Amazon

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Links:

• Steal Shaan's $20M Pitch Deck: https://clickhubspot.com/wem

• Boom - https://boomsupersonic.com/

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• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

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• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

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The Most Valuable Skill For Any Founder

5 mei 2025 · 59 min

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Episode 703: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to George Mack ( https://x.com/george__mack ) about high agency. Lees meer

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Links:

• Steal Sam's guide to turn ChatGPT into your Executive Coach: https://clickhubspot.com/wec

• High Agency - https://www.highagency.com/

• Nick Mowbray episode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pHcxoZ0j9A

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• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

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Brainstorming $10M+ business ideas with Jess Mah

2 mei 2025 · 1 uur 4 min

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Episode 702: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) boards the private jet of Jess Mah ( https://x.com/jessicamah ) to brainstorm business ideas and talk about her process for vetting which ideas to jump on.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Buying a jet

(5:37) Barn full of horses

(8:44) Business ideas matrix

(11:06) Idea: DOGE as a service

(13:30) Idea: Vertical agents

(16:52) Idea: Cargo ship coating

(21:26) Idea: Holy Health

(25:07) Building a team with digital twins

(28:46) Jess’s 0 - 1 framework

(31:09) Worst advice from Silicon Valley

(35:44) Find a starving crowd

(37:55) Idea: Divorce.fund

(38:36) Failures: Credboost

(46:08) Ignorant of past, realistic of present, delulu of the future

(49:58) Engineering serendipity

(56:12) AI for medicine

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Links:

• Mahway - https://mahway.com/

• YC’s Request for Startups - https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs

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• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

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• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

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How Nick Saban’s Side Hustle Might Make Him a Billionaire

28 april 2025 · 54 min

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Episode 701: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about Nick Saban’s car dealership play, plus the most defensible ideas for AI startups. Lees meer

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Car dealership billionaires

(13:35) Local Maxima

(17:07) Most defensible AI ideas right now

34:40) AI workflows for profitable newsletters

(43:10) Spermracing

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Links:

• Want to make $ with AI? Get the database here: https://clickhubspot.com/bfu

• John Elway - https://www.elwaydealers.com/

• Lovable - https://lovable.dev/

• Replit - https://replit.com/

• Bolt - https://bolt.new/

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• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

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5 under-the-radar trends (+ our business ideas)

24 april 2025 · 52 min

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Want to spot trends before they explode? Get the guide here: https://clickhubspot.com/wdv Lees meer

Episode 700: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talks to Steph Smith ( https://x.com/stephsmithio ) about business trends that are currently untapped and ripe for opportunity to build businesses around.

Use code "MFM" to get access to Steph's Internet Pipes - http://internetpipes.com/

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Trend 1: Hearing Loss

(11:33) Trend 2: eVTOL

(17:42) Trend 3: Psychedelics

(24:26) Trend 4: New Job Skills

(42:50) Trend5: Nature technology

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Links:

https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/new-rule-faa-ready-air-travel-future

https://psychedelicalpha.com/data/psychedelic-laws

https://x.com/stephsmithio/status/1877418726485799283

https://www.amazon.com/Immense-World-Animal-Senses-Reveal/dp/0593133234

https://asknature.org/

https://internetpipes.com/

https://mischiefusa.com/

https://clickhubspot.com/wdv

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• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

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The Board Game Billionaire: From a $10k Kickstarter to $100M/Year Business

21 april 2025 · 1 uur 17 min

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Want your own $100M side project? Get our guide to win your first 100 customers: https://clickhubspot.com/wfp Lees meer

Episode 699: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Elan Lee ( https://x.com/elanlee ) about growing Exploding Kittens from a $10K Kickstarter campaign to $100M dollar company.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Humble Success: Exploding Kittens Insights

(8:07) The origin story - From 10k to $9M on kickstarter

(16:17) Focus on the crowd, not the funding

(20:41) Games should not be entertaining

(23:52) The Kitty Test pilots

(27:57) $0 marketing hacks

(38:49) Pushing past the ‘no’

(41:07) Business as a game

(45:32) Creativity loves constraints

(54:28) Irritation is the source of innovation

(59:13) Designing a game with Tim Ferriss

(01:04:08) Do what never makes you bored

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Links:

• Exploding Kittens - https://www.explodingkittens.com/

• Paxsite - https://www.paxsite.com

• Elan on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@mrelanlee

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—

Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

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Anti-Business Billionaires: Lessons from Steve Jobs, James Dyson, and Yvon Chouinard

17 april 2025 · 43 min

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Episode 698: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talks to David Senra ( https://x.com/FoundersPodcast ) about what qualities make an anti-business billionaire. Lees meer

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Show Notes:

(0:00) High Level of Disagreeableness

(9:02) Extreme Self-Confidence

(12:55) Product Quality Obsessed

(18:37) Retention of Total Control

(27:28) Exit Strategy is Death

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Links:

• Steal Sam's guide to turn ChatGPT into your Executive Coach: https://clickhubspot.com/wcv

• Play Nice But Win - https://tinyurl.com/uuwumk8d

• Creative Selection - https://tinyurl.com/bdz8f9ae

• Founders Podcast - https://www.founderspodcast.com/

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• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC

—

Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

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From making $6/week selling worms to making $110M+

15 april 2025 · 1 uur 38 min

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Episode 697: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) sits down with James Currier ( https://x.com/JamesCurrier ) to talk about going from $0 to $110M through network effects. Lees meer

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Show Notes:

(0:00) $0 to $1.6B

(4:23) Your life on network effects

(8:00) Savage founders

(13:40) Speed

(15:49) The art of unlearning

(21:23) Technology window curves

(30:29) Network Vampire attacks

(37:37) Language first

(43:15) Tickle

(42:29) Finding a business bromance

(58:47) James isolation mistake

(1:01:27) Become an API

(1:05:02) AI business ideas

(1:16:07) What to do in your 20s

(1:22:18) One world currency

(1:32:16) Go to therapy

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Links:

• Steal Shaan's $20M Pitch Deck: https://clickhubspot.com/qrd

• NFX - https://www.nfx.com/

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• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

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Are tariffs good or bad for founders?

11 april 2025 · 48 min

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Episode 696: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about what they’re doing about the tariffs.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(3:13) Tariffs

(22:00) Medieval Times

(27:48) Shaan's process for finding edges

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Links:

• Shaan's $20M Pitch Deck: https://clickhubspot.com/uve

• Medieval Times - https://www.medievaltimes.com/

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

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The Happiest Man in Atlantis (A Short Story)

9 april 2025 · 15 min

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Episode 695: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) tells the story of finding what is truly valuable.

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• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

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"Ocean is the new space" - 7 Wild Ideas for the $3 Trillion Dollar Frontier

7 april 2025 · 1 uur 17 min

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Episode 694: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Will O’Brien ( https://x.com/willobri ) about how the ocean is the new hot girl.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Ocean is the new space

(8:50) Ocean surveying

(10:25) Sea grass restoration

(16:39) Defense drones

(22:34) Underwater cable networks

(31:51) Technology windows

(38:16) Lab-grown seafood

(41:03) Pirate treasure profit sharing

(44:03) Marine geo-engineering

(47:43) A new era for tech guys

(57:52) Who Will admires

(1:01:00) Underrated conspiracy theories

(1:10:27) Becoming a monk

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Links:

• Ulysses - https://www.ulysses.eco/

• Saildrone - https://www.saildrone.com/

• Saronic - https://www.saronic.com/

• Wildtype Foods - https://www.wildtypefoods.com/

• Rainmaker - https://www.rainmaker.com/

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

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The Step-by-Step Playbook We Used to Build a $100M+ Newsletter Business

4 april 2025 · 1 uur 13 min

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Episode 693: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talks to Alex Lieberman ( https://x.com/businessbarista ) and Austin Rief ( https://x.com/austin_rief ) about how to build a profitable newsletter.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(3:12) 0 to 100K subscribers

(9:18) Nontraditional hires

(15:26) 100K to 1M subscribers

(35:00) Entrepreneurs Operating System

(43:27) 8-figure Exits

(55:28) How to start a newsletter in 2025

(1:02:57) Newsletter ideas

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Links:

• The Hustle - https://thehustle.co/

• Morning Brew - https://www.morningbrew.com/

• Traction - https://tinyurl.com/5dfh3nx9

• Arena Magazine - https://arenamag.com/

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

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$100M founder predicts what will be big in 5 years

31 maart 2025 · 57 min

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Episode 692: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talks to Justin Mares ( https://x.com/jwmares ) about what’s going to be big in the next 5 years.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(3:16) Longevity products for dogs

(9:24) Toxin testing

(19:55) Function and Superpower

(26:19) Doctor for your home

(37:25) Skin gut health

(47:39) Natural fiber clothing

(51:04) Justin's take on vaccines

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Links:

• Truemed - http://truemed.com/

• Justin’s Substack - https://justinmares.substack.com/

• Rorra - https://rorra.com/

• Light Labs - http://lightlabs.com

• Eurofins - https://www.eurofins.com/

• Function Health - https://www.functionhealth.com/

• Superpower - https://superpower.com/

• InsideTracker - https://info.insidetracker.com/

• Lightwork - https://www.dolightwork.com/

• r/moderatelygranolamoms - https://www.reddit.com/r/moderatelygranolamoms/

• Paul Saladino - https://www.paulsaladinomd.co/

• NADS - https://nadsunder.com/

• Pact - https://wearpact.com/

• ExOfficio - https://www.exofficio.com/

• Ryker - https://rykerusa.com/

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

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7 Business Ideas from a Unicorn Founder

27 maart 2025 · 1 uur

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Episode 691: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talks to Immad Akhund ( https://x.com/immad ) about the businesses he would start if he wasn’t running a unicorn.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(2:17) IDEA: Lunar nuclear power plant

(5:04) IDEA: Defense tech

(10:09) The Peter Thiel test

(13:52) IDEA: Selling stars

(15:54) IDEA: Enterprise Agents

(22:45) IDEA: Digital Twin CEO

(32:39) Find accepted abuse

(36:18) Silicon Valley Bank fail

(44:15) Bets with asymmetric upside

(54:07) Choose your mess

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Links:

• Mercury - https://mercury.com/

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

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How a guy turned 3 YouTube Channels into $3 Billion Dollars

25 maart 2025 · 50 min

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Episode 690: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) tell the story of the smartest YouTube rollup they’ve ever seen.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) $3B of nursery rhymes rollup

(21:55) Sam goes all-in on IRL

(36:03) All-in dads

(38:37) Shotsy

(41:49) PEDs for business

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Links:

• CoCoMelon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlnJ9attCOc

• Blippi - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5PYHgAzJ1wLEidB58SK6Xw

• Companies House - https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/companies-house

• RollUpEurope - https://rollupeurope.beehiiv.com/

• Shotsy - https://shotsyapp.com/

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

The Wildest Stories of Corporate Espionage We’ve Ever Heard

21 maart 2025 · 1 uur 1 min

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Episode 689: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) break down the craziest stories of corporate espionage in history.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Rippling vs Deel

(10:21) The British East India Company

(17:11) Oracle vs Microsoft

(21:28) Coke vs. Pepsi

(24:14) Uber vs. Waymo

(26:03) U.S. Intellectual piracy

(28:10) Wiz sells for $32B

(39:40) A case for Glassdoor

(45:54) Marc Lore's new thing

(51:52) Money, Status, Power

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Links:

• Errol Musk interview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5WyTw0oXDs

• Gili Ranaan interview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG0SiUtBSh0&t=187s&ab_channel=MetisStrategy

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

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6 under-the-radar trends (+ our ideas)

19 maart 2025 · 1 uur 6 min

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Episode 688: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about 6 under-the-radar trends.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(2:24) Short Drama Apps

(13:55) Rucking

(22:10) Plastic-free everything

(31:58) "Nervous System Work"

(41:46) Biohacking plants

(46:48) AI Social Networks

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Links:

• ReelShort - https://www.reelshort.com/

• DramaBox - https://www.dramaboxdb.com/

• GORUCK - https://www.goruck.com/

• Ryker Clothing - https://rykerclothingco.com/

• AlphaFold - https://deepmind.google/technologies/alphafold/

• Ohalo - https://www.ohalo.com/

• Suno - https://suno.com/

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

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The high schooler making $20M a year

17 maart 2025 · 1 uur 14 min

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Episode 687: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Zach Yadegari ( https://x.com/zach_yadegari/ ), the high school kid who went from $0 - $20M in 10 months. Lees meer

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(3:45) $0 - $20M in 10 months

(17:12) Sold first business for $100K at 16

(20:42) Zach's Influencer marketing playbook

(24:23) Being worth $30M at 18

(34:40) How to find problems to solve with AI

(38:28) IDEA: AI journal

(41:09) IDEA: iOS to Android project converter

(44:01) IDEA: Remotely-configurable onboarding flows for mobile apps

(47:05) Running away from home at age 10

(51:10) Being peerless

(54:41) Who Zach admires

(56:02) Gen Z trends

(1:00:06) Aging out as a prodigy

(1:06:43) Keeping a beginner's mind

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Links:

• Cal AI - https://www.calai.app/

• Totally Science - https://totallyscience.co/

• The Great CEO Within - https://tinyurl.com/4xuvr95m

• TurboLearn - https://www.turbolearn.ai/

• Fitness AI - https://www.fitnessai.com/

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

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2 Trends Hidden in Plain Sight (+ $1M ideas)

14 maart 2025 · 55 min

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Episode 686: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the two trends that could make you rich in the next 12 months. Lees meer

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Trend: Fleamarkets

(20:03) Trend: True Crime

(26:05) Business ideas brainstorm

(43:52) Fyre Festival update

(48:27) Shaan's dad's travel hacks

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Links:

• Brimfield Antique Flea Market - https://www.brimfieldantiquefleamarket.com/

• First Monday Trade Days - https://www.firstmondaycanton.com/

• Rosebowl Flea Market - https://www.instagram.com/rosebowl_fleamarket/?hl=en

• Goodwill Finds - https://www.goodwillfinds.com/

• MFM Vault - https://mfmvault.com/

• My Favorite Murder - https://www.myfavoritemurder.com/

• Hunt A Killer - https://www.huntakiller.com/

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

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5 Conversations that broke our frames this week

12 maart 2025 · 1 uur 14 min

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Episode 685: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the most interesting things they’ve found this week. Lees meer

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Justin Caldbeck

(8:02) Steve Houghton

(20:15) James Currier

(38:36) Furqan Rydhan

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Links:

• NFX - https://www.nfx.com/

• James Altucher - https://www.jamesaltucher.com/

• Agora - https://theagora.com/

• Sheel’s MFM episode - https://youtu.be/-HfUCbnapKo

• Digital Gold - https://tinyurl.com/5n6kvm8d

• Predictably Irrational - https://tinyurl.com/4beh8axz

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

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How to win in ecom in 2025 (from a $200M/yr marketer)

10 maart 2025 · 1 uur 7 min

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Episode 684: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Sean Frank ( https://x.com/SeanEcom ) about his $200M ecom playbook. Lees meer

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Sean's first million

(8:35) $5M - $200M in 6 years

(25:57) What people get wrong in ecom

(30:33) Case study: HexClad

(36:52) Fast-emerging trends

(40:57) How to spot trends

(44:54) Services-to-product playbook

(51:47) Sean calls his shot

(54:01) Winning at the trends game

(59:01) Being outspoken on the internet

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Links:

• Operators Podcast - https://www.youtube.com/@Operators9

• Ridge - https://ridge.com/

• PostPilot - https://www.postpilot.com/

• LVMH - https://www.lvmh.com/en

• Tapestry - https://www.tapestry.com/

• HexClad - https://hexclad.com/

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

The Greatest Mind Hacks in Marketing History (Craig Clemens Interview)

6 maart 2025 · 51 min

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Episode 683: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) sits down with Craig Clemens ( https://x.com/craigclemens ) to talk about the greatest marketing lines in history. Lees meer

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(2:22) Does not contain an illegal sexual stimulant

(9:09) 4-hour erection

(10:56) Operators are standing by

(15:17) They’re eating the cats

(21:54) A diamond is forever

(26:09) Buy these worms, catch more fish

(30:26) Joseph Duveen

(41:30) Every ‘no’ has a value

(44:46) Be a consumer of ads

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Links:

• Golden Hippo - https://www.goldenhippo.com/

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

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He launched a sweaty startup in high school. Now he'll be a millionaire by 18

3 maart 2025 · 1 uur 12 min

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Episode 682: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to three high school founders about their biggest business problems. Lees meer

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(5:02) Sunshine Exteriors

(29:16) Teens2Table

(45:53) Totally Mums

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Links:

• Formidable Fellows - http://formidablefellowship.org/

• Sunshine Exteriors - https://www.hhpressurecleanings.com/

• Teens2Table - https://www.teens2table.com/

• Totally Mums - https://www.instagram.com/abigayle_lett

• “Getting Everything You Can Out of Everything You’ve Got” - https://tinyurl.com/4rb9z8jd

• How to Cold Email Like a Boss - https://copywritingcourse.com/heres-how-to-cold-email-like-a-boss/

• Gary Halbert Letter - https://swiped.co/file/famous-dollar-letter-by-gary-halbert/

• Sonith on X - https://x.com/sonith__/highlights

• NextDoor - https://nextdoor.com/

• 1-800-Got-Junk - https://www.1800gotjunk.com/

• “The Sweaty Startup” - https://tinyurl.com/2eftpkv6

• Quiet Light Brokerage - https://quietlight.com/

• Future Titans - https://www.youtube.com/@future_titans

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

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I Made $50M Buying & Running Boring Businesses

28 februari 2025 · 1 uur

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Episode 681: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Brent Beshore ( https://x.com/BrentBeshore ) about buying profitable businesses. Lees meer

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Show Notes:

(0:00) $50K/yr to 9 figures

(6:04) Accidentally buying a $1M business for $0

(11:06) Just In Time learning

(14:11) Buying cash flow businesses

(20:30) Private equity or index?

(24:26) Buffett's near-death experience

(32:54) How to buy your first small business

(36:02) Brent's one-liner speed run

(47:33) Shaan asks Brent how to hire a CEO

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Links:

• Permanent Equity - https://www.permanentequity.com/

• Enneagram Test - https://enneagramtest.com/

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

We talk to the guy who knows Silicon Valley’s darkest secrets

26 februari 2025 · 1 uur 19 min

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Episode 680: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Nick Bilton ( https://x.com/nickbilton ), investigative journalist and author of American Kingpin and Hatching Twitter. Lees meer

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(7:03) Inside a criminal mind

(12:57) Getting people to open up

(20:49) The real story behind Twitter

(29:40) The auras of Trump, Bezos, Musk

(33:13) Becoming a journalist

(37:24) Steve Jobs' reality distortion field

(43:16) Who has it all in Silicon Valley?

(49:43) Being a professional asshole

(57:56) Nick's next story

(1:03:38) Storytelling

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Links:

• American Kingpin - https://tinyurl.com/yckc6smh

• Hatching Twitter - https://tinyurl.com/3ah2j9ym

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

The TikTok strategy that’s printing MILLIONS right now… (ft. Rob The Bank)

24 februari 2025 · 1 uur 25 min

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Episode 679: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) sits down with Robert Oliver ( https://x.com/thegeniusceo ) to break down his $100M TikTok strategy. Lees meer

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Show Notes:

(0:00) TikTok Gold Rush

(13:00) The Playbook

(23:00) Brands crushing it

(36:00) Trends: Lookmaxing, pet luxuries, niche communities

(51:30) Mistakes to avoid

(1:03:00) Character design

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Links:

• Rob The Bank on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@robthebankmotion

• Rob The Bank on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@thegeniusceo

• KaloData - https://www.kalodata.com/

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

Silicon Valley OG shares crazy stories from Zynga early days + 3 business ideas

19 februari 2025 · 1 uur 20 min

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Episode 678: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Siqi Chen ( https://x.com/blader ), the founder of Runway.com. Lees meer

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Early days at Zynga

(14:34) Business ideas

(52:18) Touchy-feely class

(1:07:24) Siqi’s favorite interview question

(1:12:48) Insane growth of ElevenLabs

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Links:

• Limitless - https://www.limitless.ai/

• Rewind - https://www.rewind.ai/

• Runway - https://runway.com/

• Hoffman Institute - https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/

• Pump - https://pump.fun/board

• ElevenLabs - https://elevenlabs.io/

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

What’s truly going on inside DOGE?

17 februari 2025 · 1 uur 4 min

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Episode 677: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) go inside what’s happening with DOGE. Lees meer

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Show Notes:

(0:00) The wild story of Iron Mountain

(17:39) Our take on DOGE

(28:20) Government contract side quest

(33:14) Elon vs Sam Altman PPV

(39:16) How does Elon never get tired tho?

(48:23) Life in situ

(58:09) Casting call: $100K to the new MFM field correspondent

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Links:

• “The Many Lives of Iron Mountain” - https://tinyurl.com/t4drtpdb

• “How the Economic Machine Works” - https://tinyurl.com/ydp966p9

• “Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order” - https://tinyurl.com/2evfs6bd

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

MrBeast Shares His Best Business Advice

13 februari 2025 · 59 min

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Access Shaan's interview prep and research notes: Lees meer

Episode 676: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) sits down with MrBeast ( https://x.com/MrBeast ) to talk about the mindset that made him the youngest billionaire and biggest entertainer on earth.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Origin story

(5:11) Burn the boats

(11:15) The Rule of 100

(16:49) You can make anything go viral

(23:27) Cloning

(28:39) Impossible is possible

(36:53) Consultants are a cheat code

(41:25) Block out the noise

(43:00) Reinvest everything

(47:30) Feastables

(53:02) Getting jacked

(54:56) Buying TikTok

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Links:

• MrBeast on YouTube - https://tinyurl.com/2wfkm4by

• Beast Games - https://tinyurl.com/fh3atsxp

• Feastables - https://feastables.com/

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

The insane story of Blake Scholl: the high school dropout who’s building supersonic jets

11 februari 2025 · 55 min

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Episode 675: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) tell the three stories of founders with insanely high agency. Lees meer

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Boom Supersonic

(30:50) Nick Mowbray, #1 most impressive founder

(43:43) The Moped King

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Links:

• Boom Supersonic - https://boomsupersonic.com/

• ZURU - http://zurutoys.com/

• Fly E-Bike - https://www.flyebike.com/

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

He made $100m betting on the NBA… here’s how

7 februari 2025 · 1 uur 3 min

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Get our Business Monetization Playbook: Lees meer

Episode 674: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to the most successful sports better of all time, Haralabos Voulgaris ( https://x.com/haralabob ).

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Stumbling into gambling

(6:19) Finding your edge

(19:23) Alpha

(27:28) Casinos are for losers

(30:02) Betting 160% on Bitcoin

(35:36) Getting paid

(37:31) Buying a soccer team

(46:11) Investing every dollar into Bitcoin

(49:27) Analogue things and biohacking

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Links:

• https://www.cdcastellon.com/

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

I went from $1/day to billionaire in 10 years... here's how

5 februari 2025 · 1 uur 13 min

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Episode 673: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talks to Nick Mowbray ( https://x.com/NMowbray23 ), the founder of the most profitable toy company in the world. Lees meer

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Selling DIY hot air balloons door-to-door

(5:57) First product

(21:32) $30M David Beckham Tamagotchi fail

(30:18) Nightball

(36:18) Robofish

(41:43) Diapers

(48:44) Shampoo, pet food, confectionary, supplements, home products

(1:00:07) Zurutech - a self-funded moonshot

(1:03:28) Serial entrepreneur flywheel

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Links:

• Zuru - https://zurutoys.com/

• Zuru Tech - https://zuru.tech/

• Boom Supersonic - https://boomsupersonic.com/

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano