My First Million
My First Million
Hubspot Media
I dropped out of high school…Now I’m building a $1T dollar company
1 hour 11 minutes Posted May 7, 2025 at 12:44 pm.
) Find your red line
) Problems hidden in plain sight
) The making of Boom Supersonic
) No rules of thumb
) Blake's favorite interview question
) Demo Day at YC
) Selling Richard Branson
) Being a dark matter founder
) What does the most ambition of yourself look like?
) Progressively overturning of the skeptics
) Working with Jeff Bezos at Amazon
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Episode 704: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Blake Scholl ( https://x.com/bscholl ) about he went from high school dropout to Groupon to the founder of a supersonic jet startup. 
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• Steal Shaan's $20M Pitch Deck: https://clickhubspot.com/wem
• Boom - https://boomsupersonic.com/ 
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• 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