My First Million

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The Market Is Crashing. Here’s What We’re Doing About It… Aug 09, 2024

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Episode 616: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about what they are doing in response to the market dip, plus The Olympics biggest winners and losers of the week.

Show Notes:

(0:00) Boys React: The market dip

(4:32) React or respond?

(10:48) The Olympics winners and losers

(19:03) Winner: Fem Kabul

(21:26) Winner: Team Refugees

(24:48) Loser: Simone Biles and Gymnastics in general

(27:30) Loser: Pole vault guy memes

(28:18) Winner: Noah Lyles

(30:41) Loser: The Olympic's programming

(34:00) The $75B dollar uniform rental empire

(38:18) Building a line of succession for your business

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Links:

• Get our business idea database here https://clickhubspot.com/mfm

• Cintas - https://www.cintas.com/

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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): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd

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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 The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

He Sold His Company For $15M, Then Got A Job At McDonald’s Aug 07, 2024

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Episode 615: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) tell the story of Scott Heiferman, the reindustrialization of America, plus Elon’s Problem Solving Method.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Millionaire working at McDonalds

(11:40) Scott Heiferman’s path to $15M

(17:32) Building Meetup.com to $156M exit

(24:20) Rosie the Riveter 3.0

(34:32) Elon's Problem Solving Method

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Links:

• Get our business idea database here https://clickhubspot.com/mfm

• Meetup - https://www.meetup.com/

• Bowling Alone - https://tinyurl.com/23etxxdp

• Careers Built To Last - https://www.careersbuilttolast.com/

• BlueForge Alliance - https://www.blueforgealliance.us/

• Gundo Deep Dive - https://x.com/johncoogan/status/1741512539979325733

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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/

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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): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd

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

3 Underdog Stories That’ll Get You Inspired This Week Jul 31, 2024

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Episode 614: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) share the stories of people who took shots on goal and were just one hit away from blowing up.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) The Jewish Ed Sheeran

(10:22) The actual Ed Sheeran

(15:00) Eric the Eel

(20:00) How CarEdge is quietly crushing it

(29:21) How a car dealership is pulling millions of views on TikTok

(33:07) $100M+ Pokemon sleep tracking app

(35:55) Nick Gray's new thing

(39:37) “The best advice is free by definition”

(43:29) Take a 360 review of your life

(50:16) Shaan bombs a talk at a conference (lessons learned)

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Links:

• CarEdge - https://caredge.com/

• Mohawk Chevrolet - https://www.tiktok.com/@mohawkchevrolet

• Jack Skeen - https://jackskeen.com/

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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): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd

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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 The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

6 Things I Learned From Not Drinking For 1 Year Jul 29, 2024

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Episode 613: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talk to about the giving up drinking 11 years ago and the lessons he learned for anyone wanting to make a major change in their life.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(1:00) Lesson 1: Figure out your why and go all in on that.

(4:14) Lesson 2: Tell your friends

(8:40) Lesson 3: Recreate your identity.

(13:00) Lesson 4: Don’t be perfect, just mostly good.

(15:50) Lesson 5: You’ll attract more people.

(18:26) Lesson 6. Find inspiration. (It’s ok to be corny)

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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 The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

10 AI Business Ideas From The Queen of AI ft. Sarah Guo Jul 24, 2024

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Episode 612: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Sarah Guo ( https://x.com/saranormous ) about the Ai ideas she thinks could be $1B swings.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(4:00) IDEA: AI companions

(16:00) IDEA: AI interior design / professional headshots

(22:30) IDEA: A richer version of The Sims

(25:00) The speedy way to do this if you're non-technical

(27:00) IDEA: Your Personal Seller

(32:00) IDEA: Generative Voice API for service providers, SMBs, restaurants

(38:00) IDEA: Next Gen Auto-Fill

(40:00) Software 3.0--what's coming

(42:00) Boring verticals fertile for AI: Legal and medical

(44:00) Ask: What's already being outsourced?

(47:00) Ripe for disruption: energy storage, chips,

(49:00) “Ai's $600B Question”

(52:00) Sarah Reacts: Doomsday scenarios in Ai

(56:30) If you're 22, hungry and optimistic, go west

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Links:

• Sarah Guo - https://sarahguo.com/

• Conviction - https://www.conviction.com/

• No Priors Podcast - https://www.youtube.com/@NoPriorsPodcast

• Replika - https://replika.com/

• Character.ai - https://character.ai/

• HeyGen - https://www.heygen.com/

• Icon - https://icon.me/

• Arcads - https://www.arcads.ai/

• Interior AI - https://interiorai.com/

• Aragon - https://aragon.ai/

• Chatbot App - https://chatbotapp.ai/

• Cartesia - https://cartesia.ai/

• Somewhere - https://www.somewhere.com/

• AI’s $600B Question - https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/ais-600b-question/

• Eureka Labs - https://eurekalabs.ai/

• Conviction Embed - https://embed.conviction.com/

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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): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd

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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 The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

Business Brainstorm: SAT Prep Cartoons, The Onion For Millennial Moms & More Jul 22, 2024

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Episode 611: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) catch up and share 3 business ideas they came up with over the weekend.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Shaan's no phone weekend

(5:17) Control your inputs

(10:20) Life hack: Play with your kid

(15:38) Business Idea: Sketchy

(25:15) Business Idea: Niche Fake News You Can Trust

(34:41) Business Idea: Tampons that won't kill you

(40:28) An unqualified brief history of presidential assassinations

(46:09) The ceaseless action of Teddy Roosevelt

(55:10) MFM Required Readling List

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Links:

• r/regretfulparents - https://www.reddit.com/r/regretfulparents/

• Sketchy - https://www.sketchy.com/

• Babylon Bee - https://babylonbee.com/

• Manhunt - https://tinyurl.com/bdepazn4

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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/

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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): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd

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

We Bet This App Idea Could Be Bigger Than Reddit Jul 19, 2024

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Episode 610: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the $1b dollar app idea for millennial moms, how Solidcore founder Anne Mahlum emptied her life savings into a pilates studio that she sold for $88M + Shaan writes a movie using ChatGPT.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) APP IDEA: Reddit For Moms

(3:50) Capitalizing on a reverse craving

(14:30) How we use our wives to predict trends

(18:54) Shaan uses ChatGPT to make a movie

(22:56) How to use ChatGPT as an on-demand creative collaborator

(34:14) The mind-boggling story of Solidcore

(37:21) The insane confidence of Anne Mahlum

(41:40) There's no business that looks good on the inside

(44:07) "They drove a clown car into a gold mine"

(47:55) Who's your Elon?

(50:34) Why Ben Franklin and Jesse Itzler are Shaan's entrepreneurial heroes

(55:10) Bryan Johnson's aging leaderboard

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Links:

• Better Than Google - https://tinyurl.com/mskmpysd

• Beehiiv - https://www.beehiiv.com/

• Solidcore - https://www.solidcore.co/

• Anne Mahlum - https://www.annemahlum.com/

• Jesse Itzler’s episode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff1z3GUcfO8

• I’m There For You, Baby - https://tinyurl.com/2m42ktk9

• TruDiagnostic - https://www.trudiagnostic.com/

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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/

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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): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd

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

How to hijack attention: Lessons from jingles, candy crush, and betting sites Jul 17, 2024

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Episode 609: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) break down the genius marketing tactics used by the brands you can’t get out of your brain–no matter how much you want to.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) The history of jingles (Bring them back!)

(11:07) Prediction: Polymarket is going to be massive

(21:25) The wisdom on the crowd phenomenon

(26:36) How gaming apps hunt for whales

(31:00) Corporate Slang That Doesn't Exist But Should

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Links:

• DatPiff - https://www.datpiff.com/

• Polymarket - https://polymarket.com/

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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): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd

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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 The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

3 Startup Ideas: Mouse Jigglers, Employee Monitoring Softwares and Photoshop Copycats Jul 12, 2024

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Episode 608: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) react to the $22M "fake-work" app, mouse jigglers & Ryan Serhant’s Netflix show.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Devices helping the overemployed cheat on their bosses

(6:50) $22M ARR side hustle catching mouse jigglers

(8:36) Career polygamy support at r/overemployed

(11:18) Is this a good strategy for financial freedom?

(15:58) Big Desk Energy

(20:22) Life hack: Intentional internet consumption

(26:58) Indie hacking on steroids

(32:44) Shaan tries a self-driving car, becomes evangelist

(36:50) Secondary effects of autonomous vehicles

(40:16) Ryan Serhant’s Netflix show

(45:28) Don’t try to be noticed; try to be great.

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Links:

• Hubstaff - http://hubstaff.com/

• Teramind - https://democompany.teramind.co/

• Mouse Mover - https://tech8usa.com/

• r/overemployed - https://www.reddit.com/r/overemployed/

• Overemployed - https://overemployed.com/

• Beehiiv - https://www.beehiiv.com/

• Big Desk Energy - http://bigdeskenergy.com/

• Brian Koppelman blog - https://briankoppelman.com/

• Photopea - https://www.photopea.com/

• Pikimov - https://pikimov.com/

• Waymo - https://waymo.com/

• Sellit.com - https://sellit.com/

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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/

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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): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd

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

Our buddy sold his app for $200M in just 6 weeks?! Jul 10, 2024

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Episode 607: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Dan Porter ( https://x.com/tfadp ) about selling his app for $200M after just 6 weeks plus stories about Richard Branson, Ari Emmanuel & building cult brands.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(1:29) Story behind OMGPop gaming company

(5:23)Creating viral mobile game Draw My Thing (now Draw Something)

(12:02) 25 million users a day, 1 million drawings every 5 seconds

(24:10) Zynga bought the game for $200M 6 weeks after launch

(32:30) The real power of money

(38:32) Working with Richard Branson and Ari Emmanuel

(47:44) Building Overtime (creating a brand that is part of culture)

(52:28) The Travis Scott effect

(1:06:45) Dan's life advice

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Links:

• Overtime - https://overtimeelite.com/

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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): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd

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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 The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

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