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Sam Parr and Shaan Puri brainstorm new business ideas based on trends & opportunities they see in the market. Sometimes they bring on famous guests to brainstorm with them.

My First Million HubSpot Podcast Network

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    • 4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

Sam Parr and Shaan Puri brainstorm new business ideas based on trends & opportunities they see in the market. Sometimes they bring on famous guests to brainstorm with them.

    99 Years of Charlie Munger Wisdom in 44 Minutes

    99 Years of Charlie Munger Wisdom in 44 Minutes

    Episode 525: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) pay tribute to Charlie Munger by telling stories about how his wisdom changed their lives and businesses. 
    No more small boy spreadsheets, build your business on the free HubSpot CRM: https://mfmpod.link/hrd


    Show Notes:
    (0:00) Intro
    (2:00) To get what you want, deserve what you want
    (6:30) I'm not entitled to an opinion unless...
    (8:00) Churchillian self-confidence
    (12:30) Avoiding stupidity is easier than seeking brilliance
    (18:00) Optimize for the truth
    (23:00) Invert, always invert
    (35:30) Learn all the big ideas in your space


    Links:
    • MFM meetups - https://getriver.io/mfm
    • Cloud Poker tournament - cloudpokernight.com/mfm
    • Free 2024 Goal-Setting Session - https://planfor2024.com/


    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/






    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

    • 49 min
    Pomp Shares 3 Non-Obvious Business Ideas with Massive TAMs

    Pomp Shares 3 Non-Obvious Business Ideas with Massive TAMs

    Episode 524: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) are joined by Anthony Pompliano about what secret sauce makes for the most successful investors, billionaires you’ve probably never heard of, plus three 10/10 business ideas.
    No more small boy spreadsheets, build your business on the free HubSpot CRM: https://mfmpod.link/hrd


    Show Notes:
    (0:00) Intro
    (3:20) Meeting hedge fund legend Julian Robertson
    (10:00) What makes a master investor
    (13:00) Pomp's $1M bet
    (20:00) Warren Buffett: Finance's first influencer
    (26:00) Idea 1 - Real estate content platform
    (32:00) Navigating the idea maze
    (35:00) How Nikita Bier engineers virality
    (40:30) 7X billionaire Brad Jacobs
    (46:30) Idea 2 - Persistent Patrol Companies
    (53:00) Idea 3 - AI agents
    (59:00) Pomp's business portfolio


    Links:
    • Tiger Management - https://www.tigerglobal.com/
    • ResiClub - https://www.resiclubanalytics.com/
    • “How to Make a Few Billion Dollars” - https://tinyurl.com/ybtrwxey
    • Jakob Greenfeld’s list - https://tinyurl.com/yjn52dek
    • Upwork - https://www.upwork.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/

    Check Out Sam's Stuff:
    • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/
    • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/
    • Copy That - https://copythat.com/






    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

    • 1 hr 12 min
    Finding +$1M Businesses From Weird Trends

    Finding +$1M Businesses From Weird Trends

    Episode 523: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) reveal +$1M dollar business ideas based on weird trends they’re seeing plus the easiest ways to level up your life. 
    No more small boy spreadsheets, build your business on the free HubSpot CRM: https://mfmpod.link/hrd


    Show Notes:
    (0:00) Intro
    (1:30) The meteoric rise of Bret Taylor
    (8:00) Lessons from dinner with billionaires
    (16:00) Josh Kushner's subtle flex
    (19:00) The TJ Parker way: Do dope sh*t
    (28:00) The Dr. Dre Question
    (35:00) New One Chart Business!
    (51:00) Sexier fiber supplements
    (1:05:00) Visual kill shots



    Links:
    • Warehouse - https://warehousepc.com/
    • TJ Parker’s Twitter - https://tinyurl.com/mwcbpkf6
    • Primer - https://primer.com/
    • Create Wellness - https://trycreate.co/


    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/









    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

    • 1 hr 12 min
    My $100M Mistake + 6 Company Exit F**k Ups To Avoid

    My $100M Mistake + 6 Company Exit F**k Ups To Avoid

    Episode 522: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) play the drinking game “Never Will I Ever,” revealing all the painful mistakes they made when selling their +$10M companies.
    No more small boy spreadsheets, build your business on the free HubSpot CRM: https://mfmpod.link/hrd


    Show Notes:
    (0:00) Intro
    (2:30) Ignoring QSBS
    (7:30) Shutting down a company
    (13:00) Putting out desperate vibes
    (17:30) Choosing the highest offer over the best offer
    (22:00) Assuming you’re talking to the decision-maker
    (27:00) Not getting uncomfortable in a negotiation
    (37:00) Being disorganized
    (43:00) Muddying your margins
    (47:00) Closing a deal remotely


    Links:
    • $100M mistake” - https://tinyurl.com/yphh46sk


    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/






    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

    • 54 min
    Andrew Wilkinson's $20,000 to $260,000,000 story

    Andrew Wilkinson's $20,000 to $260,000,000 story

    Episode 521:Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) talk to Andrew Wilkinson about the “Profit First” strategy, how to be a master networker, and his Barnacle On The Whale Strategy for growing 10x with zero marketing.
    No more small boy spreadsheets, build your business on the free HubSpot CRM: https://mfmpod.link/hrd


    Show Notes:
    (0:00) Intro
    (2:00) Business on hard mode vs. easy mode
    (12:00) Cliffs Notes for “Profit First”
    (19:30) Leveraging incentives
    (24:00) Breakdown: Holdco acquisition funnels
    (28:00) Andrew sends Sam a private jet
    (32:30) Shooting your shot with your heroes
    (38:00) Crashing the Oscars afterparty
    (43:00) Buying vs earning your way into the room
    (47:00) POV: Peter Attia is your doctor
    (50:00) Barnacle on the Whale Strategy
    (57:00) People always suffer in silence
    (1:00:00)Hitting rock bottom


    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/




    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

    • 1 hr 9 min
    SHOTS FIRED!! OPEN AI Explodes

    SHOTS FIRED!! OPEN AI Explodes

    Episode 520: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) are dropping an EMERGENCY POD. They’ve been on Twitter all weekend–ignoring their families–just to bring you this breakdown of the chaos going down at OpenAI.  
    No more small boy spreadsheets, build your business on the free HubSpot CRM: https://mfmpod.link/hrd


    Show Notes:
    (0:00) Intro
    (2:00) Act One - Sam Altman gets fired from OpenAI
    (6:30) Act Two - The Board vs The Team
    (9:30) Act Three: A new CEO is crowned
    (12:30) Sam Altman: the man, the myth
    (18:00) Who is Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever?
    (32:30) Emmett Shear enters the chat
    (48:00) The boys make predictions
    (50:00) Takeaway: The best and worst of Silicon Valley in 48 hours

    Links:
    • Sam Altman’s Twitter - https://twitter.com/sama
    • Greg Brockman’s Blog - https://blog.gregbrockman.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/

    Check Out Sam's Stuff:
    • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/
    • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/
    • Copy That - https://copythat.com/


    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

    • 1 hr 1 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
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2.2K Ratings

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Phenomenal

Entertaining, educational, interesting, and funny. What more do you want?

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Fun show to listen to and learn

One of my favorite shows to learn the mistakes and triumphs of entrepreneurs along their growth journey.

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Best Business Podcast!

I had a friend introduce this podcast to me 6 months ago or so. It has been the most amazing podcast for entrepreneurs. Shaan and Sam are funny and engaging in their episodes. It’s so good I wish they did episodes every single day. They get my business brain working and it helps me generate new ideas for the future.
Warning: This podcast is addicting!

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