#191 with Mike Maples - 4 Big Trends and $0 to $1 Billion Startup Idea Frameworks

Want to start your own business with less than $1k? Get the playbook here: https://clickhubspot.com/lhs Episode 732: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) sits down with Alex Hormozi ( https://x.com/alexhormozi ) to talk about his newest book, $100M Money Models. The book will teach you how to get more customers to spend more, in less time, over and over again, ultimately eliminating cash flow as a constraint to growth of any business. $100M Money Models, launches at a live virtual event Saturday August 16th. Register free: https://register.acq.com — Show Notes: (0:00) Money Models (9:34) Sell When Pain Is Highest (14:00) Live coaching: Rebuilding Shaan’s Business (30:04) What most founder get wrong (37:55) Make it or Take It: Tough Questions (55:09) What Hormozi is obsessed with now (1:08:51) Playing the YouTube game — Links: • Acquisition - https://www.acquisition.com/ • Somewhere - https://somewhere.com/mfm — 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

6 Aug 1h 21min

Want Sam's top 7 books for entrepreneurs (& his reading strategy)? Get it here: https://clickhubspot.com/kft Episode 731: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Tim Ferriss ( https://x.com/tferriss ) about what he’s been nerding out on lately . — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (6:52) How much money is enough money (25:28) Tim's favorite podcast guests (28:21) Lifestyle sampling (32:49) Shaan's unscripted days (38:57) Creativity gyms (42:13) The curse of precision thinking (47:00) Tim's superpowers (52:35) How to be a magnet for the right audience (1:05:22) What Tim’s nerding out on now (1:19:34) Trend: Electricity over pills (1:23:16) Trend Exogenous ketones (1:25:31) Trend: Analogue and social — Links: • Coyote - https://www.explodingkittens.com/products/coyote — 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

4 Aug 1h 32min

Want Sam's Guide to Create Irresistible Content? Get it here: https://clickhubspot.com/skv Episode 730: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the trend of cinematic content creators on TikTok and YouTube. — Show Notes: (0:00) Creator Camp (7:41) Wesley Wang’s Viral Short Film (17:00) The Iron Snail (20:08) Michael MacKelvie (24:52) Ryan Trahan’s Candy Commercial Masterpiece (27:20) Different Is Better Than Better — Links: • Creator Camp - http://creatorcamp.co/ • nothing, except everything. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hif5eI5pBxo • Batmalle - https://www.instagram.com/reel/DK1n403ok0k/ • The Iron Snail - https://www.youtube.com/@TheIronSnail • Michael Mackelvie - https://www.youtube.com/@MichaelMacKelvie • “We Need To Talk” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImQ1nY0y9HA • Joyride - https://www.joyride.com • STICKS - https://www.youtube.com/@STICKS — 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

30 Juli 30min

Episode 729: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talks to Zapier founder Wade Foster ( https://x.com/wadefoster ) about how to build AI Agents. — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (5:57) DEMO: Instant Dossier (10:49) Model Context Protocol (19:30) DEMO: Read Strategy memos like a Harvard MBA (29:13) DEMO: Inbox Zero Agent (36:00) Getting your team to use AI (40:00) DEMO: Employee fraud detector — Links: • Want Wade's guide to use AI Agents to save 20+ Hours/week? Get it here: https://clickhubspot.com/wdp • Zapier - zapier.com • Claude - Claude.ai • Glean - https://www.glean.com/ • Databricks - https://www.databricks.com/ • Superwhisper - https://superwhisper.com/ • Wisprflow - https://wisprflow.ai/ • N8n - https://n8n.io/ — 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

28 Juli 51min

Steal Sam's playbook to turn ChatGPT into your Executive Coach: https://clickhubspot.com/ebm Episode 728: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about hanging out with billionaires. — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (3:56) Hayes Barnard (23:15) Sasha Koehn (29:27) Alex Hormozi (39:24) Wade Foster (45:38) Eric Glyman (49:33) Sanjiv Chopra — Links: • Buck Mason - https://www.buckmason.com • Zapier - https://zapier.com/ • Ramp - https://ramp.com/ • Acquisition - https://www.acquisition.com/ • Rhino - https://rhinoinvestmentsgroup.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

24 Juli 1h 4min

Want Sam's Playbook to Uncover Hidden Business Opportunities? Get it here: https://clickhubspot.com/pcf Episode 727: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) sits down with his brother-in-law Sanjiv Chopra to talk about how he went from $15M in debt to a real estate portfolio of $1.5B. — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (3:37) $15M in debt on first deal (12:30) Pawning my wife’s wedding ring to buy a gym (19:41) Turning a broken gym around (22:02) Referral marketing (29:48) Double escrow (36:11) Shopping centers (40:20) What a Good Real Estate Deal Looks Like (44:02) How you act when you lose (51:02) Legacy, Balance & Being a Present Dad — Links: • Rhino Investments - https://rhinoinvestmentsgroup.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

22 Juli 1h

Want Sam's playbook to turn ChatGPT into your executive coach? Get it here: https://clickhubspot.com/sfb Episode 726: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Dharmesh Shah ( https://x.com/dharmesh ) about how he’s using ChatGPT. — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (2:00) Context windows (5:26) Vector embeddings (17:20) Automation and orchestration (21:03) Tool calling (28:14) Dharmesh's hot takes on AI (33:06) Agentic managers (39:41) Zuck poaches OpenAI talent w/ 9-figures (49:33) Shaan makes a video game — Links: • Agent.ai - https://agent.ai/ • Andrej Karpathy - https://www.youtube.com/andrejkarpathy — 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

16 Juli 56min

Want to scale your side hustle with AI? Get 700 prompts here: https://clickhubspot.com/wbc Episode 725: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talks to the founder of Airtable, Howie Liu ( https://x.com/howietl ), about 7 AI business ideas he would start if he was in his 20s. — Show Notes: (0:00) IDEA: Live Shopping w/ AI avatars (5:34) IDEA: AI personalized news (10:36) IDEA: AI Personal Finance Advisor (18:27) IDEA: AI PE model of buy an existing business (24:20) IDEA: Cursor for email (36:53) IDEA: AI-native social apps (38:42) IDEA: Uncensored AI search — Links: • Sesame - https://www.sesame.com/ • Whatnot - https://www.whatnot.com/ • HeyGen - https://www.heygen.com/ • Superhuman - https://superhuman.com/ • Kubera - https://www.kubera.com/ • Addepar - https://addepar.com/ • Airtable - https://www.airtable.com/ • Chief.so - http://chief.so/ — 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

11 Juli 44min