My First Million
Go from $10,000 to $1M in just 3 yearsGeneral business-growth episode: simple = genius, never over-leverage, risk vs uncertainty, the 'too hard pile', be one-inch wide one-mile…
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My First Million
How I Got $5 Billion In Preorders For A Supersonic Jet CompanySam and Shaan interview Blake Scholl (Boom Supersonic) about going from high-school dropout to Groupon to building a supersonic jet startup…
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The Most Valuable Skill For Any FounderAn episode on 'high agency' as the most-valuable founder skill: defining it, turning 'bullshit into reality', metrics and personal systems,…
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Asking A Billionaire How To Make $1,000,000Sam and Shaan brainstorm with Jess on a business-ideas matrix, including Idea: DOGE as a service, Idea: Vertical agents, Idea: Cargo ship…
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How Nick Saban’s Side Hustle Might Make Him a BillionaireA grab-bag episode covering car-dealership billionaires, the 'Local Maxima' thesis (each US city has a regional consumer brand waiting to…
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5 under-the-radar trends (+ our business ideas)Five trends Sam and Shaan flag with idea pitches: hearing loss as an aging-consumer market, eVTOL urban air mobility,…
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If You Understand This About People, You Can Sell AnythingInterview with Elan Lee, co-founder of Exploding Kittens, on growing a $10K Kickstarter card-game campaign into a $100M company. Chapters…
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Anti-Business Billionaires: Lessons from Steve Jobs, James Dyson, and Yvon ChouinardThe hosts tease out five traits of 'anti-business billionaires' from Steve Jobs, James Dyson, and Yvon Chouinard: disagreeableness, extreme…
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From making $6/week selling worms to making $110M+James (a network-effects operator with multiple scaled companies) walks through $0 to $1.6B, network effects as a way of life, 'savage…
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Are tariffs good or bad for founders?Sam and Shaan debate whether tariffs help or hurt founders, then jump into a Medieval Times business case study and Shaan's personal…
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The Happiest Man in Atlantis (A Short Story)Sam reads a fictional parable — 'The Happiest Man in Atlantis' — with chapters on the unhappy prince, focus, state of mind, the power of a…
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7 Wild Business Ideas for this $3 Trillion Dollar FrontierThe hosts frame the ocean as a $3 trillion frontier and brainstorm ideas such as ocean surveying, sea grass restoration, defense drones,…
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How to build a $100M+ newsletter businessSam and Shaan interview Sam Parr and Hubspot's Dharmesh Shah about how Sam built and sold The Hustle newsletter to HubSpot for eight…
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The Healthcare Revolution Is Just Getting StartedJustin Mares rounds up the consumer-health opportunity: longevity products for dogs, at-home toxin testing, function-and-superpower…
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I Built A $1B Company... Here's 7 Business Ideas I Would Start This YearA $1B-company founder lays out seven asymmetric-upside ideas he would start in 2025: lunar nuclear power, defense tech, 'selling stars'…
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This guy sold 3 YouTube Channels to Blackstone for $3BCase study on Blackstone's $3B acquisition of three kids/nursery-rhyme YouTube channels (a content rollup), Sam going all-in on an IRL…
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This Is The Most Exciting Drama in HR SaaS History | Rippling vs. DeelSam and Shaan frame the Rippling-vs-Deel international-employment lawsuit as the latest in a series of corporate rivalries (British East…
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6 under-the-radar trends (+ our business ideas)Sam and Shaan discuss six under-the-radar trends and related ideas: short drama apps, rucking, plastic-free products, nervous system work,…
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You’re One AI Idea Away From Changing Your LifeThe episode covers Zach's rapid $0 to $20M growth in 10 months, a $100K sale at age 16, being worth $30M at 18, influencer marketing, and…
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2 Trends Hidden in Plain Sight (+ $1M ideas)Sam and Shaan examine flea markets and true crime as trends, then brainstorm business ideas around them. The episode also touches on a Fyre…
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5 Conversations that broke our frames this weekThe hosts recap conversations with Justin Caldbeck, Steve Houghton, James Currier, and Furqan Rydhan that changed how they think. The…
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How We Make $200M/Year Selling A Wallet | CEO of Ridge WalletSean from Ridge Wallet explains how they grew from $5M to $200M in 6 years: build a 'services-to-product' funnel (Ridge started selling…
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The 6 Greatest Marketing Ads Of All Time (ft. Craig Clemens)Craig Clemens deconstructs six of the greatest direct-response ads ever: Enzyte ('does not contain an illegal sexual stimulant'), the…
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He launched a sweaty startup in high school. Now he'll be a millionaire by 18Teen founder profile: started Sunshine Exteriors (likely pressure washing / exterior cleaning) in high school, plus Teens2Table (a…