My First Million The Hustle & Shaan Puri

Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@theSamParr) discuss:


- Sam explains the origins of the QAnon movement
- Could buying collectibles from infamous people work?
- Romance stories are big business: Sam almost launched a company in the space (https://www.shortbutromantic.com/daily-story)
- Wattpad which started as a romance novel community was sold for $600m recently
- Sam explains how he hacked Amazon's book rankings for his novel "Captivating Clare"
- Sam brings up pickleball (a booming sport in Austin) -- Shaan points out, there are always opportunities when new sports are created
- Aaron Barrera (@TheGrinchofAS) joins Shaan to go down the rabbit hole of crypto and more


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Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Suleman "Suli" Ali (@sulemanali) discuss:


- Creating a reputation database for people
- Voluntarily selling your data to companies
- Dealing with scammers
- Creating a publically available org chart
- A new religion that celebrates life instead of death and the new in-vogue churches
- Sharing assets among friends. Example: together.casa
- Creating the “Stripe for vices”
- Suli answers: How would you make a million bucks quickly? If you look at your calendar for the past 30 days, who was the most interesting person or company you met with?


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Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) discuss:


- Who is Reed Duchscher
- How does managing a YouTuber work
- Who is MrBeast and how he got so big
- Creating empires with celebrities and influencers
- What is a "Personal Media Company"
- How much did MrBeast Burgers make?
- What're the biggest opportunities in management right now?
- Why you get into the management business (the access)
- What should MrBeast be doing right nowInfluencers in unorthodox spaces
- Influencers ran banks
- Faceless creators are booming
- Shaan thinks Influencers should get into the sleep business


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Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) discuss:


- DTC smelling salts?
- A mysterious, anonymous new app
- Should you hide your real opinions?
- The amazing story of Katalin Kariko
- Should you focus on legacy or fun?
- MFM embraces the banter
- Shaan's giving away a company
- The world of affiliates links and adtech
- Improving ad managers and the origin story of Wish
- Jacked techies
- What's the most gimmicky thing you've ever done?


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Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) discuss:


- Is Sam Parr Time Person of the Year?
- Jeremy introduces himself
- Idea: subscription box for bread (and the millions in subscription boxes)
- The big business of selling to middle America (aspirational branding)
- Boring DTC products that crush it
- Ideas for niche software (ex: trust fund SaaS)
- Huge homeschooling opportunities
- Millions to be made creating products for influencers
- How one guy took a local brand national
- Why cold chain storage is booming


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Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) discuss:


- 02:52: A home security idea
- 06:02: Wynter.io and other powerful simple plugins
- 15:24: Kevin Systrom's and Mark Zuckerburg's transcripts from the Instagram acquisition
- 22:01: Shaan discusses his controversial Tweet
- 40:21: A digital meet and greet idea
- 47:15: Syed Balkhi - The little known entrepreneur with a ~$30m empire


Thank you to our sponsor this episode, Flatfile! Spend less time on Excel and more time building your business by easily importing data using Flatfile. Check them out at flatfile.io/hustle.


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