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Behind the Hustle episode on Covid-19 business problems: pivoting family businesses, innovative industry pivots (restaurants becoming…
Recession-proof business skills with Sam Parr: controlling your emotions, mastering copywriting, starting versus managing, and the art of…
Shaan and Sam's primer on Islamic finance: prohibition of riba (interest), risk-sharing instead of debt, profit-and-loss partnerships, and…
Episode from March 2020 with Sam and Shaan on the Sequoia Memo from COVID-19, virality in startups and viruses, lead-gen business models,…
Wide brainstorm: Bernie Sanders' tax on vested shares, regrets in company structuring, Run The World style online conferences,…
Sam recounts a NYC trip and his appearance on the GaryVee podcast, where Gary Vaynerchuk gave him an impromptu interview about My First…
Julia tells her Shark Tank story: the application process, interviews, modifying pitches and rehearsals, and the outcome — she got the…
Deep-dive into how the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts organizations actually make money (170 countries, ~50M members, founded 1907). They walk…
Shaan and Sam are joined by Julia Cheek (Everlywell) — at-home clinical testing kits she pitched on Shark Tank — covering supply-chain…
Shaan and Stu Iverson discuss trends, business news, startup and investment advice, proximity, cold outreach, motion versus action,…
Sam and Shaan cover the rise and fall of HQ Trivia, including its $10M raise at a $100M valuation, the novelty-fad arc, founder Rus…
An early 2020 episode with no description beyond the standard show notes — a short MFM segment without identifiable guests, businesses, or…
Sam's time at the Startup Dojo, HQ Trivia's fall, OnlyFans business model, arsenic-and-niche branding, scaling media content, viral food…
Ankur Nagpal, founder of Teachable, explains how he reverse engineered company growth using screenshots and spreadsheets over a handful of…
Plated founder Josh Hix explains the early meal-kit product, launch traffic, menu creation, Hurricane Sandy nearly destroying the business,…
Jojo Hedaya of Unroll.Me explains how a non-technical founder grew a company with zero marketing budget through unusual marketing…
Alex Chung (GIPHY founder) interview on GIPHY's 300M-users-a-day growth strategy, hiring approach, financial strategy, how they built their…
Betterment founder Jon Stein on building the online investment platform that manages $14B+, lessons from the founder role, mission-driven…
Suzy Batiz, founder of Poo-Pourri and Supernatural, explains how she recognized a big business idea and turned it into a…
Lisa Stone (founder of BlogHer, then CSO at Ellevest) on why building a world-class, diverse team is the most critical lever for a…
Jerry Hum (Touch of Modern, Forbes 30u30, trained architect, self-taught coder) explains how Touch of Modern used customer insights to…
Sridhar Vembu (Zoho) on surviving the dot-com crash without VC money, bootstrapping a software company to 30M users and 5,000+ employees,…
Ethan Agarwal (Aaptiv, audio-based fitness) on going from startup struggles to nearly 200k users and 90 employees, becoming cash-flow…
Kirsten Tobey (co-founder & CIO of Revolution Foods) at Hustle Con 2018: serving 2M+ freshly prepared healthy meals per week across 15…
