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. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Justin Caldbeck

(8:02) Steve Houghton

(20:15) James Currier

(38:36) Furqan Rydhan

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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 

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• 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/

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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. 

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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

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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/ 

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• 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/

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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. 

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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

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Links:

• Golden Hippo - https://www.goldenhippo.com/ 

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Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd

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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/

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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.  

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Intro

(5:02) Sunshine Exteriors

(29:16) Teens2Table

(45:53) Totally Mums

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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 

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Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd

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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/

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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. 

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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

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Links:

• Permanent Equity - https://www.permanentequity.com/ 

• Enneagram Test - https://enneagramtest.com/ 

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Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd

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• 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/

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Episode 680: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Nick Bilton ( https://x.com/nickbilton ), investigative journalist and author of American Kingpin and Hatching Twitter. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Intro

(7:03) Inside a criminal mind

(12:57) Getting people to open up

(20:49) The real story behind Twitter

(29:40) The auras of Trump, Bezos, Musk

(33:13) Becoming a journalist

(37:24) Steve Jobs' reality distortion field

(43:16) Who has it all in Silicon Valley?

(49:43) Being a professional asshole

(57:56) Nick's next story

(1:03:38) Storytelling

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Links:

• American Kingpin - https://tinyurl.com/yckc6smh 

• Hatching Twitter - https://tinyurl.com/3ah2j9ym 

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd

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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/

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Episode 679: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) sits down with Robert Oliver ( https://x.com/thegeniusceo ) to break down his $100M TikTok strategy. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) TikTok Gold Rush

(13:00) The Playbook

(23:00) Brands crushing it

(36:00) Trends: Lookmaxing, pet luxuries, niche communities

(51:30) Mistakes to avoid

(1:03:00) Character design

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Links:

• Rob The Bank on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@robthebankmotion

• Rob The Bank on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@thegeniusceo 

• KaloData - https://www.kalodata.com/ 

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Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd

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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/

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Episode 678: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Siqi Chen ( https://x.com/blader ), the founder of Runway.com.

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Early days at Zynga 

(14:34) Business ideas

(52:18) Touchy-feely class

(1:07:24) Siqi’s favorite interview question

(1:12:48) Insane growth of ElevenLabs

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Links:

• Limitless - https://www.limitless.ai/ 

• Rewind - https://www.rewind.ai/ 

• Runway - https://runway.com/ 

• Hoffman Institute - https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/ 

• Pump - https://pump.fun/board 

• ElevenLabs - https://elevenlabs.io/ 

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Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd

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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/

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Episode 677: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) go inside what’s happening with DOGE.

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) The wild story of Iron Mountain

(17:39) Our take on DOGE

(28:20) Government contract side quest

(33:14) Elon vs Sam Altman PPV

(39:16) How does Elon never get tired tho?

(48:23) Life in situ

(58:09) Casting call: $100K to the new MFM field correspondent

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Links:

• “The Many Lives of Iron Mountain” - https://tinyurl.com/t4drtpdb 

• “How the Economic Machine Works” - https://tinyurl.com/ydp966p9 

• “Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order” - https://tinyurl.com/2evfs6bd 

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Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd

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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/

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Access Shaan's interview prep and research notes: https://clickhubspot.com/mrbeastfiles 

Episode 676: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) sits down with MrBeast ( https://x.com/MrBeast ) to talk about the mindset that made him the youngest billionaire and biggest entertainer on earth. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Origin story

(5:11) Burn the boats

(11:15) The Rule of 100

(16:49) You can make anything go viral

(23:27) Cloning

(28:39) Impossible is possible

(36:53) Consultants are a cheat code

(41:25) Block out the noise

(43:00) Reinvest everything

(47:30) Feastables

(53:02) Getting jacked

(54:56) Buying TikTok

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Links:

• MrBeast on YouTube - https://tinyurl.com/2wfkm4by 

• Beast Games - https://tinyurl.com/fh3atsxp 

• Feastables - https://feastables.com/ 

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd

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• 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/

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Episode 675: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) tell the three stories of founders with insanely high agency. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Boom Supersonic

(30:50) Nick Mowbray, #1 most impressive founder

(43:43) The Moped King

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Links:

• Boom Supersonic - https://boomsupersonic.com/ 

• ZURU - http://zurutoys.com/ 

• Fly E-Bike - https://www.flyebike.com/ 

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd

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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