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

Episode 723: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Shaan’s college friend Dan Certner ( https://x.com/youneedbags ) about how he bought a business and doubled it in 18 months.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Dan the bag man

(5:16) Farmville Fraud Detection

(10:09) Fail: Getting rich working at a startup

(15:13) Buying a bag business

(19:30) The forgivable sellers note

(22:57) How to find the right business

(37:29) Meeting the seller

(40:15) Negotiating the terms

(45:44) The real profit

(49:55) Who should do this?

(53:40) Everything is someone's business

(56:32) The exit strategy

(59:41) Shaan and Dan's business plan

(1:07:49) Fun to Run Businesses

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Links:

• Fleet - https://www.fleetpackaging.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/

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

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

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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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

Want to scale your business? Get the Side Hustler's AI Prompt Database: https://clickhubspot.com/kvw

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/

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

Want to scale your startup? Get 700 prompts for your side hustle: https://clickhubspot.com/fpg

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/

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

Want to scale? Get 700 side hustle prompts: https://clickhubspot.com/blv

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

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.

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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

—

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

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

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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

—

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

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

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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

—

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

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. 

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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

—

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

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. 

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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