My First Million
Ryan Holiday Reveals How Much Best Selling Authors Make, Crazy Peter Thiel Stories & More (#370)Ryan Holiday (author, bookstore owner, former American Apparel marketing director) on whether bestseller lists still matter, real…
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My First Million
Controversial Business Lessons From Napoleon, Edison, & Hitler (#369)Episode 369 ('One Question Friday'): lessons from Hitler, addictive personalities, charisma, and bias to action — framed as conqueror…
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How Much We Make From A Podcast With 3 Million Downloads/Month (#368)Behind-the-scenes on My First Million at 3M downloads/month: ad economics, cost structure, how the pod started, finding a niche, building…
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How Roger Federer Became The First Tennis Billionaire (#367)MFM explores how Roger Federer became the first tennis billionaire through equity/endorsement stacking. They also cover employee incentives…
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How I Spend $15,000/Year To Get & Stay Ripped (As An Entrepreneur) (#366)Sam and Shaan on Sam's $15K/year body stack: a 'Craigslist coach' anecdote, the exact protocols, supplements and gear, Shaan's…
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This Guy Makes $20,000,000/Year With 0 Employees (#365)Profile of a guy making $20M/year with zero employees via Google plugins, plus Billy of the Week, Sam's 'make your 12-year-old self proud'…
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The #1 Sign That Someone Will Become A Billionaire By 40 (#364)Lessons from a Dharmesh Shah lunch (fierce nerds, mediums where you're comfortable, Shaan's odd domain portfolio), then three ideas: a D2C…
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How Successful Startups Got Their First 1000 Customers (Uber, Product Hunt & More) (#362)Why scaling is overrated, how Uber / Product Hunt got their first 1000 customers, Scott Belsky, how to make millions from a salaried…
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This Man Got Richer Than Jeff Bezos With A Boring Business (#361)News/ideas episode: Kanye vs Adidas fallout, Gautam Adani as 'Billy of the Week', MrBeast's translation business (localising his videos…
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9 Underrated Apps, Twitter Accounts & Tools You're Missing Out On (#360)Quick roundup of nine under-the-radar apps, Twitter accounts and tools (YouTube Premium, voice-note/iMessage flows, TriggerPoint massage…
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4 Robot Businesses That Will Take Over The Fast Food Industry (#359)Profiles of two humanoid-robot founders (Brett Adcock of Figure, Furqan Rydhan with a related venture), followed by a deep dive on robotic…
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How To Make Millions By Pitching TV Shows To Netflix, Hulu And Apple (#358)Sam and Shaan on Mad Realities (their reality-format production company, pitched to Netflix/Hulu/Apple), why production companies capture…
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4 Dumb Businesses Valued At Over $100,000,000 (#357)Four prosaic businesses that crossed $100M valuations: Teddy Bear Law (a content site ranking for legal questions), Comparitech…
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We Hosted A Shark Tank For Tech Startups | My First Million Demo Day (#356)Sam and Shaan host a demo day where six tech startups pitch for investment: Cherry, Pillup, Campus Ink, Terrashroom, Dealbuilder, and Field…
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I Spent 48 Hours With MrBeast To Learn Business From Him (#355)Sam Parr, Shaan Puri and producer Ben recount Camp MFM, a retreat where MrBeast was a guest, sharing inside stories about MrBeast's…
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This Guy Is Making $100M/Year Selling Quilts To Your Grandma (#354)Al Doan, co-founder of Missouri Star Quilt Company (the world's largest quilting company at $100M+ revenue), on how the company started,…
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MrBeast Shares What It Really Takes To Become THE BEST On YouTube (Interview w/ MFM & Hasan Minhaj)MrBeast and Hasan Minhaj join Sam and Shaan for a conversation about obsession, how MrBeast measures success, how he runs his company, the…
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6 Hilarious Business Ideas That Could Make You $1,000,000 in 2022 (#351)Five 'drunk ideas' brainstormed as $1M plays: Hideaway (a secret bookcase to hide your phone), Santa's Club (subscription mystery gifts),…
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Living In New York City On $1,200,000 A Year (My Plan)Sam walks through his plan to live in NYC on $1,200,000/year — lifestyle finance with no description, no chapters, and no business idea.
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How To Make $10 Million in 12 Months By Building Apps (#349)The episode includes a segment on making $10M in a year by building apps, plus discussions of New York costs, Scott Painter, Adam Neumann,…
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How LIV Golf Is Competing With PGA's Monopoly | Golf WarsShaan and Sam discuss being a big fish in a small pond, a Florida math teacher with a winning team, interesting companies, LIV Golf…
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Best Businesses To Start In 2022: Vending Machines, B2B Newsletters, Virtual Study Rooms & MoreSam and Shaan discuss virtual study halls, lo-fi YouTube, Scott Galloway reportedly making $5M per year in speaking fees, marketing…
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How To Set Goals For Lazy People | Goal Setting 101Shaan and Sam discuss goal setting for lazy people, goals and anti-goals, flipping disadvantages into advantages, a Jeff Bezos-style story,…
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4 A.I. Business Ideas To Start Using Dall-E, GPT3 & Deepfake TechnologySam and Shaan brainstorm four AI business ideas: DALL-E-powered design tools, John Steinberg's Twitter-empire strategies, building a…