My First Million
Why You Should Side Hustle As A TikTok Realtor, Conan O’Brien Gets Acquired For $150M & MoreShaan and Sam discuss MFM's value, niche needs, a viral TikTok realtor side hustle, Sam Bankman-Fried, A.Team-style future-of-work teams,…
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Greg Isenberg
$30M by Age 19 — And Where You Should Build TodayGreg and Sahil Bloom talk with Val Kateyev, an immigrant-turned-serial-entrepreneur who built his first company to $30M before turning 20,…
My First Million
I Lost $250,000 With Luna... Here's What I LearnedShaan recounts losing $250K on Luna/Terra, walks through stablecoin mechanics, the 20% Anchor yield, Do Kwon's cult-of-personality, and the…
Side Hustle School
#1970 - Charcuterie Boards Cure Couple's Pandemic WoesA midwestern couple restarts their income during the 2020 lockdown by selling charcuterie boards, turning a pandemic setback into a small…
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Liver King's $100M Supplement Business, Shaan Loses $250k on Luna, & The Real World Ted LassoNews riff: Savannah Bananas sports entertainment, an old Moiz (Native) interview breakdown, Terra/Luna crash and Shaan losing >$200K, Liver…
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9 Leadership Frameworks From Elon Musk, Dr. House, & MoreShaan's nine leadership frameworks borrowed from Dr. House, The Holiday, Misery, Tesla, peer groups, calendar audits and a kickoff…
Side Hustle School#1969 - First $1,000: “I couldn’t believe I got paid playing a game I loved…”SOURCE CONVERSATION
Side Hustle School
#1969 - First $1,000: “I couldn’t believe I got paid playing a game I loved…”First $1,000: the founder of StartPlaying.Games creates a marketplace where companies professional dungeon masters who run private tabletop…
Indie Hackers#254 – Getting Rich, Designing Your Life Afterwards, and Risk Management with Arvid Kahl and Daniel VassalloSOURCE CONVERSATION
Indie Hackers
#254 – Getting Rich, Designing Your Life Afterwards, and Risk Management with Arvid Kahl and Daniel VassalloArvid Kahl and Daniel Vassallo, both already financially independent indie hackers, talk about making money as an indie, designing life…
Side Hustle School#1966 - Failure Friday: “80% of our customers never returned…”SOURCE CONVERSATION
Side Hustle School
#1966 - Failure Friday: “80% of our customers never returned…”Failure Friday: Plate Crate, a baseball-themed subscription box, takes a hit when a website rebuild disrupts the customer experience and…
Greg Isenberg
Why You Need A Digital Detox with Andrew WilkinsonAndrew Wilkinson (Tiny) on technological addiction, creative boredom as a prerequisite for original thinking, building a personal advisory…
Side Hustle School
#1963 - Head-to-Toe Holistic Skincare Biz Shows MoxieA single mom launches a small-batch holistic skincare line for about $150 from a tax refund, focusing on teaching customers about skin…
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Moiz Ali On Selling His Natural Deodorant To P&G For $100M, Investing In Manscaped, & Holding CashMoiz Ali (founder of Native deodorant, sold to P&G for $100M in 28 weeks) on starting Native in secret, finding competitive advantage,…
Side Hustle School
#1962 - First $1,000: Bulldog Blogger Builds Bow-Wow BizFirst $1,000: the creator of FrenchieJourney.com builds a French bulldog blog into a niche resource and business, earning her first…
Side Hustle School#1959 - Failure Friday: “Switchasaurus” Card Game Almost Goes ExtinctSOURCE CONVERSATION
Side Hustle School
#1959 - Failure Friday: “Switchasaurus” Card Game Almost Goes ExtinctFailure Friday: the creator of Switchasaurus, a dinosaur-themed card game, runs into trouble when his first supplier fails to deliver. He…
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How To Make $80 Million ARR From A Mastermind BusinessSam interviews Carolyn Childers, co-founder/CEO of Chief.com, on building an $80M ARR women-executive mastermind/subscription community,…
Greg Isenberg
Are We Alone In The Universe? (with Tim Urban)Tim Urban (Wait But Why) on psychedelics, solitude, the Fermi Paradox, the Great Filter, Koch's Rule, how Elon Musk thinks about new…
Indie Hackers#253 – Mother’s Day, Unscrupulous Cofounders, and Why You Should Never RetireSOURCE CONVERSATION
Indie Hackers
#253 – Mother’s Day, Unscrupulous Cofounders, and Why You Should Never RetireLong-time listener Eva Allen (Courtland and Channing's mom) joins for a Mother's Day episode covering raising twins, buying gifts, selling…
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Should You Start An Agency Or A Software Business? (Neil Patel's Contrarian View)Neil Patel on the trade-offs between running an agency vs building a software business — margins, scalability, customer concentration, and…
My First Million
Neil Patel On Making +$100M/Year, Spending $180k/Month, and Donating Millions To CharityNeil Patel talks about his business history, the minority-certification playbook, the Magic Johnson theory of business ownership, his…
Side Hustle School#1956 - College Student Turned Fashion Influencer Earns $140,000SOURCE CONVERSATION
Side Hustle School
#1956 - College Student Turned Fashion Influencer Earns $140,000A university student builds a fashion blog into a $140,000 business using SEO and Pinterest traffic. The episode covers how she monetised a…
Side Hustle School#1955 - First $1,000: Digital Art Reaches Physical Homes WorldwideSOURCE CONVERSATION
Side Hustle School
#1955 - First $1,000: Digital Art Reaches Physical Homes WorldwideThe co-founders of Wandercolors produce digital illustrations of famous travel destinations and turn them into physical prints shipped to…
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How Twitch Streamers Are Making $18,000,000+/YearSam and Shaan on Twitch streamer revenue ($18M/year for top creators), how Felix (PewDiePie) is doing, Justine Musk's Quora answers, the…
My First Million
Digital Art Heist: My NFTs Got Stolen 😭Shaan and Ben Levy answer a listener whose NFTs were stolen: responding to disaster, choosing your narrative, embracing crypto risks,…
Side Hustle School#1952 - Failure Friday: “I naively thought the influencers would bring sales…”SOURCE CONVERSATION
Side Hustle School
#1952 - Failure Friday: “I naively thought the influencers would bring sales…”An Australian ecommerce founder of a mindful toys and gifts store hired Instagram influencers after a rebrand, only to discover the…