My First Million

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Episode 878: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) and Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talk to Bill Perkins ( https://x.com/bp22 ) about how to die with zero and never have a regret about it.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(0:55) How Bill made his money

(1:55) Price go up or price go down?

(3:45) Maximize risk when young

(5:15) The 3 edges of the greatest investors

(9:15) The name of the game is to stay in the game

(10:25) A decade of intensity

(12:20) No parties at 85

(13:00) Define your net worth peak

(18:15) Shaan reads an email to Bill

(19:25) The fear of a wasted life

(20:00) Crush your ego

(25:45) Set your cookie cutter life on fire

(26:10) Reprogramming your brain

(30:00) Rewrite for maximum accountability

(32:55) Seasons of balance

(34:25) Time buckets vs. bucket list

(37:15) Plan your year

(38:30) What Bill regrets right now

(41:05) Don't fuck your future self

(42:15) Die With Zero

(52:35) Playing the money game for fun

(54:05) What Bill spends his money on

(1:00:35) Spending $15M on a painting

(1:09:05) The art of Sylvester Stallone

(1:17:05) Bill's follow-up book

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Links:

• Die With Zero - https://diewithzerobook.com/

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Episode 877: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) and Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talk to Ethan Evans about what it’s really like to work with Jeff Bezos.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(3:15) Criticism without praise

(5:15) The every-great-man flaw

(7:05) Attack mode

(11:45) “Sometimes all you need is a B”

(19:35) Question mark emails

(22:25) Strategically patient, but tactically impatient

(24:10) Work hard, long, and smart

(25:15) Where high-performers go to feel bad about themselves

(28:05) Ethan evaluates Shaan

(35:55) Project selection

(39:50) Waiting for fat pitches

(42:30) Jeff’s security detail

(45:50) The story of Amazon Prime

(47:55) Amazon's idea tool

(50:55) Good design vs. bad design

(54:15) The morality of Amazon

(56:15) Who Jeff studied

(31:35) Post-Amazon

(1:04:10) Streaming career advice on Twitch

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Links:

• https://www.ethanevans.com/about

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• Hampton (http://joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm

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Episode 876: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) sits down with Nick Kokonas ( https://x.com/nickkokonas ) to talk about finding arbitrages and how to win an many different games.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(9:45) How I Became a Trader With $60K

(18:15) Surviving Day 1 of Anything

(20:35) The Comfort Trap

(23:50) Finding Your Arb

(32:00) No Boats. No Women. No Drugs.

(34:55) Showing Up

(43:15) Everything Is an Arbitrage

(47:55) Greatness

(55:55) Working Backwards

(1:03:40) The Magic of Alinea

(1:10:35) Controlling Attention

(1:19:10) Remixing Old Mechanics

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Links:

• Alinea – https://www.alinearestaurant.com/

• Tock – https://www.exploretock.com/

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• Hampton (http://joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm

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• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

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Episode 875: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) and Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) are joined by Ben Levy ( https://x.com/benmlevy ) to react to the best stuff on X this week.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Idea: Wedding Crashers

(3:10) Idea: Clavicular's Billion-Dollar Business Opportunity

(7:55) Elon's Flying Tesla Roadster

(12:25) Elon Wants to Give Every Kid a Share of SpaceX

(16:50) Inside Andrew Huberman's Fridge

(20:10) Peter Levels on Moats

(26:40) Bryan Johnson's Quest to Dunk at 49

(35:15) The Craziest Rich-Guy Purchase

(41:30) Jensen Huang's Algorithm

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• Hampton (http://joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm

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• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

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Episode 874: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) and Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) are breaking down the best documentary of the year.

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• Hampton (http://joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm

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Episode 873: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) and Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talk about an investor who makes 2.9 decisions a year, Zuck’s victory lap and what happened when Sam hired an executive coach.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Zero Action Investing

(7:55) Premortems

(10:05) Zuck's Victory Lap

(16:50) The Superpower of 100x Leaders

(20:45) Sam Hires an Executive Coach

(21:35) Identify the Game You're Playing

(30:15) Keep Your Sails Up

(33:45) Sam Attacks His Panic Attacks

(38:55) Role Playing Hard Situations

(41:00) How to Prep for the Scariest Moments

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• Hampton (http://joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm

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• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

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Episode 872: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) and Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talk about the different types of founders.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Natural Money-Makers

(1:52) Attributes of Natural Money-Makers

(3:10) The Story of Nick Kokonas

(8:12) The Story of Jay Gould

(10:00) Can It Be Learned?

(13:04) The Story of Syed Balkhi

(17:58) Only Spend the Second Derivative

(22:27) Trading Valuable Hours for Useless Dollars

(26:50) Other Play Styles That Win

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Links:

• Syed Balkhi episode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzHdrQ5pDFo

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• Hampton (http://joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm

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• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Shaan uses Mercury across all of his companies. you can too: http://mercury.com/

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$1M Solopreneur MVP guide:https://clickhubspot.com/ftws

Episode 870: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) tells 3 embarrassing stories. One from his personal life, one from business, and a most recent one.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) intro

(1:15) recent embarrassment

(5:20) Lesson: “You Can Make Hell Out of Heaven”

(8:15) business embarrassment

(12:58) Lesson: “Worship at the Church of Action”

(15:35) personal embarrassment

(19:55) Lesson: “The Decision Is Upstream of All Action”

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• Hampton (http://joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm

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• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

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Episode 869: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talks to Angel Studios founder Jeff Harmon ( https://x.com/JeffreyHarmon ) about finding and exploiting glitches.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) I helped a dentist create one of the greatest marketing campaigns

(8:35) How to find the glitch in the system

(11:10) Go for your own problems

(13:25) Where is the attention going?

(16:10) ANGEL

(19:15) 19-minute ad experiment

(25:30) The genius moment behind Squatty Potty, Poo-Pourri

(26:55) Poo-Pourri ad

(27:25) How to craft a $100M ad

(28:55) Use comedians

(35:55) Warm up the algorithm

(39:35) Super Bowl stunts

(41:10) PG-13 content for the masses

(44:45) Base hits vs. home runs

(45:10) The economics of the movie business

(47:05) “I’ve never met a billionaire who doesn’t want to make movies”

(49:55) The brutality of Hollywood

(54:10) Having a personal vibe coder

(1:00:05) Advice to my younger self

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Links:

• Angel Studios — http://angel.com

• Poo-Pourri — http://poopourri.com

• Squatty Potty — http://squattypotty.com

• Purple — http://purple.com

• A24 — http://a24films.com

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• Hampton (http://joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm

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• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

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Episode 868: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) and Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talk about 3 business ideas.

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Show Notes:

(3:08) Idea: Oxytocin dosing

(20:17) Idea: Loneliness solutions

(27:30) Idea: Faith-based businesses

(27:33) Angel Studios

(34:36) What’s the reaction to the action?

(42:03) The brutal business of making hit movies

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• Hampton (http://joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm

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• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

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Episode 867: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) and Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) test out the new ai personal assistants.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(2:42) AI is the highest ELO game in the world

(5:18) Instinct

(9:31) Grokbot

(20:24) It’s not all about intelligence

(38:35) Micro1

(44:08) Exploiting vulnerabilities

(58:48) $100 billion companies everywhere

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Links:

• Instinct - https://instinct.com/

• Grokbot - https://x.ai/news/introducing-grok-bot

• micro1 - https://www.micro1.ai/

• OpenRouter - https://openrouter.ai/

• MUSE - https://muse.ai/

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• Hampton (http://joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm

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• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

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Episode 866: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talks to MIT Scientist about whether or not we’re living in a simulation.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Are We Living in a Simulation?

(8:30) Ancient Religions Already Believed This

(14:40) AI Agents Are Getting Weird

(28:40) Quantum Physics & the Simulation Theory

(40:50) Aliens, UFOs & Glitches in the Matrix

(51:30) Dreams, Past Lives & DMT

(55:00) How Simulation Theory Changes How You Live

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Links:

• The Simulation Hypothesis by Rizwan Virk -https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/774523/the-simulation-hypothesis-by-rizwan-virk/

• Zen Entrepreneurship by Rizwan Virk -https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Rizwan_Virk_Zen_Entrepreneurship?id=CE9zEAAAQBAJ

• The Zen Entrepreneur and the Dream by Rizwan Virk -https://www.zenentrepreneur.com/

• Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda -https://yogananda.org/autobiography-of-a-yogi

• Are You Living in a Computer Simulation? by Nick Bostrom -https://nickbostrom.com/

• Second Life -https://www.secondlife.com/

• SETI Institute -https://www.seti.org/

• Project Blue Book Archives -https://www.archives.gov/research/military/air-force/ufos

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Episode 865: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) and Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talk to about how to win 2027.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) There are 99 days left in the year

(1:40) Parkinson’s Law

(3:35) The toxic love of events

(9:25) Joel Greenblatt’s Jelly Bean experiment

(12:25) The aftershocks of Joe Hudson

(15:30) Shaan’s “5 voices in the head” theory

(18:05) Six Thinking Hats

(20:00) The two minds of a creator

(22:45) Blue notebook vs. red notebook

(23:50) Sam’s three notebooks

(27:00) “Your brain is an old mansion”

(30:00) Obscure billionaire, family dynasty

(41:40) Nike stock falls 80%

(44:00) I created a monster / turn shit into gold

(48:35) Tales from the house

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• Hampton (http://joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm

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• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Shaan uses Mercury across all of his companies. you can too: http://mercury.com/

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Episode 863: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) and Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talk to Grant Lafontaine ( https://x.com/GrantLaFontaine ) the founder of Whatnot.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(1:00) Grant turned down Shaan’s investment

(2:12) Shaan buys a crab on Whatnot

(3:58) First 1,000 users

(19:07) Black hat growth tactics

(28:52) 30 sales to $2.3M in year 1

(34:03) $2.3M to $163M in year 2

(34:56) $163M to $1B in year 3

(37:02) How to be a billion-dollar founder

(42:04) Going all the way deep on a single problem

(45:44) Don’t let people use fancy language

(49:48) Being disagreeable but likable

(50:43) The reason I left Facebook

(53:39) “If you think you’re moving fast, you’re probably not”

(54:13) Trends: NeeDohs, squishies, gold bars

(56:21) 9-figure sellers

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Links:

• Whatnot - https://www.whatnot.com/

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• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

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Get Sam's guide to turn ChatGPT into your life coach:https://clickhubspot.com/edlv

Episode 863: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) and Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) get coached by Joe Hudson ( https://x.com/FU_joehudson ) on the mental game of being a founder.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(2:35) Limiting beliefs

(6:48) Mind, heart, gut

(8:20) The self-reliance pattern

(14:45) Unkink your hose

(16:35) Phrases that change your thinking

(18:20) Visualize the negative outcomes

(21:35) Most common fear of founders: homelessness

(23:45) Tricking your nervous system with repetition

(27:35) Avoiding conflict

(32:40) How to address conflict

(38:35) Abusive self-talk patterns

(42:45) Is this stuff worth doing?

(50:40) Experiments to try this week

(54:45) Why bliss destroys you

(59:35) Finding your billion-dollar purpose

(1:01:00) What's the Illuminati like in person?

(1:04:00) How Joe got here

(1:22:00) Where you click matters

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Links:

• The Art of Accomplishment - https://www.artofaccomplishment.com/

• Descartes’ Error - https://a.co/d/0j1JxxLC

• Tibetan Book of Living and Dying - https://a.co/d/0apYnAGF

• The Inner Game of Tennis - https://a.co/d/0hy9hBRa

• Listen - https://a.co/d/0gzKTFBy

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton (http://joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Shaan uses Mercury across all of his companies. you can too: http://mercury.com/

Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., Members FDIC

• I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out:

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Shaan's guide on how to build an audience:https://clickhubspot.com/tjsv

Episode 862: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) teaches what it takes to build an audience in 18 minutes.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(1:00) Lesson 1: Who, not how many

(2:28) Lesson 2: What should I talk about?

(5:03) Lesson 3: Learn the 5 Ds

(7:12) Lesson 4: OK this is getting long. But you’re still here. Weird, right

(7:55) Lesson 5: Don't worry about writing style or production quality

(9:08) Lesson 6: Create a binge bank

(10:03) Lesson 7: Feeling, not information

(12:05) Lesson 8: “Be so good they can’t ignore you”

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Links:

• My blog post - https://www.shaanpuri.com/essays/i-got-internet-famouse-if-i-started-again-from-scratch-heres-what-id-do-this-time

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton (http://joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Shaan uses Mercury across all of his companies. you can too: http://mercury.com/

Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., Members FDIC

• I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out:

beehiiv.com/mfm-challenge

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

Sam's database on how long it takes to become a millionaire:https://clickhubspot.com/pnlv

Episode 861: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) sits down with David Rubenstein ( https://x.com/DM_Rubenstein ) to talk about turning Carlyle into $500B, his $14B miss, and the greatest business lessons in history.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Turning $5M into $500B

(5:13) Scrappy private equity

(11:58) Don’t fool yourself

(14:14) Turning down 20% of Amazon

(16:23) Recruiting big shots

(20:40) Finding the right partner

(22:02) Trade-offs

(27:39) Witnessing ascents to power

(31:40) The Greatest Sentence Ever Written

(33:37) History that repeats itself

(35:49) Recommended Reading

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Links:

• Carlyl - https://www.carlyle.com/

• David’s books - https://www.davidrubenstein.com/books/

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton (http://joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Shaan uses Mercury across all of his companies. you can too: http://mercury.com/

Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., Members FDIC

• I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out:

beehiiv.com/mfm-challenge

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

30+ unsexy business ideas:https://clickhubspot.com/pdnb

Episode 860: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) chop it up with skateboarding legend Tony Hawk.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(1:20) Meeting Tony in Ethiopia

(3:42) Economics of skate parks

(12:38) The price of greatness

(17:54) Scraping by

(26:33) The 900

(35:16) Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater

(52:20) Investing

(58:53) Influencing on internet culture

(1:03:47) Aging skaters

(1:08:07) Tickets

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton (http://joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Shaan uses Mercury across all of his companies. you can too: http://mercury.com/

Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., Members FDIC

• I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out:

beehiiv.com/mfm-challenge

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

$1M+ problems worth solving (90+ business ideas):https://clickhubspot.com/phfl

Episode 859: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talks to Danny Yeung ( https://x.com/DannyYeung_ ) about how he built a $200M business in 18 months.

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Links:

• IM8 - https://im8health.com/

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton (http://joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm

—

Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Shaan uses Mercury across all of his companies. you can too: http://mercury.com/

Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., Members FDIC

• I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out:

beehiiv.com/mfm-challenge

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

140+ real business ideas database: https://clickhubspot.com/lrgo

Episode 858: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the weird ways people go all in on strange hobbies and make millions doing it.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(0:24) scent social club

(1:54) Museum hacks

(16:34) Mafia tours

(21:39) Dolly Parton--Honorary Billy of The Week

(45:04) LeBron James's brilliant business move

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Links:

• Scent Social Club - https://www.scentsocialclub.com/

• We Don’t Sell Saddles Here - https://medium.com/@stewart/we-dont-sell-saddles-here-4c59524d650d

• Equine Network - https://equinenetwork.com/

• Museum Hack - https://museumhack.com/

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton (http://joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm

—

Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Shaan uses Mercury across all of his companies. you can too: http://mercury.com/

Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., Members FDIC

• I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out:

beehiiv.com/mfm-challenge

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