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The 2-Week Social App Doing $1M/MonthDespite the title, the chapters are a riff-mix: a $10M ARR dinner-club membership, Black Friday/Cyber Monday mechanics and…
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3 Stories of Crazy Geniuses: Fenn’s Treasure, Michael Saylor’s Infinite Money Glitch + moreThree stories: a Bitcoin millionaire hid $2M in physical treasures across the US (Fenn-style), the Ralph Lauren brand-construction story,…
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Billionaire Compresses 20 Years of Wisdom Into 75 Minutes - Dharmesh ShahDharmesh Shah (HubSpot CTO/founder) condenses 20 years of building into lessons on leverage, being an asset not a liability, getting close…
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$100B Founder Breaks Down The Biggest AI Business Opportunities For 2025$100B-app founder breaks down AI business opportunities for 2025: define the job-to-be-done, how to build an AI agent workflow, an AI tools…
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"We're in a TikTok gold rush" - 5 Business Ideas To Start In 2025Five 2025 TikTok gold-rush ideas: ride TikTok's Creator Rewards Program, Botox Face Tape (a beauty tap), a Madison Reed dupe, a Self-help…
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3 Stories Of People Making Millions In Weird WaysSam and Shaan cover three stories: the rise and fall of Martha Stewart, off-label 'Ozempic for sleep' (GLP-1 microdosing), and Polymarket's…
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Leila Hormozi: From Minimum Wage Employee to $100M Net Worth By 29Leila Hormozi (Alex Hormozi's partner, $100M net worth by 29) walks through going from minimum-wage to $10M workshops: the Dickens Method,…
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Unicorn Founder on Unseen Arbitrages, the Paradox of Wealth + Charlie Munger WisdomShaan talks to Flexport founder Ryan Petersen on playing both games (bootstrap to millions, then raise for billions): Import Genius origin,…
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6 College Students Pitch Us Their Startups | MFM Shark TankSix student founders pitch: Metafrazo (translation/localisation product), Milieu (community app), Brother Nuts (snack brand), Tour…
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I failed 22 times... then I built a $2.5B CompanyVanta founder Charlie Cogswell (or a fellow USV guest) walks through 'stumblehustling' into USV, the art of fear, the marshmallow test,…
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3 Killer Businesses Hidden in Plain SightThree 'hidden' businesses sized at three tiers: a $1M water-quality-testing product, a $10M labour-law-poster subscription/compliance…
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Inside The Marketing Machine Of Billion-Dollar Presidential CampaignsSam and Shaan break down the marketing machinery behind Trump's 2016 and 2024 campaigns and Kamala Harris's viral-clip factory, plus the…
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Q&A: Gut punches, favorite guests, plus advice for lifeStandard MFM Q&A: where to put money, best thing read lately, who's on MFM's Mt. Rushmore of guests, biggest gut punch, who they'd spend 24…
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Y Combinator CEO Shares How They Turn Wild Ideas Into Real CompaniesGarry Tan, CEO of Y Combinator, joins Sam and Shaan to talk about what makes YC outperform other investors, 'capital-as-a-service' for…
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How Mike Posner built a music empire from his dorm roomMike Posner on building a music career out of a college dorm: iTunesU distribution, getting on radio while still in school, writing process…
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You Have 70 Days to Win the YearThe episode covers a 70-day push to finish the year, Jamie Beaton's prestige hacking, Ken Fisher's marketing playbook, the economics of…
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Meet the 14yo entrepreneur who's already launched 2 businessesSam and Shaan interview 14-year-old Isaac Katayev, who built and sold his first product Cookieduck in 7th grade, made $1,500 a day at age…
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How I Built A $600M Protein Bar Company In My Basement | RxBar FounderPeter Rahal on RXBAR's path to a $600M exit, branding-as-solution, his return with David Protein, plus four idea sketches — differentiated…
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How to boost your social status with a $100 partyShaan interviews Nick Gray about his '$100 party' method for boosting social status — name-tag rules, icebreakers, hosting cadence, and how…
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Did the creator of Bitcoin just get unmasked?News-riff on the new HBO documentary that names Peter Todd as Bitcoin's creator Satoshi Nakamoto, a 1-minute case for Bitcoin, why being…
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The Wild Story of Mike Lynch’s Rise From Janitor to Tech BillionaireSam and Shaan recount Mike Lynch's (UK tech billionaire) rise from janitor's son to selling Autonomy to HP, his death in a freak yacht…
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How Silicon Valley’s Most Prolific Investor Picks Unicorns | Elad Gil InterviewElad Gil joins Sam and Shaan to discuss angel investing, creating a bankroll, learning defense tech, investing in Anduril early, one-person…
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5 Random But Useful Things I Learned At A Private Equity ConferenceSam shares observations from a private equity conference, including a low-status technique for gaining status, quirks of wealthy people,…
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The guy who gets paid $80K/yr to do nothingSam and Shaan cover Shoji Morimoto, who reportedly earns $80K per year renting himself out for companionship, non-sexual companionship…