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Episode 503: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) sits down with Cody Ko (https://twitter.com/codyko) to talk about building the viral app I’d Cap That, his +$1M YouTube empire & partying with Elon Musk.

Looking for episode 502? Check out Shaan’s Reaction to the Linda Yaccarin Interview on YouTube.

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
• Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com/
• Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant
• Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing
• Small Boy Newsletter - https://smallboy.co/
• Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com/

Check Out Sam's Stuff:
• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/
• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/
• Copy That - https://copythat.com/
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro
(2:00) I’d Cap That hits #1 in the App Store
(9:00) App developer to content creator
(13:00) 1M views overnight
(17:00) How to crush live shows
(23:00) Get better at your craft
(36:00) Tiny Beat Gang and making music videos
(44:00) Frozen S’mores, Shark Tank for Creators, AI Thumbnail app
(51:00) Going to Elon Musk’s house party

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Links:
• Vine - https://vine.co/
• Cody Ko YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/codyko
• That’s Cringe - https://tinyurl.com/2adyejay
• Cody’s Run Club - https://www.ko-official.com/
• Living with a Seal - https://tinyurl.com/wdjkj2je
• Marquis Jetset - https://www.marquisjetset.com/
• Tiny Meat Gang - Keep Ya D*ck Fat (OFFICIAL VIDEO) - https://tinyurl.com/559w6pve
• Tiny Meat Gang - Super Xan (OFFICIAL VIDEO) - https://tinyurl.com/57ks7yat
• Tiny Meat Gang - Broke B*tch - https://tinyurl.com/pz8jya2p


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 501: Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) answers fan questions about his spending habits after selling his company, his approach to fatherhood and the words that changed his life.

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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/

Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
• Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com/
• Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant
• Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing
• Small Boy Newsletter - https://smallboy.co/
• Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com/

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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro
(0:42) What is top of mind as you become a dad?
(3:30) What's the biggest difference in your lifestyle now that you're effing rich?
(8:00) What were your alternative business ideas if you didn’t do Hampton?
(11:30) What was the most painful thing someone told you and how did that change you?
(15:00) What’s one trendy business model you think is over-hyped?
(17:00) What did you do when you arrived [at SF] to start laying the foundation to meet interesting people and business builders?

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Links:
• “Lottery winners and accident victims: is happiness relative?” - https://tinyurl.com/ykbh275y
• CB Insights - https://www.cbinsights.com/
• PitchBook - https://pitchbook.com/
• The Anti-MBA - http://www.theantimba.com/
• Monkey Inferno - https://tinyurl.com/yc842nww
• Ikagai - https://tinyurl.com/3x9mytpb


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 500: Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) talks to Jason Yanowitz (https://twitter.com/JasonYanowitz) founder of Blockworks, which covers crypto news, information and analytics. Jason shares the revenue numbers behind Blockworks, the secret to hosting profitable events, and why he would put 100% of his portfolio in crypto. 

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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/

Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
• Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com/
• Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant
• Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing
• Small Boy Newsletter - https://smallboy.co/
• Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com/
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro
(1:45) Blockworks revenue and profitability
(4:00) How to crush it with a conference
(10:00) Conferences are really 3-day marketplaces
(15:00) Jason's accidental MLM success story
(23:00) The difference between MLMs and pyramid schemes
(27:00) How Sam Ovens inspired Blockworks
(30:00) The fallacy of founder origin stories
(35:00) How Sam is optimizing his life
(42:00) Business Idea: Beehiiv for Conferences
(45:00) Business Idea: Hair transplants for the masses
(48:00) Blockworks Research
(55:00) Where is Jason putting his money?
(1:00:00) How Sam thinks about crypto

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Links:
• Blockworks - https://blockworks.co/
• Blockworks Research - https://www.blockworksresearch.com/
• Blockworks Twitter - https://twitter.com/blockworks_
• Jason’s Twitter - https://twitter.com/JasonYanowitz
• Sam Ovens Consulting company - https://www.consulting.com/
• Peter Turchin - https://peterturchin.com/
• beehiiv - https://www.beehiiv.com/
• Eventbrite - https://www.eventbrite.com/
• Splash - https://splashthat.com/
• Hopin acquisition - https://tinyurl.com/2zn2kk3p
• ‘Elon Musk,’ by Walter Isaacson - https://tinyurl.com/bde53vpr
• Jeff Bezo’s Regret Minimization Framework - https://tinyurl.com/m34hmyfk


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 499: Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) talks to Brett Adcock (https://twitter.com/adcock_brett) about how he nearly went bankrupt after his +$100m exit from Vettery (now Hired). How? Betting everything on the next big idea. And he’s doing it again today with Figure.ai, a robotics company bringing a general purpose humanoid to life.

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
• Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com/
• Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant
• Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing
• Small Boy Newsletter - https://smallboy.co/
• Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com/

Check Out Sam's Stuff:
• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/
• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/
• Copy That - https://copythat.com/
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro
(2:00) How Brett self-funded Archer Aviation
(13:00) Nearly going personally bankrupt
(19:00) Street of Walls and being a self-taught finance expert
(24:00) How to choose the right idea to work on
(28:00) Why Future could be the biggest business in the world
(32:00) Addressing objections to a robot workforce
(35:00) Why hardware is actually easier than software
(40:00) How big is Figure going to be in 5 years?
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Links:
• Brett Adcock’s website - https://www.brettadcock.com/
• Figure (AI Robotics) - https://www.figure.ai/
• Archer Aviation - https://www.archer.com/
• Vettery (now Hired) - https://hired.com/
• Ikagai - https://tinyurl.com/3x9mytpb
• Street of Walls - https://www.streetofwalls.com/
• The Fast Track: https://tinyurl.com/yeyz7j7p


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 498: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) talk about the coolest stuff they’ve seen this week—like why Nancy Pelosi may be out-investing Warren Buffet and how Cultural Tutor is winning Twitter by taking it more seriously than everybody else. 

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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/

Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
• Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com/
• Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant
• Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing
• Small Boy Newsletter - https://smallboy.co/
• Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com/
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro
(2:00) Bill Gurley exposes the grift of regulation
(7:00) Deion Sanders on “60 Minutes” 
(14:00) CFO Secrets on negotiating like an M&A master
(21:00) The Cultural Tutor’s obsession with writing one tweet
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Links:
• Bill Gurley's All-In Talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9cO3-MLHOM
• Autopilot: https://www.joinautopilot.com/
• Deion Sanders “60 Minutes” interview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8PSWeRLGXs
• Deion Sanders Jr’s YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_n7zvkh3y3PLBIUA1lHkjw
• The Score Takes Care of Itself - https://tinyurl.com/jtspe367
• CFO Secrets - "Uncovering The Mystery of Working Capital in M&A" - https://www.cfosecrets.io/p/working-capital-adjustment-peg-m-a
• The Cultural Tutor on David Perell - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pBxikHRCXI
• The Cultural Tutor twitter - https://twitter.com/culturaltutor
• Vacation Sunscreen - https://www.vacation.inc/
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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.
—
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 497: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) share 4 businesses that are crushing it — from airport security to Etsy store-owner’s favorite machine to well-branded women’s products. Plus, Shaan shares a dating app idea that‘s thoroughly OP.

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
• Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com
• Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant
• Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing
• Small Boy Newsletter - https://smallboy.co
• Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com

Check Out Sam's Stuff:
• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com
• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co
• Copy That - https://copythat.com
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro
(0:30) Surprise 1: Merch!
(5:05) Surprise 2: New YouTube Clips Channel!
(8:15) Business breakdown 1: Clear ($3b)
(19:33) Business breakdown 2: Cricut
(25:20) The real story behind Native Deodorant
(29:20) Business breakdown 3: Aunt Flow
(32:52) iCracked
(38:00) Business breakdown 5: Cloud Poker Night
(45:30) Products that grow virally (not word-of-mouth)
(47:20) Gamer Dating App
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Links:
• MFM Merch - https://store.mfmpod.com/
• MFM Clips Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@ClipMFM
• Clear - https://www.clearme.com/
• Cricut - https://cricut.com/en-us/
• Etsy - https://www.etsy.com/
• Native Deodorant - https://www.nativecos.com/
• Aunt Flow - https://goauntflow.com/
• iCracked - https://www.youtube.com/c/icracked
• Cloud Poker Night - https://cloudpokernight.com/
• Dil Mill - https://dilmil.co/
• Evolv - https://www.evolvtechnology.com/
• Farmers Only - https://www.farmersonly.com/
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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.
—
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