I talk to Ben about creating luck, his barbell method, plus 6 half-baked business ideas
My First Million23 Jun 2025

I talk to Ben about creating luck, his barbell method, plus 6 half-baked business ideas

Want to scale? Get 700 side hustle prompts: https://clickhubspot.com/blv Episode 719: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talks to his business partner Ben Levy about creating luck, his barbell method for building relationships and 6 half-baked business ideas. Apply to join Club LTV - https://tinyurl.com/3y478hm2 — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (4:01) Your first believer (6:11) The K Academy (9:38) Ben as a product (17:53) Measuring luck (23:43) Barbell method (30:24) Idea: Court side seats (33:44) Idea: Lunch Bounty (36:51) Idea: Birkins for everyone (45:31) Idea: Survivor for post-economic people (50:50) Idea: Cool carpel tunnel brand (53:42) Idea: Coach K in a box — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — 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 HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

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#66 - Life Coins, Amazon FBA Rollups & Going Back In Time

#66 - Life Coins, Amazon FBA Rollups & Going Back In Time

Sam (@thesamparr) and Shaan (@shaanvp) are back to talk wearing ivy league swag (3:24), Thrasio Amazon FBA rollup (6:20), Classpass for online courses (16:16), Real life bruce wayne Kinobody (19:45), ...

15 Apr 20201h 7min

#65 - Q&A with Andrew Wilkinson, Co-founder of Tiny

#65 - Q&A with Andrew Wilkinson, Co-founder of Tiny

Today we have Andrew Wilkinson (@awilkinson) of Tiny. Tiny is a holding company started by Andrew that buys “wonderful internet businesses” with the intention of holding them forever (akin to Berkshir...

15 Apr 20201h 5min

#64 - Trapped Data Creating Unicorns, Billionaire Punches Punk Kid & Missing Out on $5M

#64 - Trapped Data Creating Unicorns, Billionaire Punches Punk Kid & Missing Out on $5M

Sam (@thesamparr) and Shaan (@shaanvp) are back on Zoom to talk Sam's new crush and honorary guest Andrew Wilkinson (6:00), $40M a year consulting king Sam Ovens (10:32), Shaan's experience being init...

13 Apr 20201h

#63 with Andrew Wilkinson - Buying cash-flowing internet companies, starting job boards and building no code projects

#63 with Andrew Wilkinson - Buying cash-flowing internet companies, starting job boards and building no code projects

Sam (@thesamparr) and Shaan (@shaanvp) are joined today by Andrew Wilkinson (@awilkinson) who is the co-founder of Tiny (tinycapital.com) - the internet version of Berkshire Hathaway. Shaan also launc...

8 Apr 20201h 18min

#62 - Lambda School for Secretaries, Billionaire of The Week, Deepfakes & More

#62 - Lambda School for Secretaries, Billionaire of The Week, Deepfakes & More

Sam (@thesamparr) and Shaan (@shaanvp) talk trends, startups and your next million dollar idea. Today's topics: Deepfakes, good or evil? (5:00), The credentials business (15:13), Are sam and shaan une...

4 Apr 20201h 5min

#61 - How to Buy, Manage and Grow Cash-Flow Positive Businesses + Corona Virus Impact on the Economy

#61 - How to Buy, Manage and Grow Cash-Flow Positive Businesses + Corona Virus Impact on the Economy

Sam (@thesamparr) and Shaan (@shaanvp) speak to Brent Beshore (@BrentBeshore) today about how he plans to invest $250M in cash-flow positive businesses, how much corona virus will impact the economy a...

1 Apr 20201h 5min

#60 - YC Demo Day Startups #2, Importing Foreign Innovations & Collaborative Copywriting

#60 - YC Demo Day Startups #2, Importing Foreign Innovations & Collaborative Copywriting

Sam (@thesamparr) and Shaan (@shaanvp) today go over more YC batch companies! Sign up to the new Trends report that Sam mentioned at https://trends.co. Today's topics: Sam might have corona virus (5:4...

30 Mar 20201h 5min

#59 - YC Demo Day Startups, Airbnb Survival & Teachable Acquisition

#59 - YC Demo Day Startups, Airbnb Survival & Teachable Acquisition

Sam (@thesamparr) and Shaan (@shaanvp) today go over some of YC's best startups to come out of its recent demo day. Want to make your first million with your mobile app? You have to prioritize your us...

25 Mar 202058min

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