My First Million
I put 80% of my money in the S&P after a billionaire investor told me not toSam and Shaan discuss money psychology, personality as a business asset, productive placebos, and YC-style startup requests. The concrete…
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My First Million
I made $250M in one year. Here's what it actually cost meSam and Shaan interview Amjad Masad, the founder/CEO of Replit, who talks about scaling Replit's agent product from roughly $2.5M to $250M…
My First Million
I Bought A Drink Nobody Wanted (And Sold It For $2 Billion)Rohan Oza (the 'brandfather') breaks down his CPG playbook with the Poppi Shark Tank deal as the centrepiece: rule 1 influence the…
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GTA 6 Goldrush, TBPN's $100M OpenAI Deal, The OG Clickbait King Who Burned $4B/YearA news-riff episode: GTA 6 as a gold-rush moment (mods, merch, creator economy), the $100M TBPN acquisition by OpenAI, two stories of…
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How to find your thingPure advice episode on finding your thing: follow your bliss, distinguish fleeting enthusiasm from enduring enthusiasm and passion, find a…
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This guy sold his company to Unilever for $1.2B after just 3 yearsChad (Gruns founder) recounts scaling from $30K to $230K in one month, naming a boring CPG category into a $1B exit to Unilever after three…
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25% Of My Portfolio Is Tesla Stock, Here's WhyThis is a mixed discussion around Hal Finney, Aubrey de Grey, Be Here Now, Oz Pearlman, Kevin Hart meeting Jeff Bezos, and Shaan reading…
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#1 Habit Expert: Why Your To Do List Is Making You Less ProductiveA habit expert covers habit loops, systems, email behavior, one-line journaling, supercommunication, cold calling 900 people, and a short…
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9 Killer Business Ideas The Internet Hasn't Caught Up To in 2026Sam and Shaan brainstorm business ideas around the silver tsunami, sports, declining birthrates, air quality, posture problems, nature, and…
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Ex-Tesla President reveals EVERYTHING Elon does to winAn ex-Tesla president describes Elon Musk's operating style, including talent selection, solving Tesla's sales problem, noticing urgent…
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We asked a $18.9B Investor how to survive the AI bubbleGraham Weaver (~$18.9B AUM, Alpine Investors) walks Sam and Shaan through his 'buy-and-build' PE playbook: acquire a boring service…
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5 Simple business Ideas Even Your Mother Can Start (and make $120/hr)Brainstorm episode of five+ idea starters pitched at $120/hr non-technical founders: flipping items on govdeals.com, bringing AI to small…
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World's #1 Mentalist: How To Win Any Negotiation and Close Any DealOz Pearlman, a mentalist, walks through how he reads people: mind vs body language, beating fear of rejection, getting charged with a…
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The Underrated Money Making Skill In 2026Short thesis that 'taste' is the durable moat in an AI-saturated world, using Apple as the canonical case study, then walking through rules…
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Don't Invest Another Dollar Before Watching This In 2026Episode 808: a best-of compilation of value-investor moments from Mohnish Pabrai (turning $10K into $1M, circle the wagons, the most…
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The AI Company Everyone Slept On Just Broke Every RecordNews-style roundup of five stories: Anthropic reportedly doing $6B in revenue last month, a man using AI to treat his dog's cancer, a new…
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$100M+ Advice That'll Piss Off Every Business Guru (ft. DHH)DHH (Basecamp/HEY) talks with Sam about how to stand out by not giving a damn, the difference between liquid and crystallized intelligence,…
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Naming billion dollar companies isn’t just vibes, here’s the science behind it.An episode on the 'science' of naming billion-dollar companies with brand strategist David: a live 'naming game' for a fiber startup, case…
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The Simplest Way To Make $1,000,000 Isn't Starting A Business (it's working in one of these 10)Sam, Shaan, John Coogan and Jordi Hays rank ten companies whose employees can become millionaires: Zuru, Varda Space Industries, Suno,…
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If you have career regrets in 2026, watch this.Shaan and Sam on career regret and how to dodge it in 2026: data on the share of people who hate their job, 'insane determinism' as a way…
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Zach is 18 & made $50m from an app. Here's the brutal breakdown of how he did it (and you can too)Teen founder Zach Yadegari (an app reportedly valued near $100M after acquisition interest) tells the origin story, getting rejected from…
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The Simple Way to Create More Luck, Friends, and OpportunityMixed brainstorm: life lessons from investing, 'create your own yacht', AI-race commentary, last-mile-problem, the worst business mistakes,…
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Why the Self-Help Industry Is Built on LiesEpisode 800: Sam and Shaan dissect the self-help industry, calling out the Jay Shetty gospel, profiling legit indie hackers (Pieter Levels,…
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Dumb iPhone Apps Are Making People Rich Again (Here’s how)Pat Walls (founder of Starter Story, sold it pre-close) joins to dissect why simple iPhone apps are printing money: Pushscroll (push-up…