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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• 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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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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• 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 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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• 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

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. 

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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

For the full experience, watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0j_n3OOM7c

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

—

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 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.  

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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

—

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 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. 

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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

—

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