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ResourceAsking A Billionaire Investor How To Prepare For The Economic Collapse (#371)
Andrew Wilkinson, founder and CEO of Tiny (a holding company that acquires internet businesses), joins Sam and Shaan to discuss …
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ResourceRyan Holiday Reveals How Much Best Selling Authors Make, Crazy Peter Thiel Stories & More (#370)
Ryan Holiday discusses his book publishing business, the economics of authorship, and content creation strategy. He explores how …
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ResourceControversial Business Lessons From Napoleon, Edison, & Hitler (#369)
Sam and producer Ben discuss traits of great achievers and conquerors throughout history—from Napoleon and Caesar to Hitler and …
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ResourceHow Much We Make From A Podcast With 3 Million Downloads/Month (#368)
Sam Parr and Shaan Puri discuss My First Million's growth and monetization, sharing metrics like 1.3 million podcast downloads and …
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ResourceHow Roger Federer Became The First Tennis Billionaire (#367)
Sam and Shaan discuss the history of hedge funds and incentive structures, explore startup investment portfolio ideas, analyze Roger …
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ResourceHow I Spend $15,000/Year To Get & Stay Ripped (As An Entrepreneur) (#366)
Sam and Shaan discuss their personal fitness routines and philosophies as entrepreneurs, sharing the specific investments they make …
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ResourceThis Guy Makes $20,000,000/Year With 0 Employees (#365)
Sam and Shaan discuss three fascinating business stories: Adit Agarwal, a one-man company in India generating an estimated $15-30 …
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ResourceThe #1 Sign That Someone Will Become A Billionaire By 40 (#364)
Sam and Shaan discuss what makes certain nerds become billionaires by exploring Paul Graham's 'fierce nerds' framework, share …
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Resource5 Ways to Improve your Public Speaking Ability
Sam and Shaan share their advice for giving an engaging first conference talk. They emphasize that public speaking is a learnable …
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ResourceHow Successful Startups Got Their First 1000 Customers (Uber, Product Hunt & More) (#362)
Sam and Shaan discuss the power of doing things that don't scale to build early traction, using examples like Ryan Hoover manually …
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ResourceThis Man Got Richer Than Jeff Bezos With A Boring Business (#361)
Sam and Shaan discuss Gautam Adani, who recently became the world's third richest person through a complex web of debt-leveraged …
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Resource9 Underrated Apps, Twitter Accounts & Tools You're Missing Out On (#360)
Sam and Shaan share their current favorite tools, apps, services, and habits that they're using and enjoying. They discuss …
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Resource4 Robot Businesses That Will Take Over The Fast Food Industry (#359)
Sam and Shaan discuss leadership styles, contrasting wartime versus peacetime CEOs and the role of "benevolent dictatorships" in …
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ResourceHow To Make Millions By Pitching TV Shows To Netflix, Hulu And Apple (#358)
Sam and Shaan explore the economics of production companies and streaming content creation, sparked by their fascination with a …
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Resource4 Dumb Businesses Valued At Over $100,000,000 (#357)
Sam shares a collection of 'frame-breaking businesses'—overlooked companies with massive revenues and profits that don't match their …
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ResourceWe Hosted A Shark Tank For Tech Startups | My First Million Demo Day (#356)
Sam and Shaan host a live Shark Tank-style pitch event where six early-stage startups pitch for investment. The hosts evaluate …
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ResourceI Spent 48 Hours With MrBeast To Learn Business From Him (#355)
Sam and Shaan recap their experimental 'Camp MFM' weekend—an unconventional retreat they organized for ~25 entrepreneurs, creators, …
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ResourceThis Guy Is Making $100M/Year Selling Quilts To Your Grandma (#354)
Al Doan, founder and executive chairman of Creativity Inc, discusses building Missouri Star Quilt Company from zero to over $100 …
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Resource3 Ways To Validate You Have A $1,000,000 Business Ideas (#353)
Sam and Shaan respond to a listener asking how to test business ideas beyond running ads. They outline three approaches: conducting …
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ResourceMrBeast Shares What It Really Takes To Become THE BEST On YouTube (Interview w/ MFM & Hasan Minhaj)
MrBeast, Hasan Minhaj, and Sam Parr and Shaan Puri discuss creative process, work ethic, and decision-making at an in-person podcast …
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Resource6 Hilarious Business Ideas That Could Make You $1,000,000 in 2022 (#351)
Sam and Shaan pitch each other a series of intentionally rough business ideas—some genuinely clever, others deliberately absurd—in …
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ResourceLiving In New York City On $1,200,000 A Year (My Plan)
Sam explores the true cost of living a luxury lifestyle in Brooklyn, calculating that maintaining a $5M brownstone requires spending …
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ResourceMeet The $100 Million Dollar App Developer | Alan Wong's Rags To Riches Story
Sam and Shaan discuss a friend who is rapidly scaling a new product toward millions in annual revenue by deliberately pursuing a …
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ResourceHow To Close Your First 1000 Customers | Startup Sales 101
Sam Parr shares his customer discovery methodology for his new business venture, explaining how he books 10-20 minute calls with …
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