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My First Million

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753 episodes

Podcast Summary

Dive into the entrepreneurial world with "My First Million," where hosts Sam Parr and Shaan Puri explore the latest trends and innovative business ideas that could be the next big thing. What sets this podcast apart is its blend of insightful discussions and real-time brainstorming sessions, often featuring high-profile guests from the tech and business sectors. Notable appearances include Guillermo Rauch, who shares his journey in tech innovation, and other industry leaders who offer unique perspectives on market opportunities. Each episode is an engaging mix of practical advice, personal anecdotes, and thought-provoking conversations, designed to inspire budding entrepreneurs and seasoned professionals alike. Whether you're looking to spark your next venture or simply enjoy rich discussions about the future of business, "My First Million" is a must-listen for anyone eager to understand what it takes to succeed in today's fast-paced world. Tune in and get ready to ignite your entrepreneurial spirit!

#1

How to build a $1M+ startup using AI (Full Tutorial)

For the full experience, watch this episode on YouTube: Episode 712: Sam Parr ( ) talks to Greg Isenberg ( ) talk about how to find a startup idea and build it in a couple hours using AI. — Show Notes: (0:00) Step 1: Find an idea (7:57) Step 2: Sketch out the idea (9:48) Step 3: Scope out the MVP (18:25) Step 4: Vibe code a prototype (36:06) Step 5: Vibe marketing the business (49:14) Step 6: AI agent product manager — Links: • Want Greg's guide to Build an AI Startup in 3 Hours with <$500? Get it here: • Idea Browser - ideabrowser.com • TLDraw - • Wispr Flow - • Manus - • Bolt - • The Vibe Marketer - • Kubera - • Lindy - • Lovable - • Windsurf - • Cursor - • Supabase - • Prospect AI - • Boring Marketing - • Gumloop - • N8N - • Ahrefs - • Semrush - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-05-30•54mins
#2

How I built a $3B AI Startup + 7 AI Business Ideas

Episode 711: Shaan Puri ( ) talks to Guillermo Rauch ( ) about building Vercel plus 7 business ideas to start in AI. — Show Notes: (0:00) Dropout to job offer from Facebook (3:38) Genius vs accident (21:04) Building Vercel (25:26) AI startup ideas (31:38) IDEA: V0 for Video Games (33:09) IDEA: Doom CAPTCHA (40:04) IDEA: AI Typeform (46:54) IDEA: AI Camera (54:06) IDEA: Auto Complete (58:51) IDEA: Granular V0 — Links: • Guillermo Rauch - • Vercel - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-05-28•1hr 13mins
#3

5 Startups That Looked Dumb—Until They Were Worth Billions

Episode 710: Sam Parr ( ) and Shaan Puri ( ) talk about how to evaluate risk and upside of new ideas. — Show Notes: (0:00) Bessemer's $140B misjudgment of Shopify (5:47) Shaan's Anti-portfolio (15:26) Goal: Avoid Ruin (21:30) Outlier personalities (24:51) Underestimating Uber (32:16) "You can't overinvest in AI" — Links: • Want Sam's Playbook to Uncover Business Opportunities? Get it here: • “How to miss by a mile” - • Leaked OpenAI emails - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-05-23•43mins
#4

Hinge expert shares dating advice for ambitious nerds

Episode 709: Sam Parr ( ) and Shaan Puri ( ) talk to Logan Ury ( ) about how young men can be more successful in dating. — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (6:28) The secretary problem (14:43) What's happening with men right now (21:07) How to do the apps right (27:32) Meeting someone IRL (30:03) The power of weak ties (36:56) How to be a better date (40:37) Date like a scientist (45:44) Fuck the spark (49:02) What's your tendency (51:00) AI partners (57:15) Pro tip: join a mens group (1:03:23) Mental Health vs Mental Fitness — Links: • Want Sam's Company Research Playbook? Get it here: • Logan Ury - • 3 Tendencies Quiz - • The School of Life - • Mating in Captivity - • How to Not Die Alone - • Seven Principles for Making a Marriage Work - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-05-21•1hr 13mins
#5

How Scott Galloway Turned $8M into $120M Through Investing

Want Scott Galloway's Business Playbook? Get it here: Episode 708: Sam Parr ( ) and Shaan Puri ( ) talk to Scott Galloway ( ) about his wildest investments, plus advice for men in their 20s and 30s. — Show Notes: (0:00) FTX bankruptcy claims (Turning $2M into $15M with one trade) (6:56) NJOY (Turning $2.5M into $75M) (15:58) YellowPages (Turning $4M into $20M) (21:10) Prediction: The U.S market is about to have a 15-year downturn (27:55) The inverse galloway index (31:55) Who Scott admires (33:14) Advice for young men (37:19) Scott spots the next $1B trend: European markets (44:18) How does one ball? (46:00) Trump's meme coin and transnational oligarchs (53:25) More advice for young men — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-05-16•1hr 4mins
#6

How to retire with millions (and pay $0 taxes)

Episode 707: Sam Parr ( ) and Shaan Puri ( ) talk to Ankur Nagpal ( ) about IRS loopholes that can help you grow your net worth plus Ankur shares 6 business ideas. See Ankur in person at the OOO SUMMIT on Friday, May 16th - — Show Notes: (0:00) Ankur's portfolio experiment (10:46) A case for direct indexing (16:29) Super backdoor roth conversions (20:59) Mega backdoor conversion (23:52) IDEA: Executive Clinic for Aesthetics (32:32) IDEA: Amish Farm Imports (36:18) IDEA: Credit Card Agent (43:01) IDEA: Homeownership app (47:35) IDEA: Padel club (56:31) IDEA: Buying a sports team — Links: • Steal Sam's guide to turn ChatGPT into your Executive Coach: • Teachable - • Carry - • Frec - • Superpower - • Flightfox - • Seats.aero - • Home Depot Workshops - • The OOO Summit - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-05-14•1hr 7mins
#7

$1M+/yr Local Businesses Hidden in Plain Sight

Episode 706: Sam Parr ( ) and Shaan Puri ( ) talk about offline businesses that are crushing it. — Show Notes: (0:00) Be a $1M dollar business spotter (4:56) Swim lessons franchise (6:34) AWS for the Amish (17:25) At home pet euthanasia service (25:37) Take out order call center (42:35) Cheat code: Coaches (52:13) Add a performance — Links: • Steal Sam's guide to turn ChatGPT into your Executive Coach: • Goldfish Swim School - • IbyFax - • Lap of Love - • Tarro - • Owner - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-05-12•56mins
#8

Asking a Billionaire Investor How to Turn $10,000 into $1M ft. Mohnish Pabrai

Episode 705: Shaan Puri ( ) sits down with Mohnish Pabrai ( ) about how to turn $10K into $1M. Show Notes: (0:00) Simple = Genius (28:00) Never over-leverage (30:30) Risk vs uncertainty (33:00) Too hard pile (35:30) Be 1 inch wide, 1 mile deep (39:00) Learn from losers (43:30) A case for napping (48:00) Having an owner’s manual (53:00) Dying with zero (1:10:00) India’s Greatest Investor — Links: • Want to invest like a Billionaire? Get Mohnish's investment playbook: • Value Investors Club - • Japan Company Handbook - • Dakshana - • BJ21 - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-05-09•1hr 17mins

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#9

I dropped out of high school…Now I’m building a $1T dollar company

Episode 704: Sam Parr ( ) and Shaan Puri ( ) talk to Blake Scholl ( ) about he went from high school dropout to Groupon to the founder of a supersonic jet startup. — Show Notes: (0:00) Find your red line (4:29) Problems hidden in plain sight (13:00) The making of Boom Supersonic (23:00) No rules of thumb (29:13) Blake's favorite interview question (34:22) Demo Day at YC (38:13) Selling Richard Branson (47:46) Being a dark matter founder (52:14) What does the most ambition of yourself look like? (55:51) Progressively overturning of the skeptics (1:01:06) Working with Jeff Bezos at Amazon — Links: • Steal Shaan's $20M Pitch Deck: • Boom - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-05-07•1hr 8mins
#10

The Most Valuable Skill For Any Founder

Episode 703: Sam Parr ( ) and Shaan Puri ( ) talk to George Mack ( ) about high agency. — Links: • Steal Sam's guide to turn ChatGPT into your Executive Coach: • High Agency - • Nick Mowbray episode - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-05-05•55mins
#11

Brainstorming $10M+ business ideas with Jess Mah

Steal Jess' Billion-Dollar Startup Playbook [for free]: Episode 702: Shaan Puri ( ) boards the private jet of Jess Mah ( ) to brainstorm business ideas and talk about her process for vetting which ideas to jump on. — Show Notes: (0:00) Buying a jet (5:37) Barn full of horses (8:44) Business ideas matrix (11:06) Idea: DOGE as a service (13:30) Idea: Vertical agents (16:52) Idea: Cargo ship coating (21:26) Idea: Holy Health (25:07) Building a team with digital twins (28:46) Jess’s 0 - 1 framework (31:09) Worst advice from Silicon Valley (35:44) Find a starving crowd (37:55) Idea: Divorce.fund (38:36) Failures: Credboost (46:08) Ignorant of past, realistic of present, delulu of the future (49:58) Engineering serendipity (56:12) AI for medicine — Links: • Mahway - • YC’s Request for Startups - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-05-02•1hr 0mins
#12

How Nick Saban’s Side Hustle Might Make Him a Billionaire

Episode 701: Sam Parr ( ) and Shaan Puri ( ) talk about Nick Saban’s car dealership play, plus the most defensible ideas for AI startups. — Show Notes: (0:00) Car dealership billionaires (13:35) Local Maxima (17:07) Most defensible AI ideas right now 34:40) AI workflows for profitable newsletters (43:10) Spermracing — Links: • Want to make $ with AI? Get the database here: • John Elway - • Lovable - • Replit - • Bolt - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-04-28•51mins
#13

5 under-the-radar trends (+ our business ideas)

Want to spot trends before they explode? Get the guide here: Episode 700: Sam Parr ( ) talks to Steph Smith ( ) about business trends that are currently untapped and ripe for opportunity to build businesses around. Use code "MFM" to get access to Steph's Internet Pipes - — Show Notes: (0:00) Trend 1: Hearing Loss (11:33) Trend 2: eVTOL (17:42) Trend 3: Psychedelics (24:26) Trend 4: New Job Skills (42:50) Trend5: Nature technology — Links: — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-04-24•48mins
#14

The Board Game Billionaire: From a $10k Kickstarter to $100M/Year Business

Want your own $100M side project? Get our guide to win your first 100 customers: Episode 699: Sam Parr ( ) and Shaan Puri ( ) talk to Elan Lee ( ) about growing Exploding Kittens from a $10K Kickstarter campaign to $100M dollar company. — Show Notes: (0:00) Humble Success: Exploding Kittens Insights (8:07) The origin story - From 10k to $9M on kickstarter (16:17) Focus on the crowd, not the funding (20:41) Games should not be entertaining (23:52) The Kitty Test pilots (27:57) $0 marketing hacks (38:49) Pushing past the ‘no’ (41:07) Business as a game (45:32) Creativity loves constraints (54:28) Irritation is the source of innovation (59:13) Designing a game with Tim Ferriss (01:04:08) Do what never makes you bored — Links: • Exploding Kittens - • Paxsite - • Elan on TikTok - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-04-21•1hr 13mins
#15

Anti-Business Billionaires: Lessons from Steve Jobs, James Dyson, and Yvon Chouinard

Episode 698: Sam Parr ( ) talks to David Senra ( ) about what qualities make an anti-business billionaire. — Show Notes: (0:00) High Level of Disagreeableness (9:02) Extreme Self-Confidence (12:55) Product Quality Obsessed (18:37) Retention of Total Control (27:28) Exit Strategy is Death — Links: • Steal Sam's guide to turn ChatGPT into your Executive Coach: • Play Nice But Win - • Creative Selection - • Founders Podcast - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-04-17•39mins
#16

From making $6/week selling worms to making $110M+

Episode 697: Shaan Puri ( ) sits down with James Currier ( ) to talk about going from $0 to $110M through network effects. — Show Notes: (0:00) $0 to $1.6B (4:23) Your life on network effects (8:00) Savage founders (13:40) Speed (15:49) The art of unlearning (21:23) Technology window curves (30:29) Network Vampire attacks (37:37) Language first (43:15) Tickle (42:29) Finding a business bromance (58:47) James isolation mistake (1:01:27) Become an API (1:05:02) AI business ideas (1:16:07) What to do in your 20s (1:22:18) One world currency (1:32:16) Go to therapy — Links: • Steal Shaan's $20M Pitch Deck: • NFX - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-04-15•1hr 35mins
#17

Are tariffs good or bad for founders?

💰 Steal Shaan's [free] Episode 696: Sam Parr ( ) and Shaan Puri ( ) talk about what they’re doing about the tariffs. — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (3:13) Tariffs (22:00) Medieval Times (27:48) Shaan's process for finding edges — Links: • Shaan's $20M Pitch Deck: • Medieval Times - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-04-11•44mins
#18

The Happiest Man in Atlantis (A Short Story)

💰 Steal Shaan's $20M Pitch Deck: Join Nick Huber and Shaan Puri for a free CEO Bootcamp on April 16th at 2pm EST: Episode 695: Shaan Puri ( ) tells the story of finding what is truly valuable. — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-04-09•11mins
#19

"Ocean is the new space" - 7 Wild Ideas for the $3 Trillion Dollar Frontier

[free] Episode 694: Sam Parr ( ) and Shaan Puri ( ) talk to Will O’Brien ( ) about how the ocean is the new hot girl. — Show Notes: (0:00) Ocean is the new space (8:50) Ocean surveying (10:25) Sea grass restoration (16:39) Defense drones (22:34) Underwater cable networks (31:51) Technology windows (38:16) Lab-grown seafood (41:03) Pirate treasure profit sharing (44:03) Marine geo-engineering (47:43) A new era for tech guys (57:52) Who Will admires (1:01:00) Underrated conspiracy theories (1:10:27) Becoming a monk — Links: • Ulysses - • Saildrone - • Saronic - • Wildtype Foods - • Rainmaker - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-04-07•1hr 13mins
#20

The Step-by-Step Playbook We Used to Build a $100M+ Newsletter Business

[free] Episode 693: Sam Parr ( ) talks to Alex Lieberman ( ) and Austin Rief ( ) about how to build a profitable newsletter. — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (3:12) 0 to 100K subscribers (9:18) Nontraditional hires (15:26) 100K to 1M subscribers (35:00) Entrepreneurs Operating System (43:27) 8-figure Exits (55:28) How to start a newsletter in 2025 (1:02:57) Newsletter ideas — Links: • The Hustle - • Morning Brew - • Traction - • Arena Magazine - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-04-04•1hr 10mins
#21

$100M founder predicts what will be big in 5 years

💰 Get the [free] Episode 692: Sam Parr ( ) talks to Justin Mares ( ) about what’s going to be big in the next 5 years. — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (3:16) Longevity products for dogs (9:24) Toxin testing (19:55) Function and Superpower (26:19) Doctor for your home (37:25) Skin gut health (47:39) Natural fiber clothing (51:04) Justin's take on vaccines — Links: • Truemed - • Justin’s Substack - • Rorra - • Light Labs - • Eurofins - • Function Health - • Superpower - • InsideTracker - • Lightwork - • r/moderatelygranolamoms - • Paul Saladino - • NADS - • Pact - • ExOfficio - • Ryker - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-03-31•54mins
#22

7 Business Ideas from a Unicorn Founder

💰 Get the [free] Episode 691: Shaan Puri ( ) talks to Immad Akhund ( ) about the businesses he would start if he wasn’t running a unicorn. — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (2:17) IDEA: Lunar nuclear power plant (5:04) IDEA: Defense tech (10:09) The Peter Thiel test (13:52) IDEA: Selling stars (15:54) IDEA: Enterprise Agents (22:45) IDEA: Digital Twin CEO (32:39) Find accepted abuse (36:18) Silicon Valley Bank fail (44:15) Bets with asymmetric upside (54:07) Choose your mess — Links: • Mercury - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-03-27•56mins
#23

How a guy turned 3 YouTube Channels into $3 Billion Dollars

💰 Get the [free] Episode 690: Sam Parr ( ) and Shaan Puri ( ) tell the story of the smartest YouTube rollup they’ve ever seen. — Show Notes: (0:00) $3B of nursery rhymes rollup (21:55) Sam goes all-in on IRL (36:03) All-in dads (38:37) Shotsy (41:49) PEDs for business — Links: • CoCoMelon - • Blippi - • Companies House - • RollUpEurope - • Shotsy - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-03-25•46mins

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#24

The Wildest Stories of Corporate Espionage We’ve Ever Heard

💰 Get the [free] Episode 689: Sam Parr ( ) and Shaan Puri ( ) break down the craziest stories of corporate espionage in history. — Show Notes: (0:00) Rippling vs Deel (10:21) The British East India Company (17:11) Oracle vs Microsoft (21:28) Coke vs. Pepsi (24:14) Uber vs. Waymo (26:03) U.S. Intellectual piracy (28:10) Wiz sells for $32B (39:40) A case for Glassdoor (45:54) Marc Lore's new thing (51:52) Money, Status, Power — Links: • Errol Musk interview - • Gili Ranaan interview - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-03-21•58mins
#25

6 under-the-radar trends (+ our ideas)

💰 Get the [free] Episode 688: Sam Parr ( ) and Shaan Puri ( ) talk about 6 under-the-radar trends. — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (2:24) Short Drama Apps (13:55) Rucking (22:10) Plastic-free everything (31:58) "Nervous System Work" (41:46) Biohacking plants (46:48) AI Social Networks — Links: • ReelShort - • DramaBox - • GORUCK - • Ryker Clothing - • AlphaFold - • Ohalo - • Suno - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-03-19•1hr 2mins
#26

The high schooler making $20M a year

Episode 687: Sam Parr ( ) and Shaan Puri ( ) talk to Zach Yadegari ( ), the high school kid who went from $0 - $20M in 10 months. — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (3:45) $0 - $20M in 10 months (17:12) Sold first business for $100K at 16 (20:42) Zach's Influencer marketing playbook (24:23) Being worth $30M at 18 (34:40) How to find problems to solve with AI (38:28) IDEA: AI journal (41:09) IDEA: iOS to Android project converter (44:01) IDEA: Remotely-configurable onboarding flows for mobile apps (47:05) Running away from home at age 10 (51:10) Being peerless (54:41) Who Zach admires (56:02) Gen Z trends (1:00:06) Aging out as a prodigy (1:06:43) Keeping a beginner's mind — Links: • Cal AI - • Totally Science - • The Great CEO Within - • TurboLearn - • Fitness AI - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-03-17•1hr 10mins
#27

2 Trends Hidden in Plain Sight (+ $1M ideas)

Episode 686: Sam Parr ( ) and Shaan Puri ( ) talk about the two trends that could make you rich in the next 12 months. — Show Notes: (0:00) Trend: Fleamarkets (20:03) Trend: True Crime (26:05) Business ideas brainstorm (43:52) Fyre Festival update (48:27) Shaan's dad's travel hacks — Links: • Brimfield Antique Flea Market - • First Monday Trade Days - • Rosebowl Flea Market - • Goodwill Finds - • MFM Vault - • My Favorite Murder - • Hunt A Killer - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-03-14•51mins
#28

5 Conversations that broke our frames this week

Episode 685: Sam Parr ( ) and Shaan Puri ( ) talk about the most interesting things they’ve found this week. — Show Notes: (0:00) Justin Caldbeck (8:02) Steve Houghton (20:15) James Currier (38:36) Furqan Rydhan — Links: • NFX - • James Altucher - • Agora - • Sheel’s MFM episode - • Digital Gold - • Predictably Irrational - ​​ — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-03-12•1hr 10mins
#29

How to win in ecom in 2025 (from a $200M/yr marketer)

Episode 684: Sam Parr ( ) and Shaan Puri ( ) talk to Sean Frank ( ) about his $200M ecom playbook. — Show Notes: (0:00) Sean's first million (8:35) $5M - $200M in 6 years (25:57) What people get wrong in ecom (30:33) Case study: HexClad (36:52) Fast-emerging trends (40:57) How to spot trends (44:54) Services-to-product playbook (51:47) Sean calls his shot (54:01) Winning at the trends game (59:01) Being outspoken on the internet — Links: • Operators Podcast - • Ridge - • PostPilot - • LVMH - • Tapestry - • HexClad - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-03-10•1hr 3mins
#30

The Greatest Mind Hacks in Marketing History (Craig Clemens Interview)

Episode 683: Shaan Puri ( ) sits down with Craig Clemens ( ) to talk about the greatest marketing lines in history. — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (2:22) Does not contain an illegal sexual stimulant (9:09) 4-hour erection (10:56) Operators are standing by (15:17) They’re eating the cats (21:54) A diamond is forever (26:09) Buy these worms, catch more fish (30:26) Joseph Duveen (41:30) Every ‘no’ has a value (44:46) Be a consumer of ads — Links: • Golden Hippo - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-03-06•47mins
#31

He launched a sweaty startup in high school. Now he'll be a millionaire by 18

Episode 682: Sam Parr ( ) and Shaan Puri ( ) talk to three high school founders about their biggest business problems. — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (5:02) Sunshine Exteriors (29:16) Teens2Table (45:53) Totally Mums — Links: • Formidable Fellows - • Sunshine Exteriors - • Teens2Table - • Totally Mums - • “Getting Everything You Can Out of Everything You’ve Got” - • How to Cold Email Like a Boss - • Gary Halbert Letter - • Sonith on X - • NextDoor - • 1-800-Got-Junk - • “The Sweaty Startup” - • Quiet Light Brokerage - • Future Titans - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-03-03•1hr 8mins
#32

I Made $50M Buying & Running Boring Businesses

Episode 681: Sam Parr ( ) and Shaan Puri ( ) talk to Brent Beshore ( ) about buying profitable businesses. — Show Notes: (0:00) $50K/yr to 9 figures (6:04) Accidentally buying a $1M business for $0 (11:06) Just In Time learning (14:11) Buying cash flow businesses (20:30) Private equity or index? (24:26) Buffett's near-death experience (32:54) How to buy your first small business (36:02) Brent's one-liner speed run (47:33) Shaan asks Brent how to hire a CEO — Links: • Permanent Equity - • Enneagram Test - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-02-28•57mins
#33

We talk to the guy who knows Silicon Valley’s darkest secrets

Episode 680: Sam Parr ( ) and Shaan Puri ( ) talk to Nick Bilton ( ), investigative journalist and author of American Kingpin and Hatching Twitter. — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (7:03) Inside a criminal mind (12:57) Getting people to open up (20:49) The real story behind Twitter (29:40) The auras of Trump, Bezos, Musk (33:13) Becoming a journalist (37:24) Steve Jobs' reality distortion field (43:16) Who has it all in Silicon Valley? (49:43) Being a professional asshole (57:56) Nick's next story (1:03:38) Storytelling — Links: • American Kingpin - • Hatching Twitter - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-02-26•1hr 15mins
#34

The TikTok strategy that’s printing MILLIONS right now… (ft. Rob The Bank)

Episode 679: Shaan Puri ( ) sits down with Robert Oliver ( ) to break down his $100M TikTok strategy. — Show Notes: (0:00) TikTok Gold Rush (13:00) The Playbook (23:00) Brands crushing it (36:00) Trends: Lookmaxing, pet luxuries, niche communities (51:30) Mistakes to avoid (1:03:00) Character design — Links: • Rob The Bank on YouTube - • Rob The Bank on TikTok - • KaloData - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-02-24•1hr 21mins
#35

Silicon Valley OG shares crazy stories from Zynga early days + 3 business ideas

Episode 678: Sam Parr ( ) and Shaan Puri ( ) talk to Siqi Chen ( ), the founder of Runway.com. — Show Notes: (0:00) Early days at Zynga (14:34) Business ideas (52:18) Touchy-feely class (1:07:24) Siqi’s favorite interview question (1:12:48) Insane growth of ElevenLabs — Links: • Limitless - • Rewind - • Runway - • Hoffman Institute - • Pump - • ElevenLabs - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-02-19•1hr 16mins
#36

What’s truly going on inside DOGE?

Episode 677: Sam Parr ( ) and Shaan Puri ( ) go inside what’s happening with DOGE. — Show Notes: (0:00) The wild story of Iron Mountain (17:39) Our take on DOGE (28:20) Government contract side quest (33:14) Elon vs Sam Altman PPV (39:16) How does Elon never get tired tho? (48:23) Life in situ (58:09) Casting call: $100K to the new MFM field correspondent — Links: • “The Many Lives of Iron Mountain” - • “How the Economic Machine Works” - • “Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order” - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-02-17•1hr 1mins
#37

MrBeast Shares His Best Business Advice

Access Shaan's interview prep and research notes: Episode 676: Shaan Puri ( ) sits down with MrBeast ( ) to talk about the mindset that made him the youngest billionaire and biggest entertainer on earth. — Show Notes: (0:00) Origin story (5:11) Burn the boats (11:15) The Rule of 100 (16:49) You can make anything go viral (23:27) Cloning (28:39) Impossible is possible (36:53) Consultants are a cheat code (41:25) Block out the noise (43:00) Reinvest everything (47:30) Feastables (53:02) Getting jacked (54:56) Buying TikTok — Links: • MrBeast on YouTube - • Beast Games - • Feastables - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-02-13•56mins
#38

The insane story of Blake Scholl: the high school dropout who’s building supersonic jets

Episode 675: Sam Parr ( ) and Shaan Puri ( ) tell the three stories of founders with insanely high agency. — Show Notes: (0:00) Boom Supersonic (30:50) Nick Mowbray, most impressive founder (43:43) The Moped King — Links: • Boom Supersonic - • ZURU - • Fly E-Bike - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-02-11•51mins
#39

He made $100m betting on the NBA… here’s how

Get our Business Monetization Playbook: Episode 674: Sam Parr ( ) and Shaan Puri ( ) talk to the most successful sports better of all time, Haralabos Voulgaris ( ). — Show Notes: (0:00) Stumbling into gambling (6:19) Finding your edge (19:23) Alpha (27:28) Casinos are for losers (30:02) Betting 160% on Bitcoin (35:36) Getting paid (37:31) Buying a soccer team (46:11) Investing every dollar into Bitcoin (49:27) Analogue things and biohacking — Links: • — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-02-07•59mins
#40

I went from $1/day to billionaire in 10 years... here's how

Episode 673: Shaan Puri ( ) talks to Nick Mowbray ( ), the founder of the most profitable toy company in the world. — Show Notes: (0:00) Selling DIY hot air balloons door-to-door (5:57) First product (21:32) $30M David Beckham Tamagotchi fail (30:18) Nightball (36:18) Robofish (41:43) Diapers (48:44) Shampoo, pet food, confectionary, supplements, home products (1:00:07) Zurutech - a self-funded moonshot (1:03:28) Serial entrepreneur flywheel — Links: • Zuru - • Zuru Tech - • Boom Supersonic - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-02-05•1hr 10mins
#41

I was offered $200M at 24 and I turned it down

Get our Business Monetization Playbook: Episode 672: Sam Parr ( ) and Shaan Puri ( ) talk to Matt Mullenweg ( ), the founder of WordPress and Automattic. — Show Notes: (0:00) Turning down $200M at 24 (6:04) WordPress's 1000 days of irrelevance (9:24) Turning a small South African company into $3B (13:40) The battle of giants - WooCommerce vs Shopify (18:37) Matt's Villain Arc (30:07) Auditions > Interviews (36:04) Putting every employee on the front line (42:56) Matt on Deepseek — Links: • Automattic - • WordPress - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-01-31•41mins
#42

We hosted a slumber party with 12 billionaires (our minds are blown)

Get our Business Monetization Playbook: Episode 671: Sam Parr ( ) and Shaan Puri ( ) recap a weekend spent with billionaires in Greenville, NC. — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (4:49) Fish Where The Fish Swim, Not Where The Fishermen Stand (12:45) Man Does Not Sell Chocolate, He Becomes It (18:48) Non-Obnoxious Confidence Beats IQ (22:53) I Am (24:51) Take Your Billions and Shove It (30:20) Hardwork.....maybe? (32:41) Health is the New Status Symbol (37:39) Midwit meme in full effect — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-01-29•42mins
#43

I run a $180M+ company...here's how I'm using AI on a daily basis

Get our Business Monetization Playbook: Episode 670: Sam Parr ( ) and Shaan Puri ( ) talk to Andrew Wilkinson ( ) about the AI tools that are replacing new hires. — Show Notes: (0:00) AI to kill admin work (7:37) the K-shaped future (16:29) 24/7 agents in your business (25:46) Software is the new commodity (38:40) Andrew's AI hedge investments (50:56) Buy, sell, or hold — Links: Lindy - Howie - Fyxer - Fathom - Otter - Claude - Zero - Replit - Constellation - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-01-24•1hr 3mins
#44

The Crazy Story of Google’s 7 Angel Investors

Get our Business Monetization Playbook: Episode 669: Sam Parr ( ) and Shaan Puri ( ) do a deep dive on the 7 strangers that made the greatest investment of all time. — Show Notes: (0:00) Andy Bechtolsheim (7:10) David Cheriton (10:10) Ron Conway (29:20) Alfred Lin (35:00) Shaquille O'Neill (37:20) Susan Wojcicki (38:50) Pejman Nozad (46:20) Jeff Bezos — Links: • SV Angel - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-01-16•1hr 1mins
#45

Just found out my neighbor’s business sold for $450M

Get our Business Monetization Playbook: Episode 668: Sam Parr ( ) and Shaan Puri ( ) talk about the story behind Muscle Milk, Scott Galloway's bet against FTX, and how Bill Ackman spent $460M in 4 hours. — Show Notes: (0:00) The untold Muscle Milk story (16:41) Timelines of your heroes (19:43) Having a social agenda (22:29) Shaan pitches Sam a business (38:58) Scott Galloway buys FTX claims (47:17) The value of having a too hard pile (55:18) Bill Ackman spends $460M in 4 hours — Links: • Muscle Milk - • Flavor Insights - • Hormel - • Arfur Rock - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-01-14•57mins
#46

Five +$10M Ideas (from a guy who's done it 3 times)

Get our Business Monetization Playbook: Episode 667: Sam Parr ( ) and Shaan Puri ( ) talk to Sheel Mohnot ( ) about the biggest opportunities he sees right now. — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (2:33) iPod mini hustle (10:40) Being a dot collector (20:30) The $100M story of Thistle (24:30) IDEA: Affinity-based retirement home (34:30) IDEA: Yelp for professional services (38:48) IDEA: Pearly whites (42:10) IDEA: Outsourced pizza (44:40) The story of Grey Goose (48:00) IDEA: School for AI Tools (52:00) Sheel's credit card stack (59:00) Sheel's position on crypto (1:03:00) Learning to sell — Links: • Thistle - • Sam’s List - • Pizzeria DeLuna - • U.S. Bank Smartly Visa - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-01-10•1hr 11mins
#47

How to Make $1,000,000 After You Graduate (5 steps)

Get our Business Monetization Playbook: Watch this episode here - Episode 666: Shaan Puri ( ) breaks down his 5 step process for making $1,000,000 quickly. — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (2:32) Slay the salary monster (13:26) Play the game 10 times (20:05) How to win even when you lose (25:26) Proximity is power (26:33) Impatient with action, patient with results — Links: • Sarah Moore episode - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-01-08•36mins
#48

56 Minutes of Money Wisdom for High-Earning Couples

Get our Business Monetization Playbook: Episode 665: Sam Parr ( ) talks to Ramit Sethi ( ) about money rules for couples in their 30s and 40s. — Show Notes: (0:00) 5 rules for money in your relationship (5:25) the 4 money types: avoider, optimizer, worriers, dreamers (10:15) The Annual Review (23:00) Monthly money meetings (26:00) There is no "money person" (31:09) 4 benchmarks for high-earning couples (35:03) Learning to spend (41:01) Investments vs purchases (43:39) Troubleshooting partnership disagreements (49:00) Spending to solve problems (53:00) Fight for simplicity — Links: • Money for Couples - • Ramit on YouTube - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-01-06•55mins
#49

No Small Boy Stuff, Investing Wisdom from Nassim Taleb, plus ChatGPT Prompts We're Using

Get our Business Monetization Playbook: Episode 664: Sam Parr ( ) and Shaan Puri ( ) talk about investing wisdom from Nassim Taleb and how to use ChatGPT as a life coach. — Show Notes: (0:00) No small boy stuff (2:30) Squid Game for investors (13:00) Noise v. signal (20:36) Sam uses ChatGPT to plan his life (31:50) Shaan explains how LLMs work (39:50) How to write better prompts (52:56) How to build a billion dollar company (55:51) 13 Questions that will change your life — Links: • Nassim Taleb books - • Crystal Ball Trading Challenge - • Kubera - • 3Blue1Brown - • Leetcode Wizard - • Fertilo - • “13 Questions That Will Change Your Life” - — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - • Visit to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - • Ideation Bootcamp - • Copy That - • Hampton Wealth Survey - • Sam’s List - My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2025-01-03•1hr 6mins
#50

The 2024 Milly Awards

Get our Business Monetization Playbook: Episode 663: Sam Parr ( ) and Shaan Puri ( ) break down the best and worst of the year. —Show Notes: (0:00) Best Investment of The Year(7:51) Worst Investments of The Year(14:39) Biggest Personal L(20:26) Coolest Moment(24:50) Life Hack of the Year(30:55) Billy of the year(37:31) Frame Breaking Person(48:53) Favorite guest(57:30) Best Product(1:01:24) Biggest change for next year—Links:• Inverse Galloway Index - • Nick Gray - • “Do What Makes The Best Story” - • Brick - —Check Out Shaan's Stuff:Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): Out Sam's Stuff:• Hampton - Ideation Bootcamp - Copy That - Hampton Wealth Survey - Sam’s List - First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

2024-12-30•1hr 11mins

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