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Get our Business Monetization Playbook: https://clickhubspot.com/monetization Episode 661: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the NY Christmas Tree mafia, 2 health startups with crazy traction, plus their predictions for big trends in 2025.  — Show Notes:  (0:00) Christmas Tree Mafia (6:45) Neko Health (11:57) Superpower (21:43) Shaan's 4x/wk training program (25:33) Prediction: Whole Foods is going down (27:40) Prediction: Natural fibers, local meat — Links: • Curbed article - https://tinyurl.com/3z6tzf3w  • Neko Health - https://www.nekohealth.com/  • Superpower - https://superpower.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

20 Des 202435min

Get our Business Monetization Playbook: https://clickhubspot.com/monetization Episode 660: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about founders who have rage as an unfair advantage, Bill Ackman’s takedown of Harvard, and a ruthless PE rollup.  — Show Notes:  (0:00) Revenge businesses and other green flags (5:55) Chips on shoulders = chips in pockets (19:38) Bhutan's Gross National Happiness (34:48) Ruthless PE rollup: International schools (43:58) IDEA: $500M YouTube University (54:11) Bill Ackman Breaks down Harvard as a business — Links: • How To Lose Weight in 4 Easy Steps - https://tinyurl.com/2x67a7jc  • Nord Anglia Education - https://www.nordangliaeducation.com/  • Full Sail University - https://hello.fullsail.edu/ • University of Austin - https://www.uaustin.org/people/joe-lonsdale  • Veritas? - https://pershingsquarefoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Veritas.pdf  — 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

18 Des 20241h 5min

Get our Business Monetization Playbook: https://clickhubspot.com/monetization Episode 659: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Jesse Itzler ( https://x.com/JesseItzler ) about how to live an epic life.  — Show Notes:  (0:00) Come into the new year light (7:56) Hand written letters (14:03) Identify your B minuses (20:15) Pick your Misogi (27:28) 6 mini adventures (37:38) Add a winning habit (39:55) Write it down (49:50) Don't f*cking waste 2025 — Links: • Jesse Itzler - https://jesseitzler.com/  • Jesse's on MFM episode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff1z3GUcfO8 — 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

16 Des 202458min

Get our Business Monetization Playbook: https://clickhubspot.com/monetization Episode 658: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Replit founder Amjad Masad ( https://x.com/amasad ) about the massive opportunities with AI Agents.  — Show Notes:  (0:00) Replit origin story   (9:27) Replit's 10-year overnight success (12:27) Rejected 4x by YC (17:28) Personal essays from Paul Graham (20:17) "i hacked into my university to change my grades" (25:55) Rickrolling into YC (35:25) Shaan builds a food tracking app in 30 seconds (43:19) Magic School: An AI application for educators 4M users in 1 year (47:31) Amjad on Agents (49:53) Building moats in a goldrush (54:53) Replit is Shopify for software creators (1:05:11) The most gangster story in Silicon Valley — Links: • Amjad essays - https://amasad.me/  • Replit - https://replit.com/  • Codeacademy - https://www.codecademy.com/  • Do What Makes The Best Story - https://amasad.me/story  • Magic School AI - https://www.magicschool.ai/  • 11x AI - https://www.11x.ai/  • Synthesis Tutor - https://www.synthesis.com/tutor  • The Sovereign Individual - https://tinyurl.com/4w6ns7b2  • 7 Powers - https://tinyurl.com/382ch557  — 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

11 Des 20241h 11min

Get our Business Monetization Playbook: https://clickhubspot.com/monetization Episode 657: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the $10M ARR dinner club app, the history of Black Friday, and ChatGPT prompts that work like cheat codes.   — Show Notes:  (0:00) $10M ARR dinner club (26:19) The science of Black Friday and Cyber Monday (32:47) Reverse Black Friday positions (36:21) 7-day MFM Money Fast (40:57) Simple ChatGPT prompt hacks that work (45:55) Picking a rocket ship (50:53) Warren Buffett's $150B problem (58:17) The Elon Musk Learning Method — Links: • Timleft - https://timeleft.com/ • Bucket list - https://dailymax.fr/fr/bucket-list-fr/ • Your Life in Weeks - https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html • Warren Buffett letter - https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/news/nov2524.pdf • Elon Musk Learning Method - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=splkLcpBws8 — 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 Des 20241h 3min

Get our Business Monetization Playbook: https://clickhubspot.com/monetization Episode 656: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) tell 3 stories of people who took insane risks that paid off.  — Show Notes:  (0:00) Bitcoin millionaire hides $2M in treasures across US (11:27) Building the Ralph Lauren fantasy (23:58) Michael Saylor's infinite money glitch — 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

5 Des 202455min

Get our Business Monetization Playbook: https://clickhubspot.com/monetization Episode 655: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Dharmesh Shah ( https://x.com/dharmesh ) about how to increase the odds of hitting your first million and your next million.  — Show Notes:  (0:00) Intro (3:33) Lesson 1: Get leverage (9:26) Lesson 2: Be an asset, not a liability (13:40) Lesson 3: Get even closer to the value creation (19:42) Mini Masterclass on Power Negotiating (24:35) Dharmesh's little-known $2M failure (29:35) Lesson: Insight compression (34:08) Dharmesh sells Chat.com (41:06) Agents are the new apps (44:51) The future is hybrid teams (49:23) Agents Dharmesh uses today (53:20) Dharmesh's next big thing (1:02:58) Uncomfortable company values (1:05:33) Local maximum vs global maximum (1:06:57) RaaS: Results-as-a-Service (1:09:59) Being a first time billionaire — Links: • Agent AI - https://agent.ai/  • Harvey MacKay books - https://harveymackay.com/books/  • Getting To Yes - https://tinyurl.com/43ne6v97  • Connecting Dots - https://connectingdots.com/  • MFM Vault - https://frontend-production-f8b7.up.railway.app/  — 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

3 Des 20241h 17min

Episode 653: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talks to Furqan Rydhan ( https://x.com/FurqanR ) about the biggest opportunities in AI right now.  — Show Notes:  (0:00) Intro (4:42) Define the Job-to-be-done (8:20) How to build an AI Agent workflow (11:16) AI Tools break down (27:05) How Polymarket won (31:48) Why VR is a sleeping giant? (44:43) Be a lifelong player in tech (58:52) The unbeatable combination (1:02:27) Adam Foroughi’s A+ execution (1:18:35) Betting on -1 to 0 — Links: • Furqan’s site - https://furqan.sh/  • Founders, Inc - https://f.inc/  • Applovin - https://www.applovin.com/  • Claude - https://claude.ai/  • OpenAI - https://platform.openai.com/  • Langchain - https://www.langchain.com/  • AutoGen - https://autogenai.com/  • Crew - https://www.crewai.com/  • CloudSDK - https://cloud.google.com/sdk/  • Perplexity - https://www.perplexity.ai/  • “Attention is all you need” - https://typeset.io/papers/attention-is-all-you-need-1hodz0wcqb  • Anthropic - https://www.anthropic.com/  • Third Web - https://thirdweb.com/  • Luna’s AI Brain - https://terminal.virtuals.io/  • Oasis - https://oasis.decart.ai/welcome  • Polymarket - https://polymarket.com/  • Gorilla Tag - https://www.gorillatagvr.com/  • Yeeps - https://tinyurl.com/59z2yrdu  — 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

26 Nov 20241h 30min