My First Million

Episode 612: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Sarah Guo ( https://x.com/saranormous ) about the Ai ideas she thinks could be $1B swings.

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Intro

(4:00) IDEA: AI companions

(16:00) IDEA: AI interior design / professional headshots

(22:30) IDEA: A richer version of The Sims

(25:00) The speedy way to do this if you're non-technical

(27:00) IDEA: Your Personal Seller

(32:00) IDEA: Generative Voice API for service providers, SMBs, restaurants

(38:00) IDEA: Next Gen Aut...

Episode 611: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) catch up and share 3 business ideas they came up with over the weekend. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Shaan's no phone weekend

(5:17) Control your inputs

(10:20) Life hack: Play with your kid

(15:38) Business Idea: Sketchy

(25:15) Business Idea: Niche Fake News You Can Trust

(34:41) Business Idea: Tampons that won't kill you

(40:28) An unqualified brief history of presidential assassinations

(46:09) The ceaseless action of Teddy Roosevelt

(55:10) MFM Required Readling List

Episode 610: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the $1b dollar app idea for millennial moms, how Solidcore founder Anne Mahlum emptied her life savings into a pilates studio that she sold for $88M + Shaan writes a movie using ChatGPT. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) APP IDEA: Reddit For Moms

(3:50) Capitalizing on a reverse craving

(14:30) How we use our wives to predict trends

(18:54) Shaan uses ChatGPT to make a movie

(22:56) How to use ChatGPT as an on-demand creative collaborator

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Episode 609: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) break down the genius marketing tactics used by the brands you can’t get out of your brain–no matter how much you want to. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) The history of jingles (Bring them back!)

(11:07) Prediction: Polymarket is going to be massive

(21:25) The wisdom on the crowd phenomenon

(26:36) How gaming apps hunt for whales

(31:00) Corporate Slang That Doesn't Exist But Should

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Episode 608: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) react to the $22M "fake-work" app, mouse jigglers & Ryan Serhant’s Netflix show.

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Devices helping the overemployed cheat on their bosses

(6:50) $22M ARR side hustle catching mouse jigglers

(8:36) Career polygamy support at r/overemployed

(11:18) Is this a good strategy for financial freedom?

(15:58) Big Desk Energy

(20:22) Life hack: Intentional internet consumption

(26:58) Indie hacking on steroids

(32:44) Shaan tries a self-driving car, becomes evangelist

(36:50) Secon...

Episode 607: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Dan Porter ( https://x.com/tfadp ) about selling his app for $200M after just 6 weeks plus stories about Richard Branson, Ari Emmanuel & building cult brands.

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Intro

(1:29) Story behind OMGPop gaming company

(5:23)Creating viral mobile game Draw My Thing (now Draw Something)

(12:02) 25 million users a day, 1 million drawings every 5 seconds

(24:10) Zynga bought the game for $200M 6 weeks after launch

(32:30) The real power of mon...

Episode 606: Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) brings you 24 minutes of raw motivation. Think of this as an angry love letter to kick off your week.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Peter Thiel’s One Priority Philosophy

(4:30) 3 lies you’re telling yourself

(7:55) Zuck closes a $1B dollar deal in 48 hours

(13:41) The Collison Installation

(16:13) Lead bullets v Silver bullets

(18:51) When to sprint

(20:44) The 3 Big Questions

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Episode 604: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Andrew Wilkinson ( https://x.com/awilkinson ) about how he went from a $6.50/hr barista to millionaire in just 4 years. 

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Show Notes: 

(1:00) From barista to billionaire

(1:40) Andrew’s 1st level up: From day job to self employed

(3:26) Shaan 1st money made as an entrepreneur

(4:40) Sam’s 1st money as an entrepreneur

(7:15) Andrew’s 2nd level up: From self employed to boss 

(8:40) From selling your time to selling other people's ti...

Episode 603: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Kevin Van Trump ( https://x.com/KevinVanTrump ) about his journey from rural farm kid, to commodities trader, to creator of a farm newsletter that’s making $20M/year. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:45) How Sam met Kevin, then got his mind blown

(2:05) Shaan's reaction at his 1st Farmcon experience (Corn futures and options trading)

(4:35) The farmer's theory of the old bear and the young bull

(5:00) How Kevin's newsletter inspired Shaan to start M...

Episode 602: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk about how to 10x your odds of success. 

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Ed Thorp and the mathematics of gambling

(7:51) World's first hedge fund

(12:12) Sam and Shaan revisit “The Game”

(16:06) The Feynman technique for learning

(21:14) Shaan's one criteria for action

(24:58) Why you don't need privilege to start

(29:06) Playing "the game" of business

(33:37) Switching to better games

(36:15) How the Roger Bannister Effect crushes limitin...