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My First Million

Sam Parr, Shaan Puri & The Hustle

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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.
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Rob Dyrdek (@robdyrdek), founder & CEO of venture studio Dyrdek Machine, former professional skateboarder, and star of hit shows like Rob & Big and Ridiculousness, joins Sam (@TheSamParr) and Shaan (@ShaanVP) to discuss how he transitioned from acting and athletics to venture capital and how he structures his many business interests. He also talks about how he structures his life to achieve maximum human optimization, why he’s glad he didn’t have TikTok growing up, and much more.

Show Notes:

(00:57) Why Ridiculousness is always on MTV

(11:35) How Rob structures his business, money, and time

(16:49) How Rob tracks his time with custom scripts

(26:22) The transition from skater kid to human optimization

(35:40) The value of opening your finances

(44:16) Why Rob is glad he didn’t have TikTok growing up

(58:29) Why Rob is trying to create a “Drake equation” for business

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Rob’s Podcast: https://dyrdekmachine.com/build-with-rob

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10/05/21 • 60 min

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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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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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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

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12/13/22 • 67 min

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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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Paul English

Boston Venture Studio

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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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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

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12/09/22 • 47 min

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Sam Parr (@theSamParr) is joined by Noah Kagan (@noahkagan) to discuss how AppSumo started, what he's working on now, what he learned from his recent meeting from Peter Thiel, the books that have had. the biggest impact on him, and what he's reading now.

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Show Notes & Links:

(0:30) - Noah's schedule and what he's working on now

(11:30) - Why Noah doesn't think 10 years ahead

(22:15) - Does being rich really make you happier? (Yes)

(35:05) - Noah's thoughts from meeting Peter Thiel and startup cities

(47:10) - How would you live differently if you were a billionaire?

(58:15) - What Noah and Sam are reading

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12/02/21 • 66 min

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Shaan (@ShaanVP) and Sam (@TheSamParr) host Balaji (@balajis) this episode. This is an amazing dive into Balaji's mind. He talks about the current issues with the media and how he's hoping to fix it with crypto and the blockchain. We also get a look at how he views the world, what motivates him, what he's been wrong about as well as the massive shifts he sees happening.

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Have you joined our private Facebook group yet? Go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/ourfirstmillion and join thousands of other entrepreneurs and founders scheming up ideas.

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Show notes:

(0:00) Intro

(2:30) Balaji's background

(7:33) Why Balaji started a newsletter: 1729

(22:40) The media and its biases

(31:58) Balaji on memes and their importance

(37:45) What the future of media looks like and the role of crypto

(56:26) When did Balaji get into crypto?

(1:01:30) Sam asks Balaji what motivates him

(1:11:50) How the world is changing and becoming more Balaji-like

(1:19:39) What would 21 year-old Balaji work on?

(1:22:46) Why geographical proximity is no longer linked to cultural proximity

(1:26:25) How we can align incentives between tech and everyone else

(1:32:30) Balaji on crypto-social networks

(1:37:30) How Balaji operates day-to-day and "the idea maze"

(1:47:33) The importance of finding the right place to live

(1:57:30) What it's like to talk to Balaji

(2:02:08) What has Balaji been wrong about?

(2:11:00) Science vs. math: getting to the truth

(2:21:10) Balaji asks Sam for newsletter advice

(2:24:40) What are Balaji's guilty pleasures

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05/05/21 • 158 min

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Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) talk about the roadmap for new start-ups, how the podcast came to be and much, much more.

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CyberLeads

@alexwestco

Indie Hackers

DeadEyes podcast

Losers Exist, Don't Hire Them - blog post

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Show Notes:

(01:50) - Cyberleads.com

(11:50) - Question: What would you do if you found a brick of cocaine?

(20:35) - DeadEyes podcast

(44:30) - How My First Million podcast came to be

(51:50) - Winners exist, here's how to attract them

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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

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04/26/22 • 60 min

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Shaan (@ShaanVP) and Sam (@TheSamParr) talk with billionaire Marc Lore. Marc is an entrepreneur who started The Pitt, Diapers.com, and Jet.com. Collectively he has sold his companies for over $4B. Marc talks about his plans for his new NBA team, the Minnesota Timberwolves, which he bought alongside Alex Rodriguez. He talks about how he plans to run the team like he has always ran his companies. He talks about the importance of hiring the right people (and how to do it) and being well-capitalized. For the second half of the podcast, we jump straight into a brainstorm. Marc talks about the interesting companies he's investing in as well as the ones he would like to exist. He even breaks down how he would go about creating a $100m e-commerce related company within the next 3 years

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Support the pod by spreading the word, become a referrer here: https://refer.fm/million

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Show notes:

(6:00) How Marc came to own the Timberwolves

(15:28) How Marc Lore hires people

(28:30) These are the companies Marc is investing now

(37:40) How Marc decides which companies to start and how he goes about it

(44:47) Where Marc thinks the future of e-commerce is going

(55:17) How Marc would build a company to sell for $100m

(1:00:27) Shaan and Sam debrief

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05/26/21 • 75 min

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With Endeavor's IPO, Shaan (@ShaanVP) and Sam (@TheSamParr) break down the UFC's numbers and how it got so profitable. Key to the whole thing: Dana White. He bought the UFC for $2m and turned it into a multi-billion empire. The guys also talk about the mental toughness of UFC fighters and how you can take some of these same principals and apply them to your life. They also talk about an interesting concept called no-loss lotteries and a company trying to save you taxes.

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Want to be featured in a future episode? Drop your question/comment/criticism/love here: https://www.mfmpod.com/p/hotline/

Support the pod by spreading the word, become a referrer here: https://refer.fm/million

Have you joined our private Facebook group yet? Go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/ourfirstmillion and join thousands of other entrepreneurs and founders scheming up ideas.

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Show notes:

(3:28) How to retain talent

(7:42) The mental toughness of UFC fighters

(15:30) The power of self-talk

(24:20) How the UFC got so profitable

(36:38) How this company will help you save taxes

(41:05) What are no-loss lotteries?

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Show links:

https://studentloanhero.com/

https://properlot.com/

https://www.poconnor.com/

https://www.fivestonetax.com/

https://pooltogether.com/

https://twitter.com/lay2000lbs

https://waitbutwhy.com/2021/04/lanby.html

https://www.thelanby.com/

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05/07/21 • 54 min

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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 - 22:01: Shaan discusses his controversial Tweet - 40:21: A digital meet and greet idea - 47:15: Syed Balkhi - The little known entrepreneur with a ~$30m empire Thank you to our sponsor this episode, Flatfile! Spend less time on Excel and more time building your business by easily importing data using Flatfile. Check them out at flatfile.io/hustle. Have you joined our private FB group yet? It's a page where people share each others million dollar ideas or what they're already working on: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ourfirstmillion. Editing thanks to Jonathan Gallegos (@jjonthan)

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01/06/21 • 55 min

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Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@theSamParr) discuss half-baked TV show ideas that they think could be popular, how Miss Excel is making millions, the unexpected rise of The Adventure Challenge, and much more.

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Show Notes:

(03:22) - Miss Excel

(20:15) - Monthly.com & Descript

(27:20) - Genetic testing and GEDMatch.com

(34:00) - The Adventure Challenge & The Adventure Book

(44:05) - Half-baked TV show ideas

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12/16/21 • 64 min

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My First Million currently has 605 episodes available.

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The podcast is about Entrepreneurship, Investing, Podcasts and Business.

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The episode title '#224 - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Dyrdek from 0 to $405M in Exits' is the most popular.

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