
Free: 200 business ideas with execution plans, tools, and frameworks https://clickhubspot.com/ekfm
Episode 811: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) and Chris Koerner talk about the most overlooked businesses that anyone can start.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro
(1:54) IDEA 1: govdeals.com
(6:52) IDEA 2: Bring AI to small businesses
(14:51) IDEA 3: Snail mail club
(19:48) $1B IDEA: Feed Amazon workers
(24:38) IDEA 5: Tote rental
(29:58) IDEA 6: Wall printer
(43:57) IDEA 7: RV Rentals
(50:45) Bad Business: Vending Machines
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Links:
• TKO - https://www.youtube.com/@thekoerneroffice
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• Hampton (joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm
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• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com
• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.
• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!
Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC
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Apr 1
55 min

Get our business idea database: https://clickhubspot.com/gdmr
Episode 810: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) sits down with Oz Pearlman to talk about how to read people and the pressure of performing in front of millions of people.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Oz reads Sam’s mind
(4:03) What is a mentalist
(5:58) Wanting to be loved
(7:30) Overcoming fear of rejection
(13:22) Getting charged with a felony
(20:46) Pressure of performance
(26:39) Learning new tricks
(34:34) Being a human lie detector
(37:52) David Copperfield
(43:02) 13 Steps of Mentalism
(46:52) Performing for a room of powerful people
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Links:
• Read Your Mind - https://www.ozpearlman.com/book
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Check Out Sam's Stuff:
• Hampton (joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm
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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com
• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.
• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!
Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC
• I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out:
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Mar 30
54 min

*Get Sam's top 7 books for entrepreneurs (+ his reading strategy):* https://clickhubspot.com/gdms
Episode 809: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) teaches the one skill you need to know to become irreplaceable in the age of AI.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Taste is your moat
(2:20) Case study: Apple
(7:57) The rules
(9:08) Learning taste
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Check Out Sam's Stuff:
• Hampton (joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm
—
Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com
• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.
• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!
Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC
• I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out:
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Mar 27
21 min

Want to invest like the best? Get Mohnish's investment playbook: https://clickhubspot.com/jbhm
Episode 808: In this special episode, we’re pulling together the most replayed moments from our episodes with value investors like Mohnish Pabrai, Howard Marks and Guy Spier.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Mohnish Pabrai: How to turn $10K into $1M
(3:56) Howard Marks: The S&P 500
(9:29) Guy Spier: Finite and Infinite Games
(14:47) Mohnish Pabrai: Circle the wagons
(17:58) Howard Marks: Recommended Reading
(23:03) Mohnish Pabrai: The most important thing
(27:16) Howard Marks: “When the time comes to buy, you won’t want to”
(31:17) Guy Spier: Don’t study lottery winners
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Check Out Sam's Stuff:
• Hampton (joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm
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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com
• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.
• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!
Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC
• I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out:
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Mar 25
35 min

Get Sam's exact system/playbook for ChatGPT: https://clickhubspot.com/jdeb
Episode 807: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the wildest stories in AI right now.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro
(5:08) Story 1: Anthropic did $6B in revenue last month
(10:34) Story 2: Man uses AI to treat his dog's cancer
(17:06) Story 3: New high school for entrepreneurs
(29:12) Story 4: Pokemon Go is an AI mapping company now
(35:18) Story 5: Karpathy's job thing
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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com
• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.
• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!
Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC
• I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out:
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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/
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Mar 19
54 min

Get Sam's guide to run your life like a $100M biz: https://clickhubspot.com/kdmv
Episode 806: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to David Heinemeier Hansson ( https://x.com/dhh ) about AI, being wrong in public, and taking on Apple.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) How to stand out
(7:48) not giving a damn
(9:57) liquid vs crystalized intelligence
(12:03) constraints breed creativity
(18:18) being publicly wrong
(24:27) taste vs data
(33:25) Being in awe of Shopify
(41:05) how David uses AI
(47:49) What won't work today
(51:23) who David admires
(1:00:13) Longevity decisions
(1:07:09) Taking on the App Store and Google
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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com
• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.
• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!
Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC
• I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out:
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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/
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Mar 17
1 hr 18 min

Get Sam & Shaan's pro-level biz resource vault (free): https://clickhubspot.com/kgcm
Episode 805: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to the branding genius behind BlackBerry, Sonos, Vercel and Swiffer about how to create a billion-dollar brand name.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Nothing will be used more than your name
(2:01) Windsurf
(3:50) Swiffer
(10:06) Naming game: Fiber startup
(17:14) quantity leads to quality
(29:46) Problem solving propositions
(32:40) Power letters
(35:04) How Sam names a company
(40:48) Rate this brand (1-10)
(47:50) Blackberry
(48:24) When to change a name
(50:47) Presidential slogans
(51:43) Recommended reading
(53:39) How David thinks about AI
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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com
• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.
• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!
Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC
• I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out:
beehiiv.com/mfm-challenge
—
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/
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Mar 13
1 hr

Get Shaan's 4 money rules that took him from broke to $25M by 30: https://clickhubspot.com/sfmc
Episode 804: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) team up with the TBPN boys John Coogan ( https://x.com/johncoogan ) and Jordi Hays ( https://x.com/jordihays ) to break down the companies that could make you a millionaire as an employee.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) How to make $1,000,000
(5:05) Zuru
(12:47) Varda Space Industries
(19:33) Suno
(28:19) TrueMed
(37:32) HubSpot
(45:13) SemiAnalysis
(52:32) Harvey
(1:00:01) SendCutSent
(1:04:55) Column
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Links:
• ZURU - https://zurutoys.com/
• Varda - https://www.varda.com/
• Suno - https://suno.com/
• TrueMed - https://www.truemed.com/
• HubSpot - https://www.hubspot.com/
• SemiAnalysis - https://semianalysis.com/
• Harvey - https://www.harvey.ai/
• SendCutSend - https://sendcutsend.com/
• Column - https://column.com/
• TBPN - https://www.youtube.com/@TBPNLive
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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com
• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.
• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!
Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC
• I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out:
beehiiv.com/mfm-challenge
—
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/
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Mar 11
1 hr 15 min

Run your life like a $100M business. Get Sam's system here: https://clickhubspot.com/fhs
Episode 803: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) sits down with legendary investor Bill Gurley ( https://x.com/bgurley ) about how to avoid the biggest mistake you can make in life.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) 6 out of 10 people hate their job
(11:24) Insane determinism
(14:15) Finding your fascination
(21:19) Underrated advice: Peer Groups
(26:55) Dancing to work
(28:44) Learning leadership
(33:19) Risk vs uncertainty
(42:19) Be fearful when others are greedy
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Links:
• Runnin’ Down a Dream- https://www.amazon.com/Runnin-Down-Dream-Thrive-Actually/dp/0593799666
—
Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com
• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.
• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!
Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC
• I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out:
beehiiv.com/mfm-challenge
—
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/
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Mar 9
53 min

Free course: Build a profitable AI side hustle in 7 days https://clickhubspot.com/dki
Episode 802: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to 19-year-old Zach Yadegari ( https://x.com/zach_yadegari ) about selling his $50M/yr app to MyFitnessPal.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) How much?
(1:57) getting rejected from Stanford
(5:45) 60-second origin story
(7:27) "your biggest skill is your audacity"
(12:50) the truth about selling a company
(23:24) dos and don'ts
(27:04) Zach's douchebag arc
(29:44) first dumb purchase
(33:08) decisions that made the app worth $100M
(43:51) Idea 1: Semantic search on IG
(45:10) Idea: apps
(48:00) filter for good ideas
(54:27) Dinner w/ Steve Cohen
(1:03:39) Where Zach is putting his money
(1:05:58) What Zach sucks at
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Links:
• Cal AI - https://www.calai.app/
• MyFitnessPal - https://www.myfitnesspal.com/
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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com
• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.
• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!
Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC
• I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out:
beehiiv.com/mfm-challenge
—
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 HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano /
Mar 5
1 hr 9 min
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