Sam Parr
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"I was using Claude yesterday where I was saying analyze the Slack conversations between my partner Joe and I and tell us what we can do to have like to be the best leader"
"I had a legal question yesterday and I just was like, I'm just going to go to Grok cuz if I need the right answer here, I need a thorough, rigorous answer, I'm going to go to Grok."
"I'm maxed out on everybody. I got Gemini. I got Perplexity. I got Claude. I got ChatGPT."
"I'm maxed out on everybody. I got Gemini. I got Perplexity. I got Claude. I got ChatGPT. Give me all the intelligence."
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"Grock, that's a four. Maybe a three. Very unpleasant. Very unpleasant."
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"It's about how in the 1960s, black men in America started copying the Ivy style. They wore it out of an act of defiance and wanting to fit in. I thought the way they looked was badass."
"There's literally books that show you based off of your face shape what your collar should look like or if you're wearing a sports jacket, how long it should go."
"I'm maxed out on everybody. I got Gemini. I got Perplexity. I got Claude. I got ChatGPT. Give me all the intelligence."
"I'm maxed out on everybody. I got Gemini. I got Perplexity. I got Claude. I got ChatGPT."
"I had a legal question yesterday and I just was like, I'm just going to go to Grok cuz if I need the right answer here, I need a thorough, rigorous answer, I'm going to go to Grok."
"Grock, that's a four. Maybe a three. Very unpleasant. Very unpleasant."
"I have Claude read my Slack and it gives me advice on how to reply to our slacks based off of each other's personalities. It's insane."
"I was using Claude yesterday where I was saying analyze the Slack conversations between my partner Joe and I and tell us what we can do to have like to be the best leader"
"That's why I invest my money in Chase Bank because if it fails, money doesn't matter."
"I love his second book confess confessions of an adman I think is uh equally as good."
"Think and Grow Rich. Amazing book. One of the bestselling books of all time"
"He started this thing called Iron Mountain. Google Iron Mountain Market Cap, $30 billion company."
"I sold all of my furniture on Facebook Marketplace in 48 hours because of Claude Co-work."
"This radio was really interesting because if you zoom in on it, there's not really too many buttons. It's very minimal, but it works and it's beautiful."
"If you are actually a designer, you can go in Figma and I highly encourage you to copy it exactly word for word."
"When I'm designing a website, why does this website that I go to, when I go to stripe.com, what about that website makes it feel trustworthy before I even read a word?"
"He says, 'Good taste, it requires two things. One is proposing an identity that matters to be valued in the community of your choice.'"
"A company like OpenAI is going to pay Surge millions and millions of dollars."
"All right. Open AI. Okay. That's that's a four."
"They were talking about like dating and I referenced the book The Game and they were like, 'What's the game?'"
"Good. Anthropic. Uh well, it's better than open AI. Let me start there. I'm going to give that an eight."
"SpaceX. Oh, okay. That's that's a 10. Totally expected. They make spaceships and rockets space. But boom, we you know, now I know something about the letter X, right?"
"The founder of Plaid, his new company called Column, he actually bought a bank for $60 million of his own money and uses it as the underlying bank under Mercury, under Ramp, under Brex."
"I think I saw Monday.com, they do a billion in revenue at a $2 billion market cap, something like that. And I think that's insane."
"Column was started due to his experience building Plaid, because Plaid basically created in large part help create the overall fintech boom."
"There was an app that got released in San Francisco that was amazing. It was called Do Not Pay. It would automatically fight parking tickets for you."
"Duke University did what I didn't realize was essentially just a marketing campaign, but they had created something called the Duke TIP program and it was called the talent identification program."
"Birthright is a program it's funded I think it's funded a little bit by the government but a lot of it is wealthy Jewish people but also I think a lot of wealthy Christian people who believe that when the end of the world according to the Bible when the end of the world happens the Jews need to rise first."
"I worked with HubSpot to put together a step-by-step process showing you how I use ChatGPT as a life coach. I uploaded my personal finances, my net worth, my goals, and it's literally changed my life."
"The fine folks at HubSpot listen to this episode. They took the transcript. They put down the nine principles that he talks about as well as the examples that he have."
"The folks at HubSpot who are sponsoring the podcast have done something pretty cool for you. They have created the MFM vault."
"HubSpot asked me to put together a list of the books that have changed my life. And I did that."