3 Profitable Business Ideas From A Private Equity Guy | Sahil Bloom (#384)

About this video

Sam Parr and Shaan Puri interview a guest who transitioned from private equity to building a portfolio of businesses including a venture fund, newsletter, and content agency. They discuss the guest’s journey pivoting to the ‘information economy,’ explore three business ideas (LinkedIn growth agencies, newsletter growth services, and mobile podcast studios), and reflect on decision-making, risk tolerance, and emotional resilience through market volatility.

Key takeaways

• The guest pitched a LinkedIn growth agency as a high-margin opportunity: repurposing proven tweets into carousel posts for business leaders, charging $2.5–5K/month for 4 hours of monthly work, with Sam noting he grew to 38K LinkedIn followers without posting himself
• For newsletter growth, the guest identified an untapped service opportunity: a dedicated operator managing landing pages, referral swaps, paid ads, and cross-platform promotion for newsletters, willing to pay $10K+/month at scale—requiring only ~10 clients at $5–10K/month to be viable
• Shaan cautioned that content creation strategies (threads, Instagram carousels, ghostwriting) are saturated and cringe-prone for most executors; the guest countered that the real play is using early traction to ‘vault’ into adjacent businesses (book deals, funds) rather than staying a ’thread guy’
• On investment losses and volatility: Shaan demonstrated emotional resilience during a 50% liquid net worth decline by separating happiness from portfolio performance, margin-calling himself to reduce stress, and distinguishing between being a ’local’ (aware of cycles) versus ‘stubborn local’ (ignoring signals)

Episode details: published November 10, 2022 · 71K views · 1:09:00 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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