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The Secret to Being Great | My First Million #199Sam and Shaan recap recent content they consumed: Naval's tweetstorm on getting rich without getting lucky, The Almanac of Naval Ravikant,…
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How to Build a Unicorn Around the NCAA Reg Changes | My First Million #198Sam and Shaan discuss opportunities created by NCAA rule changes, healthy eating on the go, inflections, Stanwith.me, an internal company…
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Frameworks to Become a Billionaire with HubSpot Co-Founder Dharmesh Shah | My First Million #197Sam and Shaan interview billionaire HubSpot co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah about the thinking behind buying The Hustle, his framework on…
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Who Really Created Bitcoin & Other Crypto Startup Ideas | My First Million #196Dan Held on Satoshi Nakamoto's identity, the Genesis block, Bitcoin history, ideas for crypto startups, a new kind of private wealth…
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A Discussion on Sam & Shaan's Recent Investments | My First Million #195Sam and Shaan walk through seven recent personal investments: AbstractOps (back-office ops), Jar (gold savings), Ruumr (?), 1Build…
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How to launch a $100M DTC brand | My First Million #194Justin Mares (Kettle & Fire, Perfect Keto, Surely Wines) breaks down four side-hustle archetypes (buy an asset, launch on a marketplace…
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How a $25 Million a Year Sweepstakes Business Works | My First Million #193Sam and Shaan go deep on the $25M/year sweepstakes industry: how Sam would have used sweepstakes to grow The Hustle, plus Oasis (a positive…
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Making Billions with Greeting Cards & Rich People (not) Paying Taxes | My First Million #192Sam and Shaan break down greeting cards, digital card subscriptions, birthdayalarm.com making millions for decades, social gifting through…
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4 Big Trends and $0 to $1 Billion Startup Idea Frameworks | My First Million #191Shaan and Sam talk with seed investor Mike Maples about four major inflections, cloud offices, centralization and decentralization,…
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Making Billions in Coworking & the Dark Side of Confidence | My First Million #190Sam and Shaan break down the multi-billion-dollar coworking industry, what it takes to succeed, and the mystique of Adam Neumann. They also…
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What It's Like to Be Rich & How to Respond to Growth Plateaus | My First Million #188Q&A episode: 'what's it like to be rich', what they read outside business, how success affects relationships, pandemic habits to keep, what…
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Second-hand E-commerce, Door-to-door Sales, and Live Show Recaps | My First Million #189Sam and Shaan discuss second-hand e-commerce, door-to-door sales, rebound travel businesses after COVID, sports innovation, NFTs,…
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How Vending Machines are Generating Millions & The Next Big Social App | My First Million #187Riff: how Vimeo went from a College Humor spinoff to an ~$8B valuation, the next big social-app prediction, vending-machine economics (six…
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Billionaire Marc Lore on What He Would Build Today and Future of Ecommerce | My First Million #186Billionaire Marc Lore (The Pitt, Diapers.com, Jet.com, sold companies for $4B+) on buying the Minnesota Timberwolves with Alex Rodriguez,…
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Andrew Wilkinson On The Secretive Billionaire Who Acquired Burger King | My First Million #185Andrew Wilkinson joins Sam to profile Jorge Paulo Lemann (3G Capital — Burger King, Heinz, AB InBev) and his playbook of acquiring consumer…
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Making Millions Improving Mobility & How to Beat LinkedIn | My First Million #184Episode 184: why no one has shipped a Canva-for-video yet (market opportunity), mobility apps like GOWOD and The Ready State making…
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How Course Businesses Work & How Irish Pubs as a Service is Making Millions | My First Million #183A guide to the courses industry (types, how to build and grow them), an interview-style breakdown of how IPaaS (Irish Pub as a Service) is…
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How an Astrology App Makes $10m+ & Why a Boxing Announcer is Worth $400m | My First Million #182Sam and Shaan dig into the Sanctuary astrology app controversy (VCs calling it pseudoscience), brainstorm 'make-it-about-me' businesses…
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How Virtual Horses are Making Millions & A Potential 9-Figure Company | My First Million #181Sam and Shaan on three different million-dollar businesses: a virtual horse-racing company doing millions (Sam tried to invest), a DTC…
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Furqan Rydhan on What It's Like Co-founding a $20B Company | My First Million #180Furqan Rydhan (co-founder of AppLovin, Shaan's CTO at Bebo) on his new venture f.inc, how AppLovin became $20B+, bullish hardware, DeFi and…
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How the UFC Became a Multi-Billion Dollar Brand | My First Million #179Breaking down UFC's profitability after Endeavor's IPO: Dana White's talent retention, the mental toughness of UFC fighters, self-talk as a…
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Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Communities & Crypto | MFM #178Balaji Srinivasan on the media and its biases, memes and their importance, the future of media with crypto, when he first got into crypto,…
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How a City Tour is Making Millions, & Selling Manhood | My First Million # 177Idea-heavy episode: a 'Barstool for tech and business' media brand, why software-course companies are valued so high, NYC and…
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How to Buy Distressed Assets, How to Network with Codie Sanchez | My First Million Ep. #176Codie Sanchez joins to discuss buying distressed SMBs - mailing centers, pack-and-ships, modular/tiny-home rentals, RE at auction, and her…