My First Million
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.
Episodes
August 4, 2025 • 92 mins
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Episode 731: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Tim Ferriss ( https://x.com/tferriss ) about what he’s been nerding out on lately .
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro
(6:52) How much money is enough money
(25:28) Tim's favorite podcast guests
(28:21) Lifestyle sampling
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July 30, 2025 • 30 mins
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Episode 730: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the trend of cinematic content creators on TikTok and YouTube.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Creator Camp
(7:41) Wesley Wang’s Viral Short Film
(17:00) The Iron Snail
(20:08) Michael MacKelvie
(24:52) Ryan Trahan’s Candy Commercial Mast...
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July 28, 2025 • 51 mins
Episode 729: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talks to Zapier founder Wade Foster ( https://x.com/wadefoster ) about how to build AI Agents.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro
(5:57) DEMO: Instant Dossier
(10:49) Model Context Protocol
(19:30) DEMO: Read Strategy memos like a Harvard MBA
(29:13) DEMO: Inbox Zero Agent
(36:00) Getting your team to use AI
(40:00) DEMO: Employee fraud detector
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Links:
• Zapier - zapie...
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July 24, 2025 • 64 mins
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Episode 728: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about hanging out with billionaires.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro
(3:56) Hayes Barnard
(23:15) Sasha Koehn
(29:27) Alex Hormozi
(39:24) Wade Foster
(45:38) Eric Glyman
(49:33) Sanjiv Chopra
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Links:
• Buck Mason - https://w...
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July 22, 2025 • 60 mins
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Episode 727: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) sits down with his brother-in-law Sanjiv Chopra to talk about how he went from $15M in debt to a real estate portfolio of $1.5B.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro
(3:37) $15M in debt on first deal
(12:30) Pawning my wife’s wedding ring to buy a gym
(19:41) Turning a broken gym ...
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July 16, 2025 • 56 mins
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Episode 726: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Dharmesh Shah ( https://x.com/dharmesh ) about how he’s using ChatGPT.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro
(2:00) Context windows
(5:26) Vector embeddings
(17:20) Automation and orchestration
(21:03) Tool calling
(28:14) Dharme...
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July 11, 2025 • 44 mins
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Episode 725: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talks to the founder of Airtable, Howie Liu ( https://x.com/howietl ), about 7 AI business ideas he would start if he was in his 20s.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) IDEA: Live Shopping w/ AI avatars
(5:34) IDEA: AI personalized news
(10:36) IDEA: AI Personal Finance Advisor
(18:27) IDEA: A...
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July 9, 2025 • 63 mins
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Episode 724: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) break down $1B+ product crazes and why they worked.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Labub...
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July 4, 2025 • 81 mins
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Episode 723: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Shaan’s college friend Dan Certner ( https://x.com/youneedbags ) about how he bought a business and doubled it in 18 months.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Dan the bag man
(5:16) Farmville Fraud Detection
(10:09) Fail: Getting ric...
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June 30, 2025 • 66 mins
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Episode 722: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) sits down with Mike Novogratz ( https://x.com/novogratz ) about risk tolerance and coming back from massive losses.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Mike’s first million
(8:37) Starting Fortress
(13:55) $30M to $2.3B
(25:28) Operating system for life
(35:41) Being early on crypto...
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June 27, 2025 • 59 mins
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Episode 721: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about a billionaire’s recipe for happiness, Shaan’s stock picks, plus the new mayor of NY.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Billionaire recipe for happiness
(5:12) Shaan gives a talk at Berkeley
(12:01) Steve Ballmer on Acquired
(17:02)...
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June 25, 2025 • 69 mins
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Episode 720: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about how Surge built a $1B business in 5 years and the second-order effects of self-driving cars.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Best idea of the month
(6:00) Business as a sport
(10:57) The inner game of tennis
(14:21) Shaan writes a lette...
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June 23, 2025 • 72 mins
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Episode 719: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talks to his business partner Ben Levy about creating luck, his barbell method for building relationships and 6 half-baked business ideas.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro
(4:01) Your first believer
(6:11) The K Academy
(9:38) Ben as a product
(17:...
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June 20, 2025 • 56 mins
Episode 718: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about stuff that hit the group chat this week.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Apple Just Unlocked a $1B App Idea
(04:13) McKinsey got $55M for This?
(10:28) Frank Slootman’s Ice-Cold Advice
(16:20) “Treat people well, and you’ll win.”
(24:41) Man steals $122 million from Facebook and Google,
(28:17) ChatGPT’s $10B ARR retention curve
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June 18, 2025 • 77 mins
Episode 717: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talks to Chris Koerner about how to make millions from local side hustles.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro
(2:13) Idea: Hole-in-one golf challenge
(12:24) Idea: Bitcoin mining
(16:00) Idea: Garage shelving
(17:18) Idea: Tourist traps for home markets
(20:13) Idea: Toasted tours
(24:56) Idea: Buc-ees snack arbitrage
(38:01) Idea: Pet cremation
(45:29) Idea: b2b stump grinding...
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June 13, 2025 • 68 mins
Episode 716: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the 6 weird ways to make millions.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) $1M Twerking Class
(5:55) Fecal transplants
(12:00) A brief history of butts
(15:05) $1B BBLs
(20:26) $5B hookup app
(31:16) $200M bonus: DUDE Wipes
(37:19) How many millionaires from the pod?
(47:17) Having it all
(50:18) Shaan's reading list
(53:28) Wisdom extr...
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June 12, 2025 • 61 mins
Episode 715: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Harley Finkelstein ( https://x.com/harleyf ) about boring products that could be worth $100M.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Disrupting boring products
(15:05) Swiss Army knife founders
(21:42) "People only remember your weird"
(31:45) Considering an exit
(39:32) Becoming a better storyteller
(46:17) Shopify's leaked memo about AI
(5...
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June 6, 2025 • 65 mins
Episode 714: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) sits down with Matt Mazzeo ( https://x.com/Mazzeo ) about using AI agents as your go-to-market.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro
(3:30) AI as the Go-to-Market
(8:50) The Billion Dollar Secret
(12:03) Mario Kart Theory
(18:55) Being a Tinkerer/Supabase
(25:38) Amjad Masad/Replt
(28: 41) Taste
(36:44) Agents replacing VCs
(37:57) Agent Employees
(42:28) Story Game
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June 4, 2025 • 78 mins
Episode 713: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Jason Lemkin ( https://x.com/jasonlk ) about cloning yourself with AI and how ChatGPT will be the end of incumbent apps.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) AI body doubles Users tell AI things they won't tell humans
(15:15) The incumbents are dying
(27:25) Inside the office of OpenAI
(34:12) How to be an AI billionaire
(44:40) The story of...
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May 30, 2025 • 58 mins
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Episode 712: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talks to Greg Isenberg ( https://x.com/gregisenberg ) talk about how to find a startup idea and build it in a couple hours using AI.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Step 1: Find an idea
(7:57) Step 2: Sketch out the idea
(9:48) Step 3: Scope out the MVP
(18:25) Step 4: Vibe code a pro...
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