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A New Zealand teacher relocates to Japan and starts a side hustle making custom wood art based on customers' personal memories. The episode…
Sahil pitches Olympic icon Apolo Ohno on buying the X Games via a DAO, reimagining the Olympics, and an NFT Olympic Museum. They also cover…
Failure Friday features Side Hustle School team member Jedd Chang, whose online cooking club surged during COVID slowdowns; a 200+ attendee…
Idea brainstorm: steel-manning as a thinking tool, why speech/debate kids end up successful, RockAuto.com (auto parts ecom), Sam's plan to…
Courtland Allen interviews Hiten Shah and Mubashar Iqbal about NFTs and what indie hackers can do to get something out of the crypto space.…
Shaan breaks down the viral Better.com video where CEO Vishal Garg fired 900 employees on a Zoom call, dissecting what went wrong. Pure…
A pharmacist who used CBD to manage her own anxiety launches a line of natural health products, including CBD oils. The episode covers…
Sam and Shaan break down MrBeast getting 100M views in under four days, then discuss a real estate YouTube project, ad-block and Chrome…
A Wall Street accountant builds a million-dollar business around raising backyard chickens, growing the idea from a blog about her own…
On Failure Friday, Chris Cavallari, who sells Maine-themed wholesale products, prepared for his first big trade show in March 2020 only to…
Sam Parr (The Hustle) joins Sahil Bloom and Greg for an early Where It Happens covering concierge businesses, the reverse-test framework,…
Sam interviews Noah Kagan about starting AppSumo as a side hustle and turning it into a $100M business, plus what Noah is working on, why…
Greg and Sahil react to Jack Dorsey stepping down as Twitter CEO: they make the case for giving power to users via a DAO, weigh Parag…
Shaan explains how Walt Disney turned Disneyland into a $3.8B per year empire. The chapters cover the original idea, financing and…
Two sisters publish an unofficial cookbook inspired by the TV show Schitt's Creek, leveraging fan demand to drive self-published sales. The…
Sam and Shaan riff on PFP NFT projects, business ideas from 'unbundling Disney' (concierge services, premium park experiences, character IP…
In a holiday special, Sam and Shaan share favorite products, apps, and media, including journals, gratitude science, fatFIRE,…
An American accountant based in South Africa builds a financial wellbeing course for small business owners. The passive course revenue lets…
This Failure Friday tells the story of a standardized test prep founder who scored perfectly on the SAT and then pitched a book to more…
Throwback episode featuring Lynne Tye of Key Values. After dropping out of grad school, she managed 150 people at a tech startup, quit that…
Riff on how an early-adopter mindset makes you money: dismissing new trends is the lesson, embracing Twitch/niche adoption early is the…
Mixed bag: adopting an early-adopter mindset, the ConstitutionDAO story and whether it was a good idea, Gary Vaynerchuk using NFTs for 'the…
A new teaching graduate skips the classroom and instead earns a living building custom tiki bars for homeowners out of rustic pallet-style…











