My First Million

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We found the weirdest ways to make $1M, $1B, and $5B Jun 13, 2025

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Episode 716: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the 6 weird ways to make millions.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) $1M Twerking Class

(5:55) Fecal transplants

(12:00) A brief history of butts

(15:05) $1B BBLs

(20:26) $5B hookup app

(31:16) $200M bonus: DUDE Wipes

(37:19) How many millionaires from the pod?

(47:17) Having it all

(50:18) Shaan's reading list

(53:28) Wisdom extraction

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Links:

• Want Sam's Top 7 Books as a Founder (& his Reading Strategy)? Get the guide here: https://clickhubspot.com/apw

• OpenBiome - https://openbiome.org/

• Grindr - https://www.grindr.com/

• DUDE Wipes - https://dudewipes.com/

• Tushy - https://hellotushy.com/

• Modern Wisdom - https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisWillx

• Save The Cat - https://tinyurl.com/4nwpec6z

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm 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

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

“$100M dollar brands are being built for boring products” - Harley Finkelstein of Shopify Jun 12, 2025

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Episode 715: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Harley Finkelstein ( https://x.com/harleyf ) about boring products that could be worth $100M.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Disrupting boring products

(15:05) Swiss Army knife founders

(21:42) "People only remember your weird"

(31:45) Considering an exit

(39:32) Becoming a better storyteller

(46:17) Shopify's leaked memo about AI

(51:26) Biohacking Longevity

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Links:

• Shopify - https://shopify.com/

• Touchland - https://touchland.com/

• Firebelly Tea - https://firebellytea.com/

• Ember Mug - https://ember.com/

• David’s Tea - https://davidstea.com/

• AG1 - https://drinkag1.com/

• Method - https://www.methodhome.com/

• Olly - https://www.olly.com/

• Welly - https://www.getwelly.com/

• Ritual - https://ritual.com/

• Seed - https://seed.com/

• Prose - https://prose.com/

• Prenuvo - https://www.prenuvo.com/

• CLEERLY - https://cleerlyhealth.com/

• 29029 - https://29029everesting.com/

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• 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

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

How to Scale a Profitable Agency with 0 Employees (Using AI Agents) Jun 06, 2025

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Episode 714: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) sits down with Matt Mazzeo ( https://x.com/Mazzeo ) about using AI agents as your go-to-market.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(3:30) AI as the Go-to-Market

(8:50) The Billion Dollar Secret

(12:03) Mario Kart Theory

(18:55) Being a Tinkerer/Supabase

(25:38) Amjad Masad/Replt

(28: 41) Taste

(36:44) Agents replacing VCs

(37:57) Agent Employees

(42:28) Story Game

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Links:

• Want Sam's guide to use ChatGPT? Get it here: https://clickhubspot.com/wpv

• Supabase - https://supabase.com/

• Replit - https://replit.com/

• Clay - https://www.clay.com/

• Alpha Go Movie - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXuK6gekU1Y

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• 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

How the Smartest Founders Are Quietly Winning with AI Jun 04, 2025

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Episode 713: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Jason Lemkin ( https://x.com/jasonlk ) about cloning yourself with AI and how ChatGPT will be the end of incumbent apps.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) AI body doubles Users tell AI things they won't tell humans

(15:15) The incumbents are dying

(27:25) Inside the office of OpenAI

(34:12) How to be an AI billionaire

(44:40) The story of Saastr

(55:49) Being a relentless recruiter

(58:52) Seeing through the fog of war

(1:07:53) The future of work for gen alpha

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Links:

• Want Sam's playbook to turn ChatGPT into your executive coach? Get it here: https://clickhubspot.com/ejv

• Saastr - https://www.saastr.com/

• Delphi - https://www.delphi.ai/

• Windsurf - https://windsurf.com

• Coursiv - https://coursiv.io/

• Lovable - https://lovable.dev/

• Higsfield - http://higsfield.ai/

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• 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

How to build a $1M+ startup using AI (Full Tutorial) May 30, 2025

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For the full experience, watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0j_n3OOM7c

Episode 712: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talks to Greg Isenberg ( https://x.com/gregisenberg ) talk about how to find a startup idea and build it in a couple hours using AI.

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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

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Links:

• Want Greg's guide to Build an AI Startup in 3 Hours with <$500? Get it here: https://clickhubspot.com/wrc

• Idea Browser - ideabrowser.com

• TLDraw - https://www.tldraw.com/

• Wispr Flow - https://wisprflow.ai/

• Manus - https://manus.im/

• Bolt - https://bolt.new/

• The Vibe Marketer - https://www.thevibemarketer.com/

• Kubera - https://www.kubera.com/

• Lindy - https://www.lindy.ai/

• Lovable - https://lovable.dev/

• Windsurf - https://windsurf.com/

• Cursor - https://www.cursor.com/

• Supabase - https://supabase.com/

• Prospect AI - https://www.prospectai.co/

• Boring Marketing - https://www.boringmarketing.com/

• Gumloop - https://www.gumloop.com/

• N8N - https://n8n.io/

• Ahrefs - https://ahrefs.com/

• Semrush - https://www.semrush.com/

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• 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

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

How I built a $3B AI Startup + 7 AI Business Ideas May 28, 2025

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Episode 711: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talks to Guillermo Rauch ( https://x.com/rauchg ) about building Vercel plus 7 business ideas to start in AI.

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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

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Links:

• Guillermo Rauch - https://rauchg.com/

• Vercel - https://vercel.com/

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• 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

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

5 Startups That Looked Dumb—Until They Were Worth Billions May 23, 2025

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Episode 710: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about how to evaluate risk and upside of new ideas.

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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"

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Links:

• Want Sam's Playbook to Uncover Business Opportunities? Get it here: https://clickhubspot.com/bzo

• “How to miss by a mile” - https://tinyurl.com/2rxubfwa

• Leaked OpenAI emails - https://www.techemails.com/p/elon-musk-and-openai

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• 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

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

Hinge expert shares dating advice for ambitious nerds May 21, 2025

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Episode 709: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Logan Ury ( https://x.com/loganury ) about how young men can be more successful in dating.

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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

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Links:

• Want Sam's Company Research Playbook? Get it here: https://clickhubspot.com/wve

• Logan Ury - https://www.loganury.com/

• 3 Tendencies Quiz - https://www.loganury.com/quiz

• The School of Life - https://www.youtube.com/@theschooloflifetv

• Mating in Captivity - https://tinyurl.com/bddrnw9c

• How to Not Die Alone - https://tinyurl.com/mupe2ntc

• Seven Principles for Making a Marriage Work - https://tinyurl.com/jvz9hhu6

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• 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

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

How Scott Galloway Turned $8M into $120M Through Investing May 16, 2025

Show notes

Want Scott Galloway's Business Playbook? Get it here: https://clickhubspot.com/pfg

Episode 708: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Scott Galloway ( https://x.com/profgalloway ) about his wildest investments, plus advice for men in their 20s and 30s.

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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

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• 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

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

How to retire with millions (and pay $0 taxes) May 14, 2025

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Episode 707: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Ankur Nagpal ( https://x.com/ankurnagpal ) 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 - https://lu.ma/2025

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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

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Links:

• Steal Sam's guide to turn ChatGPT into your Executive Coach: https://clickhubspot.com/dvj

• Teachable - https://teachable.com/

• Carry - https://carry.com/

• Frec - https://frec.com/

• Superpower - https://superpower.com/

• Flightfox - https://www.flightfox.com/

• Seats.aero - https://seats.aero/

• Home Depot Workshops - https://www.homedepot.com/c/kids-workshop

• The OOO Summit - https://lu.ma/2025

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• 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

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

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