My First Million

Episode 612: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Sarah Guo ( https://x.com/saranormous ) about the Ai ideas she thinks could be $1B swings.

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Intro

(4:00) IDEA: AI companions

(16:00) IDEA: AI interior design / professional headshots

(22:30) IDEA: A richer version of The Sims

(25:00) The speedy way to do this if you're non-technical

(27:00) IDEA: Your Personal Seller

(32:00) IDEA: Generative Voice API for service providers, SMBs, restaurants

(38:00) IDEA: Next Gen Auto-Fill

(40:00) Software 3.0--what's coming

(42:00) Boring verticals fertile for AI: Legal and medical

(44:00) Ask: What's already being outsourced?

(47:00) Ripe for disruption: energy storage, chips,

(49:00) “Ai's $600B Question”

(52:00) Sarah Reacts: Doomsday scenarios in Ai

(56:30) If you're 22, hungry and optimistic, go west

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Links:

• Sarah Guo - https://sarahguo.com/

• Conviction - https://www.conviction.com/

• Replika - https://replika.com/

• Character.ai - https://character.ai/

• HeyGen - https://www.heygen.com/

• Icon - https://icon.me/

• Arcads - https://www.arcads.ai/

• Interior AI - https://interiorai.com/

• Aragon - https://aragon.ai/

• Chatbot App - https://chatbotapp.ai/

• Cartesia - https://cartesia.ai/

• Somewhere - https://www.somewhere.com/

• AI’s $600B Question - https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/ais-600b-question/

• Eureka Labs - https://eurekalabs.ai/

• Conviction Embed - https://embed.conviction.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 611: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) catch up and share 3 business ideas they came up with over the weekend. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Shaan's no phone weekend

(5:17) Control your inputs

(10:20) Life hack: Play with your kid

(15:38) Business Idea: Sketchy

(25:15) Business Idea: Niche Fake News You Can Trust

(34:41) Business Idea: Tampons that won't kill you

(40:28) An unqualified brief history of presidential assassinations

(46:09) The ceaseless action of Teddy Roosevelt

(55:10) MFM Required Readling List

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Links:

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

• Sketchy - https://www.sketchy.com/

• Babylon Bee - https://babylonbee.com/

• Manhunt - https://tinyurl.com/bdepazn4

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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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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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Episode 610: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the $1b dollar app idea for millennial moms, how Solidcore founder Anne Mahlum emptied her life savings into a pilates studio that she sold for $88M + Shaan writes a movie using ChatGPT. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) APP IDEA: Reddit For Moms

(3:50) Capitalizing on a reverse craving

(14:30) How we use our wives to predict trends

(18:54) Shaan uses ChatGPT to make a movie

(22:56) How to use ChatGPT as an on-demand creative collaborator

(34:14) The mind-boggling story of Solidcore

(37:21) The insane confidence of Anne Mahlum

(41:40) There's no business that looks good on the inside

(44:07) "They drove a clown car into a gold mine"

(47:55) Who's your Elon?

(50:34) Why Ben Franklin and Jesse Itzler are Shaan's entrepreneurial heroes

(55:10) Bryan Johnson's aging leaderboard

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Links:

• Better Than Google - https://tinyurl.com/mskmpysd

• Beehiiv - https://www.beehiiv.com/

• Solidcore - https://www.solidcore.co/

• Anne Mahlum - https://www.annemahlum.com/

• Jesse Itzler’s episode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff1z3GUcfO8

• I’m There For You, Baby - https://tinyurl.com/2m42ktk9

• TruDiagnostic - https://www.trudiagnostic.com/

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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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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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Episode 609: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) break down the genius marketing tactics used by the brands you can’t get out of your brain–no matter how much you want to. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) The history of jingles (Bring them back!)

(11:07) Prediction: Polymarket is going to be massive

(21:25) The wisdom on the crowd phenomenon

(26:36) How gaming apps hunt for whales

(31:00) Corporate Slang That Doesn't Exist But Should

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Links:

• DatPiff - https://www.datpiff.com/

• Polymarket - https://polymarket.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/

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

Episode 608: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) react to the $22M "fake-work" app, mouse jigglers & Ryan Serhant’s Netflix show.

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Devices helping the overemployed cheat on their bosses

(6:50) $22M ARR side hustle catching mouse jigglers

(8:36) Career polygamy support at r/overemployed

(11:18) Is this a good strategy for financial freedom?

(15:58) Big Desk Energy

(20:22) Life hack: Intentional internet consumption

(26:58) Indie hacking on steroids

(32:44) Shaan tries a self-driving car, becomes evangelist

(36:50) Secondary effects of autonomous vehicles

(40:16) Ryan Serhant’s Netflix show

(45:28) Don’t try to be noticed; try to be great. 

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Links:

• Hubstaff - http://hubstaff.com/

• Teramind - https://democompany.teramind.co/

• Mouse Mover - https://tech8usa.com/

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

• Overemployed - https://overemployed.com/

• Beehiiv - https://www.beehiiv.com/

• Big Desk Energy - http://bigdeskenergy.com/

• Brian Koppelman blog - https://briankoppelman.com/

• Photopea - https://www.photopea.com/

• Pikimov - https://pikimov.com/

• Waymo - https://waymo.com/

• Sellit.com - https://sellit.com/

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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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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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Episode 607: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Dan Porter ( https://x.com/tfadp ) about selling his app for $200M after just 6 weeks plus stories about Richard Branson, Ari Emmanuel & building cult brands.

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Intro

(1:29) Story behind OMGPop gaming company

(5:23)Creating viral mobile game Draw My Thing (now Draw Something)

(12:02) 25 million users a day, 1 million drawings every 5 seconds

(24:10) Zynga bought the game for $200M 6 weeks after launch

(32:30) The real power of money

(38:32) Working with Richard Branson and Ari Emmanuel

(47:44) Building Overtime (creating a brand that is part of culture)

(52:28) The Travis Scott effect

(1:06:45) Dan's life advice 

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Links:

• Overtime - https://overtimeelite.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/

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

Episode 606: Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) brings you 24 minutes of raw motivation. Think of this as an angry love letter to kick off your week.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Peter Thiel’s One Priority Philosophy

(4:30) 3 lies you’re telling yourself

(7:55) Zuck closes a $1B dollar deal in 48 hours

(13:41) The Collison Installation

(16:13) Lead bullets v Silver bullets

(18:51) When to sprint

(20:44) The 3 Big Questions

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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/

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

Episode 604: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Andrew Wilkinson ( https://x.com/awilkinson ) about how he went from a $6.50/hr barista to millionaire in just 4 years. 

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Show Notes: 

(1:00) From barista to billionaire

(1:40) Andrew’s 1st level up: From day job to self employed

(3:26) Shaan 1st money made as an entrepreneur

(4:40) Sam’s 1st money as an entrepreneur

(7:15) Andrew’s 2nd level up: From self employed to boss 

(8:40) From selling your time to selling other people's time

(9:30) Book: The E-Myth (Thinking of your business as a machine) (10:10) Andrew makes his first million dollars profit

(12:00) Robert Kiyosaki’s cashflow quadrant

(13:20) Andrew’s 3rd level up: Incubating Businesses - The decathlon of failed businesses

(17:00) Andrew sells one of his businesses and creates a nest egg

(18:45) Andrew discovers Warren Buffet’s teachings and starts learning to invest.

(19:48) Andrew's 20% rule

(20:33) Sam's pauper tendencies

(22:58) Andrew starts angel investing

(24:00) Andrew starts hiring CEOs and removes himself from his businesses

(28:30) Poker v Roulette in investing

(31:20) Andrew’s 4th level up: Taking his company public and reaching the end goal. However money didn’t buy happiness. 

(33:46) What’s the actual amount that will make you happy?

(34:37) Business is a good way to build relationships

(35:35) Figuring out your annual burn rate

(36:48) The goals every entrepreneur should have. Launchpad. Enough. Life’s Work

(38:23) $10M = financial freedom

(41:28) It doesn’t take a special skill set to get to financial independence

(46:41) Shaan’s learns about the deferred life plan 

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Links:

• Never Enough - https://www.neverenough.com/ (⬅️ Andrew’s book!)

• The E-Myth - https://shorturl.at/h7Q1J

• Rich Dad Poor Dad - https://shorturl.at/S28Dd

• How To Get Rich - https://shorturl.at/pGTSm

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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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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

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

Episode 603: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Kevin Van Trump ( https://x.com/KevinVanTrump ) about his journey from rural farm kid, to commodities trader, to creator of a farm newsletter that’s making $20M/year. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:45) How Sam met Kevin, then got his mind blown

(2:05) Shaan's reaction at his 1st Farmcon experience (Corn futures and options trading)

(4:35) The farmer's theory of the old bear and the young bull

(5:00) How Kevin's newsletter inspired Shaan to start Milk Road

(6:25) Breaking down The Van Trump Report ($18M ARR run by 4 ppl)

(8:05) Rural farm kid gets into trading

(12:28) Farmers operating at the highest level

(13:50) Ag Swag

(16:18) The Van Trump Business Model "People buy value not price"

(19:00) The customer continuum

(20:43) Poker vs chess

(23:57) The decision to do nothing is still a decision

(25:04) Trader v investor

(28:20) How most people should be building wealth

(32:37) Why the wealthy are getting into agriculture

(33:55) The succession plan for farms

(36:00) The economics of professional bull riding

(39:14) The come up of FarmersOnly

(41:15) How to buy a farm

(44:32) Wearables for livestock

(45:18) Blockchaining farms

(47:55) Kevin's take on lab-grown meat

(50:00) Opportunity zones: air, shelter, food, water

(52:35) New trend: trade schools

(54:24) Roll ups for wealth creation

(55:30) How to gain new perspectives (purposefully)

(57:50) Windows vs doors

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Links:

• FARMCON - https://www.farmcon.com/

• The Van Trump Report - https://www.vantrumpreport.com/

• AgSwag - https://agswag.com/

• Bid On Beef - https://www.bidonbeef.com/

• AcreTrader - https://acretrader.com/

• Zoetis - https://www.zoetisus.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/

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

Episode 602: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk about how to 10x your odds of success. 

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Ed Thorp and the mathematics of gambling

(7:51) World's first hedge fund

(12:12) Sam and Shaan revisit “The Game”

(16:06) The Feynman technique for learning

(21:14) Shaan's one criteria for action

(24:58) Why you don't need privilege to start

(29:06) Playing "the game" of business

(33:37) Switching to better games

(36:15) How the Roger Bannister Effect crushes limiting beliefs

(40:13) Step 0: Believe it can be done

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Links:

• [Steal This] Get our proven writing frameworks that have made us millions https://clickhubspot.com/copy

• Ed Thorp biography - https://tinyurl.com/yjcp4645

• Beat The Dealer - https://tinyurl.com/yc426fc5

• Ed Thorp website - https://www.edwardothorp.com/

• The Game - https://tinyurl.com/3kh3xfhn

• Jack Smith’s episode - https://tinyurl.com/yc4zdnem

• Kaggle - https://www.kaggle.com/

• Bringing Down The House - https://tinyurl.com/4txm492n

• Grab HubSpot's free AI-Powered Customer Platform and watch your business grow https://clickhubspot.com/fmf

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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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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

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