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The founder of a Central American bicycle-transport business for adventure-sport travelers recounts spending $40,000 before realizing the…
MFM talks about FarmCon 2022 (a farmer-economy conference Shaan attended), Shaan getting Covid, tech-startup ideas for the farmer economy,…
Part one of a catch-up with Pieter Levels after four years. The conversation covers how remote work and global travel changes have affected…
Billy Markus (Dogecoin co-creator) joins Sahil Bloom and Greg Isenberg: LookRare's vampire attack on OpenSea, easy money and airdrops,…
Noah Kagan joins Sam to brainstorm the best businesses to start in 2022: TheColdPlunge.com as a niche e-com example, OkDork.com for…
A nurse known online as 'the pregnancy nurse' turns her parent-facing content into a six-figure parenting blog and quits her hospital job.…
Frank Mortimer, the 'Bee Man of New Jersey,' shares his first attempt at selling honey at a farmers market and the small operational…
The co-founder of Master ABA, a membership site helping families and professionals support children with autism, recounts spending…
Kat Cole (Focus Brands, Athletic Greens) breaks down leadership frameworks: the Atomic Unit Framework, being a 'feedback magnet', the Make…
Amjad Masad, founder of Replit, discusses Replit's bottom-up strategy of capturing the developer market and how he learned to enjoy being a…
Rob Walling (Drip, MicroConf) joins to talk about when to sell a SaaS, his favourite SaaS companies he's advising, a slate of small SaaS…
Shaan on Solana millionaires whose lives changed in under 12 months. No chapters, no detail beyond the crypto-rags-to-riches framing.
Scott Belsky (Adobe/Behance) joins Sahil Bloom and Greg to forecast the next 5 years of work and life: technology forces compromise, opting…
A lifelong toy-car collector stumbles into becoming a mega dealer of vintage toy cars after a chance encounter at a funeral. The episode…
The creator of Metaphor Dice — a tabletop writing-prompt tool marketed as a thinking game — describes how he made his first $1,000. He also…
One-line description: 'Decades of learning and how it led to Gary Vee's "Oh Sh!t" Web3 moment.' No chapters, no detail — short…
Gary Vaynerchuk makes the case that NFTs won't fail, using Beanie Babies and My Little Pony analogies to explain community-driven…
Brock McGroff, founder of TheModestMan.com, shares how his men's-style content site plateaued and then declined while he was distracted.…
Gary Vaynerchuk on his NFT/Web3 bet: research process for spotting trends, how NFTs fail, why Gary is betting on them anyway, rules for…
Li Jin of Variant talks about the passion economy, DAOs, and why she's optimistic about the future of tech. The episode is a trends…
A government administrator builds an exit ramp from his day job by self-publishing books through Kindle Direct Publishing. The books…
MFM went viral on TikTok (10M+ views), Solana millionaires giving FOMO, the right-to-be-forgotten product thesis and companies like…
Deya Aliaga Kuhnle, founder of DBM Bootcamp, shares the origin story of her now six-figure agency. The segment focuses specifically on how…










