My First Million

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Hire 1 to Hire 10, Sam Gets Hacked, Shaan Buys a $200K NFT, and More with Andrew Wilkinson Mar 17, 2022

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Andrew Wilkinson (@awilkinson) joins Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) to talk about delegation, hiring 1 to hire 10, how to handle getting hacked, Shaan's $200K NFT purchase, and more.

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Links:

* https://www.tinycapital.com/

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Show Notes:

(01:30) - Thoughts on getting hacked

(17:15) - Bored Ape Yacht Club and Crypto Punks merger and Shaan's $200K NFT

(22:30) - How to navigate volatility in global events

(26:40) - The value of starting an agency

(33:30) - Thoughts on Lee Kuan Yew

(35:15) - Hire 1 to hire 10

(41:10) - Andrew's ghost kitchen

(46:00) - Why certain people can have success after success

(57:30) - Why bad guys always win

(01:15:30) - "The Macolm Gladwell Effect"

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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

The Kanye Episode Mar 16, 2022

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Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) talk about Netflix's recent Kanye West documentary, Jeen-Yuhs, and what lessons they learned from watching it.

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Links:

* Jeen-Yuhs on Netflix - https://www.netflix.com/title/81426972

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Show Notes:

(01:30) - Thoughts on the Kanye Doc

(21:30) - Being yourself and being obsessed with your craft

(23:30) - Summary of lessons learned

(28:30) - Weirdly obsessed people

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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

Recapping the Mr Beast Joe Rogan Interview, The Billionaire Who Owns the Sports Jersey Market, Betting on Yourself, and More Mar 15, 2022

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Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) recap Mr. Beast's interview on Joe Rogan, talk about people who find their passion early in life, discuss Michael Rubin and how he has taken over the sports jersey market, and more.

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Links:

* Fanatics - https://www.fanatics.com/

* Mr Beast on Joe Rogan - https://open.spotify.com/episode/5lokpznqvSrJO3gButgQvs?si=b931061285fd4e84

* Whatnot - https://whatnot.com/

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Show Notes:

(01:35) - Recapping the drunk ideas episode

(3:00) - Mr Beast on Rogan

(6:55) - Betting on yourself

(13:00) - Michael Rubin and Fanatics

(19:45) - Growing your market

(22:05) - Whatnot

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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

Best of This Week: March 11th Mar 11, 2022

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Some of the best moments from this week of My First Million.

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Show Notes:

(01:40) - The ABZ framework and getting started

(04:30) - Very long distance girlfriend

(12:15) - Guerilla recruiting tactics

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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

3 Profitable Business Ideas You Should Start in 2022, Dog Food Billionaires, and Focusing on the Next Step with Steph Smith Mar 10, 2022

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Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) are joined by Steph Smith (@StephSmithIO) to discuss why you shouldn't think beyond step 1 when starting a business, how to identify 10X productivity employees, and how to automatically generate side-hustle ideas.

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Links:

* Steph's website - http://stephsmith.io/

* Steph's podcast - http://listenandlearn.co/

* Spring loading community - https://discord.gg/xhhFEwgWTf

* NYT First Said - https://twitter.com/NYT_first_said

* Nuuly - https://www.nuuly.com/

* MSCHF - https://mschf.xyz/

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Show Notes:

(01:30) - Chewie.com Billionaire

(6:30) - Are you buying the dip

(16:15) - New York Times first said

(22:00) - MSCHF

(27:00) - Is 10X talent real?

(32:30) - Why Steph still works for an employer

(40:00) - Nuuly

(49:00) - The side hustle generator

(01:15:00) - Why Steph still calls her fiancee her "partner"

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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

Is Time Out a Billion Dollar Business? - Plus Russian Stocks, Right-Wing Media Sites, and More Mar 09, 2022

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Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) discuss why Time Out is a surprising business that could be worth a billion dollars, whether it's worth buying Russian stocks, and what Shaan would do to build a large right-wing media property.

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Links:

* Time Out - https://www.timeout.com/

* DC Enquirer - https://dcenquirer.com/

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Show Notes:

(01:30) - Time Out

(8:25) - Russian stocks

(11:30) - Right wing media sites

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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

Drunk Business Ideas That Could Make You Millions Mar 08, 2022

Show notes

Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) share some "drunk business ideas." Ideas that sound ridiculous... but might actually work.

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Show Notes:

(02:25) - Very long distance girlfriend

(10:00) - Extremely large beds

(17:10) - HOA Court

(25:30) - Business Olympics

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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

Best of This Week: March 4th Mar 04, 2022

Show notes

Some of the best moments from this week of My First Million.

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Show Notes:

(01:30) - David Friedberg on the power of thinking big

(05:15) - Raoul Pal on network effects and crypto

(10:45) - Sam and Shaan discussing how the Russian oligarchs came to power

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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

EXTRA: Russian Oligarchs, Putin, and Sam and Shaan's Thoughts on Ukraine Mar 03, 2022

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Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) talk about the little known story of the Russian oligarchs, and discuss the current situation in Ukraine and how President Zelensky is leading his country through the invasion.

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Show Notes:

(00:30) - The story of the Russian oligarchs

(13:30) - General reactions to the invasion and the news surrounding it

(28:00) - Whether you should pay attention to the news or not

(34:30) - Is it worth hearing the other side?

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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

How to Think Big with David Friedberg, Founder of Cana Mar 03, 2022

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Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) sits down with David Friedberg (@Friedberg) to talk about ambition, what he learned from the founders of Google, and how he's aiming to change the world by 3D printing drinks with his latest startup, Cana.

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Show Notes:

(01:30) - Dave's background

(10:30) - What Dave learned from the founders of Google

(16:30) - Why many people have trouble thinking big

(31:30) - Dave's new company, Cana

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Links:

* https://www.cana.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

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