My First Million
How To Set Goals For Lazy People | Goal Setting 101Shaan and Sam discuss goal setting for lazy people, goals and anti-goals, flipping disadvantages into advantages, a Jeff Bezos-style story,…
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Side Hustle School
#2047 - Busy Mom Cleans Up Debt by Cleaning Car SeatsA part-time occupational therapist and mother of two joined a gig-economy platform focused on cleaning baby equipment like car seats to…
Side Hustle School#2046 - First $1,000: “The pre-launch strategy produced $1,000 on day one…”SOURCE CONVERSATION
Side Hustle School
#2046 - First $1,000: “The pre-launch strategy produced $1,000 on day one…”The founder of Brave Count, a subscription box for military spouses, used a pre-launch strategy that produced $1,000 in revenue on day one.…
Side Hustle School#2043 - Failure Friday: “After I was hit by a car, things got worse…”SOURCE CONVERSATION
Side Hustle School
#2043 - Failure Friday: “After I was hit by a car, things got worse…”In a Failure Friday segment, an affiliate marketer recounts how, after being hit by a car, public knowledge of his business was used…
My First Million
4 A.I. Business Ideas To Start Using Dall-E, GPT3 & Deepfake TechnologySam and Shaan brainstorm four AI business ideas: DALL-E-powered design tools, John Steinberg's Twitter-empire strategies, building a…
Side Hustle School
#2040 - Shine Bright Like a Diamond (and Sell Them)A manager at an antique jewelry company left to start her own diamond and gemstone business, growing it to seven figures. The episode…
My First Million
3 Frameworks To Build A Billion Dollar CompanyMostly motivational riff: economics of big giveaways, a friend who went from $60M to homeless, Elon/Sergey-Brin's-wife gossip, Shaan's…
Side Hustle School#2039 - First $1,000: “I posted videos on TikTok and started getting paid…”SOURCE CONVERSATION
Side Hustle School
#2039 - First $1,000: “I posted videos on TikTok and started getting paid…”Social studies teacher Rebecca Rogers became a viral TikTok creator with millions of followers and now charges $6,000 per single sponsored…
My First Million
'We went to the ATM and there was $90M' - Our Favorite Rags To Riches StoriesSam and Shaan answer a listener prompt: 'what's the fastest way your life or someone else's got changed by money?'. They tell…
Side Hustle School#2036 - Failure Friday: “Despite my best efforts, no one was buying…”SOURCE CONVERSATION
Side Hustle School
#2036 - Failure Friday: “Despite my best efforts, no one was buying…”In a Failure Friday segment, the creator of a writing program recounts spending money on Facebook ads to reach more people but finding no…
My First Million
The Easiest Way To Make $10,000/Month In Passive IncomeBrainstorm episode on paths to $10K/month passive: webcam-setup courses, a profile of a 38-year-old lawyer worth $16M, Passionflix, the…
Greg Isenberg
How To Pick Startup Winners With Jason CalacanisJason Calacanis (All-In Podcast, angel investor) joins Sahil Bloom and Greg to talk about becoming a 'sophisticated' investor for angel…
My First Million
How This Harvard MBA Bought A $50 Million Dollar Business For $0How a Harvard MBA acquired Eggcartons.com for ~$0 down and built it into a $50M business: the search, discovering the target, connecting…
Side Hustle School
#2033 - Video Game Writing Class Is Real-Life GamechangerAn online teacher and mother-of-four runs 'video game social clubs,' an online learning experience that brings in $4,000/month part-time.…
My First Million
Investigating The Profitable Business Of Public SpeakingHow Obama reportedly makes $1M+ per speech, an idea for speaker-management for Twitter personalities and podcasters, and an update on…
Side Hustle School#2032 - First $1,000: “Hyperfluent” Language Service Translates Into ProfitSOURCE CONVERSATION
Side Hustle School
#2032 - First $1,000: “Hyperfluent” Language Service Translates Into ProfitEva Rosales, founder of Hyperfluent, runs a consultancy offering multiple services around language acquisition and translation. The First…
Side Hustle School#2029 - Failure Friday: Failure Friday: “We had no desire to help college students cheat…”SOURCE CONVERSATION
Side Hustle School
#2029 - Failure Friday: Failure Friday: “We had no desire to help college students cheat…”The co-founder of Next Day Animations shares a Failure Friday story about an earlier brand name that didn't resonate before they found…
Greg Isenberg
Betting Big on Web3 with Li JinGreg, Sahil Bloom and Li Jin (Variant, coiner of 'passion economy') on why the crypto market needed a reset, how a founder's childhood joys…
My First Million
The Business Ideas Episode: Starting A Better Toastmasters, A SodaStream Competitor & MoreSam and Shaan brainstorm business ideas: a content-remix agency that repackages top creators' material, viral-tweets-as-a-service that runs…
My First Million
Rich Roll: From Broke At 45 To Building A Multi-Million Dollar Media Empire By Age 55Rich Roll (ultra-endurance athlete turned podcaster) on going from broke at 45 to a multi-million-dollar media empire by 55: plant-based…
My First Million
Our Producer Had A 90-Minute Phone Call With Mr Beast…Producer Ben's surprise 90-minute phone call with MrBeast, hypnosis, the Aviator Nation clothing brand, Shaan's mother's immigration story,…
Side Hustle School#2026 - This Canadian Cleaning Service Earns $2 Million/YearSOURCE CONVERSATION
Side Hustle School
#2026 - This Canadian Cleaning Service Earns $2 Million/YearA university lab technician started a cleaning service in his spare time and scaled it to $2 million in annual revenue with 500 five-star…
Side Hustle School
#2025 - First $1,000: The Las Vegas Ghostwriting ServiceA Las Vegas-based ghostwriter started by writing his own novel, then began writing for casino bosses and other clients to earn his first…
My First Million
How I Built A $90,000/Month Side Hustle In 48 Hours | ft. Dharmesh ShahHubSpot CTO Dharmesh Shah tells the story of Wordplay, his Wordle competitor he shipped in 48 hours, covering coding as family connection,…