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Five-call Q&A: vertical integration for a $3M landscaping business, what to quit a job to start next, $1 bandit signs for a wife's cleaning…

Ali Hamed (CoVenture) on startup ideas and funding: prefab housing as a real-estate thesis, efficient pricing strategies, leveraging policy…

Sam and Shaan tee up 'the talk' about eggs and fertility, then pivot into egg-freezing economics, the regret-score lens, ecom…

Jeremy (Vanman) built a $5M/year business that started from his van — the video is a quick tour of his HQ, product expansion and personal…

A Failure Friday segment about hiring a business coach who turned out to be unhelpful, with the takeaway that side hustlers should trust…

Sam and Shaan extract startup lessons from Reddit's IPO, including teaching to learn, showing up, trusting your gut, getting ideas, not…

Chris is interviewed on Millennial Investing: his Hungary missionary years, teenage hustles, writing and craft, Twitter career, the…

Sam and Shaan interview Basecamp/HEY founder Jason Fried about his "6-Week Sprint" playbook, using "no" as a precision instrument, why he…

An 18-minute productivity riff: define your Yes Threshold, manager schedule vs maker schedule, the Pyramid of Clarity, floor goals vs…

A First $1,000 segment about a social media influencer who monetizes fashion and home improvement Instagram accounts, using Stories and…

A Failure Friday segment about EduAI, an AI-driven tutoring platform that over-engineered its technology and lost students, illustrating…

A caller Q&A covering wedding venue saturation and ancillary services, buying a vending machine business on acquire.com, pitching…

The economics of personality tests: Myers-Briggs history, the Grit Scale, and a deep-dive on Cognition Labs (a startup monetising…

Mixed episode profiling a $27M-ARR gardening influencer, the marketing story behind Hass avocados becoming #1, a new 'man camp' movement, a…

A First $1,000 segment about a recent graduate who built a mentorship platform matching fraternity and sorority members with alumni for…

Kevin Espiritu went from failing multiple hobbies and businesses to building Epic Gardening, a gardening brand making $30M+/year. The…

Multi-segment episode: growing a virtual receptionist service for home service businesses, a Google Street View-based lead generation…

Greg talks with Eric Siu (Single Grain founder) about three million-dollar AI startup ideas. #1: pay-per-performance agencies — only get…

A Failure Friday segment about an organic cosmetics brand whose products broke down in use, a cautionary tale about the importance of…

News commentary riff on Elon's OpenAI lawsuit, single-purpose robots, self-driving lawn mowers, robot line cooks, op-ex vs cap-ex, UBI for…

Ramit Sethi discusses why buying a house may not make financial sense, including the real cost of ownership, buying for desire, paying cash…

A list-style episode presenting seven side hustles aimed at students, framed as paths to passive income with real-life examples for each.…

A First $1,000 segment about a creator who runs multiple AI-assisted TikTok accounts promoting affiliate products, generating mostly…

The episode breaks down business tactics used by authors, including James Patterson's hit-making formula, Jack Carr's product placement,…