My First Million

Mark Jenney on $1,000/day side hustles, whether online courses are legit, unpopular lessons learned on MFM, and last-minute gourmet gift…

Controversy round-up: FTX's drug culture and Sam Bankman-Fried's collapse, Liver King's steroid admission and his fitness-brand trajectory,…

Sam and Shaan's 2023 goal-setting session, with tangents on arbitrage, the state of AI, conversations with Character AI, and clapping back…

Shaan and Sam on Eric Langan (the $800M strip-club mogul), a Black Friday boycott pitch, three Twitter scenarios, George Hotz, how to fly…

Five ways to make money, then a grab bag: profitable fan-fiction IP plays, vice businesses (alcohol/cannabis/ gambling-adjacent), Group…

Bryan Johnson (Braintree → PayPal) on his background, financial plans, where he puts his money, what Kernel (brain-interface) does, his…

Short mindset episode: the 'billionaire framework for making hard decisions', a 'do the hard thing' principle, and a section on mapping…

Andrew Wilkinson of Tiny talks about his portfolio (Pixel Union, AeroPress, cat furniture via Primitive), ranks businesses from hardest to…

Recap of the FTX collapse — what happened, the business background, the SBF / Elon connection, the distrust it created, and Sam and Shaan's…

Sahil Bloom (ex-private-equity, creator/investor) on three profitable business ideas he's pitching now, why he left PE to make millions as…

Shaan and Sam react to the fake Twitter employees who trolled media with 'Ligma + Johnson' pranks inside Twitter's HQ during the Elon…

Kaitlyn Michelle Siragusa, known as Amouranth, explains how she built a $40M social media business empire, her team, prior career, fame…

Sam and Shaan interview Kevin Rose about his roughly $100M/year watch magazine Hodinkee, lessons from selling Digg.com, his Web3 bets and…

Eight seasonal side hustles teased across the episode: Halloween-spend research, Zombie Pumpkins (custom-carved pumpkins), a VR haunted…

Shaan solo on the four kinds of luck (blind, motion, alertness, personal) and the three flavours of risk (market, execution, tech), with…

Brainstorming episode that opens with a hostile takeover of 'Sara's List' (Sam's curated list of startup employers), then interviews Nikita…

Palmer Luckey on flipping iPhones to founding Oculus and selling it to Facebook for $2B, what he's done with the money (crypto, prisons,…

This is Shaan's personal backstory, covering his work in Indonesia, a Stripe interview failure, Monkey Inferno, selling to Twitch, starting…

Sam and Shaan discuss AI business ideas from the Dall-E and GPT-3 wave, including Runway ML, Interior AI, AI photography, a real-life…

Sam and Shaan react to an AI-generated podcast interview between Joe Rogan and Steve Jobs. The chapters focus on the quality, capabilities,…

Shaan Puri and Steph Smith discuss high-demand, low-supply ideas including A/B testing menus, breakup businesses, anti-cheat businesses,…

Shaan Puri joins Saagar Enjeti (Breaking Points) at the Demand Curve Growth Summit on building a loyal audience: personal brand vs company…

Billy-of-the-Week: a founder who went from $0 to billionaire starting a toy factory in China. Plus riff about Breaking Points independent…

Andrew Wilkinson returns to talk stress-testing a business for recession, his portfolio, the value of in-person meetings, why to write a…