My First Million

Sam Parr and Shaan Puri brainstorm new business ideas based on trends & opportunities they see in the market. Sometimes they bring on famous guests to brainstorm with them.

Entrepreneurship
Business
Investing
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#162 - Why Clubhouse Will Fail
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#161 with Michael Saylor - Why Michael Saylor B...
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#160 - Paid Communities Making $20m+ (and How t...
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#159 - Update on Michael Jordan's House, a Nine...
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#158 - Buying Michael Jordan's House (and Makin...
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#157 - Instagram Food Drops Making $200k a Week...
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#156 - David Segal Talks Building a 9-Figure Te...
Sam Parr (@TheSamParr), Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and David Segal (@_davidsegal) discuss:David’s background - At 26, David teams up with his 70-something-year-old cousin, Herschel Segal, to start DAVIDsTEA. - Herschel had made his fortune in Canada’...
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#155 - NFTs Explained: How Digital Art Is Being...
Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) discuss:Negotiation as a Service (NaaS) - The guys talk about (and maybe invent) a new category of business: negotiations as a service. The idea here is that there are certain big ticket items where ...
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MFM x Trends - Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt Brea...
In today's episode Sam Parr (@theSamParr) interviews Ryan Hoover (@rrhoover). Ryan has seen thousands of companies launch since founding Product Hunt in 2014. He shares dozens of places that he sees opportunities, including several of his own inve...
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#154 - Making Millions Anonymously, How Pornsta...
Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) discuss: - Investing like a $16B dollar fund - The guys who built multi-million dollar businesses anonymously - A genius company manipulating web results - The big opportunities in privacy - The h...
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#153 - Selling The Hustle for Millions: How The...
Sam Parr (@TheSamParr), Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Kieran Flanagan (@searchbrat) discuss: - Crafting the perfect cold email to catch Sam's attention. - The grueling process of selling a company and how to do it right - The best advice on how t...
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#152 with Trung Phan - Sam Talks About the Hubs...
Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Trung Phan (@TrungTPhan) discuss: - How the HubSpot/The Hustle deal came about? - Why did Sam decide to sell? - What will be Sam's biggest purchase now that he's sold? - What will change with The Hustle and MF...
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#151 - How To Go Viral, Grow Your Following & T...
Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP), and Trevor McKendrick (@TrevMcKendrick) discuss:Shaan's newsletter: shaanpuri.comThe brainstorm session: - 2:14: Headshots are our avatars in the digital world: why do most suck? There might be an opportunity to fix t...
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#150 - Jason Calacanis Joins The Brainstorm To ...
Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP), Sam Parr (@theSamParr), and Jason Calacanis (@jason) discuss: - The reason Jason gambles and how much he has made over the years - How Jason made the transition from being a journalist to being an investor - How Jason became a...
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#149 - The Craziness of r/WallStreetBets, an $1...
Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP), Sam Parr (@theSamParr), and Immad Akhund (@immad) discuss: - How Shaan 3x his Twitter following in 2 months - The wild r/WallStreetBets trades and Shaan's $100k bet - Immad brings his ideas: a new CRM, startups catering t...
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#148 with Jack Smith - How r/WallStreetBets is ...
Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP), Sam Parr (@theSamParr), and Jack Smith (@_jacksmith) discuss: - Balaji Srinivasan on why people will have to hide their real identities in the future - How Silkroad was actually a well-run company while co-workers remained anon...
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#147 - How Sam Hacked Amazon's Book Rankings, A...
Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@theSamParr) discuss: - Sam explains the origins of the QAnon movement - Could buying collectibles from infamous people work? - Romance stories are big business: Sam almost launched a company in the space (https...
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#146 with Suleman "Suli" Ali - Voluntarily Sell...
Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Suleman "Suli" Ali (@sulemanali) discuss: - Creating a reputation database for people - Voluntarily selling your data to companies - Dealing with scammers - Creating a publically available org chart - A new re...
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#145 with Reed Duchscher - MrBeast's Manager Jo...
Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) discuss: - Who is Reed Duchscher - How does managing a YouTuber work - Who is MrBeast and how he got so big - Creating empires with celebrities and influencers - What is a "Personal Media Com...
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#144 - Shaan's Giving Away A Company, A Mysteri...
MFM Apex: https://joinapex.com/i/pwr8nkShaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) discuss: - DTC smelling salts? - A mysterious, anonymous new app - Should you hide your real opinions? - The amazing story of Katalin Kariko - Should you ...
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#143 with Jeremy Cai of Italic - Influencer Cof...
Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) discuss: - Is Sam Parr Time Person of the Year? - Jeremy introduces himself - Idea: subscription box for bread (and the millions in subscription boxes) - The big business of selling to middle Ameri...
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#142 - Digital Meet and Greets, A Little Known ...
Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) discuss: - 02:52: A home security idea - 06:02: Wynter.io and other powerful simple plugins - 15:24: Kevin Systrom's and Mark Zuckerburg's transcripts from the Instagram acquisition - 22:...
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#141 - The 2020 MFM Award Show (with Andrew Wil...
Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP), Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Andrew Wilkinson (@awilkinson) wrap up 2020 by awarding and highlighting the best moments in the business world, the MFM podcast and their personal lives. The guys also make some fun predictions for wha...
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#140 - How Much Do VCs Make?, A Booming Startup...
Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) discuss: - 06:05 A booming grocery delivery startup, Fridge No More - 12:00 The "Ukranian Tik-Tok", Coub - 13:01 The $4b startup you haven't heard of: GoPuff - 21:09 A board game doi...
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#139 - The Rise of "Clout" Kitchens, Why Martin...
Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) discuss: - 00:30 Is it better to rent and invest your money elsewhere? - 05:32 Penny Hoarder acquired for over $100m - 09:20 MrBeast Burger and clout kitchens - 17:01 Guthy-Renker and the lucrative w...
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