Steal Sam's playbook to turn ChatGPT into your Executive Coach: https://clickhubspot.com/ebm

Episode 728: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about hanging out with billionaires.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(3:56) Hayes Barnard

(23:15) Sasha Koehn

(29:27) Alex Hormozi

(39:24) Wade Foster

(45:38) Eric Glyman

(49:33) Sanjiv Chopra

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Links:

• Buck Mason - https://www.buckmason.com

• Zapier - https://zapier.com/

• Ramp - https://ramp.com/

• Acquisition - https://www.acquisition.com/

• Rhino - https://rhinoinvestmentsgroup.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/

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Episode 727: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) sits down with his brother-in-law Sanjiv Chopra to talk about how he went from $15M in debt to a real estate portfolio of $1.5B.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(3:37) $15M in debt on first deal

(12:30) Pawning my wife’s wedding ring to buy a gym

(19:41) Turning a broken gym around

(22:02) Referral marketing

(29:48) Double escrow

(36:11) Shopping centers

(40:20) What a Good Real Estate Deal Looks Like

(44:02) How you act when you lose

(51:02) Legacy, Balance & Being a Present Dad

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Links:

• Rhino Investments - https://rhinoinvestmentsgroup.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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Want Sam's playbook to turn ChatGPT into your executive coach? Get it here: https://clickhubspot.com/sfb

Episode 726: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Dharmesh Shah ( https://x.com/dharmesh ) about how he’s using ChatGPT.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(2:00) Context windows

(5:26) Vector embeddings

(17:20) Automation and orchestration

(21:03) Tool calling

(28:14) Dharmesh's hot takes on AI

(33:06) Agentic managers

(39:41) Zuck poaches OpenAI talent w/ 9-figures

(49:33) Shaan makes a video game

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Links:

• Agent.ai - https://agent.ai/

• Andrej Karpathy - https://www.youtube.com/andrejkarpathy

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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/

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Want to scale your side hustle with AI? Get 700 prompts here: https://clickhubspot.com/wbc

Episode 725: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talks to the founder of Airtable, Howie Liu ( https://x.com/howietl ), about 7 AI business ideas he would start if he was in his 20s.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) IDEA: Live Shopping w/ AI avatars

(5:34) IDEA: AI personalized news

(10:36) IDEA: AI Personal Finance Advisor

(18:27) IDEA: AI PE model of buy an existing business

(24:20) IDEA: Cursor for email

(36:53) IDEA: AI-native social apps

(38:42) IDEA: Uncensored AI search

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Links:

• Sesame - https://www.sesame.com/

• Whatnot - https://www.whatnot.com/

• HeyGen - https://www.heygen.com/

• Superhuman - https://superhuman.com/

• Kubera - https://www.kubera.com/

• Addepar - https://addepar.com/

• Airtable - https://www.airtable.com/

• Chief.so - http://chief.so/

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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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Want Sam's Playbook to Uncover Billion-Dollar Business Opportunities? Get it here: https://mfmpod.link/rve

Episode 724: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) break down $1B+ product crazes and why they worked.

If you want to help those on the inside, donate to The Last Mile (https://thelastmile.org/donate) and Inside Circle (https://insidecircle.org/)

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Labubu

(3:19) The "gotcha" mechanic

(10:53) The lipstick effect

(12:53) The lalapalooza effect

(15:17) $1B+ crazes

(20:48) Tony's Chocolonely

(31:10) Sam goes to prison

(37:18) The Larry story

(41:26) Shaan joins a prison gang

(51:15) Sam vows to quit the internet and money

(54:52) Pomp's SPAC

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Links:

• Pop Mart - https://www.popmart.com/us

• Tony’s Chocolonely - https://tonyschocolonely.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

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

—

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

—

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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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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• 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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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

—

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 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

—

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