My First Million

My First Million is a business podcast from HubSpot Media, hosted by Sam Parr and Shaan Puri. The format is deliberately simple: two founders who have built and sold companies sit down and brainstorm. They pitch business ideas to each other, dissect companies most people have never heard of, and interview operators — the people quietly running profitable businesses — about how the money actually works.

Sam Parr founded The Hustle, a business newsletter that grew to millions of subscribers before HubSpot acquired it, and later founded Hampton, a private community for founders. Shaan Puri ran Bebo as CEO through its acquisition, founded the social app Blab, and writes a widely read newsletter on business and investing. Both hosts angel invest, and both are unusually open about numbers: what things cost, what they sold for, and what the margins look like.

The show’s range is the point. One episode is a rapid-fire brainstorm of ideas anyone could start; the next is a deep teardown of a boring, profitable niche — a parking company, a pumpkin-stencil business, a firm that rents luxury watches. Roughly a third of episodes feature a named guest: founders like Andrew Wilkinson, Dharmesh Shah, and Morgan Housel, investors, and operators of businesses the hosts admire. The claims and figures are always the speakers’ own, shared as brainstorming and entertainment — which is exactly how this library presents them.

This library covers the show’s YouTube catalog of full-length episodes: 1,183 episodes summarized from the episodes themselves, drawn from the channel’s 1,198 uploads over 60 seconds — roughly 790 hours of tape. Start with the brainstorm episodes if you want ideas, the teardowns if you want models, and the guest interviews if you want a specific operator’s playbook.