My First Million
My First Million
Hubspot Media
I chose to be broke for a year
1 hour 6 minutes Posted Jan 9, 2026 at 3:30 pm.
) Intro
) Quitting a $120k job to be broke and live with 3 friends (Don’t linger on bad decisions)
) Fear is what holds people back more so than anything else
) How to get what you (actually) want.
) Most people are not serious
) Who is the most important voice in your life?
) Why I decided to sell my company to Twitch & Amazon.
) The biggest waste of time is doing something that needn’t been done at all (Elon)
)  “You can’t run an A/B test on life” (Act Accordingly)
) There are no bonus points for making things harder for yourself (location)
) The best people are 'down' (Buffett)
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Episode 783: Shaan Puri ( ⁠https://x.com/ShaanVP⁠ ) gets interviewed by his former intern about quitting a $120K/yr job in his 20s to become strategically broke and the other counter-intuitive decisions that made him successful. 
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My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano /