Episode 661: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the NY Christmas Tree mafia, 2 health startups with crazy traction, plus their predictions for big trends in 2025. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Christmas Tree Mafia

(6:45) Neko Health

(11:57) Superpower

(21:43) Shaan's 4x/wk training program

(25:33) Prediction: Whole Foods is going down

(27:40) Prediction: Natural fibers, local meat

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Links:

• Curbed article - https://tinyurl.com/3z6tzf3w 

• Neko Health - https://www.nekohealth.com/ 

• Superpower - https://superpower.com/ 

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Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd

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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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Episode 660: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about founders who have rage as an unfair advantage, Bill Ackman’s takedown of Harvard, and a ruthless PE rollup. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Revenge businesses and other green flags

(5:55) Chips on shoulders = chips in pockets

(19:38) Bhutan's Gross National Happiness

(34:48) Ruthless PE rollup: International schools

(43:58) IDEA: $500M YouTube University

(54:11) Bill Ackman Breaks down Harvard as a business

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Links:

• How To Lose Weight in 4 Easy Steps - https://tinyurl.com/2x67a7jc 

• Nord Anglia Education - https://www.nordangliaeducation.com/ 

• Full Sail University - https://hello.fullsail.edu/

• University of Austin - https://www.uaustin.org/people/joe-lonsdale 

• Veritas? - https://pershingsquarefoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Veritas.pdf 

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Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd

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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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Episode 659: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Jesse Itzler ( https://x.com/JesseItzler ) about how to live an epic life. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Come into the new year light

(7:56) Hand written letters

(14:03) Identify your B minuses

(20:15) Pick your Misogi

(27:28) 6 mini adventures

(37:38) Add a winning habit

(39:55) Write it down

(49:50) Don't f*cking waste 2025

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Links:

• Jesse Itzler - https://jesseitzler.com/ 

• Jesse's on MFM episode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff1z3GUcfO8

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd

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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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Episode 658: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Replit founder Amjad Masad ( https://x.com/amasad ) about the massive opportunities with AI Agents. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Replit origin story  

(9:27) Replit's 10-year overnight success

(12:27) Rejected 4x by YC

(17:28) Personal essays from Paul Graham

(20:17) "i hacked into my university to change my grades"

(25:55) Rickrolling into YC

(35:25) Shaan builds a food tracking app in 30 seconds

(43:19) Magic School: An AI application for educators 4M users in 1 year

(47:31) Amjad on Agents

(49:53) Building moats in a goldrush

(54:53) Replit is Shopify for software creators

(1:05:11) The most gangster story in Silicon Valley

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Links:

• Amjad essays - https://amasad.me/ 

• Replit - https://replit.com/ 

• Codeacademy - https://www.codecademy.com/ 

• Do What Makes The Best Story - https://amasad.me/story 

• Magic School AI - https://www.magicschool.ai/ 

• 11x AI - https://www.11x.ai/ 

• Synthesis Tutor - https://www.synthesis.com/tutor 

• The Sovereign Individual - https://tinyurl.com/4w6ns7b2 

• 7 Powers - https://tinyurl.com/382ch557 

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Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd

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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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Episode 657: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the $10M ARR dinner club app, the history of Black Friday, and ChatGPT prompts that work like cheat codes.  

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) $10M ARR dinner club

(26:19) The science of Black Friday and Cyber Monday

(32:47) Reverse Black Friday positions

(36:21) 7-day MFM Money Fast

(40:57) Simple ChatGPT prompt hacks that work

(45:55) Picking a rocket ship

(50:53) Warren Buffett's $150B problem

(58:17) The Elon Musk Learning Method

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Links:

• Timleft - https://timeleft.com/

• Bucket list - https://dailymax.fr/fr/bucket-list-fr/

• Your Life in Weeks - https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html

• Warren Buffett letter - https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/news/nov2524.pdf

• Elon Musk Learning Method - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=splkLcpBws8

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Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd

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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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Episode 656: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) tell 3 stories of people who took insane risks that paid off. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Bitcoin millionaire hides $2M in treasures across US

(11:27) Building the Ralph Lauren fantasy

(23:58) Michael Saylor's infinite money glitch

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Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd

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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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Episode 655: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Dharmesh Shah ( https://x.com/dharmesh ) about how to increase the odds of hitting your first million and your next million. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Intro

(3:33) Lesson 1: Get leverage

(9:26) Lesson 2: Be an asset, not a liability

(13:40) Lesson 3: Get even closer to the value creation

(19:42) Mini Masterclass on Power Negotiating

(24:35) Dharmesh's little-known $2M failure

(29:35) Lesson: Insight compression

(34:08) Dharmesh sells Chat.com

(41:06) Agents are the new apps

(44:51) The future is hybrid teams

(49:23) Agents Dharmesh uses today

(53:20) Dharmesh's next big thing

(1:02:58) Uncomfortable company values

(1:05:33) Local maximum vs global maximum

(1:06:57) RaaS: Results-as-a-Service

(1:09:59) Being a first time billionaire

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Links:

• Agent AI - https://agent.ai/ 

• Harvey MacKay books - https://harveymackay.com/books/ 

• Getting To Yes - https://tinyurl.com/43ne6v97 

• Connecting Dots - https://connectingdots.com/ 

• MFM Vault - https://frontend-production-f8b7.up.railway.app/ 

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Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd

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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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Episode 653: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talks to Furqan Rydhan ( https://x.com/FurqanR ) about the biggest opportunities in AI right now. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Intro

(4:42) Define the Job-to-be-done

(8:20) How to build an AI Agent workflow

(11:16) AI Tools break down

(27:05) How Polymarket won

(31:48) Why VR is a sleeping giant?

(44:43) Be a lifelong player in tech

(58:52) The unbeatable combination

(1:02:27) Adam Foroughi’s A+ execution

(1:18:35) Betting on -1 to 0

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Links:

• Furqan’s site - https://furqan.sh/ 

• Founders, Inc - https://f.inc/ 

• Applovin - https://www.applovin.com/ 

• Claude - https://claude.ai/ 

• OpenAI - https://platform.openai.com/ 

• Langchain - https://www.langchain.com/ 

• AutoGen - https://autogenai.com/ 

• Crew - https://www.crewai.com/ 

• CloudSDK - https://cloud.google.com/sdk/ 

• Perplexity - https://www.perplexity.ai/ 

• “Attention is all you need” - https://typeset.io/papers/attention-is-all-you-need-1hodz0wcqb 

• Anthropic - https://www.anthropic.com/ 

• Third Web - https://thirdweb.com/ 

• Luna’s AI Brain - https://terminal.virtuals.io/ 

• Oasis - https://oasis.decart.ai/welcome 

• Polymarket - https://polymarket.com/ 

• Gorilla Tag - https://www.gorillatagvr.com/ 

• Yeeps - https://tinyurl.com/59z2yrdu 

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Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd

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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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Episode 652: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about 5 ways you can make millions off of TikTok. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Intro

(4:34) Idea 1: Creator Rewards Program

(12:19) Idea 2: Botox Face Tape

(16:57) Idea 3: Madison Reed dupe for TikTok

(20:50) Idea 4: Self-help Journal

(32:10) Idea 5: Candy Candles

(34:42) Idea 6: 23andMe reboot

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Links:

• Goli - https://goli.com/

• The Natural Faces - http://thenaturalfaces.com/ 

• Madison Reed - https://www.madison-reed.com/ 

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd

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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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Episode 651: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the Polymarket whale who made millions off the election, Ozempic for sleep and why Martha Stewart would have been our Billy of the Week in 1999. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) The rise and fall of Martha Stewart

(19:04) Ozempic for sleep

(33:10) The guts and brains of Polymarket's whale

(44:55) Betting vs gambling

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Links:

• Isaak.net - https://isaak.net/sleepless/

• Polymarket - https://polymarket.com/ 

• Chainalysis - http://chainalysis.com

• Vitalik blog - https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/11/09/infofinance.html 

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd

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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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