My First Million The Hustle & Shaan Puri

Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) discuss:
- Shaan and Sam catch up and talk about the interesting and strange ways that the podcast have affected their lives (3:00)
- Sam breaks down interesting writing tools and questions why they are so successful (6:30)
- Shaan explains why building businesses on the internet is a “winner-takes-all” game (9:55)
- Shaan tells Sam about his new One Big Thing Chrome extension (18:00)
- Sam learns from the AppSumo model (23:00)
- Sam and Shaan talk about how certain financial situations are hard to digest mentally (27:10)
- Shaan talks about being a “time billionaire” (33:05)
- Shaan has an interesting revelation on what it’s like to be an angel investor (44:40)
- Why Bitcoin is different this time (52:43)


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Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) discuss:
- The Black Friday email Sam sent out
- The controversies surrounding Drudge Report
- Creating low-brow media companies like Media Takeout
- The TV production business and Dave Chappelle's request to Netflix
- Bringing back Celebrity Death Match for Tik-Tok?


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Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) discuss:
- The crazy story of J. Paul Getty (Billy of The Week)
- The importance of acting the part and story telling in creating your personal brand
- What do all successful people have in common? Can you not be intense and be successful?
- Who will win the self-driving wars?
- Elon Musk is polarizing -- is he always right? The story of how he got kicked out of PayPal
- An incredible Brooklinen Black Friday sales hack
- Why has no one created the landing page for ecomm?
- AI generated stock photos is a million dollar idea


Reference links:
- How to Be Rich by J. Paul Getty https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Rich-Paul-Getty/dp/0515087378
- How to Get Rich by Felix Dennis https://www.amazon.com/How-Get-Rich-Greatest-Entrepreneurs/dp/1591842719
- The PayPal Wars https://www.amazon.com/PayPal-Wars-Battles-Media-Planet/dp/1936488590
- Kyle Vogt video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sliYTyRpRB8
- 3D images marketplace https://sketchfab.com/


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Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) discuss:
- Shaan finds Internet gold in the Twitter replies from followers of Chamath (1:45)
- Sam explains why Casper mattress company should be in the midwest instead of Brooklyn (3:35)
- Sam thinks one company that is ripe for innovation is Subway (5:25)
- the guys talk about why Western Union should switch to Crypto and modernize (7:10)
- Shaan thinks CVS is another candidate ripe for modernization (12:30)
- Shaan explains why Tootsie Roll should go viral (15:45)
- Sam and Shaan wonder why new candy bars don’t exist (22:15)
- Shaan breaks down a blog post called “Nine Charts About Why Bitcoin is Different This Time” and on if there’s substance behind Bitcoin’s recent rise (30:25)
- Shaan pitches a “collaborative search engine” idea that he’s calling Figma for Browsers (36:10)
- Could “Substack for video” be a thing? (42:00)
- the guys find an interesting bootstrapper online named Jakob Greenfeld (44:35)


Reference links:
- Chamath's tweet https://twitter.com/chamath/status/1329578886556839936
- Shinola https://www.shinola.com/
- Gumspy https://gumspy.com/
- Rap Snacks http://www.rapsnacks.net/
- Rokfin https://rokfin.com/
- Why Bitcoin is different this time https://cointelegraph.com/news/this-time-is-different-10-bitcoin-charts-show-that-this-rally-isn-t-like-2017


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Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) host today's podcast. They discuss:


- Shaan and his fund were featured in Business Insider
- The guys talk about the business of "list making"
- Shaan explains his reasoning for shutting down his All Access Pass newsletter
- There is a movement towards "5-minute" cities and communities. Culdasac is a startup doing this
- What is "solopreneurship"? And why is Shaan so bullish on it
- Tiago Forte is building tiny homes
- The guys discuss startups doing handwritten notes such as Addressable


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Companies mentioned:


- Shaan featured in BI https://www.businessinsider.com/this-vc-has-over-100-lps-on-the-waitlist-for-his-hot-new-rolling-fund-2020-11
- Sam's "city guides" https://chicago.curbed.com/2014/4/23/10110584/this-week-in-chicago-neighborhood-stereotyping
- Culdasac https://culdesac.com/
- Tiago Fortes' tiny homes https://twitter.com/fortelabs/status/1325969162083004418 and https://www.forteshelter.com/about
- Addressable https://www.addressablemail.com/


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Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) host today's podcast. They discuss:


- The business of spy gear and home security
- The importance of leverage in business, which business models are best and taking zero market fit risk
- A company profiting by saving the planet
- Is Elon Musk the greatest dropshipper of all time?
- Parler is creating a free speech Twitter with the backing of conservative billionaires
- How WinRed is raising millions for the Republican Party and profiting
- Quindl, the Pinduoduo for India and who will build America's Pinduoduo


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Companies mentioned:


- https://www.spyguy.com/
- https://www.deepsentinel.com/
- https://parler.com/auth/access
- https://winred.com/


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