My First Million

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TikTokers Making TV Shows For $5,000 With Millions Of Views, and Other Ways To Make $ Online Dec 27, 2022

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Episode 400: Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) talk about TikTokers making shows with millions of views, the success of Coffeezilla debunking internet myths, the power of Click Funnels for making money online and more.

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Links:

* Papa Swolio TikTok

* Buying Time TikTok

* Keep The Meter Running TikTok

* Einstein Elementary TikTok

* The Adventurists

* Coffeezilla YT

* Gently

* Click funnels

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Show Notes:

(09:25) - TikTok shows

(14:30) - Windows vs Doors

(18:05) - The only business mistakes that are irreversible

(23:10) - MFM's gentleman's agreement

(34:35) - The Adventurists

(40:00) - Coffeezilla

(47:15) - New Click Funnels

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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

Fyre Festival's Billy McFarland Tells Us His Next Move, Lessons Learned In Jail, and More Dec 22, 2022

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Episode 399: Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) talk to Billy McFarland talks about the failures of Fyre Festival, lessons learned, and his latest business venture, PYRT.

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Links:

* PYRT

* Bounty Hunter World

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Show Notes:

(05:20) - Why he's doing interviews

(08:25) - Billy's background (Magnises and Fyre)

(27:20) - Fyre festival failure

(36:00) - PYRT

(42:00) - Time in prison and solitary confinement

(51:30) - Other business ideas

(01:00:35) - Lessons learned in prison

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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

Austin Rief: Building Morning Brew, The Ultimate Guide to Building Newsletter Businesses, Side Hustle Ideas, & More Dec 20, 2022

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Episode 398: Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) talk to Morning Brew Founder & CEO Austin Rief (@austin_rief) about building, growing and selling a newsletter valued at $75M in 5 years, whether newsletter businesses are still worth doing, how to make them succeed, and a few good side hustle ideas to start now.

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Links:

* Morning Brew

* Toptal

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Show Notes:

(01:00) - Morning Brew origin story

(19:10) - Ad sales

(24:10) - Austin's strengths

(32:15) - Austin's upbringing

(42:55) - What did you do with your new found wealth?

(45:55) - Ideas brainstorm

(01:13:14) - Future plans

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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: Shaan Sells the Milk Road - A Conversation With the Buyers Dec 16, 2022

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Episode 397: Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) talks with Kendall Saville and Michael Wittmeyer about their decision to buy Milk Road, their background in gambling affiliates, gold, and crypto, and much more.

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Links:

* JM Bullion

* Milk Road

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Show Notes:

(00:00) - Shaan's Intro

(04:30) - Why Michael and Kendall are under the radar

(13:30) - Stories of hacking SEO

(16:00) - Why Shaan decided to sell

(43:00) - How Michael and Kendall got into the gold business

(56:30) - Why you should compare yourself to your competitors

(01:01:30) - How Kendall's first business almost got him arrested

(01:05:45) - Life hacks

(01:12:30) - Business philosophies

(01:30:00) - Creating outlier outcomes

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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

University of Michigan Students Pitch Us Their Startups For $5000 Prize Money Dec 16, 2022

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Episode 396: Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) judge the My First Million pitch competition with students at the University of Michigan for a prize of $5,000. Some impressive ideas... find out who wins.

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Links:

* Internet Activism

* Yofi

* Deal Dog

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Show Notes:

(01:45) - Pitch #1 Area

(18:30) - Pitch #2 Internet Activism

(30:30) - Pitch #3 SeaFare

(42:00) - Pitch #4 Yofi

(52:00) - Pitch #5 Deal Dog

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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

Lessons Learned from Interviewing Tim Ferriss, SaaS Business Ideas for OnlyFans, and More Dec 13, 2022

Show notes

Episode 395: Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) talk about Shaan's interview with entrepreneur, investor, author, podcaster, and lifestyle guru, Tim Ferriss (@tferriss). They review his money and life advice, as well as his new NFT project. Plus, real estate insights and one business idea... plugins and SaaS tools for Only Fans.

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Links:

* Homestead Heritage

* Tim Ferriss

* Milk Road / Tim Ferriss interview

* Cockpunch

* Bhad Bhabie

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Show Notes:

(05:05) - Isaac French

(09:50) - What Shaan learned from Tim Ferriss

(17:35) - Tim Ferriss money advice

(37:05) - Real estate insights

(51:05) - Only Fans

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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

Paul English: How He Built And Sold 6 Companies And Why He Believes Irritation Becomes Inspiration Dec 09, 2022

Show notes

Episode 394: Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) talk with entrepreneur and Kayak co-founder, Paul English (@englishpaulm) about his latest business ideas, his famous missed investments, how to become a strong recruiter, and why he wants to create Twitter's competitor.

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Links:

* Paul English

* Boston Venture Studio

* Middle

* Bipolar Social Club

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Show Notes:

(00:25) - switched jobs for a day

(07:05) - who did you know before they met success

(13:45) - become an excellent recruiter

(20:25) - starting a company easier now?

(28:15) - Irritation becomes inspiration

(30:55) - Ideas he's working on

(34:10) - Bipolar disorder

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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

Unpopular Truths From The Pod, Gourmet Gifts, and 4 Side Hustles Dec 08, 2022

Show notes

Episode 393: Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) talk about the unpopular - yet valuable - lessons they have learned on My First Million, $1,000/day side hustles, and gourmet gift ideas.

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Links:

* RVshare

* Mark Jenney Twitter

* Caitlyn Minimalist

* Harry & David

* Omaha Steaks

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Show Notes:

(01:30) - Are courses legit?

(07:30) - Unpopular things learned on MFM

(32:30) - Mark Jenney

(44:15) - Last minute gourmet gift 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

Controversies, Disrupting High End Real Estate, And The Best Way To Use Twitter Dec 06, 2022

Show notes

Episode 392: Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) talk about all the controversies... FTX drug use, Liver King admits to steroid use, and the curious case of Katie Haun. Plus, disrupting the multi-million real estate business.

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Links:

* More Plates More Dates

* Liver King

* Katie Haun Twitter

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Show Notes:

(02:25) - FTX drug use

(18:10) - Liver King liar

(31:00) - curious case of Katie Haun

(40:50) - High end real estate

(54:35) - The best way to use Twitter

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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

Mind-Blowing AI Tools, 2023 Goals, & Money Making Arbitrage Schemes Dec 01, 2022

Show notes

Episode 391: Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) talk about their new favorite AI tool, how to make money from arbitrage, goal setting for 2023, and more.

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Links:

* Character.AI

* Adept

* State of AI Report

* Vintage Wall Graphics - Etsy

* Pipe

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Show Notes:

(03:15) - State of AI