10 Startups w/ Stock Grants That’ll Make You A Millionaire | Sara’s List 2024

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Sam and Shaan discuss ‘Sarah’s List,’ a concept named after Sam’s wife who became a self-made millionaire by joining Airbnb as a mid-stage employee without starting a company or taking major risks. They revisit picks from a 2021 episode and present new 2024 companies they’d join for stock packages with potential 5x returns in five years, emphasizing finding obvious winners with product-market fit rather than early-stage moonshots.

Key takeaways

• Treat your job as an investment decision: your time and talent allocation is a venture capital bet, especially in tech. Look for companies with product-market fit, strong funding, and nice salaries with meaningful stock packages ($200k+), not early-stage scrappy startups.
• Their 2021 Sarah’s List picks had mixed results—only two hits with 3-4x returns, while two were down and three underwater, illustrating that even obvious companies don’t guarantee outcomes. A 6 out of 10 hit rate with 4-5x upside would be considered excellent.
• Examine where you spend money and time: Shaan found Retool by looking at his P&L expenses and realizing it solved a universal company problem. Look for founders who are ‘All-Star CEOs’ and apply venture-capital thinking to career decisions.
• 2024 picks span OpenAI (the credible Google competitor with fastest user growth ever), Mercury (profitable neo-bank with SVB replacement potential), Retool (internal tools infrastructure), Perplexity (search alternative with better research accuracy), Wiz (fastest to $100M ARR, cyber security), Cursor (AI-assisted coding IDE), Neuralink (brain-computer interfaces), and Traba (gig worker staffing with extreme 996 culture). Sam and Shaan also discuss defense companies like Epis as a category worth exploring.

Episode details: published September 13, 2024 · 46K views · 1:19:05 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. The business ideas, figures and results discussed are the hosts’ and guests’ own claims, shared as brainstorming and entertainment — not verified facts and not investment advice.

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