#112 - Why Buying Businesses Is Better Than Starting Them and The Mad Genius of Kanye West

💰 Get the [free] Episode 688: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about 6 under-the-radar trends. — Show Notes:  (0:00) Intro (2:24) Short Drama Apps (13:55) Rucking (22:10) Plastic-free everything (31:58) "Nervous System Work" (41:46) Biohacking plants (46:48) AI Social Networks — Links: • ReelShort - https://www.reelshort.com/  • DramaBox - https://www.dramaboxdb.com/  • GORUCK - https://www.goruck.com/  • Ryker Clothing - https://rykerclothingco.com/  • AlphaFold - https://deepmind.google/technologies/alphafold/  • Ohalo - https://www.ohalo.com/  • Suno - https://suno.com/  — 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

19 Mars 1h 6min

Episode 687: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Zach Yadegari ( https://x.com/zach_yadegari/ ), the high school kid who went from $0 - $20M in 10 months. — Show Notes:  (0:00) Intro (3:45) $0 - $20M in 10 months (17:12) Sold first business for $100K at 16 (20:42) Zach's Influencer marketing playbook (24:23) Being worth $30M at 18 (34:40) How to find problems to solve with AI (38:28) IDEA: AI journal (41:09) IDEA: iOS to Android project converter (44:01) IDEA: Remotely-configurable onboarding flows for mobile apps (47:05) Running away from home at age 10 (51:10) Being peerless (54:41) Who Zach admires (56:02) Gen Z trends (1:00:06) Aging out as a prodigy (1:06:43) Keeping a beginner's mind — Links: • Cal AI - https://www.calai.app/  • Totally Science - https://totallyscience.co/  • The Great CEO Within - https://tinyurl.com/4xuvr95m  • TurboLearn - https://www.turbolearn.ai/  • Fitness AI - https://www.fitnessai.com/  — 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

17 Mars 1h 13min

Episode 686: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the two trends that could make you rich in the next 12 months. — Show Notes:  (0:00) Trend: Fleamarkets (20:03) Trend: True Crime (26:05) Business ideas brainstorm (43:52) Fyre Festival update (48:27) Shaan's dad's travel hacks — Links: • Brimfield Antique Flea Market - https://www.brimfieldantiquefleamarket.com/  • First Monday Trade Days - https://www.firstmondaycanton.com/  • Rosebowl Flea Market - https://www.instagram.com/rosebowl_fleamarket/?hl=en  • Goodwill Finds - https://www.goodwillfinds.com/  • MFM Vault - https://mfmvault.com/  • My Favorite Murder - https://www.myfavoritemurder.com/  • Hunt A Killer - https://www.huntakiller.com/  — 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 The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

14 Mars 54min

Episode 685: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the most interesting things they’ve found this week.  — Show Notes:  (0:00) Justin Caldbeck (8:02) Steve Houghton (20:15) James Currier (38:36) Furqan Rydhan — Links: • NFX - https://www.nfx.com/  • James Altucher - https://www.jamesaltucher.com/  • Agora - https://theagora.com/  • Sheel’s MFM episode - https://youtu.be/-HfUCbnapKo  • Digital Gold - https://tinyurl.com/5n6kvm8d  • Predictably Irrational - ​​https://tinyurl.com/4beh8axz  — 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 The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

12 Mars 1h 14min

Episode 684: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Sean Frank ( https://x.com/SeanEcom ) about his $200M ecom playbook.  — Show Notes:  (0:00) Sean's first million (8:35) $5M - $200M in 6 years (25:57) What people get wrong in ecom (30:33) Case study: HexClad (36:52) Fast-emerging trends (40:57) How to spot trends (44:54) Services-to-product playbook (51:47) Sean calls his shot (54:01) Winning at the trends game (59:01) Being outspoken on the internet — Links: • Operators Podcast - https://www.youtube.com/@Operators9  • Ridge - https://ridge.com/  • PostPilot - https://www.postpilot.com/  • LVMH - https://www.lvmh.com/en  • Tapestry - https://www.tapestry.com/  • HexClad - https://hexclad.com/  — 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 The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

10 Mars 1h 6min

Episode 683: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) sits down with Craig Clemens ( https://x.com/craigclemens ) to talk about the greatest marketing lines in history.  — Show Notes:  (0:00) Intro (2:22) Does not contain an illegal sexual stimulant (9:09) 4-hour erection (10:56) Operators are standing by (15:17) They’re eating the cats (21:54) A diamond is forever (26:09) Buy these worms, catch more fish (30:26) Joseph Duveen (41:30) Every ‘no’ has a value (44:46) Be a consumer of ads — Links: • Golden Hippo - https://www.goldenhippo.com/  — 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 The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

6 Mars 51min

Episode 682: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to three high school founders about their biggest business problems.   — Show Notes:  (0:00) Intro (5:02) Sunshine Exteriors (29:16) Teens2Table (45:53) Totally Mums — Links: • Formidable Fellows - http://formidablefellowship.org/  • Sunshine Exteriors - https://www.hhpressurecleanings.com/  • Teens2Table - https://www.teens2table.com/  • Totally Mums - https://www.instagram.com/abigayle_lett  • “Getting Everything You Can Out of Everything You’ve Got” - https://tinyurl.com/4rb9z8jd  • How to Cold Email Like a Boss - https://copywritingcourse.com/heres-how-to-cold-email-like-a-boss/  • Gary Halbert Letter - https://swiped.co/file/famous-dollar-letter-by-gary-halbert/  • Sonith on X - https://x.com/sonith__/highlights  • NextDoor - https://nextdoor.com/  • 1-800-Got-Junk - https://www.1800gotjunk.com/  • “The Sweaty Startup” - https://tinyurl.com/2eftpkv6  • Quiet Light Brokerage - https://quietlight.com/  • Future Titans - https://www.youtube.com/@future_titans  — 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 The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

3 Mars 1h 11min

Episode 681: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Brent Beshore ( https://x.com/BrentBeshore ) about buying profitable businesses.  — Show Notes:  (0:00) $50K/yr to 9 figures (6:04) Accidentally buying a $1M business for $0 (11:06) Just In Time learning (14:11) Buying cash flow businesses (20:30) Private equity or index? (24:26) Buffett's near-death experience (32:54) How to buy your first small business (36:02) Brent's one-liner speed run (47:33) Shaan asks Brent how to hire a CEO — Links: • Permanent Equity - https://www.permanentequity.com/  • Enneagram Test - https://enneagramtest.com/  — 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 The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

28 Feb 1h