My First Million

"I mean we use all the AI things Claude, co-work um you know chat GBT you know all these things and I'll start asking questions."

"I mean we use all the AI things Claude, co-work um you know chat GBT you know all these things and I'll start asking questions."

"I right now use Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT every day and same queries I'm doing the same query on each"

"So Google keeps releasing these like really powerful things but they suck at marketing them and so if you just kind of poke around what Google's got they actually kind of have better tools for a lot of things. So there's this thing called Notebook LM."

"I'm a paid user of Canva, a bunch of Adobe products. And yet now most of my image generation is already on Gemini."

"You know, there might be other interesting ones that do stuff like Suno for music is interesting. They've actually they've grown like crazy to an amount that I would not have predicted... Yeah, I'm a power user of Suno."

"I'm a paid user of Canva, a bunch of Adobe products. And yet now most of my image generation is already on Gemini."

"When I started this podcast, I wrote a Google doc and I said the stated plan was probably nobody will listen to this."

"I'm reading this book called Stolen Focus because I'm basically like incredibly depressed by the fact that like I get 10,000 notifications a day and it's like impacting my mood."

"Oh my god, dude. I barely type anymore. Do you use it on your cell phone? It's so good on the phone, too. So, Whisper Flow is pretty amazing. It's an app that basically does just amazing text to speech."

"Forget this little like beat maker thing I showed you in Muse Art. Like Suno is the real deal where you can actually make good songs."

"So, have you seen ChatGPT's pulse feature? Yeah, I pay for it. It's expensive, but it's pretty great. But it's cool, right? It knows what you're already trying to do and it's like, cool. Every day I'll just proactively search for stuff."

"So I've been I was using Claude Code all week or Claude co-work. I don't even know the difference to be honest. I think Claude Code is one thing and co-work is an easier way to use Claude Code."

"Co-work is it's like a junior worker that you could be like, 'Hey, can you analyze this data? Hey, can you create this plan? Hey, can you make a presentation out of this?' You hand off work to in coworker."

"Farcon is working on a tool like this called Nebula. It's an app that you basically go in, you connect your Slack, your Gmail, whatever you want to connect, your Google calendar, and it just knows it's like, cool, if you give me your calendar, I know what meetings are coming up. I'll just create prep docs for you."

"I want to give it a shout because you know a lot of people know about Claude and these other things and I thought this was a pretty cool site. So, if you go to doanything.com, you'll see it."

"I had a policy where you could return any item, even if it was used up to 365 days after. I got a new wardrobe every year because I just sent all my clothes back on 340 days."

"I was a skull guy. I loved tobacco."

"When my kids ride in our car, we have a Tesla and Tesla has AI built in. We just pop the AI open and we're like, 'Hey, we're playing guess the animal.'"

"He sees a dollar bill on eBay that it's Michael Jordan's face in the middle... he puts them up on eBay and he starts averaging 100 bills sold per day"

"I just have in my Kindle highlights and I just kind of want you to talk about them."

"So I'm reading this book. Can you see this? The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking by Dale Carnegie."

"I bought this thing. I don't use it. This is like an anti-endorsement. I don't use it. I think it was kind of junk."

"David Ogilvy on advertising is a simple book. Uh it's it's it's just good. I mean you can read it, you know, over well not I mean maybe a couple glasses of wine or something like that but there's a lot of great principle in there."

"he's written two or three books, one of them with Laughafley, which is called Playing to Win. Um and I I think those are are are really good."

"Um, have you ever read the book Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea? Oh, you guys would love it."

"I would recommend simply because it's about creative curiosity and it's the book on Leonardo da Vinci written by the uh you know the famous guy that wrote the one on Steve Jobs."

"Justin Mayers has an amazing company called Lightwork. They come to your house and they kind of inspect it to figure out where things are not healthy and where they are."

"What I would do is I would treat Berkshire Hathaway as the index currently dollar cost average into the Berkshire class B shares."

"So, it's this guy Fabian posted this and his app is called Glyph glyph.app. I haven't actually tried to use it to make one of these, but I thought that the demo was unbelievable."

"You were like hey get these horse mats. Go to this barn website. And I bought them. They're amazing. They're great."

"I think the guy from Athletic Brewing Co. on the podcast before. Yeah. They're awesome."

"Jesse Cole from Savannah Bananas. We had him on the podcast, you know, unbelievable story. He made minor league baseball essentially something that has a 3 million person wait list for tickets."

"There's this thing called Kaggle Competition. It was a startup that raised $12 million. It was eventually bought by Google. According to their website, they've had 19 million engineers compete in their competitions."

"So I watched this documentary called The Thinking Game. It's on Prime Video if anybody wants to go watch it. I'd heard good things from some smart people."

"Google has spun out this company that is basically trying to cure all disease. The headline is solve all disease. We're entering a new era of drug discovery."

"Have you heard the story of Elon getting his rockets from Texas to Florida?"

"This guy, Otis, ends up creating an elevator with automatic brakes. He's like, this is it. This is going to be amazing."

"GS1 is the nonprofit that issues these barcodes. Last year, $81 million in revenue."

"Anthropic did $6 billion in revenue in a single month last month. They've grown revenue 10x every single year for the last 3-4 years."

"He's not going out there yelling like I'm going to do a trillion dollar data center like OpenAI. Sam Altman's doing that."

"Six billion is more revenue than Snowflake or Databricks. Like two of the greatest software companies of the last 20 years."

"Six billion is more revenue than Snowflake or Databricks. Like two of the greatest software companies of the last 20 years."

"She partners with Time and she creates a series of magazines."

"She goes to Columbia University and her father-in-law helps her get a job as a stock broker."

"At the Mr. Beastburger opening, Colin and I, we spent the 24 hours with them before and after."

"He'd have like three or four Bloomberg screens in front of him and he had all these charts and everything going on."

"Goldman invested into it and it becomes massive."

"He starts this bank with $70 million of his own money and it gets huge to the point where Goldman invested into it and it becomes massive."

"Amazon Prime was going to take 2 days. And so, one of his guys hit me up cuz he knew I had the game. And he's like, 'Fly here right now.' And we want this game now. We don't want to wait 2 days for Amazon Prime."

"Sam Walton story who created Walmart."

"It renders it all using Unreal Engine. It creates like an AI video of like a home walkthrough for you"

"using kind of like a you know Midjourney type of thing"

"General Motors they were at 20 something billion and I was like one day Tesla could be you know half as big or maybe even as big as those companies"

"I invested in Tesla when Tesla was at 2 billion and I put all the money I had straight out of college. I put it into Tesla at 2 billion and I rode it up till it was at 7 billion"

"Hunt Brothers Pizza. These guys went in and basically found a new way to do the pizza business. They've spread to 9,000 stores. I'm pretty sure they're doing over 500 million a year in revenue."

"Nike offered him a contract to Adidas and then instead he created Big Baller Brand"

"Nike offered him a contract to Adidas and then instead he created Big Baller Brand"

"he created Big Baller Brand, you know, Triple B. He created his own shoe line and like the shoes kind of sucked"

"You can basically make a digital clone of yourself and they have them with like Arnold Schwarzenegger and other folks like that. Like you can talk to them basically do what you just said."

"There is there's something called Silver Sneakers which a great name which is a fitness program for older adults through Medicare Advantage plans"

"The book is called Traction by this guy named Gino. Gino, by the way, Sean has asked to come on a whole bunch."

"He created this thing called 50 Scanner right when the iPhone got started and he made eight figures. I think he was making like $5 million a year repeatedly for a very long time."

"At the time, I think it was a $30 million a year business. How big is it now? I saw on X, so it's not verified or anything like that, but they said they did 6 million in January alone."

"I was reading this book called the Caesar Palace Coup. And in about 2018, all these hedge funds had owned little bits and pieces of Caesar Palace, which I think was the largest casino hotel management company in the world."

"Sam, do you like TikTok? Genius program."

"You ever heard of DeepSeek? They were in the news recently, created that big algorithm, didn't even have access to the best chips, and somehow outperformed all of the OpenAI models. Genius program."

"It's like a Teal Fellowship run by the government."

"He rebrands the Bayrock to Sandals because he's like that already sandals like embodies relaxation and like being on the beach."

"He goes and he sees Club Med and he's like, 'It's good, but it's a little too Spartan. Like I feel like I'm going to like make a mess here and I'm in trouble if I do that.'"

"He saves up $3,000 and he starts a company called Appliance Traders Limited. And the idea is he's going to import AC from the US, AC units, and he's going to go door-to-door selling them himself."

"He buys the airline, takes full control, like vertically integrates the experience, and he's like, 'Look, the airline was a tough business. It's a bad business.' But he had an advantage, which is he owned the resorts."

"The Buffett index stock market valuation versus GDP, he likes it at about 90%. It's at 210%."

"I think we're going to have a Marie Kondo for the mind. An influencer who's all about the tidiness of the mind."

"Have you ever used Grok? It's Elon's competitor to ChatGPT, which is the product is called Grok."

"Tesla's building Optimus which is the robot that can do any of the work that a human could do and once the robot can build more robots that's the infinite money glitch."

"He made it the opposite of Microsoft. So he's like what's the opposite of Microsoft? It's macro hard. And basically what he's doing is he's building what he calls human emulators."

"I think we're going to see a Kumon for focus for kids. I think kids are going to be impacted by this where they're going to learn like exercises and stuff for focusing."

"XAI came into the AI game like 7 years late and became a $250 billion company."

"Tesla's building like their own GPUs to like the equivalent of the Nvidia chips. And he bought huge orders of Nvidia chips and told Jensen like, 'Give me everything you got.'"

"Pavle is the founder of Telegram, which is like one of the biggest messaging apps in the world."

"Can I tell you about this Elon Musk podcast? Did you listen to this Cheeky Pint episode with Elon?"

"profgalloway.com. No mercy, no malice is the blog which I read. I love and so you just wrote up two blog posts this week"

"Simon Properties is killing."

"Before that, he had brought Jägermeister to the US and made it popular. He created the Jäger bomb and got like Jägerettes, the girls who would go around bars pouring the stuff down college kids throats and he made it the party drink."

"The guy who started Grey Goose started it when he was in his 70s. Before that, he had brought Jägermeister to the US and made it popular."

"Garrett is the founder of Pipe Dream, which is a very cool company. They're basically these guys are building like underground delivery tunnels."

"They have this first thing called goods which is like an autonomous it's kind of like Door Dash or Instacart but it's like the fastest grocery pickup in the world."

"And by the way, he didn't even make that. He just used this off-the-shelf thing called Kling that does like video transitions and he's like, 'Oh, what if I just plug video transitions into a slide deck? Will that work?' And then boom, it worked."

"We sent everybody in the company the same email, but with one slightly different space somewhere in the email. We were able to create like a unique fingerprint for everybody in the company."

"I could just tell you like what this thing called Shopify is and I could tell you that you probably might want to buy some ads"

"I think a Shopify store, something like that, WooCommerce, and I flew down to North Carolina"

"Kalshi based on the way they're regulated because prediction markets are regulated by commodities or something like that."

"This thing is incredible. So he was telling me about this and I thought it was pretty fascinating."

"Ultra, founded in 2025, just raised $1 million to scale non-nicotine focus pouches."

"They're now doing over two billion a week in just sports betting volume."

"If you look at all of Berkshire's deals over the 50-60 years that it was doing it, if you remove the top five, its returns fall to average."

"I'm starting a new service, rental people who do nothing. You rent him out and he'll go hang out with you. And he says nothing. It's pretty much a silent companion, completely non-physical, nonualual, basically an introvert for hire."

"So then he creates this website called meateater.com. MeatEater starts as a series of podcasts. They have a show on the sports channel and it starts working out."

"The second book that he did is called American Buffalo and it's this amazing book about him hunting buffalo and how the buffalo are really important to American history. It gets pretty popular."

"So he bought this drug called Darapim and he increased the price from like $13 to $500."

"I once met the founder of Chipotle and he said anybody in food service can make a billion dollars if you can figure out how to get a minimum wage employee to treat the customer as if it's their guest."

"Jamie from Ring was there. He's like, we're in this home security aisle. Jamie, tell us the story of Ring, but standing in the Ring aisle holding the Ring product."

"I've been to Ramp, you know, Ramp the credit card company which is like a take over the world startup. I've been to their office"

"He initially started a company really cool company but it was also in the kind of housing design space called Samsara. And it's basically like backyard ADUs."

"It was the founder of Brex and so he had just sold his company same day for five billion"

"I remember talking to like one of the founders of WeWork, not Adam, but the other guy, Miguel."

"I remember talking to the founders of Casper and all these like great companies"

"Mario the founder of Oscar when I talked to him I'm like yeah you're you're like 1% the 1% of the 1% of IQ"

"I met the founder of Grammarly and I remember talking to this guy Max and I was like oh you're just a you're a genius you are legitimately better than me"

"James Clear is there and James Clear has written his book is like the number one selling book in the world over the last 5 years all categories"

"He also owns one of, if not the largest mortgage company in the country. So, he owns United Wholesale Mortgage."

"Nick owns a company called BPN that sells protein."

"How do you create like a Gym Shark athlete where you basically sponsor all these Instagram famous people."

"Have you seen how Netflix is famous for values? I was looking up what the values actually are and it's like 18 of them."

"I haven't read Shoe Dog by the way which I know is like supposed to be mandatory. I started it and I was like eh."

"Bill Bowerman has this famous book called The Men of Oregon."

"Have you seen Air the movie about the Jordan signing?"

"I invest in this company, Superpower, and I think Superpower is going to try to do this."

"Airbnb I think did a great job of this. They made a hotel seem like the generic choice."

"You can just go to Office Max and like do this"

"This channel was started by one person in Romania. It's a channel with one video. So, this guy just hit it and quit it."

"when we got acquired by Twitch, EMTT, who's the founder, now we're probably whatever 12, 13, 14 years into the company's existence."

"before I invested in Beehive, I was listening to your Spotify playlist. I don't know if you have that in here as one of your growth hacks, but you made one of the best work music playlists called Big Desk Energy."

"Robin Hood built a hundred billion dollar company off of free trade free trades, commission free trades. So don't pay $9.99."

"I have this book on my bookshelf called Steal Like an Artist. And this book is basically about how most of what we think is original is a remix or a straightup copy of something that came before it."

"he went to Fast Company. And if you go look at Fast Company, he says, 'How we got our first 2,000 users doing things that don't scale'"

"Ryan Hoover from Product Hunt did this a long time ago. I think Product Hunt now is probably a little underrated, but there was a time about 10 years ago where Product Hunt was the shit."

"I remember on E*TRADE it was $9.99 to just buy and sell a stock. And Robin Hood got rid of that."

"The ebook, Time to Heal, Young"

"Have you seen the average customer value or a customer order go up because of you? So what you're saying by the way is like a world famous uh it's the rule of reciprocity. It's Robert Cialdini's book, Influence."

"And last summer there was like the run clubs. Everyone's meeting at run clubs. Like I haven't met a single couple that met through the run club."

"They got on Shark Tank and they gave up 25% of their company for 100 grand, right? So like you know this deal with Mark Cuban."

"So if you go to foamparty hats.com, this business started in 2017. Grace Rojos and her son Manuel Rojos create this thing and they've built basically a million-dollar plus business now off of these novelty foam hats."

"He wrote the Psychology of Money, Same as Ever, the art of spending money."

"He wrote the Psychology of Money, Same as Ever, the art of spending money."

"Back then there was this thing called the yellow pages that they'd throw on your doorstep and that's how you would find businesses."

"We had our first computer was a IBM PC XT."

"You remember Microsoft Kinect, like the camera that you put on your Xbox, and it could watch you play and somehow interact with that, I believe, was heavily developed by one of these competitions."

"This company called Bullfrog, which made like the most popular computer games at the time in Europe. They were the number one production company of games."

"They end up getting 90% prediction accuracy and they basically solve the single protein folding question."

"They created this program called AlphaGo. So AlphaGo basically what they did which was this is kind of nerdy but I liked hearing how they did it actually."

"Cursor basically said they didn't make the model. They were like, 'Let's take Claude, but we'll just wrap this in a tool that programmers can use that will be very useful for programmers.'"

"He started this company called DeepMind. DeepMind got bought by Google and DeepMind is basically Google's AI play."

"So he was building they Europe had the equivalent called Theme Park and he built Theme Park with this guy. He became a smash hit when he's 16 years old."

"Steph says people always ask me what I think about when I'm shooting. And he goes absolutely nothing."

"Michael Dell has this great line in his autobiography where at the time he's 19 years old."

"While he's working at McDonald's, Crain's, which is a business publication, they want to do a story on Scott."

"He sells Meetup.com to WeWork. The price was rumored to be 200 million."

"The S&P is trading at historic highs. 97% of the time, the S&P has traded at lower valuations relative to earnings."

"He tried a Lucid and he's like it was way too complicated. I hated it."

"The team at HubSpot, they actually went and put together a bunch of best practices that Sean and I use in our own companies and they put it together in something that's really easy to read and understand."

"So, my old company, The Hustle, they put together a hundred different side hustle ideas, and they have appropriately called it the side hustle idea database. It's a list of 100 pretty good ideas, frankly. I went through them. They're awesome."

"My old company, The Hustle, put together a hundred different side hustle ideas. It's called the side hustle idea database. Check it out. It's in the description below."

"They have created the MFM vault. It's a place to go find notes and resources that they pull from the different episodes that we do. So if you want to access the vault, it's totally free."