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Episode 616: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about what they are doing in response to the market dip, plus The Olympics biggest winners and losers of the week.  Show Notes:  (0:00) Boys React: The market dip (4:32) React or respond? (10:48) The Olympics winners and losers (19:03) Winner: Fem Kabul (21:26) Winner: Team Refugees (24:48) Loser: Simone Biles and Gymnastics in general (27:30) Loser: Pole vault guy memes (28:18) Winner: Noah Lyles (30:41) Loser: The Olympic's programming (34:00) The $75B dollar uniform rental empire (38:18) Building a line of succession for your business — Links: • Get our business idea database here https://clickhubspot.com/mfm • Cintas - https://www.cintas.com/ — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

9 Elo 202452min

Episode 615: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) tell the story of Scott Heiferman, the reindustrialization of America, plus Elon’s Problem Solving Method.  — Show Notes:  (0:00) Millionaire working at McDonalds (11:40) Scott Heiferman’s path to $15M (17:32) Building Meetup.com to $156M exit (24:20) Rosie the Riveter 3.0 (34:32) Elon's Problem Solving Method — Links: • Get our business idea database here https://clickhubspot.com/mfm • Meetup - https://www.meetup.com/ • Bowling Alone - https://tinyurl.com/23etxxdp • Careers Built To Last - https://www.careersbuilttolast.com/ • BlueForge Alliance - https://www.blueforgealliance.us/ • Gundo Deep Dive - https://x.com/johncoogan/status/1741512539979325733 — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

7 Elo 202445min

Episode 614: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) share the stories of people who took shots on goal and were just one hit away from blowing up.   — Show Notes:  (0:00) The Jewish Ed Sheeran (10:22) The actual Ed Sheeran (15:00) Eric the Eel (20:00) How CarEdge is quietly crushing it (29:21) How a car dealership is pulling millions of views on TikTok (33:07) $100M+ Pokemon sleep tracking app (35:55) Nick Gray's new thing (39:37) “The best advice is free by definition” (43:29) Take a 360 review of your life (50:16) Shaan bombs a talk at a conference (lessons learned) — Links: • CarEdge - https://caredge.com/ • Mohawk Chevrolet - https://www.tiktok.com/@mohawkchevrolet • Jack Skeen - https://jackskeen.com/ — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

31 Heinä 202457min

Episode 613: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talk to about the giving up drinking 11 years ago and the lessons he learned for anyone wanting to make a major change in their life.  — Show Notes:  (0:00) Intro (1:00) Lesson 1: Figure out your why and go all in on that. (4:14) Lesson 2: Tell your friends (8:40) Lesson 3: Recreate your identity. (13:00) Lesson 4: Don’t be perfect, just mostly good. (15:50) Lesson 5: You’ll attract more people. (18:26) Lesson 6. Find inspiration. (It’s ok to be corny) — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

29 Heinä 202427min

Episode 612: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Sarah Guo ( https://x.com/saranormous ) about the Ai ideas she thinks could be $1B swings. — Show Notes:  (0:00) Intro (4:00) IDEA: AI companions (16:00) IDEA: AI interior design / professional headshots (22:30) IDEA: A richer version of The Sims (25:00) The speedy way to do this if you're non-technical (27:00) IDEA: Your Personal Seller (32:00) IDEA: Generative Voice API for service providers, SMBs, restaurants (38:00) IDEA: Next Gen Auto-Fill (40:00) Software 3.0--what's coming (42:00) Boring verticals fertile for AI: Legal and medical (44:00) Ask: What's already being outsourced? (47:00) Ripe for disruption: energy storage, chips, (49:00) “Ai's $600B Question” (52:00) Sarah Reacts: Doomsday scenarios in Ai (56:30) If you're 22, hungry and optimistic, go west — Links: • Sarah Guo - https://sarahguo.com/ • Conviction - https://www.conviction.com/ • No Priors Podcast - https://www.youtube.com/@NoPriorsPodcast • Replika - https://replika.com/ • Character.ai - https://character.ai/ • HeyGen - https://www.heygen.com/ • Icon - https://icon.me/ • Arcads - https://www.arcads.ai/ • Interior AI - https://interiorai.com/ • Aragon - https://aragon.ai/ • Chatbot App - https://chatbotapp.ai/ • Cartesia - https://cartesia.ai/ • Somewhere - https://www.somewhere.com/ • AI’s $600B Question - https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/ais-600b-question/ • Eureka Labs - https://eurekalabs.ai/ • Conviction Embed - https://embed.conviction.com/ — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

24 Heinä 20241h 2min

Episode 611: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) catch up and share 3 business ideas they came up with over the weekend.  — Show Notes:  (0:00) Shaan's no phone weekend (5:17) Control your inputs (10:20) Life hack: Play with your kid (15:38) Business Idea: Sketchy (25:15) Business Idea: Niche Fake News You Can Trust (34:41) Business Idea: Tampons that won't kill you (40:28) An unqualified brief history of presidential assassinations (46:09) The ceaseless action of Teddy Roosevelt (55:10) MFM Required Readling List — Links: • r/regretfulparents - https://www.reddit.com/r/regretfulparents/ • Sketchy - https://www.sketchy.com/ • Babylon Bee - https://babylonbee.com/ • Manhunt - https://tinyurl.com/bdepazn4 — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

22 Heinä 20241h 3min

Episode 610: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the $1b dollar app idea for millennial moms, how Solidcore founder Anne Mahlum emptied her life savings into a pilates studio that she sold for $88M + Shaan writes a movie using ChatGPT.  — Show Notes:  (0:00) APP IDEA: Reddit For Moms (3:50) Capitalizing on a reverse craving (14:30) How we use our wives to predict trends (18:54) Shaan uses ChatGPT to make a movie (22:56) How to use ChatGPT as an on-demand creative collaborator (34:14) The mind-boggling story of Solidcore (37:21) The insane confidence of Anne Mahlum (41:40) There's no business that looks good on the inside (44:07) "They drove a clown car into a gold mine" (47:55) Who's your Elon? (50:34) Why Ben Franklin and Jesse Itzler are Shaan's entrepreneurial heroes (55:10) Bryan Johnson's aging leaderboard — Links: • Better Than Google - https://tinyurl.com/mskmpysd • Beehiiv - https://www.beehiiv.com/ • Solidcore - https://www.solidcore.co/ • Anne Mahlum - https://www.annemahlum.com/ • Jesse Itzler’s episode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff1z3GUcfO8 • I’m There For You, Baby - https://tinyurl.com/2m42ktk9 • TruDiagnostic - https://www.trudiagnostic.com/ — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

19 Heinä 20241h 8min

Episode 609: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) break down the genius marketing tactics used by the brands you can’t get out of your brain–no matter how much you want to.  — Show Notes:  (0:00) The history of jingles (Bring them back!) (11:07) Prediction: Polymarket is going to be massive (21:25) The wisdom on the crowd phenomenon (26:36) How gaming apps hunt for whales (31:00) Corporate Slang That Doesn't Exist But Should — Links: • DatPiff - https://www.datpiff.com/ • Polymarket - https://polymarket.com/ — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: Need to hire ? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

17 Heinä 202445min