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#224 - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Dyrdek from 0 to $405M in Exits
My First Million
10/05/21 • 60 min
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
Links:
Rob’s Podcast: https://dyrdekmachine.com/build-with-rob
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Paul English: How He Built And Sold 6 Companies And Why He Believes Irritation Becomes Inspiration
My First Million
12/09/22 • 47 min
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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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
• #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates
• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More
3 Listeners
Lessons Learned from Interviewing Tim Ferriss, SaaS Business Ideas for OnlyFans, and More
My First Million
12/13/22 • 67 min
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:
Milk Road / Tim Ferriss interview
Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel.
Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan's newsletter.
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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
• #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates
• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More
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SaaS CEO QUIT His Job To Start A Trash Company
My First Million
01/03/24 • 67 min
Episode 537: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) talk about alternative New Year’s resolutions and Sam meets a SaaS CEO that quit everything to start a +$1M trash collecting business.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro
(1:00) Shaan's apology
(6:00) “F” New Year's goals
(8:00) Gen Z Bingo Cards
(10:00) New Year's anticipations
(12:30) Year of Obsession
(14:30) New Year's reflection
(20:00) The magic word
(22:00) Lone Star Trash
(31:30) Marketing advice for trash daddies
(40:30) Birdie
(45:30) Sam needs advice
(53:00) Camp MFM
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Links:
• Year of Obsession - https://twitter.com/zachpogrob
• Anti-MBA - https://www.theantimba.com/
• Spencer Scott’s Twitter - https://twitter.com/AKASpencerScott
• Harry’s pre-launch email - http://tinyurl.com/ycw
6xc25
• Birdie - https://www.birdie.design/
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Check Out Sam's Stuff:
• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/
• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/
• Copy That - https://copythat.com
• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth
Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
• Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com/
• Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant
• Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing
• Small Boy Newsletter - https://smallboy.co/
• Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com/
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. — Other 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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05/05/21 • 158 min
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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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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09/07/23 • 80 min
Episode 493: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/thesamparr) cover everything from the power of charisma in politics to the allure of unconventional ventures and investments. Tune in as they dive into the significance of re-reading books + uncovering the stories embedded in our own lives and breakdown Paperscraper — a tool with big potential that can be copied and pasted in a number of industries.
Want to see more MFM? Subscribe to the MFM YouTube channel here.
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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
• Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com/
• Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant
• Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing
• Small Boy Newsletter - https://smallboy.co/
• Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com/
Check Out Sam's Stuff:
• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/
• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/
• Copy That - https://copythat.com/
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro
(0:40) Scott Galloway’s personal finances
(2:45) Why big financial wins are rarely from your main thing
(9:14) Crazy stories about Warren Buffet
(18:10) Takeaways from listening to Founders podcast w/ David Senra
(30:16) Why people prefer complexity over simplicity
(35:21) Everyone’s looking for a magic pill
(42:50) Create a TV show to find our next president
(1:06:11) Paperscrapper
(1:11:29) Sam could’ve been a Youtuber
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Links:
• Tony Robbins vid - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nONTbIlCtKM
• Scott Galloway's Personal FInance - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxQ4agvOvTI
• Founders Podcast episode - https://tinyurl.com/zzc3d96f
• Seth Bannon Tweet - https://twitter.com/sethbannon/status/1676683104986218502?s=20
• Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel.
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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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Other 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
• #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates
CEOs Pay Him $10,000 Per Appointment?!
My First Million
05/08/24 • 54 min
Episode 582: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the $1B idea that is basically inevitable, why stock exchanges are the smartest business model ever created and the female Pieter Levels who we’re crowning our Hustler of the Week.
Want to see Sam and Shaan’s smiling faces? Head to the MFM YouTube Channel and subscribe - http://tinyurl.com/5n7ftsy5
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Shaan's billion-dollar idea: Executive Check-ups
(2:12) Mayo Clinic’s $100M proof of concept
(12:58) $15K/mo lead gen arbitrage
(17:25) Pizza intelligence
(19:41) Shaan's Mount Rushmore of indexes
(24:54) The most profitable companies in the world
(26:32) Why stock exchanges have the best business model
(33:20) "Shoot your old idea in the head" - Eric Ries
(41:20) Hustler of the week: The Female Pieter Levels
(43:30) "Marketing is the tax you pay for an unremarkable product"
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Links:
• Prenuvo - https://www.prenuvo.com/
• Big Desk Energy playlist - https://shorturl.at/ajuG5
• Suno - http://suno.ai/
• ICE Index - https://www.ice.com/index
• Long-term Stock Exchange - https://ltse.com/
• “Startup Lessons Learned” - https://www.startuplessonslearned.com/
• Branded Fruit - https://brandedfruit.com/
• Danielle Baskins - https://daniellebaskin.com/
• Get HubSpot's Free AI-Powered Sales Hub: enhance support, retention, and revenue all in one place https://clickhubspot.com/sym
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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd
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Check Out Sam's Stuff:
• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/
• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/
• Copy That - https://copythat.com
• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth
My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano
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04/25/23 • 58 min
Episode 447: Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) talk about the rich people tax credit scheme, Andrew Wilkinson's Tiny goes public, Harvard is a multi-billion dollar tax-free revenue, and Shaan's latest business idea - My9.
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Show Notes:
(01:22) - Rich People Tax Credit Scheme
(11:45) - Ramit Sethi debrief
(15:15) - Martin Shkreli debrief
(20:32) - Deep Dive on Andrew Wilkinson's Tiny Going Public
(36:50) - Harvard's revenue
(47:45) - My9
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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
• #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates
• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More
2 Listeners
09/06/24 • 85 min
Episode 627: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to the socially rich, “Friends Billionaire”, Nick Gray ( https://x.com/nickgraynews ) about how to be a master networker, throw the perfect cocktail party, plus 7 simple business ideas.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro
(4:12) If you had $10M, how would you live?
(10:11) Find who your heroes follow
(13:29) Speedrun of Nick Gray's career
(22:15) Idea: White label enterprise sales
(26:08) Idea: Millionaire Matchmaker
(37:22) Idea: web-hosting services
(45:00) Idea: Airbnb experiences
(48:55) Idea: Geek Squad as a service
(55:00) Idea: VHS to digital conversion as a service
(58:58) Idea: Bring blogging back
(1:04:05) The persuasion of liking
(1:09:14) How to throw a Nick Gray party
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Links:
• Get our business idea database here https://clickhubspot.com/mfm
• Museum Hack - https://nickgray.net/sold-museum-hack/
• “If I Had $10M” - https://nickgray.net/if-i-had-10m/
• vs3 Web Services - https://vs3.net/
• Airbnb Experiences - https://www.airbnb.com/s/experiences
• Elemind - https://x.com/elemindtech
• Nick’s blog - https://nickgray.net
• The 2-Hour Cocktail Party - https://tinyurl.com/4p6h4xnu
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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd
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Check Out Sam's Stuff:
• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/
• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/
• Copy That - https://copythat.com
• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth
• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/
My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano
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#142 - Digital Meet and Greets, A Little Known $30m Empire, And Shaan's Twitter Controversy
My First Million
01/06/21 • 55 min
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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