My First Million
We Bet This App Idea Could Be Bigger Than RedditSam and Shaan discuss a $1B app idea described as Reddit for millennial moms, using reverse cravings and household trend observation, plus…
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My First Million
Marketing Lessons from Jingles, Candy Crush, and Betting SitesThis episode studies memorable marketing tactics such as jingles, prediction markets like Polymarket, wisdom-of-the-crowd effects, gaming…
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3 Startup Ideas: Mouse Jigglers, Employee Monitoring Softwares and Photoshop CopycatsThe hosts discuss overemployment tools, mouse jigglers, employee monitoring software, and a $22M ARR side hustle that catches mouse…
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Our buddy sold his app for $200M in just 6 weeks?!Dan Porter (OMGPop / Draw Something / Overtime) recounts selling Draw Something to Zynga for ~$200M only six weeks after launch, after…
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How To Go Beast Mode As A FounderRiff on Peter Thiel's 'one priority' philosophy, three lies founders tell themselves, the story of Zuck closing a $1B deal in 48 hours,…
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How I Made My First $1M - The Andrew Wilkinson StoryAndrew Wilkinson recounts going from a $6.50/hr barista to millionaire in four years: the four 'level ups' (day job to self-employed to…
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The Simple Newsletter Making $20M+ A Year With 1 EmployeeKevin Van Trump (Van Trump Report, ~$18M ARR run by 4 people) explains how a rural farm kid built a paid commodities-trading newsletter,…
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Business Tricks We've Learned From Gamblers, Pickup Artists, & FeynmanLessons re-packaged from Ed Thorp (mathematics of gambling, world's first hedge fund), the book The Game, the Feynman learning technique,…
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The Dark Story Behind Ozempic’s $500B Business EmpireSam and Shaan trace the $500B Ozempic business back to processed food, the Flexner Report, doctors' lack of nutrition training, the…
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5 Business Ideas To Start Today With $0 ft. Shark Tank's Sabri SubySabri Suby (King Kong) shares five zero-capital business ideas: Done-For-You Channel Growth (an agency that grows clients' YouTube/social),…
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3 Things You Need To Outperform 99% Of EntrepreneursFounders' traits distilled from Dana White, Elon Musk and Emmett Shear: brute force, extreme bias for action, speed. Plus a 'perfect niche…
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Watch These 40 Minutes To Unf*ck Your LifeSam and Shaan on 'unfucking your life': the rise and fall of Lehman Brothers, the lived life vs the unlived life, Jerry Seinfeld's work…
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EXCLUSIVE: $3B Founder Reveals His Next Big Idea | Brett Adcock InterviewSam Parr talks to Brett Adcock (Figure AI humanoid robots) about solving school shootings, cold-calling NASA, spotting the mega-trend,…
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He Got Fired By His DAD… So He Built a $60M/yr Empire ft. Craig FullerCraig Fuller tells how FreightWaves hit $20M ARR in two years with fuel cards for truckers, then acquired FLYING for $3.5M and 'depressed…
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$100M Founder Reveals The Secret To Making Data Profitable ft. Anand SanwalAnand Sanwal (CB Insights) on building a $100M profitable data business: the data-arbitrage playbook, starting as 'Chubby Brain',…
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The GameStop Guy Has Returned… (And Has A New $210M Bet)Reaction to Roaring Kitty's $200M GameStop position and Ryan Cohen's activist history, then a pivot into the booming run-club trend and the…
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25 Years Of Founder WISDOM In 55 Minutes (ft. Jason Fried)Basecamp/37signals co-founder Jason Fried on loosening the grip on the stick, the pale blue dot, why the businessworld deserves our best…
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This $50M/Yr Side Hustle Is On Track To Make $1 Billion By 2030Craig Fuller (Airbnb Magazine / FreightWaves founder) on building a $50M/yr 'side hustle' they predict will hit $1B by 2030, plus the New…
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He Turned A $300/Mo Gardening Side Hustle Into $45 Million/Year | Kevin Espiritu InterviewKevin Espiritu (Epic Gardening) walks through his origin: Pat Flynn influence, a cocoa-butter review site, POD shirts, a $300/mo gardening…
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How This Ex-Navy SEAL Turned A Book Into A $1M+ Empire | Jack Carr InterviewSam Parr interviews bestselling author Jack Carr about turning books into a $1M+ empire, releasing 6 books in 6 years, branding, audience…
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WE REACT: The My First Muscle Results ARE INSam and Shaan announce and react to the winners of the My First Muscle fitness challenge, recapping the funniest, most impressive and most…
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How To Master Storytelling ft. David PerellDavid Perell on storytelling craft: intention & obstacle, hooks vs frames, viral tweets, MrBeast's formula, origin stories, viral videos,…
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How Gary Vee Predicts The Next Facebook (Every Time)Long-form interview with Gary Vaynerchuk on how he 'predicts the next Facebook': attention is the only universal asset class, post-iPhone…
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The Lazy Millionaire: I Own 40 Companies, But Don't Run Any Of ThemStep-by-step playbook for the 'lazy millionaire' model of owning 40 businesses without running any: deciding you're ready to hire a CEO,…