My First Million

Latest Episodes:

Tech Startup Ideas for the Farmer Economy Jan 20, 2022

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Shaan Puri (@shaanVP) and Sam Parr (@theSamParr) discuss FarmCon 2022, how Shaan got Covid, tech startup ideas for the farmer economy, how to develop value and a sense of mystique in your personal brand, and much more.

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Show Notes:

(00:18) - Should babies pick their own name?

(02:50) - Shaan gets Covid

(08:22) - How to have Slack meetings

(10:15) - FarmCon and business ideas for the farm economy

(51:20) - How to create personal brand equity

(59:00) - Sam's short term rental crew

(01:01:15) - Steady.capital

(01:06:22) - American Kingpin

(01:11:50) - Announcing the winner of the clips contest

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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 The Best Business Ideas To Start In 2022 with Noah Kagan Jan 18, 2022

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Sam Parr (@theSamParr) and is joined by Noah Kagan (@NoahKagan) to discuss the most profitable businesses on AppSumo, the best business ideas to start in 2022, businesses you can start with zero startup costs, and much more.

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Show Notes:

(00:30) - TheColdPlunge.com

(04:15) - OkDork.com

(05:55) - How to grow a YouTube channel

(10:45) - TikTok vs YouTube

(13:50) - Chrome extension businesses

(22:20) - What Mint.com did wrong

(32:45) - How to become "Wirecutter for the end of the world"

(34:10) - One person businesses and businesses with zero startup costs

(34:40) - The best selling AppSumo app of all time

(49:30) - Noah's yearly and monthly reviews

(54:17) - Best buys under $100

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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

Greatest Hits of 2021 (Vol. 2) Jan 14, 2022

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On this episode, we bring you some of the best and most popular moments from My First Million in 2021. This episode specifically highlights some of our best guest moments. Let us know how you like the episode and if we should do greatest hits in the future!

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Show Notes:

(00:40) - Rob Dyrdek masters time

(12:45) - How Hasan Minhaj prepares for his shows

(17:50) - Steph Smith talks about one-person companies making millions

(29:05) - Jack Abraham talks about frameworks for billion dollar companies

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Links:

* Episode 224 with Rob Dyrdek

* Episode 244 with Hasan Minhaj

* Episode 248 with Steph Smith

* Episode 225 with Jack Abraham

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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

Saas Companies that Anyone Can Start with Rob Walling Jan 11, 2022

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Sam Parr (@theSamParr) and Ben Wilson (@BenWilsonTweets) discuss Sam's article defending Theranos, airport houses, and conducting an end of year family review. They are then joined by Rob Walling (@RobWalling) who talks about great SaaS business that anyone could start.

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Show Notes:

(00:20) - Airline neighborhood with houses and hotels

(06:45) - Sam on the front page of HackerNews for defending Elizabeth Holmes

(12:20) - The family board meeting

(18:30) - Rob Walling joins the show. About Rob.

(30:30) - Why you should or shouldn't sell your business

(42:30) - Rob's favorite Saas businesses that he's working with

(50:50) - Rob's ideas for new SaaS companies that anyone could start

(01:10:10) - Founding a company as a non-technical founder

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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

Greatest Hits of 2021 (Vol. 1) Jan 07, 2022

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On this episode, we bring you some of the best and most popular moments from My First Million in 2021. Let us know how you like the episode and if we should do greatest hits in the future!

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Show Notes:

(01:10) - Michael Jordan's house

(12:45) - Mob tours

(19:00) - Dopamine detox with Andrew Wilkinson

(26:30) - Shaan's goal setting framework

(30:00) - Betting on yourself w/ Ariel Helwani

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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

Clip 1 (1:10) - MJ's house
Clip 2 (12:45) - Mob tours
Clip 3 (19:00) - Dopamine Detox w/ Andrew Wilkinson
Clip 4 (26:30) - Shaan's Goal Setting Framework
Clip 5 (30:00) - Betting on Yourself w/ Ariel Helwani

Sam and Shaan's New Year's Resolutions Jan 06, 2022

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Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@theSamParr) discuss why Sam makes new year's resolutions, why Shaan doesn't, and what they're focusing on this year.

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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

Doomer Optimism, The Economics of Book Publishing, and More Jan 06, 2022

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Sam Parr (@theSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) discuss doomer optimism, why Sam is prepping for the apocalypse, the economics of book publishing, why most authors don't make any money, and much more.

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Show Notes:

(01:03) - How Sam got knocked out last weekend

(08:50) - Doomer optimism and prepping for the end of the world

(18:43) - Lessons learned from Lex Fridman interviewing Elon Musk

(33:50) - The economics of book publishing

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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

MFM Goes Viral on TikTok, Solana Billionaires, Right to Be Forgotten, and More Jan 04, 2022

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Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@theSamParr) discuss how they were able to get more than 10M views on TikTok, why Solana billionaires are giving them FOMO, the right to be forgotten and companies that are helping people achieve it, and much more.

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Show Notes:

(00:30) - How MFM went viral on TikTok

(07:55) - Right to be forgotten and Reputation.com

(21:20) - Making billions from Solana

(39:50) - Moving to Silicon Valley with nothing

(45:50) - Reflections on eComm

(01:00:00) - SOS and OpenSea

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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 2021 Milly Awards Dec 30, 2021

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Sam Parr (@theSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) are joined by Andrew Wilkinson (@awilkinson) to go through their 2021 Milly Awards. They hand out awards like "billionaire of the year," "best investment of the year," "best podcast guest," and more.

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Show Notes:

(03:00) - Billionaire of the year

(15:00) - Company of the year

(23:00) - Unsexy simple business of the year

(29:40) - Best investment

(41:30) - Worst investment

(51:15) - Favorite digital tool, favorite physical tool, under $100 and over $1,000

(1:02:25) - Best thing you learned about yourself and best relationship hack

(1:17:00) - Book of the year and best new follow or subscription

(1:21:00) - Shaan's story of meeting Rupert Murdoch

(1:28:00) - Best podcast guest and best hang

(1:39:15) - Favorite company, industry, and predictions

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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 Story of Black Market Kingpin Ross Ulbricht + Sam Does an AMA Dec 28, 2021

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Sam Parr (@theSamParr) is joined by producer Ben Wilson (@BenWilsonTweets), to do an AMA of questions asked on Twitter and talk about the story of Silk Road creator and black market kingpin Ross Ulbricht. Sam also shares his personal history with Ross and what it was like to meet him.

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Show Notes:

(00:20) - Start of AMA: What are you excited about in 2022?

(09:05) -What are you most proud of about MFM?

(09:45) -Ben's first time being recognized in public.

(13:00) -Celebs or high-profile people Sam gets nervous around

(15:30) -Start of Ross Ulbricht story

(30:10) - How Ross got caught