My First Million
These 21-Year-Old TikTokers Made A TV Show For $5,000 (#400)The episode covers TikTokers making TV-style shows for $5,000, Coffeezilla's internet-myth debunking success, ClickFunnels, fitness, and…
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Side Hustle School#2186 - First $1,000: “I went door-to-door selling home alarms…”SOURCE CONVERSATION
Side Hustle School
#2186 - First $1,000: “I went door-to-door selling home alarms…”A door-to-door home alarm salesman shares how he got started knocking doors, with top performers reportedly earning six figures despite…
Side Hustle School#2183 - Failure Friday: “The sleigh kept getting bogged down…”SOURCE CONVERSATION
Side Hustle School
#2183 - Failure Friday: “The sleigh kept getting bogged down…”A repeat 'caller from the North Pole' (a Christmas-themed framing) shares a story from his early days about a supply chain crisis involving…
My First Million
Fyre Festival Founder Shares His Next Business Venture With Us | Billy McFarland Interview (#399)Billy McFarland discusses why he is doing interviews, his Magnises and Fyre background, the Fyre Festival failure, PYRT, prison and…
Greg Isenberg
How Nick Huber Built His Wealth: From Sweaty Startup to Real Estate InvestorNick Huber (Sweaty Startup) returns for a wealth-building conversation: finding a niche in real estate, sweaty startup opportunities, using…
Noah Kagan
How I Turned $5,000 Into $2.6 BillionNoah interviews Paul Orfalea, founder of Kinko's, which he grew from a $5,000 investment and eventually sold to FedEx for $2.6B in 2004.…
My First Million
How To Grow A $75M Newsletter Business | Morning Brew Co-Founder (#398)Austin Rief (Morning Brew co-founder/CEO) on building, scaling and exiting a newsletter valued at $75M in 5 years: how two students…
Side Hustle School#2179 - First $1,000: “I had no idea Hula Hoops were a seasonal business…”SOURCE CONVERSATION
Side Hustle School
#2179 - First $1,000: “I had no idea Hula Hoops were a seasonal business…”Holly the Hula Hoop Hustler earns up to $2,000/month selling hula hoops on Amazon and reflects on how she made her first $1,000 and the…
My First Million
BREAKING: Shaan Sells the Milk Road - A Conversation With the BuyersShaan talks to Kendall Saville and Michael Wittmeyer about buying Milk Road (his crypto newsletter), with chapters on how they hack SEO on…
My First Million
University of Michigan Students Pitch Us Their Startups | $5000 Prize Money (#396)Five University of Michigan student pitches judged by Sam and Shaan for a $5,000 prize: Area (neighbourhood/local social app), Internet…
Side Hustle School#2176 - Failure Friday: “No one wanted my idea, even for free…”SOURCE CONVERSATION
Side Hustle School
#2176 - Failure Friday: “No one wanted my idea, even for free…”A personal trainer launches a virtual shoe-fitting service that fails to gain traction, with no customers even at zero price. The segment…
Greg Isenberg
Why Every Creator Should Have a Newsletter with Austin RiefAustin Rief (Bevel, formerly Morning Brew) on why every creator needs a newsletter: the verticalisation of email, deconstructing Mr Beast's…
My First Million
Meeting Tim Ferriss, Real Estate & SaaS ideas (#395)Sam and Shaan recap Shaan's interview with Tim Ferriss (money/life advice, NFT project), then dig into real-estate investing lessons, the…
Side Hustle School#2172 - First $1,000: “I help people get back their hacked accounts…”SOURCE CONVERSATION
Side Hustle School
#2172 - First $1,000: “I help people get back their hacked accounts…”A coder runs a side hustle helping clients recover hacked or lost Facebook accounts, serving fifteen people in his first month. The segment…
My First Million
How I Sold Kayak.com For $2 Billion | Paul English Interview (#394)Episode 394: Sam and Shaan talk with Paul English (Kayak co-founder, $2B exit) about switching jobs for a day, who he knew before they were…
Side Hustle School#2169 - Failure Friday: “My virtual assistant was a fan of quiet quitting…”SOURCE CONVERSATION
Side Hustle School
#2169 - Failure Friday: “My virtual assistant was a fan of quiet quitting…”A founder of an advisory service hires his first virtual assistant; the relationship starts well but deteriorates as the founder stops…
Greg Isenberg
Money, Wealth, and Personal Holding Companies with Michael KarnjanaprakornGreg talks with Michael Karnjanaprakorn (Skillshare, Otis) about money, wealth, choosing a niche, personal holding companies, and the…
My First Million
4 Side Hustle Ideas To Make $1000/Day In 2023 (#393)Mark Jenney on $1,000/day side hustles, whether online courses are legit, unpopular lessons learned on MFM, and last-minute gourmet gift…
My First Million
How LiverKing And SBF Used Drugs To Skyrocket Their Business 🚀 (#392)Controversy round-up: FTX's drug culture and Sam Bankman-Fried's collapse, Liver King's steroid admission and his fitness-brand trajectory,…
Side Hustle School#2165 - First $1,000: “Six people signed up, including two at the higher rate…”SOURCE CONVERSATION
Side Hustle School
#2165 - First $1,000: “Six people signed up, including two at the higher rate…”A web designer moves off hourly freelance work by creating a standardized 'website audit' offer, with six clients signing up including two…
Side Hustle School#2162 - Failure Friday: “My maple syrup was stolen by a Canadian cartel…”SOURCE CONVERSATION
Side Hustle School
#2162 - Failure Friday: “My maple syrup was stolen by a Canadian cartel…”A maple syrup reseller had his inventory stolen by a Canadian cartel and describes how he handled the crisis. The episode is part…
My First Million
Start Planning Your 2023 Goals TODAY | Goal Setting 101 (#391)Sam and Shaan's 2023 goal-setting session, with tangents on arbitrage, the state of AI, conversations with Character AI, and clapping back…
Greg Isenberg
How Writers Can Be More Productive Using AI with Ben TossellBen Tossell (Makerpad founder, no-code democratizer) joins Greg on how writers can use AI to become more creative, productive and…
My First Million
This Strip Club Mogul Runs A $800 Million Business (#390)Shaan and Sam on Eric Langan (the $800M strip-club mogul), a Black Friday boycott pitch, three Twitter scenarios, George Hotz, how to fly…