My First Million
Read bullet-point summaries of My First Million on startup ideas, acquisitions, money, internet businesses, founders, and investing.
Episodes
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The investing hack hiding in your own company
This episode features Aaron Levie, co-founder and CEO of Box, discussing his 20-year entrepreneurial journey building enterprise software, turning down major
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3 weird businesses doing $10M, $20M, $30M
This episode explores three unconventional businesses generating $10M, $20M, and $30M in annual revenue, showcasing diverse models outside traditional tech or
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This guy sold his company for $2B (and used it to buy Pokémon cards?)
The episode opens with a humorous discussion of a South Korean trend — "dopamine websites" like Food Never Comes — that let users go through the full ritual of
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Most people are chasing type 3 (but it's actually the worst)
The episode explores the power of committing fully to a lifestyle or aesthetic as a personal branding and business strategy, arguing that going "all in" on a
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Ex-Goldman CEO: 3 sectors where I'm putting my money right now
Lloyd Blankfein, former CEO and senior chairman of Goldman Sachs, discusses his personal investing philosophy, career lessons, and views on risk, luck, and
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The SpaceX IPO is creating 4,000+ millionaires. Here's how
SpaceX is going public in what will be the largest IPO in history at a $1.75 trillion valuation, making Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire on paper. The
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Exposing the fake financial "Gurus" destroying your net worth
Barry Ritholtz is a veteran investor, blogger, and podcaster who runs an $8 billion AUM advisory firm built on the philosophy that most people should simply own
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The "Idiot Index": the simple math that made Elon Musk billions
Pat LaFrieda Jr. turned a dying family butcher shop into a $270M/year meat empire by rejecting commodity meat, building custom branded blends for top chefs, and
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This dumb $25 phone might just replace your iPhone
Sam and Sean evaluate a series of startup ideas and trends, sorting them into "good crazy" (promising, unconventional ideas that could work) and "bad crazy"
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The insane rise and fall of MTV
Tom Freston was a co-founder of MTV Networks, helping build it from a small startup into an $8–9 billion revenue media empire that included MTV, VH1, Comedy
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The 50 richest families in America are betting on this trend
Joe Liemandt is a serial entrepreneur who dropped out of Stanford in the late 1980s to co-found Trilogy, which built the first AI product to sell a billion
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This will save you 10 years of bad investments
Monish Pabrai, a value investor managing over $1 billion and a close associate of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger, shares his core mental models and investing
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Gary Vee runs 7 businesses doing $10M+ each
Gary Vee runs seven businesses each doing eight- or nine-figure annual revenue, all built on a philosophy of long-term greed, deep human relationships, and
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A look inside how we actually run My First Million
This is a public recording of a real strategy meeting for the podcast My First Million (MFM), now 6 years and 822 episodes in, with roughly 115 million
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What Palmer Luckey does when he's not building billion-dollar companies
Jim Ratcliffe: the blue-collar billionaire who does things "just because"
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I put 80% of my money in the S&P after a billionaire investor told me not to
A deep dive into how genetics, personality, and self-knowledge shape financial outcomes, investing behavior, and career success — and why understanding your own
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I made $250M in one year. Here's what it actually cost me
From $2.5M to $250M in a Year: A Founder's Journey
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I Bought A Drink Nobody Wanted (And Sold It For $2 Billion)
Rohan Oza is a brand builder and early-stage investor who has helped create and scale some of America's most successful beverage and consumer brands, including
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GTA 6 Goldrush, TBPN's $100M OpenAI Deal, The OG Clickbait King Who Burned $4B/Year
The episode covers a wide range of topics centered on where the biggest opportunities are right now, the TBPN acquisition by OpenAI, the GTA 6 economy, and the
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How to find your thing
A 24-year-old fan approached the hosts at a restaurant in Austin and asked a deceptively simple question: everyone says "follow your passion," but how do you
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This guy sold his company to Unilever for $1.2B after just 3 years
Chad, a serial entrepreneur with a background in private equity and investment banking, built and sold his third company—Grüns, a gummy-based comprehensive
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25% Of My Portfolio Is Tesla Stock, Here's Why
Sam Parr and Shaan Puri riff on a wide range of topics—cryogenics, AI-driven job displacement, longevity research, executive coaching, magic/mentalism, and
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#1 Habit Expert: Why Your To Do List Is Making You Less Productive
Charles Duhigg, a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter and author of The Power of Habit and Supercommunicators, joins Sam Parr to explain how habits, communication
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If I Had To Make $1 Billion... Here’s The Business I Would Start
Hosts Shaan Puri and Sam Parr answer a listener's question: what single business idea would you pursue to make $1 million, and what would you do to build a $1