My First Million

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Episode 863: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) and Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talk to Grant Lafontaine ( https://x.com/GrantLaFontaine ) the founder of Whatnot.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(1:00) Grant turned down Shaan’s investment

(2:12) Shaan buys a crab on Whatnot

(3:58) First 1,000 users

(19:07) Black hat growth tactics

(28:52) 30 sales to $2.3M in year 1

(34:03) $2.3M to $163M in year 2

(34:56) $163M to $1B in year 3

(37:02) How to be a billion-dollar founder

(42:04) Going all the way deep on a single problem

(45:44) Don’t let people use fancy language

(49:48) Being disagreeable but likable

(50:43) The reason I left Facebook

(53:39) “If you think you’re moving fast, you’re probably not”

(54:13) Trends: NeeDohs, squishies, gold bars

(56:21) 9-figure sellers

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Links:

• Whatnot - https://www.whatnot.com/

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton (joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Shaan uses Mercury across all of his companies. you can too: http://mercury.com/

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Get Sam's guide to turn ChatGPT into your life coach: https://clickhubspot.com/edlv

Episode 863: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) and Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) get coached by Joe Hudson ( https://x.com/FU_joehudson ) on the mental game of being a founder.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(2:35) Limiting beliefs

(6:48) Mind, heart, gut

(8:20) The self-reliance pattern

(14:45) Unkink your hose

(16:35) Phrases that change your thinking

(18:20) Visualize the negative outcomes

(21:35) Most common fear of founders: homelessness

(23:45) Tricking your nervous system with repetition

(27:35) Avoiding conflict

(32:40) How to address conflict

(38:35) Abusive self-talk patterns

(42:45) Is this stuff worth doing?

(50:40) Experiments to try this week

(54:45) Why bliss destroys you

(59:35) Finding your billion-dollar purpose

(1:01:00) What's the Illuminati like in person?

(1:04:00) How Joe got here

(1:22:00) Where you click matters

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Links:

• The Art of Accomplishment - https://www.artofaccomplishment.com/

• Descartes’ Error - https://a.co/d/0j1JxxLC

• Tibetan Book of Living and Dying - https://a.co/d/0apYnAGF

• The Inner Game of Tennis - https://a.co/d/0hy9hBRa

• Listen - https://a.co/d/0gzKTFBy

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton (joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Shaan uses Mercury across all of his companies. you can too: http://mercury.com/

Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., Members FDIC

• I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out:

beehiiv.com/mfm-challenge

My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano /

Shaan's guide on how to build an audience: https://clickhubspot.com/tjsv

Episode 862: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) teaches what it takes to build an audience in 18 minutes.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(1:00) Lesson 1: Who, not how many

(2:28) Lesson 2: What should I talk about?

(5:03) Lesson 3: Learn the 5 Ds

(7:12) Lesson 4: OK this is getting long. But you’re still here. Weird, right

(7:55) Lesson 5: Don't worry about writing style or production quality

(9:08) Lesson 6: Create a binge bank

(10:03) Lesson 7: Feeling, not information

(12:05) Lesson 8: “Be so good they can’t ignore you”

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Links:

• My blog post - https://www.shaanpuri.com/essays/i-got-internet-famouse-if-i-started-again-from-scratch-heres-what-id-do-this-time

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton (joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Shaan uses Mercury across all of his companies. you can too: http://mercury.com/

Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., Members FDIC

• I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out:

beehiiv.com/mfm-challenge

My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano /

Sam's database on how long it takes to become a millionaire: https://clickhubspot.com/pnlv

Episode 861: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) sits down with David Rubenstein ( https://x.com/DM_Rubenstein ) to talk about turning Carlyle into $500B, his $14B miss, and the greatest business lessons in history.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Turning $5M into $500B

(5:13) Scrappy private equity

(11:58) Don’t fool yourself

(14:14) Turning down 20% of Amazon

(16:23) Recruiting big shots

(20:40) Finding the right partner

(22:02) Trade-offs

(27:39) Witnessing ascents to power

(31:40) The Greatest Sentence Ever Written

(33:37) History that repeats itself

(35:49) Recommended Reading

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Links:

• Carlyl - https://www.carlyle.com/

• David’s books - https://www.davidrubenstein.com/books/

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton (joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Shaan uses Mercury across all of his companies. you can too: http://mercury.com/

Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., Members FDIC

• I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out:

beehiiv.com/mfm-challenge

My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano /

30+ unsexy business ideas: https://clickhubspot.com/pdnb

Episode 860: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) chop it up with skateboarding legend Tony Hawk.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(1:20) Meeting Tony in Ethiopia

(3:42) Economics of skate parks

(12:38) The price of greatness

(17:54) Scraping by

(26:33) The 900

(35:16) Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater

(52:20) Investing

(58:53) Influencing on internet culture

(1:03:47) Aging skaters

(1:08:07) Tickets

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton (joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm

—

Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Shaan uses Mercury across all of his companies. you can too: http://mercury.com/

Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., Members FDIC

• I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out:

beehiiv.com/mfm-challenge

My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano /