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Stop Doing Boring Work Yourself…A live-AI demo episode: an Instant Dossier agent that builds a brief on anyone in seconds, the Model Context Protocol as the connective…
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I Spent 24 Hours With The Most Intense Billionaire AliveSam's 24 hours with the most intense billionaire alive, structured as rapid profiles of Hayes Barnard, Sasha Koehn, Alex Hormozi, Wade…
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How To Make Millions As A Real Estate Tycoon ($0 to $1.5B in 10 years)Sanjiv Chopra tells the story of going from $15M in debt on his first deal to a ~$1.5B real-estate portfolio in 10 years: pawning his…
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What Happens When A $30B Founder Uses ChatGPTHubSpot CTO Dharmesh Shah walks Sam and Shaan through how he actually uses ChatGPT: context windows, vector embeddings, automation and…
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Brainstorming $10M AI Business Ideas w/ the Airtable FounderBrainstorm with the Airtable founder on AI-native businesses: live shopping with AI avatars, AI-personalised news feeds, an AI personal…
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How this dumb doll makes $2M per daySam and Shaan unpack Labubu's reported $2M-per-day sales at Pop Mart, the 'gotcha' mechanic in blind boxes, the lipstick effect, and other…
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The Most Overlooked Way to Build Wealth Right NowShaan's college friend Dan Certner explains how he bought a (used designer) bag business and doubled it in 18 months: finding the right…
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“All 5 Of Us Immediately Became Billionaires”Mike Novogratz (Galaxy Digital) walks through going from his first million to co-founding Fortress, growing $30M of seed into a $2.3B…
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Old Owners Are Desperate to Hand Off Profitable BusinessesMixed bag: billionaire happiness recipe, Shaan's Berkeley talk, Steve Ballmer on Acquired, Gary V's bullish take on everything, the new NYC…
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Business as a sport, Surge AI, and Waymo vs. RobotaxiSam and Shaan discuss business as a sport, mindset ideas from The Inner Game of Tennis, Patron View, Surge AI, Handshake, Waymo versus…
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The Framework Behind 9 “Lucky” $1M Business HitsSam and Shaan break down Ben's framework for nine "lucky" $1M business wins, leaning on stories about The K Academy, how Ben positions…
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The Most Ridiculous Ways People Are Making MoneyQ&A grab-bag: Apple just unlocked a $1B app idea, McKinsey got $55M for a project, Frank Slootman's ice-cold advice, a man stole $122M from…
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The Side Hustle King: “I’m making $8K/DAY from easy businesses”A grab-bag of nine low-overhead side hustles pitched by 'the side hustle king', each reportedly yielding thousands per day: hole-in-one…
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The Most Ridiculous Ways to Make $1M (That Actually Work)Grab-bag of weird but real million/billion-dollar businesses: a $1M twerking class, fecal transplants, the BBL market at $1B+, a $5B-valued…
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Shopify President: While Everyone Chases AI, Sell These ProductsShopify president (Harley Finkelstein) on 'while everyone chases AI, sell these boring products' — Swiss-army-knife founders, 'people only…
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How to Scale a Profitable Agency with 0 Employees (Using AI Agents)This episode discusses scaling a profitable agency with no employees by using AI as go-to-market, tinkering with tools such as Supabase,…
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How the smartest founders are winning in AISam and Shaan talk with Jason Lemkin about AI body doubles, users telling AI things they will not tell humans, incumbent apps being…
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Business Is Now On Easy ModeThis is a step-by-step process for finding an idea, sketching it, scoping an MVP, vibe-coding a prototype, marketing it, and using an AI…
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This Opportunity Won’t Exist In 5 Years - $3B FounderA $3B founder discusses dropping out, building Vercel, and a set of AI startup ideas. The ideas include V0 for video games, Doom CAPTCHA,…
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You’re Underestimating How Much You Can MakeSam and Shaan revisit Bessemer passing on Shopify (now $140B+), Shaan's anti-portfolio of startups he almost invested in, 'Goal: Avoid…
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Hinge expert shares dating advice for ambitious nerdsA Hinge data expert gives dating advice for 'ambitious nerds': the secretary problem, what's happening with men, how to use the apps right,…
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The great USA reset: why I'm getting out nowScott Galloway on macro: bankruptcy-claim trades ($2M to $15M on FTX claims), NJOY ($2.5M to $75M), YellowPages ($4M to $20M), a bearish…
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How to retire with millions (and pay $0 taxes)Ankur Nagpal (founder of Teachable-era fund) walks through his portfolio experiment, direct indexing, super/mega backdoor Roth conversions,…
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How to Start a Local Business With No ExperienceIdea-sprint episode: how to spot $1M businesses, swim-lessons franchise, 'AWS for the Amish' (software for a low-tech niche), at-home pet…