My First Million

Episode 706: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr [https://x.com/theSamParr] ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP [https://x.com/ShaanVP] ) talk about offline businesses that are crushing it.  — Show Notes: (0:00) Be a $1M dollar business spotter (4:56) Swim lessons franchise (6:34) AWS for the Amish (17:25) At home pet euthanasia service (25:37) Take out order call center (42:35) Cheat code: Coaches (52:13) Add a performance — Links: • Steal Sam's guide to turn ChatGPT into your Executive Coach: https://clickhubspot.com/ogh [https://clickhubspot.com/ogh] • Goldfish Swim School - https://goldfishswimschool.com/ [https://goldfishswimschool.com/]  • IbyFax - http://ibyfax.com/ [http://ibyfax.com/]  • Lap of Love - https://www.lapoflove.com/ [https://www.lapoflove.com/]  • Tarro - https://www.tarro.com/ [https://www.tarro.com/]  • Owner - https://www.owner.com/ [https://www.owner.com/]  — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com [https://www.shaanpuri.com]  • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm [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. — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ [https://www.joinhampton.com/] • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ [https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/] • Copy That - https://copythat.com [https://copythat.com/] • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth [https://joinhampton.com/wealth] • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ [http://samslist.co/] My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

Episode 705: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP [https://x.com/ShaanVP] ) sits down with Mohnish Pabrai ( https://x.com/MohnishPabrai [https://x.com/MohnishPabrai] ) about how to turn $10K into $1M.   Show Notes: (0:00) Simple = Genius (28:00) Never over-leverage (30:30) Risk vs uncertainty (33:00) Too hard pile (35:30) Be 1 inch wide, 1 mile deep (39:00) Learn from losers (43:30) A case for napping (48:00) Having an owner’s manual (53:00) Dying with zero (1:10:00) India’s Greatest Investor — Links: • Want to invest like a Billionaire? Get Mohnish's investment playbook: https://clickhubspot.com/mnp [https://clickhubspot.com/mnp] • Value Investors Club - https://www.valueinvestorsclub.com/ [https://www.valueinvestorsclub.com/]  • Japan Company Handbook - https://tinyurl.com/489czpkp [https://tinyurl.com/489czpkp]  • Dakshana - https://www.dakshana.org/ [https://www.dakshana.org/] • BJ21 - https://bj21.com/ — 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 [https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd] — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ [https://www.joinhampton.com/] • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ [https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/] • Copy That - https://copythat.com [https://copythat.com/] • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth [https://joinhampton.com/wealth] • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ [http://samslist.co/] My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

Episode 704: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr [https://x.com/theSamParr] ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP [https://x.com/ShaanVP] ) talk to Blake Scholl ( https://x.com/bscholl [https://x.com/bscholl] ) about he went from high school dropout to Groupon to the founder of a supersonic jet startup.  — Show Notes: (0:00) Find your red line (4:29) Problems hidden in plain sight (13:00) The making of Boom Supersonic (23:00) No rules of thumb (29:13) Blake's favorite interview question (34:22) Demo Day at YC (38:13) Selling Richard Branson (47:46) Being a dark matter founder (52:14) What does the most ambition of yourself look like? (55:51) Progressively overturning of the skeptics (1:01:06) Working with Jeff Bezos at Amazon — Links: • Steal Shaan's $20M Pitch Deck: https://clickhubspot.com/wem [https://clickhubspot.com/wem] • Boom - https://boomsupersonic.com/ [https://boomsupersonic.com/]  — 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 [https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd] — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ [https://www.joinhampton.com/] • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ [https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/] • Copy That - https://copythat.com [https://copythat.com/] • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth [https://joinhampton.com/wealth] • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ [http://samslist.co/] My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

Episode 703: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr [https://x.com/theSamParr] ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP [https://x.com/ShaanVP] ) talk to George Mack ( https://x.com/george__mack [https://x.com/george__mack] ) about high agency.  — Links: • Steal Sam's guide to turn ChatGPT into your Executive Coach: https://clickhubspot.com/wec [https://clickhubspot.com/wec] • High Agency - https://www.highagency.com/ [https://www.highagency.com/]  • Nick Mowbray episode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pHcxoZ0j9A [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pHcxoZ0j9A]  — 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 [https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd] — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ [https://www.joinhampton.com/] • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ [https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/] • Copy That - https://copythat.com [https://copythat.com/] • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth [https://joinhampton.com/wealth] • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ [http://samslist.co/] My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

Steal Jess' Billion-Dollar Startup Playbook [for free]: https://clickhubspot.com/jhm [https://clickhubspot.com/jhm] Episode 702: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP [https://x.com/ShaanVP] ) boards the private jet of Jess Mah ( https://x.com/jessicamah [https://x.com/jessicamah] ) to brainstorm business ideas and talk about her process for vetting which ideas to jump on.  — Show Notes:  (0:00) Buying a jet (5:37) Barn full of horses (8:44) Business ideas matrix (11:06) Idea: DOGE as a service (13:30) Idea: Vertical agents (16:52) Idea: Cargo ship coating (21:26) Idea: Holy Health (25:07) Building a team with digital twins (28:46) Jess’s 0 - 1 framework (31:09) Worst advice from Silicon Valley (35:44) Find a starving crowd (37:55) Idea: Divorce.fund (38:36) Failures: Credboost (46:08) Ignorant of past, realistic of present, delulu of the future (49:58) Engineering serendipity (56:12) AI for medicine — Links: • Mahway - https://mahway.com/ [https://mahway.com/]  • YC’s Request for Startups - https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs [https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs]  — 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 [https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd] — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ [https://www.joinhampton.com/] • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ [https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/] • Copy That - https://copythat.com [https://copythat.com/] • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth [https://joinhampton.com/wealth] • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ [http://samslist.co/] My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano