Sam Parr and Shaan Puri brainstorm new business ideas based on trends & opportunities they see in the market. Sometimes they bring on famous guests to brainstorm with them.
In this episode of the podcast, Sam and Shaan share insights gained from recent in-person interviews with billionaires and successful entrepreneurs. They discuss the importance of being a "student of the game of life" by learning from others' experiences, highlighting key takeaways such as Hayes Barnard's high-energy a...
Siqi Chen interviews his brother-in-law, Sanjiv Chopra, about his journey from being a real estate broker to building a $1.5 billion real estate portfolio in just a decade. Sanjiv shares his early career experiences, including a setback where he incurred $15 million in debt due to a client's financial troubles. He disc...
In this episode of the podcast, Dharmesh Shah, CTO of Hubspot, discusses the transformative potential of AI with Sam Parr. Dharmesh shares his early experiences with OpenAI's GPT API and emphasizes the importance of understanding the context window in large language models. He introduces the concept of vector embedding...
In this episode, Shaan Puri interviews Howie Liu, the founder of Airtable, to discuss seven business ideas he would pursue if he were 21 again or starting from scratch today, focusing on AI-driven opportunities. These ideas include live shopping with AI avatars, AI-personalized news platforms, AI personal finance advis...
Shaan and Sam discuss the La Boo Boo doll craze, its origins, and the company behind it, PopMart, including the factors contributing to its viral success, such as celebrity endorsements and the "lipstick effect." They then transition to Tony's Chocolonely, highlighting its ethical sourcing and the founders' commitment ...
Shaan Puri hosts Dan Certner, his college buddy, and Sam Parr to discuss Dan's experience buying a packaging distribution business for $3.4 million. Dan shares his journey from working in tech to becoming "Dan the Bag Man," detailing the search process, due diligence, financing through an SBA loan and seller note, and ...
In this interview, Mike Novogratz discusses his life, from growing up on Long Island to becoming a billionaire in the finance world. He shares insights into his early career at Goldman Sachs, including navigating the Asian financial crisis and the company's IPO. Novogratz reflects on personal setbacks, such as leaving ...
Sam Parr and Shaan Puri discuss various topics, starting with the opportunity to buy local newspapers from retiring owners, inspired by a tweet from Matthew Prince. They then transition to Shaan's experience giving a talk at Berkeley and the concept of "starter businesses," linking it to the idea of owning a local news...
Shaan and Sam discuss various topics, starting with the idea of roadside golf challenges and transitioning into broader discussions about entrepreneurship, the importance of the journey, and the concept of being "generative." They explore the idea of business as a sport and the shift from "manifesting" to "generating" ...
Shaan Puri and Ben Levy discuss their five-year business partnership, highlighting nine projects that each generated over a million dollars. They delve into their initial meeting, which occurred during a CEO mastermind group, and explore the concept of being someone's "first believer," emphasizing the importance of irr...
In a "Casual Friday" episode, Shaan and Sam share content from their group chat, starting with Apple's new Alarm Kit, which allows any app to function as an alarm. They discuss the potential for innovation in alarm apps and joke about its significance. They then critique McKinsey's consulting practices, referencing a t...
Shaan interviews Chris, a serial side-hustler making $3 million a year from multiple income streams, about his unconventional approach to business, which defies the typical "focus on one thing" advice. Chris shares several side hustle ideas, including a hole-in-one golf challenge, leveraging Facebook Marketplace for va...
Shaan and Sam explore business opportunities related to "butts and guts," starting with the twerking fitness trend and its brief moment in the spotlight. They then discuss fecal microbiota transplants and the potential for selling elite athletes' microbiomes to enhance endurance. The conversation shifts to the history ...
The podcast features Shaan Puri, Sam Parr, and Harley Finkelstein discussing business and entrepreneurship, particularly focusing on companies that have turned boring products into luxury items, like Touchland hand sanitizer and Dyson vacuums. They explore the concept of Total Addressable Market (TAM) and how some comp...
Shaan Puri interviews Matt Mazzeo, discussing Mazzeo's early career moves and current focus on AI, particularly its application in sales and marketing. Mazzeo shares insights on using AI to personalize customer outreach and provide immediate value, such as generating AI-designed outfits or home renovations, to demonstr...
In this episode, Jason Lemkin and Shaan Puri interview Sam Parr about the smart money's moves in AI, Sam's personal AI experiment, and top learnings from 50,000 AI conversations. Sam shares insights on building an AI version of himself using Delphi.ai, unexpected AI use cases like therapy and pitch deck reviews, and th...
In this episode of the My First Million podcast, Sam Parr interviews Greg Isenberg about using AI to generate and implement a business idea in just one hour. Greg outlines a six-step process, including finding trending ideas using ideabrowser.com, sketching the idea with TLDraw, scoping out an MVP with Manus, vibe codi...
The podcast features an interview with a high school dropout from Argentina who became a successful engineer and entrepreneur. He discusses his early involvement in open-source JavaScript projects, which led to a job offer from Facebook and later a startup in Switzerland. The conversation covers his company Vercel, its...
The podcast episode explores the theme of underestimating market size and potential in business ventures, using examples like Bessemer's memo on Shopify, Jeff Bezos' early expectations for Amazon, and Shaan's personal experiences with products like Calm, Snapchat, and Airbnb. The discussion covers the human tendency to...
In this episode of the My First Million podcast, Sam Parr and Shaan Puri host Logan Ury, a behavioral scientist and dating coach, to discuss the science and strategy behind finding a partner. Logan shares insights on dating as a skill, the pitfalls of being a "maximizer" in the search for a perfect match, and the impor...
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