#91 with Ben Askren - The UFC Star Turned Crypto Investor
Joined our private FB group yet? It's a page where people share each others million dollar ideas or what they're already working on: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ourfirstmillion. This episode Shaan, Sam and Ben talk: Ben's growing wrestling empire, embracing failure, the business of the UFC, why Ben's reading 25+ books a year, and the future of crypto. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
10 Jul 20201h 4min
#90 - How a Newsletter Generates $2m With Only 5,000 Subscribers
Joined our private FB group yet? It's a page where people share each others million dollar ideas or what they're already working on: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ourfirstmillion. This episode Shaan and Sam talk: leadership in turbulent times, the business of roof racks, a newsletter generating $2m, the opportunities in eCommerce, employee surveillance and the rift between Silicon Valley and the media. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
8 Jul 202054min
#89 - The Man Who Gamed Uber
Joined our private FB group yet? It's a page where people share each others million dollar ideas or what they're already working on: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ourfirstmillion. This episode includes: Abhishek Kumar Maurya, the founder of UberPro.In; the companies capitalizing on people fleeing cities; how tech is helping humans become fitter; the world of alternate data; the Freeport for baseball cards; and the million dollar challenge. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
5 Jul 20201h 1min
#88 with Greg Isenberg (part 2) - Why Plugins Are Big Business
Joined our private FB group yet? It's a page where people share each others million dollar ideas or what they're already working on: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ourfirstmillion. The guys discuss: Andrew Wilkinson Hey.com replacer, VidIQ for influencers, why Grammarly is a huge business, learning via text messages and Stadium Live (ESPN for Gen Z). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
3 Jul 202034min
#87 with Greg Isenberg - The Millions to be Made Unbundling Reddit
Joined our private FB group yet? It's a page where people share each others million dollar ideas or what they're already working on: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ourfirstmillion. Episode summary: (5:15) The unbundling of Reddit (11:50) The formula for finding niches to unbundle (16:24) Examples of a subreddits that could become a business (31:00) The businesses that use giveaways to grow. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
1 Jul 202044min
#86 - Why Every Business Should Have an Enemy
Joined our private FB group yet? It's a page where people share each others million dollar ideas or what they're already working on: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ourfirstmillion. Episode summary: (0:03) Discounted Uber credits hack (4:06) Scam talk: Chamath bitcoin giveaway, Nigerian PPP, Super Pac (12:05) Baseball card storage idea (15:20) Self-storage company, Public Storage, is wildly profitable (16:12) Real estate talk (20:01) Why it’s important to have enemies when marketing (27:42) Private Twitter idea (30:08) Chris D’Elia and Wikipedia for creeps idea (37:42) Should Wikipedia be government owned? (39:50) Cheaper backend brokerage See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
26 Jun 202044min
#85 - Why Privacy is Big Business and the Multi-Million Dollar Ideas Hidden in Plain Sight
Joined our private FB group yet? It's a page where people share each others million dollar ideas or what they're already working on: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ourfirstmillion. Episode summary: Privacy Based Businesses (14:20) Opportunities “Hidden in Plain Sight” (18:29) Unclaimed Baggage unclaimedbaggage.com (22:50) “Costco for services” idea (28:55), Income Share Agreements (37:00) Simple websites doing $100k/mo (39:10) Sam and Shaan get a little philosophical about if you should spend time investing or building (44:40) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
24 Jun 202052min
#84 with Noah Kagan - How the Founder of AppSumo Walked Away From $100m
Joined our private FB group yet? It's a page where people share each others million dollar ideas or what they're already working on: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ourfirstmillion. Sam Parr (@theSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) catch up with Noah Kagan (@noahkagan), founder of AppSumo and OkDork.com. Before that, he was employee #30 at Facebook, #4 at Mint, and worked at Intel. In today’s episode we hear about Noah’s background (1:05), Noah talks about the different between needing to do things and choosing to do things (5:58), how Noah thinks about finding customers (12:30), Sam asks for Noah’s framework for knowing how and when to build a new product (16:10, Noah talks about how our greatest strengths are also our greatest weaknesses (18:12), Shaan joins the podcast (27:00), Shaan asks Noah how he would build a company now if he was 21 with no name recognition (33:50), Noah leaves the podcast and Sam and Shaan talk through Sam’s upcoming road trip and future ideas (50:30). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
19 Jun 20201h
