Episode 648: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talks to Flexport founder Ryan Petersen ( https://x.com/typesfast ) about playing both games: bootstrapping a startup to millions and raising venture capital to build a multi-billion dollar company. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Import Genius

(5:36) Paul Graham's superpower

(9:34) Data-as-a-service framework

(13:51) Charlie Munger's worldly wisdom

(19:45) Prioritizing adventure

(24:09) The paradox of wealth

(28:51) Charlie Munger's student experiment

(31:00) Negotiation masterclass

(37:23) Inside Founders Fund

(43:16) Being in a crowd v following a crowd

(46:29) Highs and lows

(48:52) "You can just do things"

(50:16) Unseen arbitrages

(53:00) $50M Phone booths

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Links:

• Flexport - https://www.flexport.com/ 

• Flexport on X - https://x.com/flexport

• ImportGenius - https://www.importgenius.com/ 

• Schlep Blindness - https://paulgraham.com/schlep.html

• Poor Charlie’s Almanack - https://www.stripe.press/poor-charlies-almanack 

• Founders Fund - https://foundersfund.com/ 

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• 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 647: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) invite 6 college students to pitch their startup ideas. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Intro

(3:58) Meet Your Class

(16:32) Metafrazo

(30:21) Milieu

(42:47) Brother Nuts

(54:14) Tour

(1:08:38) Pathlit

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Links:

• Meet Your Class - http://meetyourclass.com

• Jonah Liss -  https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonahliss/ 

• Blake Mischley - https://www.linkedin.com/in/blake-mischley/ 

• Metafrazo - http://metafrazo.ai

• Shrikar Lekkala - https://www.linkedin.com/in/shrikar-lekkala/ 

• Milieu - http://milieubio.com

• Nathan Shatz - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathan-shatz/ 

• Brother Nuts - http://brothersnuts.com

• Austin Majors - https://www.linkedin.com/in/austin-majors-6b3275195/ 

• Tour - http://usetour.com

• Amulya Parmar - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amulya-agape/ 

• Pathlit - http://pathlit.com

• Advay Gupta - https://www.linkedin.com/in/advaygupta/ 

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• 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 646: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talks to Vanta founder Christina Cacioppo ( https://x.com/christinacaci ) about quitting her job and betting on herself. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Stumblehustling into USV 

(4:36) Betting on the left side of your email address

(8:30) The art of fear

(11:47) Making bad art

(13:30) The marshmallow test

(17:26) Startup advice to beware of

(18:16) The idea for Vanta

(21:00) The only question that matters

(22:30) Managing your mind

(27:47) How to pick an idea to chase

(29:03) The real origin of Vanta

(31:00) Building a flywheel

(36:06) Controversial opinions

(40:49) Pushing past the no

(46:17) Not flinching during negotiations

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Links:

• Vanta - https://www.vanta.com/

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• 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 645: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about cash-printing businesses that are around us every day and how to spot them. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) $1M dollar product: Water quality testing

(8:26) $10M dollar product: EZ Labor Law Posters

(15:22) $100M dollar product: Barcodes

(22:55) Idea: Casual Friday

(28:44) Marketing campaigns that altered culture

(36:00) Shaan reads his intro

(40:06) "Torches of freedom"

(44:42( Sam tours Yale campus

(50:59) Idea: YC campus

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Links:

• Oasis - https://www.oasiswater.app/ 

• GS1 - https://www.gs1us.org/ 

• Propaganda - https://tinyurl.com/2fc959jr 

• Craig Clemens Episode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N9rNShYI_g 

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• 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 644: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talks to author and political campaign expert Sasha Issenberg ( https://x.com/sissenberg ) about the marketing machine behind presidential elections.  

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) The malarky factory and The Harm Index

(18:55) Trump's 2016 playbook

(28:18)Kamala's viral clip factory

(32:35) Who’s running a better 2024 campaign?

(35:04) What is Elon's role in Trump's campaign

(38:31) The lopsided downside of doorknocks

(42:25) Deepfakes and new tools in campaigning

(45:58) "The podcast election"

(50:00) The new playbook for winning in the age of meme wars

(54:15) Most mis-priced opportunity in elections

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Links:

• Sasha Issenberg - https://www.sashaissenberg.com/

• The Victory Lap - https://www.amazon.com/Victory-Lab-Science-Winning-Campaigns/dp/0307954803 

• The Lie Detectives - https://www.amazon.com/Lie-Detectives-Playbook-Elections-Disinformation/dp/B0CFN6WM3Y 

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• 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 643: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) answer juicy questions from the audience. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Where should I put my money?

(9:35) Best thing you've read lately?

(15:28) Who’s on MFM’s Mt. Rushmore?

(26:18) When was your biggest gut punch?

(31:31) Who would you spend 24 hours with?

(40:24) What’s your best advice for new dads?

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Links:

• Alex Karp article - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/17/style/alex-karp-palantir.html

• Casa Bonita - https://www.casabonitadenver.com/

• Leave us a voicemail - https://www.mfmpod.com/

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• 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 642: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Garry Tan ( https://x.com/garrytan ), CEO of Y Combinator, about the sauce that makes YC outperform the rest of Silicon Valley plus lessons from Paul Graham, Peter Thiel and Garry’s first million. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Winning the game

(3:16) Being the Harvard of startups

(7:31) How YC outperforms most Silicon Valley investors

(9:36) Spotting extreme winners

(14:14) Capital-as-a-service

(16:34) How Garry hustled at 14 to get his into financial security

(23:04) Turning down Peter Thiel's offer to start Palantir

(32:20) Garry's first million

(44:57) Early days at YC

(51:31) The edge of startups with a 2-pizza team

(54:36) Advice for founders in AI

(1:05:57) The spoon-bending story

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Links:

• YC - https://www.ycombinator.com/

• Founding Sales - https://www.foundingsales.com/

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• 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 640: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP )sits down with Mike Posner ( https://x.com/MikePosner ) about his insane hustle, fame, loss and reinvention.

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) iTunesU Story

(14:41) Going back to school, famous

(21:40) Getting on the radio

(26:40) “I just do what's cool to me and sometimes the whole world agrees”

(30:06) One true sentence / Writing Process

(39:50) Money, fame and Survivor

(46:52) Advice to my younger self

(48:10) Missed flight story

(58:00) The making of a hit song

(1:04:31) Walking Across America

(1:11:09) "How cheap is your happiness?"

(1:14:17) Beautiful States v Suffering States

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Links:

• Mike Posner - https://mikeposner.com/

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• 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 640: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about setting one priority–one sprint–to turn your entire year into a win. It’s time for life or death mode. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) 70 days left to win 2024

(10:27) The prestige hacking of Jamie Beaton

(25:32) Billy of the Week: Ken Fisher (and his marketing playbook)

(39:25)The shocking economics of public monuments

(46:19) Pro tip for founders: Find a banker

(54:28) The double standard of VCs

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Links:

• My Body Tutor - https://www.mybodytutor.com/

• Fisher Investments - https://www.fisherinvestments.com/

• Motley Fool Asset Management - https://fooletfs.com/

• American Colossus - https://americancolossus.org/

• Built To Sell - https://builttosell.com/

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• 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 639: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Peter Rahal ( https://x.com/peterrahal ) about starting RXBAR with $10K and selling it for $600M, business ideas he would chase today, plus why he’s back with another bar.  

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) RX Bar's path to $600M

(8:32) Branding to solve a problem

(14:03) David Protein

(16:22) Idea 1: Differentiated vasodilator

(27:53) Idea 2: The coffee of sleep

(32:28) Idea 3: Continuous Testosterone meter

(36:58)Idea 4: New religion 

(42:03) Why do this again?

(45:28) How to survive the first year after exiting

(53:03) How big is David going to get?

(56:18) Remote v in-office

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Links:

• RXBAR - https://www.rxbar.com/

• SCOTT & VICTOR - https://scottandvictor.com/ 

• David’s Protein - https://davidprotein.com/

• Lucy - https://lucy.co/ 

• Moonbrew - https://moonbrew.co/ 

• Levels - https://www.levels.com/ 

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• 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 638: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to 14-year-old founder Isaac Katayev ( https://x.com/isaackatayev ) about the startup he launched out of his 7th grade computer class. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Cookieduck 

(4:18) Making $1,500 a day at age 12

(6:19) Price Satellite 

(11:08) Being peerless

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Links:

• Cookieduck Games - http://cookieduck.com 

• Price Satellite - http://pricesatellite.com/ 

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• 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 637: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the conspiracy theory behind Bitcoin’s biggest mystery. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) The making of Satoshi

(14:02) Is Peter Todd the guy?

(30:20) A "1 minute" case for Bitcoin

(35:21) “It's political suicide to not be pro crypto"

(43:42) Must watch crypto thriller movies

(46:32) SBF and FTX update

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Links:

• Money Electric - https://tinyurl.com/yw5mktnn 

• Bitcoin Forum - https://bitcointalk.org/ 

• Fidelity Crypto Funds - https://www.fidelity.com/etfs/crypto-funds 

• Trust No One - https://tinyurl.com/32fxa9y3 

• The Night Of - https://tinyurl.com/3wmm68cc 

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• 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 636: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the rise and fall of Mike Lynch aka The British Bill Gates and his mysterious death onboard his $30M dollar yacht. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) The British Bill Gates Dies in Freak Yacht accident

(14:51) The Kennedy Curse, conspiracies and coincidences

(20:49) Sam bombs his meeting with the mayor

(33:50) Branding to attract equals

(44:36) Work backwards from the customers

(48:00) Knowing something in your head vs your hands

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Links:

• Philosophize This! - https://www.philosophizethis.org/ 

• Wait But Why - https://waitbutwhy.com/ 

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• 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 635: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Elad Gil ( https://x.com/eladgil ) about the three things he looks for when betting on startups, how he became an early investor in Anduril, plus 3 business ideas he thinks someone should go after. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) How to be successful in angel investing

(3:00) How to create a bankroll 

(5:00) Making the great works of history available to anyone anywhere

(7:21) The 1 thing that matters in a business

(10:21) How to master a new topic like defense tech

(12:15) Investing in Anduril in the first round

(15:47) $1b dollar 1 person companies

(18:51) Missionary vs mercenary

(22:12) Idea: new schools inspired by Ancient Greece

(25:49) Idea: A drug that makes you live longer

(34:56) Idea: Large scale monuments to flex

(44:25) Gil's Guide to Intensive Travel

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Links:

• Elad’s blog - https://eladgil.com/ 

• Proof School - https://www.proofschool.org/

• BioAge Labs - https://bioagelabs.com/ 

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• 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 635: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the things Shaan learned while at Re-convene in Los Angeles. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) the low-status-technique for becoming high-status at a conference

(7:09) the richer the guy, the weirder the guy

(12:17) dressing well vs. dressing comfortably

(18:25) meeting mike posner

(26:06) little luxuries 

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• 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 634: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk  about Shoji Morimoto, the Japanese guy who’s making $80k/yr renting himself out to friendless people, Autopilot’s viral marketing stunt, PLUS how to make $1M in 8 weeks.

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) The Do Nothing Man: $80K/yr for doing nothing

(4:23) The new male situationship

(11:24) Setting long term intentions

(14:06) Non-sexual companionship-as-a-service

(21:52) Professional grievers

(24:18) Autopilot’s badass marketing stunt

(32:37) Blue Collar Side Hustle: Porch Pumpkins ($1M in 8 weeks)

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Links:

• Rent a Friend - https://rentafriend.com/

• Papa - https://www.papa.com/

• Sugar Daddy - https://www.sugardaddy.com/

• Autopilot - https://www.joinautopilot.com/

• Porch Pumpkins - https://porchpumpkins.com/

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• 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 633: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talks to Steph Smith ( https://x.com/stephsmithio ) about the mega trend called the Silver Tsunami.

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Silver tsunami

(7:10) Perimenopause = 6k new customers a day

(10:57) One chart opportunity: Nursing homes and assisted living

(18:28) Why entrepreneurs are sleeping on this space

(20:11) Opportunity: Measuring and tracking

(27:36) Idea: Stava for CGMs

(39:41) Idea: Solutions for nerd neck

(44:19) Idea: Niche paddle sports leagues

(56:18) The smile curve

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Links:

• Our World In Data - https://ourworldindata.org/

• The Longevity Imperative - https://tinyurl.com/mr2m46vk

• Bonafide Health - https://hellobonafide.com/

• Gennev - https://www.gennev.com/

• All Akiyas - https://www.allakiyas.com/

• Numlock News - https://www.numlock.com/

• Outlive - https://tinyurl.com/ybewhrw4

• Levels - https://www.levels.com/

• Dexcom - https://www.dexcom.com/

• Stelo - https://www.stelo.com/

• Q Bio - https://www.q.bio/

• Internet Pipes - http://internetpipes.com/

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• 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 632: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to John Allen ( https://x.com/MrBallen ) and Nick Witters ( https://x.com/themrwitters ), the minds behind MrBallen and Ballen Studios. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Being a creator on hard mode

(7:19) Slow is smooth and smooth is fast

(8:44) Being hit by a grenade in combat

(17:03) Elite Meet

(18:29) John's TikTok ideas bank

(21:42) The SEALs turn on John

(25:02) How telling 1 story launched MrBallen

(28:18) Getting unstuck

(35:02) Be rich or be a king?

(40:44) The North Star for Ballen

(44:00) 1 thing to be a better storyteller

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Links:

• MrBallen on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/MrBallen

• MrBallen on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@mrballen

• Ballen Studios - https://ballenstudios.com/

• Elite Meet - https://elitemeetus.org/

• Dyaltov Pass TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@mrballen/video/6799049964937809157

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• 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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Get our episode with MrBallen before anyone else: https://clickhubspot.com/mbe

Episode 631: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Isaac French ( https://x.com/isaacfrench_ ) about how to he bought his first investment property at age 24 with $2K down and sold it 2 years later for $7M. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Buying an investment property with $2K

(9:53) $7M exit in 2 years

(16:41) Repeating the formula

(20:35) Blueprint for flipping properties into Airbnbs

(27:27) Mistakes to avoid

(31:07) Games that are easy to play, but hard to win

(34:56) How to write 20M view threads

(54:58) 2 quotes to live by

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Links:

• Isaac’s Newsletter - https://www.isaacjfrench.com/newsletter

• Live Oak Lake - https://www.liveoaklake.com/

• Isaac on IG - https://www.instagram.com/isaacfrench_/

• Isaac on X - https://x.com/isaacfrench_

• Isaac on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/isaacfrench

• Isaac on LI - https://www.linkedin.com/in/isaacjfrench

• Experiential Hospitality - https://www.experientialhospitality.com/

• Isaac’s site - https://www.isaacjfrench.com/

• Unreasonable Hospitality - https://tinyurl.com/3j8ymjpp

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• 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 630: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talks to Anne Mahlum ( https://www.instagram.com/annemahlum/ ) about starting an $8M/yr charity from scratch and betting her entire life savings ($175K) on a pilates studio. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Building a $8M/yr non-profit 

(16:27) The economics of [solidcore]

(22:07) Play a game you can win

(24:16) How to be a killer negotiator

(27:00) Turning down $75k

(30:39) 0 - 27 locations in 4 years

(43:50) Idea: Endurance events

(50:21) Idea: Taboo for recruiters

(51:37) Idea: AI Personal trainer

(56:45) Idea: SeatGeek for airlines

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Links:

• Back on My Feet - https://backonmyfeet.org/

• [solicore] - https://www.solidcore.co/

• 29029 - https://29029everesting.com/

• HYROX - https://hyrox.com/

• OxeFit - https://www.oxefit.com/

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• 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 629: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) bring you the third installment of Sara’s List. A path to wealth that doesn’t involve insane amounts of risk, luck, or burnout. Just get a job at the right company. The criteria? Growth-stage startups that have the potential to 5-10x over the next 5 years.

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Auditing Cohort 1

(9:56) OpenAI

(12:07) Retool

(17:04) Mercury

(23:04) Cursor

(27:28) Epirus

(33:30) Wiz

(42:52) Neuralink

(46:00) Perplexity AI

(49:43) Traba

(54:54) Replit

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Links:

• OpenAI - https://openai.com/

• Retool - https://retool.com/

• Mercury - https://mercury.com/

• Cursor - https://www.cursor.com/

• Epirus - https://www.epirusinc.com/

• Wiz - https://www.wiz.io/

• Neuralink - https://neuralink.com/

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

• Traba - https://traba.work/

• Replit - https://replit.com/

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• 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 628: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) break down the business behind the sports bar Cosm and the massive trend coming to out-of-home entertainment. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Cosm’s playground virality

(10:38) The Tesla of home appliances

(18:13) $100M sleepy industries

(23:11) The rise and fall (and rise?) of Weight Watchers

(40:42) "What story is the data telling me?"

(48:54) What certainty level is needed to make a decision

(53:49) Confidence vs certainty

(57:22) Shaan's monthly impact grid

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Links:

• Cosm - https://www.cosm.com/

• Impulse Labs - https://www.impulselabs.com/

• Rivian - https://rivian.com/

• Brick - https://getbrick.app/

• June Oven - https://juneoven.com/

• Shark Ninja - https://sharkninja.com/

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• 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 627: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to the socially rich, “Friends Billionaire”, Nick Gray ( https://x.com/nickgraynews ) about how to be a master networker, throw the perfect cocktail party, plus 7 simple business ideas.

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Intro

(4:12) If you had $10M, how would you live?

(10:11) Find who your heroes follow

(13:29) Speedrun of Nick Gray's career

(22:15) Idea: White label enterprise sales

(26:08) Idea: Millionaire Matchmaker

(37:22) Idea: web-hosting services

(45:00) Idea: Airbnb experiences

(48:55) Idea: Geek Squad as a service

(55:00) Idea: VHS to digital conversion as a service

(58:58) Idea: Bring blogging back

(1:04:05) The persuasion of liking

(1:09:14) How to throw a Nick Gray party 

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Links:

• Get our business idea database here https://clickhubspot.com/mfm

• Museum Hack - https://nickgray.net/sold-museum-hack/

• “If I Had $10M” - https://nickgray.net/if-i-had-10m/

• vs3 Web Services - https://vs3.net/

• Airbnb Experiences - https://www.airbnb.com/s/experiences

• Elemind - https://x.com/elemindtech

• Nick’s blog - https://nickgray.net

• The 2-Hour Cocktail Party - https://tinyurl.com/4p6h4xnu

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• 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 626: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talks to Guy Spier ( https://x.com/GSpier ) about everything he’s learned from studying the greatest value investors of all time. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) The Posse

(5:41) Farmer Mac

(17:30) Lessons from going to 9 Tony Robbins seminars

(28:57) Handwritten notes from Warren Buffett

(42:00) Don’t study lottery winners

(59:22) Berkshire vs Index

(1:05:13) Finite vs infinite games

(1:13:26) Be a promiscuous reader

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Links:

• Get our business idea database here https://clickhubspot.com/mfm

• VALUEx - https://www.valuex.ch/

• Aquamarine - https://www.aquamarinefund.com/

• Guy’s book - https://tinyurl.com/47zvxatr

• Power vs Force - https://tinyurl.com/2fn9peya

• Influence - https://tinyurl.com/3z2vyfdt

• Shareholder Letters - https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html

• Poor Charlie’s Almanack - https://tinyurl.com/bdf6pcww

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• 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 625: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) are back with George Mack ( https://x.com/george__mack) to talk about the best ideas he’s come across. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Spotting high agency people

(26:12) The Kale phone vs the Cocaine phone

(31:37) The obsessiveness of Lee Kuan Yew

(37:34) Life as a Midwit meme

(43:22) Work like a lion, not like a cow

(51:52)The Buffett Coin

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Links:

• Get our business idea database here https://clickhubspot.com/mfm

• Relentlessly Resourceful - https://paulgraham.com/relres.html

• 3:1 Work Structure - https://science.drinklmnt.com/lmnt-at-work/lmnt-3-1-work-structure/

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• 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 624: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) brainstorm cash-printing business ideas with George Mack ( https://x.com/george__mack). 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Intro

(2:49) Idea: Self Awareness Test

(16:35) Idea: Designer babies

(26:30) Idea: Selling eyes as art

(30:40) Idea: Personal color analysis

(34:45) Idea: Mold removal as a service

(40:11) Idea: CMO of the UK

(46:43) George's favorite ad campaigns

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Links:

• Get our business idea database here https://clickhubspot.com/mfm

• Cities and Ambition - https://paulgraham.com/cities.html

• Jack Skeen - https://jackskeen.com/

• Thinking Fast and Slow - https://tinyurl.com/345d9fsb

• Iris Galerie - https://en.irisgalerie.com/

• Ad Professor on Twitter -  https://x.com/The_AdProfessor

• r/adporn - https://www.reddit.com/r/AdPorn/

• Ad Professor - https://www.adprofessor.com/

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• 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 623: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the underrated philanthropy style of Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Alfred Nobel.

MFM Scholarship: Apply for $10K to start The Onion For College - https://www.shaanpuri.com/collegepaper

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Alfred Nobel's $266M Legacy

(6:06) Competitions vs. Trusts

(15:28) Idea: XPRIZE but for companies

(19:15) Shaan’s Prize: Win $10K to start a college paper

(23:07) How Barstool Sports started

(26:47) Peter Thiel’s contrarian philanthropy

(32:30) Elon Musks sexy indifference

(37:22) Interview questions designed to repel and attract

(44:25) Be a harsh grader of people

(47:49) Great people are great in the first 2 weeks

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Links:

• Get our business idea database here https://clickhubspot.com/mfm

• Nobel Peace Prize - https://www.nobelpeaceprize.org/

• XPRIZE - https://www.xprize.org/

• Darpa - https://www.darpa.mil/

• Vesuvius Challenge - https://scrollprize.org/

• Kaggle - https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/

• Thiel Foundation - https://www.thielfoundation.org/

• Musk Foundation - https://www.muskfoundation.org/

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• 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 622: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Jesse Pujji ( https://x.com/jspujji  ) about bootstrapping Ampush and the four levers of digital marketing. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Unique insight + unfair advantage

(3:05) How Jesse bootstrapped Ampush using GLG

(14:00) Digital marketing in masterclass in 3 minutes

(20:30) How to sell to the ultra rich

(27:38) Red Ventures' Playbook

(32:40) The Four Big Levers

(41:00) Calling Zuck's cell

(46:30) Noah Kagan's $100M mistake at facebook

(58:45) What's the thing you can't not do?

(1:01:00) Nelly performs at Jesse's birthday party

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Links:

• Gateway X - https://www.gateway.xyz/

• Aux Insights - https://www.auxinsights.com/

• Accordion - https://www.accordion.com/

• GrowthAssistant - https://growthassistant.com/

• GLG Insights - https://glginsights.com/

• Triple Whale - https://www.triplewhale.com/

• Ampush Lead Gen Overview - https://tinyurl.com/mw3f7cbk

• Bootstrapped Giants Newsletter - https://tinyurl.com/46t82kk9

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• 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 621: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Jack Smith ( https://x.com/_jacksmith ) about his under-the-radar biohacking experiments plus 2 $1M dollar business ideas.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Is reverse-aging a scam

(3:23) The 1% of biohacking

(12:28) Business idea: Mobile Dexa Scan

(25:30) Business idea: Medical tourism brokers

(32:06) Anti-beast mode

(39:10) Why smart people have bad ideas

(45:40) Hunt for the starving crowd

(49:27) AppLovin origin story

(54:20) Finding demand that feels like a landmine

(56:03) Jack's book recommendation

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Links:

• Get our business idea database here https://clickhubspot.com/mfm

• BodySpec - https://www.bodyspec.com/

• Prenuvo - https://www.prenuvo.com/

• Q Bio - https://www.q.bio/

• Aiwo - https://aiwo.com/

• “Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas” - https://paulgraham.com/bronze.html

• Vungle - https://vungle.com/privacy/

• The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success - https://tinyurl.com/mwyf6spw

• Jack on MFM - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVwLEocqK0E

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• 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 620: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) breaks down the 9 lessons he’s learned while building an audience. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Intro

(2:17) Forget the numbers

(6:11) Find your inner nerd

(9:57)Build a magnet

(10:40) First, Last, Best, Worst, Weirdest

(12:40) The thing I wish I knew earlier

(15:53) No such thing as too long

(16:18) A+ content with C- delivery

(17:58) Create a binge bank

(18:32) People don’t want information

(19:55) Be so good they can’t ignore you

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Episode 619: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) do a post-mortem on a fight they had yesterday. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Fights don't start as fights

(9:08) Gottman's Fourhorseman of the Apocalypse

(11:28) The magic ratio of 5:1 

(15:42) The body keeps the score

(19:36) No winners in war

(24:19) Mistaken attribution

(26:40) Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy

(29:17) The cardinal sin is measuring 

(32:55) The best relationships are bigger than you

(40:00) Identify the skill issue

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Links:

• Get our business idea database here https://clickhubspot.com/mfm

• The Body Keeps the Score - https://tinyurl.com/sf66b2tj

• How to Win Friends and Influence People - https://tinyurl.com/4wbafxyf

• Fight Right - https://tinyurl.com/pdvub4b4

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• 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 618: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Alex Hormozi ( https://x.com/AlexHormozi ) about losing everything overnight, investing in Skool, and Acquisition’s $250M/yr playbook. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Brink of oblivion to $26M in 18 months

(18:13) Crafting a killer offer

(28:14) Investing in Skool

(36:25) Acquisition’s $250M/yr playbook

(52:46) “Here's what I would buy now”

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Links:

• Get our business idea database here https://clickhubspot.com/mfm

• Alex on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/alexhormozi

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

• Skool - https://www.skool.com/

• Gym Launch - https://www.gymlaunch.com/

• Alex Hormozi on MFM - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KfuQwB5rIs

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• 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 617: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the most important conversations they had when they were just getting started.

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Scott Belsky’s pep talk

(5:43) Enrolling in Getting Rich

(9:37) John Prendergrast asks a better question

(13:37 Michael Birch pulls Shaan aside

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Links:

• Get our business idea database here https://clickhubspot.com/mfm

• Sabi - https://sabisushi.wordpress.com/

• Shaan’s online “resume” - https://shaan-sample.mystrikingly.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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• 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 616: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about what they are doing in response to the market dip, plus The Olympics biggest winners and losers of the week. 

Show Notes: 

(0:00) Boys React: The market dip

(4:32) React or respond?

(10:48) The Olympics winners and losers

(19:03) Winner: Fem Kabul

(21:26) Winner: Team Refugees

(24:48) Loser: Simone Biles and Gymnastics in general

(27:30) Loser: Pole vault guy memes

(28:18) Winner: Noah Lyles

(30:41) Loser: The Olympic's programming

(34:00) The $75B dollar uniform rental empire

(38:18) Building a line of succession for your business

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Links:

• Get our business idea database here https://clickhubspot.com/mfm

• Cintas - https://www.cintas.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

—

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 615: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) tell the story of Scott Heiferman, the reindustrialization of America, plus Elon’s Problem Solving Method. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Millionaire working at McDonalds

(11:40) Scott Heiferman’s path to $15M

(17:32) Building Meetup.com to $156M exit

(24:20) Rosie the Riveter 3.0

(34:32) Elon's Problem Solving Method

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Links:

• Get our business idea database here https://clickhubspot.com/mfm

• Meetup - https://www.meetup.com/

• Bowling Alone - https://tinyurl.com/23etxxdp

• Careers Built To Last - https://www.careersbuilttolast.com/

• BlueForge Alliance - https://www.blueforgealliance.us/

• Gundo Deep Dive - https://x.com/johncoogan/status/1741512539979325733

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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 614: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) share the stories of people who took shots on goal and were just one hit away from blowing up.  

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) The Jewish Ed Sheeran

(10:22) The actual Ed Sheeran

(15:00) Eric the Eel

(20:00) How CarEdge is quietly crushing it

(29:21) How a car dealership is pulling millions of views on TikTok

(33:07) $100M+ Pokemon sleep tracking app

(35:55) Nick Gray's new thing

(39:37) “The best advice is free by definition”

(43:29) Take a 360 review of your life

(50:16) Shaan bombs a talk at a conference (lessons learned)

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Links:

• CarEdge - https://caredge.com/

• Mohawk Chevrolet - https://www.tiktok.com/@mohawkchevrolet

• Jack Skeen - https://jackskeen.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

—

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 613: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talk to about the giving up drinking 11 years ago and the lessons he learned for anyone wanting to make a major change in their life. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Intro

(1:00) Lesson 1: Figure out your why and go all in on that.

(4:14) Lesson 2: Tell your friends

(8:40) Lesson 3: Recreate your identity.

(13:00) Lesson 4: Don’t be perfect, just mostly good.

(15:50) Lesson 5: You’ll attract more people.

(18:26) Lesson 6. Find inspiration. (It’s ok to be corny)

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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 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/

• No Priors Podcast - https://www.youtube.com/@NoPriorsPodcast

• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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 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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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

—

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 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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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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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

—

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 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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• 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 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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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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• 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 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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Episode 601: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Calley Means ( https://x.com/calleymeans ) about the $50T drug that has Americans in a chokehold. 

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro 

(1:54) The problem with Ozempic

(4:25) America is a dirty fish tank

(9:58) The Flexner Report

(12:06) 90% of doctors never study nutrition or fitness

(15:38) Cigarette companies invented processed food

(17:16) A case for Ozempic

(21:56) The macroeconomics of Ozempic

(26:37) Why you shouldn't trust Stanford or Harvard

(34:11) How one family got America hooked on drugs for life

(36:51) Nothing is more profitable than a child who gets sick early

(39:00) The 80/20 on nutrition and health

(42:32) How the death of a parent radicalized Calley

(46:46) Why Japanese children only have 3% obesity rate

(49:07) The difference between European and American candy

(52:33) HBS is a conformity factory

(55:50)"Psilocybin is the single most thing we should be doing"

(1:05:47) When the student is ready, the teacher appears

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• Truemed - https://www.truemed.com/

• The Flexner Report - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3178858/

• Good Energy - https://tinyurl.com/39jzb6zs

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• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

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Episode 600: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Sabri Suby ( https://x.com/sabrisuby) about business ideas he would go after if he was starting from scratch. 

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro 

(1:04) Idea: Done-For-You Channel Growth

(7:28) Idea: Affiliate arbitrage for Chiropractors

(13:02) Idea: Live Chat as a service

(14:50) Look for customers with a bleeding neck

(17:39) Idea: $100K/day opportunity with TikTok Shops

(26:42) Get paid to learn the most valuable skills as a marketer

(29:24) Kill the little bitch inside

(32:18) Philosophy: Have more fun

(44:31) How to be better at small talk 

(45:44) Invest in building your year

(47:53) Showmanship

(51:42) The difference between good and great

(53:26) Stop praying to the internet gods

(54:45) How to get your target market to raise their hand

(56:33) Sabri's 1M copy book funnel

(59:47) The Yes, Yes, Yes, No Funnel

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

• Sell Like Crazy - https://selllikecrazybook.com/

• King Kong - https://kingkong.co/

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• 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 599: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the best traits of a startup founder and lessons from how Dana White, Elon Musk, and Emmett Shear cut through the bullshit. 

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Top traits founders should take from Dana White

(5:35) 1 - Brute force

(10:21) 2 - Extreme bias for action

(14:55) Quick audit of Dana White's gambling claims

(18:00) 3 - Speed

(19:00) Checklist for a perfect niche event business

(22:56) IDEA: The Beer Mile

(24:45) IDEA: Paddle Prison Break

(25:47) IDEA: Skyline Scramble

(30:17) Growth vs EBITDA vs cash flow

(32:27) Shaan's Guide to Increase EBITDA

(34:19) Step 1: create a EBITDA budget

(37:08) Step 2: communicate the plan relentlessly

(37:48) Step 3: Track and report

(38:04) Step 4: Tie into incentives

(38:30) Step 5: Repeat every 30 days

(40:02) Next stage: Cash flow

(41:28) The benefit of playing on Hard Mode

(43:38) Is e-commerce dead?

(44:54) Shaan's $30M dollar dream house

(47:56) Shaan writes an essay

(49:43) Sexier core principles

(1:00:53) Culture: What people do when the boss isn't around

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• Shaan Puri essays - ​​https://www.shaanpuri.com/essays

• Brunello Cucinelli - https://shop.brunellocucinelli.com/

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• Wander - https://www.wander.com/mfm (Enter to win a free trip and use code MFM300 at checkout for $300 off your booking)

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• 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 598: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk about which path is worth pursuing: money or passion?

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Show Notes:

(0:00) The rise and fall of the Lehman Brothers

(4:56) The life we live vs the unlived life

(9:13) How Jerry Seinfeld puts in the work

(12:54) You don't have to save the world

(21:45) “What would I work on if I wasn't afraid?”

(23:27) Sylvester Stallone and the wolf at the door

(30:10) Low Key Billy of the Week: Michael Pryor

(39:29) Sam reflects on being popular

(40:58) Sam and Shaan's "number" to walk away

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• The War of Art - https://tinyurl.com/4w9evyk8

• Fog Bugz - https://ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/fogbugz

• Stack Overflow - https://stackoverflow.com/

• Joel on Software - https://www.joelonsoftware.com/

• Wander - https://www.wander.com/mfm (Enter to win a free trip and use code MFM300 at checkout for $300 off your booking)

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• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

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Episode 597: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) talks to Brett Adcock ( https://x.com/adcock_brett ) about his next big idea, his checklist for entrepreneurs, and his framework for learning new things and moving fast. 

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Solving school shootings

(3:15) Cold calling NASA

(6:14) Spotting the mega-trend

(8:37) "Thinking big is easier"

(12:42) Brett's philosophy on company names

(16:22) Brett's ideas note app: genetics, super-sonic travel, synthetic foods

(19:45) "I just want to win"

(21:46) Brett's checklist for entrepreneurs

(25:17) Being fast in hardware

(30:15) Brett's framework for learning new things

(33:00) Who does Brett admire

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Links:

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• Brett Adcock - https://www.brettadcock.com/

• Cover - https://www.cover.ai/

• Figure - https://figure.ai/

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• 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 596: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) talks to Craig Fuller ( https://x.com/FreightAlley ) about how he turned dying hobby magazines into a cash flow machine. 

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(2:45) Economics of long-haul trucking

(3:36) Getting fired from the family business

(5:30) Fuel cards for truck drivers

(6:40) How FreightWaves hit $20M ARR in 2 years

(9:08) Acquiring FLYING for $3.5M

(12:14) Opportunity: Depressed media properties

(16:02) From losing $8 per subscriber to profitability in 1 year

(20:31) A media side hustle becomes a real estate main hustle

(22:55) Craig's tolerance for being leveraged

(25:32) Pre-selling $28M units pre-construction

(28:51) Diversity, Asymmetrical risk, and generational security

(31:11) Teams to diversify your time

(34:21) Building a portfolio of hobby magazines

(37:20) Content to commerce playbook

(47:03) The story of William Randolph Hearst

(51:32) What's the chase?

(53:15) "The best thing to give a founder is an enemy"

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Links:

• FreightWaves - https://www.freightwaves.com/

• Knight-Swift - https://knight-swift.com/

• Firecrown - https://firecrown.com/

• The Chief - https://tinyurl.com/36khrt8y

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• 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 595: Anand Sanwal ( https://x.com/asanwal ) joins Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) to reveal his playbook for building an insanely profitable data business. 

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Anand’s data arbitrage playbook

(9:51) Starting weird as Chubby Brain

(12:03) Don't run 100mph in the wrong direction

(14:53) Edge, Collection, and Opportunity

(19:24) IDEA: High-end Glassdoor

(27:00) IDEA: C-Suite Head Hunting Service

(28:57) IDEA: HomeOptions for Founder Exits

(32:17) Anand's School of Entrepreneuring

(36:03) Learn how to think, not what to think

(38:18) The Die-At-Your-Desk Life Philosophy

(39:26) Competency-based curriculum

(42:47) IDEA: Slime Museums

(46:40) IDEA: Autonomous HOA Convenience Stores

(51:32) IDEA: Online Addiction Centers

(58:51) Leadership lessons from legendary coaches

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

• CB Insights - https://www.cbinsights.com/

• Bloomberg article - https://tinyurl.com/32ns9beu

• Blackbaud - https://www.blackbaud.com/solutions/total-fundraising-solutions

• HomeOptions - https://www.homeoptions.com/

• IMG Academy - https://www.imgacademy.com/

• American Addiction Centers - https://americanaddictioncenters.org/

• Weapons of Mass Instruction - https://tinyurl.com/49s6xhpk

• Chasing Perfection - https://tinyurl.com/46hc5zxj

• The Score Takes Care of Itself - https://tinyurl.com/4v6k72h3

• The Talent Code - https://tinyurl.com/4h2z9yer

• The Learner Lab - https://thelearnerlab.com/

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• 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 594:  Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) explain what’s happening with GameStop AGAIN and how Keith Gill turned $56k into $210M with memes. 

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Roaring Kitty's $200M GameStop holding

(8:41) Is Keith Gill the most genius creator behind a brand?

(14:53) Where did the $65M come from?

(17:44) The 7 Stages of GameStop FOMO

(20:00) Ryan Cohen's activist investments in GameStop, Bed Bath and Beyond 

(26:34) Shaan's honest take on paternity leave

(31:53) Painting the windows black

(35:42) Zach Pogrob's The Year of Obsession

(37:03) What's the deal with run clubs right now?

(39:19) Sexy faces and sexy paces

(42:04) Endurance event businesses

(45:06) Opportunity: The suburban Iron Man

(51:19) Scott Harrison gives Shaan unsolicited feedback

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

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

• Unusual Whales - https://unusualwhales.com/

• WSJ on Ryan Cohen - https://tinyurl.com/4zue9xps

• Wander - https://www.wander.com/

• The Lehman Trilogy - https://thelehmantrilogy.com/

• The Year of Obsession - https://tinyurl.com/4nsrh689

• Nick Bare - https://www.instagram.com/nickbarefitness

• RAWDAWG - https://www.instagram.com/rawdawgrunclub

• River - https://www.getriver.io/

• 29029 Everesting - https://29029everesting.com/

• Rock n Roll Running - https://www.runrocknroll.com/

• thespeedproject - https://www.instagram.com/thespeedproject

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• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

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Episode 593:  Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Jason Fried ( https://x.com/jasonfried ) open up about personal finances, raising kids around wealth and dealing with risk. 

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Sam and Jason play Would You Rather...

(5:15) Loosening the grip on the stick

(12:35) The pale blue dot

(14:03) Why does the businessworld deserve our best lessons?

(18:30) Early days vs. vs. middle days vs later days

(24:47) "A founder's job is to inject risk"

(29:36) “Cool wears off but useful never does”

(31:07) Striking balance with a business partner

(34:14) The value of talking about money

(37:28) Navigating luxury with kids

(40:08) Midwestern values on blast

(43:39) The truth about luck

(46:55) Staying up vs. staying off

(49:45) New insights from old biographies

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• The Most Important Thing - https://tinyurl.com/9ym3xw5b

• Peter Lynch books - https://tinyurl.com/2nf87pzb

• The Pale Blue Dot - https://www.planetary.org/worlds/pale-blue-dot

• The Messy Middle = https://tinyurl.com/2paw5jmk

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

• Newspapers.com - http://newpapers.com/

• Pessimists Archive - https://pessimistsarchive.org/

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• Copy That - https://copythat.com

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Episode 592:  Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) break down the economics of luxury hobby magazines, make a prediction about Ai cameras, and explain how to find the next tech wave. 

Want to see Sam and Shaan’s smiling faces? Head to the MFM YouTube Channel and subscribe - http://tinyurl.com/5n7ftsy5

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Craig Fuller's field of dreams

(5:12) $50M side hustle

(9:16) We call to find out EXACTLY how he did it

(19:02) The New York Times is a gaming company

(23:27) Idea: Third party LinkedIn games developer

(27:00) How rich people spend money

(29:00) The myth of the second home

(30:57) Ai cameras

(36:31) Prediction: A camera on every field, every court

(38:31) How to find the next wave: What's the next menus on the internet?

(40:41) How to avoid product obsolescence

(44:09) "Measure twice. Cut once"

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Links:

• FreightWaves - https://www.freightwaves.com/

• FLYING Magazine - https://www.flyingmag.com/

• Firecrown - https://firecrown.com/

• Veo - https://launch.veo.co/

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• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

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Episode 591:  Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) talks to Kevin Espiritu ( https://x.com/KevinEspiritu ), AKA The Plant Daddy, about how he turned a side hustle into a $45M business in his backyard.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(3:41) $250k playing online poker

(6:04) The influence of Pat Flynn

(7:43) Cocoa butter cream review site

(8:30) Printing on-demand shirts

(12:26) From Scribe to $300/mo gardening blog

(15:06) Inflection point: The metal raised bed

(17:42) Billion-dollar blogs

(19:20) Life-changing money

(23:56) 5 Languages of the love of money

(26:47) Lessons from Ramit Sethi

(28:25) Path to $100M through acquisitions

(29:19) Buying a seed tray business for less than $500K

(33:22) Buying a competing gardening blog

(37:00) Acquiring Botanical Interests

(42:16) Red and green flags in acquisitions

(46:12) The danger of being a celebrity on the internet

(48:45) Idea: Branded hybrid plant species

(52:38) Floyd Zaiger, the godfather of licenced plants

(57:26) The lie behind Blue Zones

(1:00:12) The Tesla of chicken coops

(1:00:53) Beekeeping

(1:04:46) Choosing your hobbies wisely

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Links:

• Kevin on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@kevinmespiritu

• Epic Gardening on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@epicgardening

• The Chernin Group - https://tcg.co/

• The Billion Dollar Creator - https://nathanbarry.com/billion/

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• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

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Episode 590:  Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) talks to #1 New York Times bestselling author Jack Carr ( https://twitter.com/JackCarrUSA ) about how he churns out hit after hit and what the SEALs has taught him about hardship, mission readiness, and hitting targets. 

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(1:15) Launching a book how Red Bull launches a drink

(7:30) 6 books in 6 years

(9:41) Manifesting success from age 11

(11:36) Defining your own calculus

(13:35) Lessons from Mr Ballen and other SEALs

(15:23) Made-to-stick branding

(19:44) How to build an audience today

(24:10) The writing and launch process

(26:11) Master the one-pager

(28:43) Anti self-publishing

(30:03) Modern masculinity in America

(33:26) Creating a rite of passage

(37:27) Voluntary hardship

(39:36) Manifesting Chris Pratt

(44:51) Hitting your mission

(48:38) Jack's recommended reading list

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Links:

• Jack Carr - https://www.officialjackcarr.com/

• Made to Stick - https://tinyurl.com/2rumfmjw

• The Comfort Crisis - https://tinyurl.com/y5wfjnfz

• The Terminal List - https://tinyurl.com/2cvvmtfx

• The Successful Novelist - https://tinyurl.com/4ba29jtn

• The Hero with a Thousand Faces - https://tinyurl.com/2bnmxua4

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• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Pitch your startup for a shot at a $1M investment with Sam Parr as the MC https://clickhubspot.com/pitch

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Episode 589:  Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) sits down with David Perell to reveal every framework he knows to become a better storyteller, a better writer, and a better creator of binge-worthy content.

This episode was originally recorded for the podcast “How I Write,” hosted by David Perell. —> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2BnqYArwaw

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(3:16) Binge bank

(6:03) Storytelling

(8:05) Intention & Obstacle

(14:22) Hasan Minhaj

(15:53) Writing vs Speaking

(18:06) Pacing

(19:01) Hooks vs Frames

(22:30) Viral tweets

(26:49) MrBeast

(27:26) Storyworthy

(29:10) 5-second moment of change

(32:02) Origin Stories

(42:07) Tony Robbins

(43:25) Transformations

(44:12) Steven Bartlett

(46:17) Viral videos

(49:09) Miss Excel

(56:04) Change your state & focus

(58:31) Paul Graham

(1:03:43) Advice to writers

(1:06:53) Writer's voice

(1:11:48) Dave Chappelle vs Netflix

(1:18:18) Distribution

(1:21:40) Twitter / X

(1:32:34) Writing with humor

(1:45:02) Newsletters

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Links:

• Write of Passage - https://writeofpassage.com/

• David on Twitter - https://twitter.com/david_perell

• David’s Website - https://perell.com/

• David Perell on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0a_pO439rhcyHBZq3AKdrw

• David’s Podcast - https://writeofpassage.com/how-i-write

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• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

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Episode 588:  Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) chop it up with Gary Vee about which of his investments paid off the most, how much cash he keeps as a safety net and what he’s noticed from hanging out with people like Logan Paul, Zuck, and MrBeast. 

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(1:28) Good news for the “C” students out there

(5:31) Break the Web

(8:12) Attention is the only universal asset class

(12:26) Perplexity.ai/podcast

(14:30) Alex Schultz on growth and language translation

(16:23) Adult camps better than conferences

(20:06) Millionaires v billionaires

(25:44) Planning for a post-iPhone world

(28:43) Gary's safety net

(31:41) Micro v macro gratitude

(37:45) Gary's best investment

(39:08) Gary's take of Zuck, Logan Paul

(45:44) Who Gary admires

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Links:

• Gary Vaynerchuk - https://garyvaynerchuk.com/

• Gary on Twitter - https://twitter.com/garyvee

• Day Trading Attention - https://tinyurl.com/yckc8erw

• Break The Web - https://www.breaktheweb.co/

• Lecture 6 - Growth - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_yHZ_vKjno

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• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Pitch your startup for a shot at a $1M investment with Sam Parr as the MC https://clickhubspot.com/pitch

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Episode 587:  Andrew Wilkinson ( https://twitter.com/awilkinson ) teaches the exact step-by-step process he uses to find, diligence, hire, and transition a great CEO. 

Get Andrew’s CEO Hiring Guide and Checklist - https://tinyurl.com/ms8938kn

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(1:36) Why you need a CEO

(4:44) The third door: leave the business, keep the cash flow

(8:48) Get back to your flow state

(10:46) Step 1: Are you ready to hire a CEO?

(15:16) Is this going to hurt my business?

(16:46) Step 2: Find the RIGHT CEO

(17:52) Hiring a recruiter

(21:34) Look for a #2 with the right hammer

(23:23) Be a collector of people

(27:14) Step 3: Diligencing the candidate

(28:48) Green flags, yellow flags, and red flags

(32:21) 2x not 20x

(34:41) Step 4: First 100 days

(36:35) Don't poison the water

(38:12) Flesh wounds not mortal wounds

(40:06) Meet them in person

(40:29) More on diligencing: Trust but verify

(42:38) The DIY path

(44:48) Step 5: Negotiating and structuring compensation

(46:34) Uncapped bonuses vs equity

(49:55) Myth: Is a founder-led business always better?

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Links:

• Srch - https://www.srchpartners.com/

• Business Intelligence Advisors - https://www.biadvisors.com/

• Never Enough - https://neverenough.com/

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• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

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Episode 586: Shaan Puri sits down with Mohnish Pabrai for a rare interview about value investing.

Mohnish is sometimes called the "Indian Warren Buffett" for having turned $1M into over $1B+ through stock investing. In this podcast they talk about how founders can become great investors, how to avoid big mistakes, and lessons learned from Buffett & Munger.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(1:41) Why entrepreneurs make the best investors

(4:130) How Warren Buffett’s pre-paid for his college education

(8:45) Becoming Ben Graham’s Protege

(12:41) What Buffett learned about branding from See’s Candies

(15:45) Buffett’s failed play to be a candy mogul

(18:44) Identifying offering gaps

(20:22) Getting an MBA at age 14 as the son of an entrepreneur

(23:33) The 3 tells of a future millionaire

(25:56) Mohnish builds his first product with maxed out credit cards at 24

(27:59) The 168 hour framework

(31:13) “Entrepreneurs do not take risks”

(32:38) How Richard Branson launches Virgin Atlantic with no money

(35:31) How 0.1 percent of the population owns 70 percent of all the motels in America

(38:31) The unfair advantage of being a low-cost producer

(40:20) How Mohnish turned his first million into $13M in 5 years

(43:39) Pabrai Funds grows to $600M in assets in less than 10 years

(47:35) What Mohnish knows about fundraising that we don’t

(50:26) Pivoting from tech investments in 1999 to value investments

(53:13) $2M lunch with Warren Buffett

(58:09) Be a harsh grader of people

(1:01:53) The Givers, The Takers, and The Matchers

(1:04:40) “Heads I win, tails I don’t lose much”

(1:09:26) Private markets v public auctions

(1:13:35) The #1 trait that makes a great investor

(1:15:01) What people of Reddit think of Mohnish Pabrai

(1:16:31) Starting capital, annual rate of return, length of runway

(1:17:24) The Rule of 72

(1:21:50) Circle the Wagons Philosophy

(1:23:35) Losing $3B in one unfortunate event

(1:28:49) Be fearful when the world is greedy; Be greedy when the world is fearful

(1:29:17) What a value investor thinks of bitcoin

(1:30:26) Nick Sleep bets

(1:42:30) The Best Of: Capital Allocators

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Links:

• The Intelligent Investor - https://tinyurl.com/3jmpjrmc

• The Dhandho Investor - https://tinyurl.com/53p9bhfv

• Mohnish on Twitter - https://twitter.com/MohnishPabrai

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• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

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Episode 585:  Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the 5 most outrageous, eccentric, and mysterious businessmen alive right now.  

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Show Notes:

(0:00) 5 - James Bond with Wifi, Pavel Durov

(12:16) 4 - The Russian Richard Brandon, Oleg Tinkov

(22:08) 3 - The Walking Middle Finger, Sean Parker

(38:06) 2 - The Guy Who Won The Game And Walked, Tom Anderson

(45:40) 1 - The Israeli Great Gatsby, Aviv Nevo

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Links:

• Pavel Durov on Twitter - https://twitter.com/durov

• VK - https://vk.com/vk

• Pavel Durov on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/durov/

• Telegram - https://telegram.org/

• Napster - https://www.napster.com/us

• David Choe on Howard Stern - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS6awjpIimw

• Opportunity zones - https://eig.org/opportunity-zones/about-ozs/

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—

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• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

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Episode 584:  Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk about using the massive upside of investing in your P&L, the ballsy-ness of Nick Huber and how to turn your annual income intro your monthly income. 

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Shepherd gets acquired for $50M

(5:44) Invest in your P&L

(7:57) The ballsiness of Nick Huber

(13:42) The evolution of celebrity partnerships

(17:04) A large, trusted audience

(20:30) 2. Product-audience fit

(21:42) 3. That Viral Touch

(22:12) Creators who are the best at this

(29:29) $280 millions dollar tumblers

(31:10) Giving as you go: Do it early, make it uncomfortable

(37:11) The curse of familiar riches

(39:57) How to 10x your annual income

(48:32) For the same inputs, can you get more outputs

(50:08) Acting As If

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Links:

• Shepherd - https://www.supportshepherd.com/

• The Sweaty Startup - https://sweatystartup.com/

• Dr DisRespect - https://www.youtube.com/user/drdisrespect

• Truemed - https://www.truemed.com/

• SimpleModern - https://www.simplemodern.com/

• Empower - https://www.empower.com/

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• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

—

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Episode 583:  Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the genius business model of Hunt Brothers Pizza, and bring you three totally different inspirational stories of people doing cool shit. 

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Shaan gets triggered

(3:16) $540M ARR Pizza Business

(14:02) This silly game is making $22M a year

(22:11) Shaan's white collar side hustle of the week

(26:48) "The house always has an edge"

(33:08) Nick Gray's unconventional dating experiment

(37:22) Real life Rom Com plays out on Twitter

(45:23) Scott Galloway: "I can get down but I won't stay down"

(50:11) How To Lose Weight In 4 Easy Steps

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Links:

• Jambys - https://www.jambys.com/

• Hunt Brothers Pizza - https://www.huntbrotherspizza.com/

• Geoguessr - https://www.geoguessr.com/

• The New Yorker article - https://tinyurl.com/yh95wcm8

• Nick Gray on Twitter - https://tinyurl.com/pjctk56b

• “How To Lose Weight In $ Ebay Steps” - https://tinyurl.com/yw7u4xbp

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• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

—

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Episode 582:  Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the $1B idea that is basically inevitable, why stock exchanges are the smartest business model ever created and the female Pieter Levels who we’re crowning our Hustler of the Week. 

Want to see Sam and Shaan’s smiling faces? Head to the MFM YouTube Channel and subscribe - http://tinyurl.com/5n7ftsy5

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Shaan's billion-dollar idea: Executive Check-ups

(2:12) Mayo Clinic’s $100M proof of concept

(12:58) $15K/mo lead gen arbitrage

(17:25) Pizza intelligence

(19:41) Shaan's Mount Rushmore of indexes

(24:54) The most profitable companies in the world

(26:32) Why stock exchanges have the best business model

(33:20) "Shoot your old idea in the head" - Eric Ries

(41:20) Hustler of the week: The Female Pieter Levels

(43:30) "Marketing is the tax you pay for an unremarkable product"

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Links:

• Prenuvo - https://www.prenuvo.com/

• Big Desk Energy playlist - https://shorturl.at/ajuG5

• Suno - http://suno.ai/

• ICE Index - https://www.ice.com/index

• Long-term Stock Exchange - https://ltse.com/

• “Startup Lessons Learned” - https://www.startuplessonslearned.com/

• Branded Fruit - https://brandedfruit.com/

• Danielle Baskins - https://daniellebaskin.com/

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• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

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Episode 581:  Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Scott Galloway about his Get-Rich formula they won’t teach you in school and the hard-to-hear but essential advice every 20-year old should hear. 

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Don't follow your passion

(3:08) Reverse engineering $160M exit

(7:30) How to keep top talent in your company

(11:12) "I'm not your friend"

(13:41) Scott's best and worst hedge fund deals

(16:20) Losing $10M every day

(18:14) Handle triumph and disasters the same way

(20:54) If you can't fix it, you have to stand it

(24:28) Lessons about happiness from the dying

(25:51) Statute of limitations on suffering

(28:57) Where Scott steals his powerful phrases

(33:09) Shaan opens his notes app of funny phrases

(34:52) Scott's anti-excited list

(37:33) “Go live in a city”

(39:50) Opportunity in America v Europe

(42:30) The fallacy of hard work over time

(46:56) Money does buy happiness

(52:20) The Algebra of Wealth

(55:33) If you have a side hustle you need a better main hustle

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Links:

• The Algebra of Wealth - https://tinyurl.com/44yw3h6k

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• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

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Episode 580:  Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) talks to Jenny Hoyos, the 18-year-old who has mastered the recipe of viral shorts. They break down her step-by-step process for creating content that pulls in over a 100M views. 

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(2:14) How to build charisma

(6:35) The 4 criteria of a great idea (jumpcut)

(8:48) Make it personal

(14:45) Mastering the hook

(17:29) Metrics 

(18:52) The first frame

(21:09) Foreshadowing

(22:37) Storytelling in one word is “change”

(25:06) The But & Therefore Rule

(27:21) Building the stakes

(30:43) Craft the close

(32:14) Steal like an artist

(33:52) Figure out who's watching

(36:46) Study the channel for outliers

(39:28) Where is the puck going?

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Links:

• Jenny Hoyos YouTube - ​​https://www.youtube.com/@JennyHoyosLOL

• Charisma on Command - https://www.youtube.com/@Charismaoncommand

• Miss Excel - https://www.miss-excel.com/

• Infinite Ratatouille Glitch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tskvmb0HPDU

• Steal Like An Artist - https://austinkleon.com/steal/

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• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

—

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Episode 579: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk about 3 niche trends they’ve found that are guaranteed to make $1M+.

Want to see Sam and Shaan’s smiling faces? Head to the MFM YouTube Channel and subscribe - http://tinyurl.com/5n7ftsy5

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Shaan gets his hotness score

(2:30) Reddit trend leads to $6M ARR beauty app for men

(10:12) Male nail care influencers

(12:42) Sam upstages Shaan's beauty score

(14:00) Spin-off businesses: Med Spas

(16:00) Aging influencers and modern male grooming products

(20:27) The story of Teflon and Dupont's billion dollar problem

(22:49) Forever chemicals are in our water

(26:14) Pfas free products

(29:12) A regulatory inflection point is here

(33:16) Trend: Assassins with water guns

(34:32) $0 - $250K MRR app

(35:22) Playground virality

(38:00) Trading expertise for social vouching

(49:10) Exporting a profitable internal tool

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Links:

• Umax - https://tinyurl.com/mezh49ac

• Acqua Pana - https://www.acquapanna.com

• MAMAVATION - https://www.mamavation.com

• Splashin - https://www.splashin.app

• Splashin TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/discover/splashin-app

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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

—

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Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more.

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Other episodes you might enjoy:

• #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits

• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future

• #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto

• #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett

• ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates

• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More

• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

Episode 578: Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) sits down with Joe Lonsdale ( https://twitter.com/JTLonsdale ) to talk about how he leveraged one internship at PayPal into one billion dollar success after another. Today Joe is Managing Partner of 8VC and an early investor in Anduril.

Want to see Sam and Shaan’s smiling faces? Head to the MFM YouTube Channel and subscribe - http://tinyurl.com/5n7ftsy5

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Show Notes:

(0:00) The One Reason strategy

(3:18) Learning Global Macro Finance from Peter Thiel

(5:35) Taking multi-million dollar bets at 4:30am

(8:43) Hire for raw IQ over expertise

(10:33) Nurturing employees into unicorn founders

(12:24) Solving hard problems with Addepar

(13:53) Always “Being on”

(15:32) How to spot opportunities for new businesses

(21:10) How Epirus landed a military defense contract

(27:09) Getting hits in hard domains

(28:24) Business Idea: AI-powered Estate Planning

(29:19) Business Idea: Business Process Outsourcing for local government

(30:58) Big swings vs. base hits

(31:49) Idea vs. execution

(32:38) Focus vs. diversity of thought/attention

(33:33) Insights from Elon’s inner circle

(35:36) Joe Lonsdale’s unfair advantages

(38:48) How to invest your time to make your first $1M

(40:40) Working on an A+ problem as an intern at PayPal

(43:15) Be within 2 standard deviations of top talent

(44:14) Early days at Palantir

(46:56) Building a top engineering culture

(48:31) Borrowing trust as 21-year old defense contractor

(52:22) Peter Thiel’s biggest contrarian bet

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Links:

• Joe's Twitter - https://twitter.com/JTLonsdale

• Joe's blog - https://blog.joelonsdale.com/

• Joe's podcast - https://www.americanoptimist.com/

• 8VC - https://www.8vc.com/

• Addepar - https://addepar.com/ 

• Palantir - https://www.palantir.com/

• Epirus- https://www.epirusinc.com/

• OpenGov - https://opengov.com/

• Prologis - https://www.prologis.com/

• Lessons from Peter Thiel - https://joelonsdale.com/lessons-peter-thiel/

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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

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

Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more.

—

Other episodes you might enjoy:

• #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits

• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future

• #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto

• #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett

• ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates

• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More

• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

Episode 577: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk about mysterious billionaire Thomas Tull. 

Want to see Sam and Shaan’s smiling faces? Head to the MFM YouTube Channel and subscribe - http://tinyurl.com/5n7ftsy5

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Blue Collar Billy of The Week: Thomas Tull

(2:29) Moneyball strategy for movies

(5:20) Formula for box office hits: Bigger is better

(7:25) International appeal (specifically China)

(8:22) Data analytics for movie marketing

(13:15) Flywheels at the highest level

(24:31) Moneyball for X

(26:42) Business lessons from the UFC

(31:03) We give Zuck PR advice

(33:02) What Dana White taught me about marketing

(34:06) Level 1: Sell a product

(34:46) Level 2: Sell a solution not a product

(35:20) Level 3: Sell a Lifestyle

(36:55) Level 4: Sell a feeling

(39:18) Level 5: Identity in a box

(46:49) Why Sam's new project will fail

(52:38) Shaan workshops Sam's idea

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Links:

• The Information article - https://tinyurl.com/4csvs9ab

• Legendary - https://www.legendary.com/

• “We Don’t Sell Saddles Here” - https://tinyurl.com/2s39sjzf

• SmartAsset - https://smartasset.com/

• Sam’s List - https://samslist.co/

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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

—

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

Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more.

—

Other episodes you might enjoy:

• #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits

• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future

• #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto

• #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett

• ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates

• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More

• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

Episode 576: Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) sits down with Tim Ferriss ( https://twitter.com/tferriss ) to talk about his latest lifestyle experiments and how to spend a perfect 24-hours.

Want to see Sam and Shaan’s smiling faces? Head to the MFM YouTube Channel and subscribe - http://tinyurl.com/5n7ftsy5

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Tim’s "What's next?" framework

(7:22) Creativity gyms + why money doesn't buy happiness

(12:11) Book Recommendation: The New Toughness Training for Sports

(15:51) Tim Ferriss's perfectly optimized day

(23:06) The art of podcasting 

(32:03) From selling supplements to published author

(38:42) Law of Category

(42:23) Barbell strategy for Youtube

(54:12) What would it look like if it was easy?

(56:14) What is Tim's unfair advantage?

(59:47) What silly story are we telling ourselves?

(1:02:23) Stories about Naval

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Links:

• Tim’s blog - https://tim.blog/

• Tim’s books - https://tim.blog/tim-ferriss-books/

• “The New Toughness Training for Sports” - https://tinyurl.com/nhh6m4px

• “The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing” - https://tinyurl.com/2bmz43ve

• 1,000 True Fans - https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/

• Blue Ocean Strategy - https://tinyurl.com/5739vvry

—

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

—

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

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

Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more.

—

Other episodes you might enjoy:

• #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits

• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future

• #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto

• #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett

• ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates

• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More

• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

Episode 575: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the weirdest things they’ve seen this week in business. 

Want to see Sam and Shaan’s smiling faces? Head to the MFM YouTube Channel and subscribe - http://tinyurl.com/5n7ftsy5

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Kid Rock, our honorary Billy of the Week

(8:13) Shaan's *new* rules for content  (Partial list)

(9:05) Rule 1: Older is better

(13:07) Rule 5: Early. Arbitrage. Exploit

(17:58) Rule 4: Pay for learning

(19:45) Sam's cheat code for better alpha

(23:57) How Kirk Kerkorian Became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History

(29:48) Three rules of wealth. Compounding rate, length of runway, and…

(34:11) Must Listen: Business Untitled

(36:28) LeBron James is now a podcaster?

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Links:

• Kid Rock on Theo Von - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nReTPXtTDDc 

• Kid Rock’s Rodeo - https://kidrock.com/blogs/news/kid-rocks-rock-roll-rodeo

• Kid Rock’s Honky Tonk - https://www.kidrockshonkytonkandsteakhouse.com/

• Nick Sleep Letters - https://tinyurl.com/2thhv6cy

• AirChat - https://www.air.chat/

• GLG Insights - https://glginsights.com/

• The Gambler - https://tinyurl.com/4d4e62m2

• Business Untitled - https://tinyurl.com/26zkw9pr

• LeBron’s new podcast - https://tinyurl.com/2kuvsv5v

—

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

—

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

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

Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more.

—

Other episodes you might enjoy:

• #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits

• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future

• #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto

• #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett

• ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates

• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More

• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More