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The owner of an Etsy shop called The Blue Breakfront shares how she recovered from rookie mistakes and built steady sales. No revenue or…
A Pennsylvania middle-school principal starts a blog aimed at high-school volleyball players and it fails to gain traction. The episode is…
Xavier Helgesen and Sieva Kozinsky (Enduring Ventures) on acquiring and holding cash-flowing small businesses — 'a search fund on steroids'…
Four prosaic businesses that crossed $100M valuations: Teddy Bear Law (a content site ranking for legal questions), Comparitech…
Sam and Shaan host a demo day where six tech startups pitch for investment: Cherry, Pillup, Campus Ink, Terrashroom, Dealbuilder, and Field…
Two college friends open a Utah-based fulfillment center. In their first month they handled 3,000 orders for a single Kickstarter project,…
Sam Parr, Shaan Puri and producer Ben recount Camp MFM, a retreat where MrBeast was a guest, sharing inside stories about MrBeast's…
A Lutheran pastor created Consecrate, a monthly subscription box of curated items for pastors and ministers, shipping more than 500 boxes a…
Al Doan, co-founder of Missouri Star Quilt Company (the world's largest quilting company at $100M+ revenue), on how the company started,…
An Atlanta day-job designer owns Lucky Dog Design, a stationery brand she tried to sell on Amazon. The episode is a failure story: Amazon…
Sahil Bloom and Greg Isenberg unpack VC and PR as 'drugs' that can save or kill a startup, the slow-living ethos of great entrepreneurs,…
MrBeast and Hasan Minhaj join Sam and Shaan for a conversation about obsession, how MrBeast measures success, how he runs his company, the…
A TV producer who traveled constantly invents a sustainable toothpaste alternative to cut down on plastic waste from her travel-sized…
Five 'drunk ideas' brainstormed as $1M plays: Hideaway (a secret bookcase to hide your phone), Santa's Club (subscription mystery gifts),…
A sports leadership coach describes how he began by volunteering at a local school, then turned that into a paid coaching business. No…
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.
Dev Chakravarty in the U.K. tried to start an electric-vehicle rental car company but ran into far more difficulty than expected. The…
Raoul Pal (Real Vision, Exponential Age Asset Management) joins Sahil Bloom and Greg to make the macro case for Web3 as the best investment…
The episode includes a segment on making $10M in a year by building apps, plus discussions of New York costs, Scott Painter, Adam Neumann,…
Inspired by her Cardi-B-named 'Carda-Mom,' a sales professional created steepable coffee flavoring bags made from organic spices instead of…
Shaan and Sam discuss being a big fish in a small pond, a Florida math teacher with a winning team, interesting companies, LIV Golf…
A wedding marketer used a vision board and patient planning to build a new business and hit her first $1,000. The episode covers how she…
The founder of Bad Day Box, a 'snail mail self-care' subscription, planned to launch on Kickstarter but was rejected just before launch and…
Sam and Shaan discuss virtual study halls, lo-fi YouTube, Scott Galloway reportedly making $5M per year in speaking fees, marketing…
