My First Million

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A Masterclass On Flipping DTC Brands For Millions With Mehtab Bhogal Apr 04, 2023

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Episode 439: Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) talk to Mehtab Bhogal (@MehtabKarta) about how to flip direct to consumer brands to earn millions of dollars, underrated companies, Oprah, and more.

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

* Hampton

* Ideation Bootcamp

* Copy That

Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

* Power Writing Course

* Daily Newsletter

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Links:

* Corporate Turnaround Artistry

* The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through The Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture

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Show Notes:

(00:00) - Introduction to Mehtab

(11:20) - How old were you when you made your first million?

(18:50) - Josh's Frogs

(23:50) - Fast Growing Trees

(28:40) - What is your differentiator?

(30:50) - Hiring Agencies

(01:00:00) - Oprah

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Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more.

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Additional episodes you might enjoy:

• #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits

• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future

• #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto

* #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett

• #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates

• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More

• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

Brainstorming ChatGPT Business Ideas With Billionaire Dharmesh Shah Mar 30, 2023

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Episode 438: Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) talk to Hubspot Co-founder and CTO, Dharmesh Shah (@dharmesh), about all things artificial intelligence (AI), the countless business opportunities from AI, and why Dharmesh is saying AI is - and will be - bigger than the internet.

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Links:

* OpenAI

* LangChain

* Chat

* ChatSpot

* Gates Notes AI article

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Show Notes:

(00:50) - Open AI

(10:15) - The Chat to Code Revolution

(17:45) - How does AI work?

(19:03) - Is AI scary?

(23:40) - Sequoia's AI Event

(29:05) - Vector embeddings

(43:15) - Why Dharmesh Bought Chat.com

(50:45) - Dharmesh's 17 Year Chatbot Journey

(01:00:10) - Tactical Advice on Hampton

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Additional episodes you might enjoy:

• #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits

• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future

• #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto

* #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett

• #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates

• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More

• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

Sam Reveals The Company He's Worked On For The Last 8 Month Mar 28, 2023

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Episode 437: Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) talk about Sam's new startup, Hampton, which Shaan predicts will be worth more than $1 billion. Sam talks about how it started, why he started it, and the future of the business.

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SHAAN'S NEW DAILY NEWSLETTER --> shaanpuri.com

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Links:

* Hampton

* Martin Shrkreli's YT episode

* HARO

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Show Notes:

(00:25) - Sam Introduces Hampton

(22:35) - The Sam Parr method for finding opportunities and creating businesses

(46:50) - Martin Shkreli's Best Advice

(57:02) - HARO

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Additional episodes you might enjoy:

• #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits

• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future

• #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto

* #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett

• #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates

• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More

• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

Shaan's Masterclass On Pitching That Has Raised Millions From Investors Mar 24, 2023

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Episode 436: Download the deck and follow along at Shaanpuri.com/deck. In a special Friday episode, Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) gives a special masterclass on his pitch deck that has raised millions from investors. Go to the MFM YouTube channel to see examples.

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SHAAN'S NEW DAILY NEWSLETTER --> shaanpuri.com

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Links:

* Shaanpuri.com/deck

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Show Notes:

(01:35) - Title

(05:41) - Data/personal story

(07:30) - Future vision

(10:30) - Hero metric

(14:15) - Track record

(16:30) - Sweeten the pot

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Additional episodes you might enjoy:

• #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits

• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future

• #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto

* #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett

• #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates

• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More

• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

Million $ Quilting Empire, Babyville, USA, And Rapid Fire Business Ideas Mar 23, 2023

Show notes

Episode 435: Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) is joined by his business partner, Ben Levy (@benmlevy) to talk about meeting Al Doan - owner of a million dollar quilting company, creating Babyville, USA, taking meetings for no reason, and rapid fire business ideas.

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SHAAN'S NEW DAILY NEWSLETTER --> shaanpuri.com

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Links:

* Follow Ben Levy on Twitter

* Missouri Star Quilt Co.

* Justin Caldbeck Twitter

* Justin Caldbeck

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Show Notes:

(01:40) - Al Doan and his quilting empire

(13:20) - Babyville, USA

(17:25) - Justin Caldbeck

(24:20) - Private Dinner With The Very Successful

(49:20) - Taking meetings for no reason

(54:55) - Rapid fire ideas

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Additional episodes you might enjoy:

• #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits

• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future

• #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto

* #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett

• #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates

• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More

• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

Part 2: Pomp On His Businesses, Young Rock Star Employees, And The Internet Entrepreneur Hero Mar 21, 2023

Show notes

Episode 434 Part 2: Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) are joined by entrepreneur and Bitcoin investor Anthony Pompliano (@APompliano) to explain his businesses, how he gets rock stars on his side, and what internet entrepreneurs that stand out right now.

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SHAAN'S NEW DAILY NEWSLETTER --> shaanpuri.com

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Links:

* @pompglobal (Instagram)

* @pompofficial (TikTok)

* The Pomp Podcast

* Anthony Pompliano

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Show Notes:

(02:35) - How Pomp makes money

(30:05) - How to get young rockstars on your side

(50:20) - Who's the one internet entrepreneur you think has figured it out?

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Additional episodes you might enjoy:

• #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits

• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future

• #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto

* #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett

• #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates

• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More

• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

Part 1: Pomp On Balaji's 90 Day Bitcoin Bet, Digital Catastrophes, And Failing Banks Mar 21, 2023

Show notes

Episode 434 Part 1: In part one of today's show, Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) are joined by entrepreneur and Bitcoin investor Anthony Pompliano (@APompliano) to talk about the failing banks situation, Balaji Srinivasan's Bitcoin bet regarding banks, and digital catastrophes.

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SHAAN'S NEW DAILY NEWSLETTER --> shaanpuri.com

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Links:

* @pompglobal (Instagram)

* @pompofficial (TikTok)

* The Pomp Podcast

* Anthony Pompliano

* Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel.

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Show Notes:

(07:00) - Who is Pomp?

(07:45) - Balaji bet

(17:20) - Failing banks

(25:15) - Balaji's Reply to Shaan

(37:35) - Digital catastrophes

(45:45) - What are you doing in 90 days

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Additional episodes you might enjoy:

• #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits

• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future

• #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto

* #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett

• #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates

• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More

• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

Boys React: GPT-4, Billion $ Mint Mobile Sale, Original iPhone Sale, Bay Area Storms Mar 17, 2023

Show notes

Episode 433: In the Friday segment called The Boys React, Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and guest Nick Huber (@sweatystartup) give their two cents on a few relevant business stories. Check it out...

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Links:

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Show Notes:

(00:30) - GPT-4

(03:00) - Mint Mobile

(08:00) - Original iPhone sale

(11:35) - California Bay Area storm

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Additional episodes you might enjoy:

• #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits

• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future

• #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto

* #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett

• #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates

• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More

• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

BREAKING: Twitch Founder/CEO Resigns - What I Learned From Him Mar 16, 2023

Show notes

In a special episode of My First Million, Shaan (@ShaanVP) talks about the nine things he learned from working with Emmett Shear - CEO of Twitch - who resigned today.

Want to see more MFM? Subscribe to the MFM YouTube channel here.

SHAAN'S NEW DAILY NEWSLETTER --> shaanpuri.com

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Additional episodes you might enjoy:

• #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits

• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future

• #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto

* #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett

• #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates

• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More

• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

Nick Huber: Powerful Sales Trick, Traits Of An Entrepreneur, & When To Sell A Business Mar 16, 2023

Show notes

Episode 431: Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and entrepreneur, Nick Huber (@sweatystartup), talk about traits of successful entrepreneurs, a new powerful sales trick, how to run multiple businesses at a time, and more.

Want to see more MFM? Subscribe to the MFM YouTube channel here.

SHAAN'S NEW DAILY NEWSLETTER --> shaanpuri.com

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Links:

* The 50th Law by 50 Cent & Robert Greene

* CopyThat

* Sweaty Startup tweet

* Sweaty Startup Newsletter

* Nick Huber Show podcast

* Recruit Jet

* Titan Risk

* RE Cost Seg