My First Million

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Episode 823: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about their billy of the week, childhood passions and people making millions on TikTok selling stuff. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Billy of the week

(8:25) Raising kids with an edge

(13:37) childhood passions

(26:44) Random TikTok People Are Making Millions Selling Hoodies

(42:11) the best brands start janky

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton (joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm

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

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Episode 822: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about how your genes could determine how much money you make and the startup ideas YC is betting on. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) money genes

(5:07) your personality is your business

(23:46) productive placebos

(33:39) YC Request for Startups

(34:57) IDEA: aesthetic data centers

(42:15) IDEA: The company brain

(51:10) IDEA: drone swarm defense

(57:33) IDEA: personalized medicine

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Links:

• YC RFS - https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs 

• Deep Personality - https://deeppersonality.app/

• Viktor - https://getviktor.com/ 

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton (joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm

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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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Episode 821: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Replit founder Amjad Masad ( https://x.com/amasad ) about growing 100x in one year. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) 2.5M to 250M in 1 year

(10:28) the darkest hour

(17:00) pivot, pivot, pivot, until it hits

(28:19) companies exploding with Replit

(33:05) Amjad's business ideas

(38:44) "we are in the singularity"

(51:24) best business biography 

(53:23) getting on Joe Rogan

(57:00) slowing down under pressure

(1:11:08) Vercel scandal

(1:13:35) lifestyle upgrades of being a billionaire

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Links:

• Replit - https://replit.com/ 

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton (joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm

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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

• I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out:

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Episode 820: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Rohan Oza about how his formula for simple products that end in multi-billion dollar exits. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) The brandfather

(2:40) Rule 1: influence the influencer

(7:02) Deal: Poppi on Shark Tank

(20:32) rule 2: Make a brand pop culture

(25:10) knowing winners from losers

(26:48) Rohan breaks down his formula

(29:31) "shelf space is the original algorithm"

(33:39) Closing the biggest deal of your life

(38:57) how to win with no network 

(42:07) Rohan's first million

(46:45) spotting the next trend (tastebuds and TAM)

(48:09) How do you sell water?

(52:33) learning from the giants

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Links:

• CAVU - https://cavuconsumer.com/ 

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton (joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm

—

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

• I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out:

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Get our Business Idea Database: https://clickhubspot.com/etsl

Episode 819: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) answer the question, “If you’re smart and in your 20s, where’s the opportunity?”

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Where is the opportunity right now?

(08:01) the buff billionaire

(19:43) We break down the TBPN acquisition by OpenAI

(31:59) 2 stories of John Coogan being locked in

(41:56) William Randolph Hearst

(54:48) Collecting 100x talent

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Links:

• GTA VI - https://www.rockstargames.com/VI 

• John Coogan on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@JohnCooganPlus/videos 

• Hearst Castle - https://hearstcastle.org/ 

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton (joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm

—

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

• I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out:

beehiiv.com/mfm-challenge

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