Episode 402: Producer Ben breaks down his top 5 MFM interviews from 2022 ------ Show Notes: (00:45) - MrBeast and Hasan Minhaj (05:30) - Palmer Luckey (14:20) - Dharmesh Shah (26:00) - Pieter Levels (35:50) - Alex Hormozi ----- Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Ja...
Dec 31, 2022•45 min•Ep. 402
Episode 401: Sam Parr (@TheSamParr), Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Andrew Wilkinson (@awilkinson) present the annual Milly Awards. The most notable Billy of the Year will be named... as well as best and worst investments, favorite breakout company of the year, coolest moment of the year, best content, and so much more. And one side note, if you want to sell your boring business email [email protected]. ----- Links: * Cultural Tour Twitter * Blitzed book * Founders podcast * The Operator book * Thi...
Dec 29, 2022•2 hr 57 min•Ep. 401
Episode 400: Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) talk about TikTokers making shows with millions of views, the success of Coffeezilla debunking internet myths, the power of Click Funnels for making money online and more. ----- Links: * Papa Swolio TikTok * Buying Time TikTok * Keep The Meter Running TikTok * Einstein Elementary TikTok * The Adventurists * Coffeezilla YT * Gently * Click funnels * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube...
Dec 27, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 400
Episode 399: Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) talk to Billy McFarland talks about the failures of Fyre Festival, lessons learned, and his latest business venture, PYRT. ----- Links: * PYRT * Bounty Hunter World * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan's newsletter. ------ Show Notes: (05:20) - Why he's doing interviews (08:25) - Billy's background (Magnises and Fyre) (27:20) -...
Dec 22, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 399
Episode 398: Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) talk to Morning Brew Founder & CEO Austin Rief (@austin_rief) about building, growing and selling a newsletter valued at $75M in 5 years, whether newsletter businesses are still worth doing, how to make them succeed, and a few good side hustle ideas to start now. ----- Links: * Morning Brew * Toptal * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Want more insights like MFM? Check o...
Dec 20, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 398
Episode 397: Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) talks with Kendall Saville and Michael Wittmeyer about their decision to buy Milk Road, their background in gambling affiliates, gold, and crypto, and much more. ----- Links: * JM Bullion * Milk Road * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan's newsletter. ------ Show Notes: (00:00) - Shaan's Intro (04:30) - Why Michael and Kendall are under the radar (13:30) ...
Dec 16, 2022•2 hr 43 min•Ep. 397
Episode 396: Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) judge the My First Million pitch competition with students at the University of Michigan for a prize of $5,000. Some impressive ideas... find out who wins. ----- Links: * Internet Activism * Yofi * Deal Dog * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan's newsletter. ------ Show Notes: (01:45) - Pitch #1 Area (18:30) - Pitch #2 Internet ...
Dec 16, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 396
Episode 395: Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) talk about Shaan's interview with entrepreneur, investor, author, podcaster, and lifestyle guru, Tim Ferriss (@tferriss). They review his money and life advice, as well as his new NFT project. Plus, real estate insights and one business idea... plugins and SaaS tools for Only Fans. ----- Links: * Homestead Heritage * Tim Ferriss * Milk Road / Tim Ferriss interview * Cockpunch * Bhad Bhabie * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Sha...
Dec 13, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 395
Episode 394: Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) talk with entrepreneur and Kayak co-founder, Paul English (@englishpaulm) about his latest business ideas, his famous missed investments, how to become a strong recruiter, and why he wants to create Twitter's competitor. ----- Links: * Paul English * Boston Venture Studio * Middle * Bipolar Social Club * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Want more insights like MFM? Chec...
Dec 09, 2022•48 min•Ep. 394
Episode 393: Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) talk about the unpopular - yet valuable - lessons they have learned on My First Million, $1,000/day side hustles, and gourmet gift ideas. ----- Links: * RVshare * Mark Jenney Twitter * Caitlyn Minimalist * Harry & David * Omaha Steaks * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan's newsletter. ------ Show Notes: (01:30) - Are courses le...
Dec 08, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 393
Episode 392: Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) talk about all the controversies... FTX drug use, Liver King admits to steroid use, and the curious case of Katie Haun. Plus, disrupting the multi-million real estate business. ----- Links: * More Plates More Dates * Liver King * Katie Haun Twitter * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan's newsletter. ------ Show Notes: (02:25) - ...
Dec 06, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 392
Episode 391: Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) talk about their new favorite AI tool, how to make money from arbitrage, goal setting for 2023, and more. ----- Links: * Character.AI * Adept * State of AI Report * Vintage Wall Graphics - Etsy * Pipe * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan's newsletter. ------ Show Notes: (03:15) - State of AI (20:00) - Sam & Shaan's 2023 goals (...
Dec 01, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 391
Episode 390: Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) talk about Eric Langan and his foray into owning strip clubs, why we should boycott Black Friday, three Twitter scenarios, how to fly on a private jet and much, much more. ----- Links: * Jettly * r/fatFIRE * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan's newsletter. ------ Show Notes: (03:20) - Eric Langan (12:50) - Black Friday (18:40) ...
Nov 29, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 390
Episode 389: Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) talk about five ways to make money, successful vice businesses, profitable fan fiction, Billy of the Week and more. ----- Links: * Sam's Tweet * Shaan's Tweet Framework * WattPad * Archive of Our Own * LitErotica * Fandom * Dutchie * Group Black * KIA logo * Shift4 * Boosted Boards * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan's newslet...
Nov 24, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 389
Episode 388: Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) talk to Bryan Johnson (@bryan_johnson) about starting Braintree - which he sold for hundreds of millions - and is his current businesses as Founder/CEO of Kernel and his own personal project Blueprint, where he's working to reduce his biological age. ----- Links: * Braintree * Kernel * Blueprint * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Want more insights like MFM? Check out S...
Nov 22, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 388
Episode #387: Shaan Puri (@shaanvp) and Andrew Wilkinson (@awilkinson) discuss the idea that making hard choices, doing hard things, can actually make life easier. ----- Links: * Influence, Robert Cialdini * Charlie Munger, "The Psychology of Human Misjudgment" speech * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan's newsletter. ----- Show Notes: Show Notes: (05:20) - Do the hard thing (06:00) - Wha...
Nov 18, 2022•13 min•Ep. 387
Episode 386: Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) talk to Andrew Wilkinson (@awilkinson) - entrepreneur and co-founder of Tiny - about learning to be a successful entrepreneur in less than a decade. His hardest and easiest businesses to start. Plus, one business idea he hasn't acted on, yet. ----- Links: * Tiny * Pixel Union * Warren Buffett letter * AeroPress * Metalab * We Work Remotely * Tenzing.co * Mealime * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscrib...
Nov 17, 2022•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 386
Episode 385: Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) react to the failure of the cryptocurrency trading firm FTX and the taking down of its CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried. ----- Links: * @AutismCapital * @TechEmails * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan's newsletter. ------ Show Notes: (02:30) - What happened (12:15) - Alameda (17:55) - Elon and SBF (31:55) - Prison ----- Past guests on M...
Nov 15, 2022•46 min•Ep. 385
Episode 384: Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) talk with entrepreneur, creator, and investor Sahil Bloom (@SahilBloom) about three business ideas that will make money now, and why he left private equity to make millions as a content creator. Bonus: Shaan offers $2,000 to anyone who helps him develop his "uniform" for the pod. ----- Links: * Sahil Bloom * TweetPik * Sahil Bloom Instagram * Dakota Robertson (@WrongsToWrite) * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling f...
Nov 10, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 384
Episode 383: Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) speak with Kaitlyn Michelle Siragusa, aka Amouranth (@Amouranth), about how she built her million dollar social media business empire and why she bought a Chinese ball pit manufacturer. ----- Links: * Amouranth - Twitch * OnlyFans * Avatar AI * Downbad * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan's newsletter. ------ Show Notes: (03:40...
Nov 08, 2022•59 min•Ep. 383
Episode 383: The three funniest moments from MFM in October. ------ Show Notes: (00:45) - Sara's List Negotiation (05:05) - Work in tech-adjacent businesses & new-shiny syndrome (07:45) - Grit and delayed gratification ----- Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason...
Nov 06, 2022•11 min•Ep. 383
Episode 382: Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) talk to Kevin Rose (@kevinrose), entrepreneur, founder, VC and CEO of many projects, about creating an online magazine that garners $100M/year focusing on watches, what projects he's interested in, why he loves crypto, and where he invests his money. ----- Links: * Kevin Rose * DIGG * Proof * Hodinkee * agelessRx * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Want more insights lik...
Nov 03, 2022•2 hr 30 min•Ep. 382
Episode 381: Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) have the inside story about the two fake Twitter employees who trolled the media, where billions are spent for Halloween, and eight side hustles for the holidays. ----- Links: * Spirit Halloween * Rubies * Zombie Pumpkins * Pumpkinsteins * Hu.ma.ne * Suleman Ali * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan's newsletter. ------ Show Not...
Nov 01, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 381
Episode #380: Shaan Puri (@shaanvp) talks about the different kinds of luck, how to put yourself in a position to be lucky, and how to mitigate different kinds of risk. To submit your question and hear yourself on My First Million, go to MFMPod.com and click on the circle with the microphone in the lower right hand corner. ----- Links: * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan's newsletter. --...
Oct 28, 2022•18 min•Ep. 380
Episode 379: Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) talk about a hostile takeover of Sara's List and brainstorm how they're going to deal with it, the backstory of the #1 app - GAS, and much more. ----- Links: * Sara's List * Kristin Kent's Twitter (@kstankent) * The Muse * Packy McCormick * Gas * Nikita Bier Twitter (@nikitabier) * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan's newslette...
Oct 27, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 379
Episode 378: Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) talk with billionaire Palmer Luckey (@PalmerLuckey), founder of Oculus and Anduril, about what he's done with his money since selling Oculus to Facebook, his ideas for a new prison system and sewer food, as well as his take on national security and why he flies coach. ----- Links: * The Blog of Palmer Luckey * Anduril * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Want more insight...
Oct 25, 2022•2 hr 35 min•Ep. 378
Episode 377: Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) talk about Shaan's business life story... while eating hot wings. ----- Links: * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan's newsletter. ------ Show Notes: (01:40) - Seinfeld interview (11:38) - Shaan's story (14:20) - First job in Indonesia (25:40) - Stripe interview (31:20) - Monkey Inferno (49:10) - Selling (53:10) - Podcast (56:30...
Oct 20, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 377
Episode 376: Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) talk all things Artificial Intelligence: reaction to Joe Rogan's AI interview with Steve Jobs, AI in the workplace, new AI business ideas, AI Billy of the Week, and more. ----- Links: * Podcast.ai * Runway * Interior AI * Jasper * copy.ai * Huw Prosser * Stable Diffusion * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan's newsletter. ------...
Oct 18, 2022•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 376
Episode #375: Sam Parr (@thesamparr) answers one listener's question about what they can do to keep relationships healthy when they work long hours. To submit your question and hear yourself on My First Million, go to MFMPod.com and click on the circle with the microphone in the lower right hand corner. ----- Links: * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan's newsletter. ----- Past guests on M...
Oct 14, 2022•10 min•Ep. 375
Episode 374: In this episode Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) joins Steph Smith (@stephsmithio), host of the a16z podcast, to talk about anti-cheat businesses, ethical hacking, and inflections that create companies. ----- Links: * Steph Smith * a16z podcast * Sh*t You Don't Learn In School podcast * r/contagiouslaughter * Fake data to catch cheaters tweet * Wiz * Interactive resume Robby Leonardi * Bruno Simon * Neal.Fun * Electric Chopsticks tweet * air up * Meet the People Who Design Restaurant Menus * D...
Oct 13, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 374
