Shaan Puri
Everything Shaan personally uses, recommends, or has created — plus things they don't recommend — sourced from their own show and appearances on other podcasts.
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Personal use in 5 episodes
"When I was prepping for this meeting, I put all of our MFM numbers, our competitors, our goals into a Claude prompt, and it gave me a 60-day action plan for growing our channels"
▶ 5:32"I was talking last night and I was like, 'Claude, why am I so indecisive?' And then my wife was like — she could hear everything I'm talking to Claude about now."
"I did a lot of my thinking with Claude yesterday for this. And I had Claude build me my own deck about SpaceX."
"But then I end up just spending so much time on Claude asking it questions. So I just had to like nuke everything."
"Have you heard of this thing called Claude? Yeah, I've definitely heard of it, you know, making out with it all day basically."
Personal use in 1 episode
"I own an e-commerce business and ecom's a pretty brutal industry, like pretty low margin type of business, but I just funneled all the profits into Shopify and the underlying e-commerce stack and I've done great. I made more money there than I did in the actual business itself, but I also wouldn't have understood that ecosystem had I not gone through the pain of being there."
▶ 21:11Personal use in 1 episode
"I'm addicted to the app. I use it all the time. I've probably made 40 or 50 songs. I've burned tens of thousands of credits on this thing."
▶ 19:54Personal use in 1 episode
"Take the PDF for situational awareness, give it to Victor in your Slack, and say, 'Victor, break this down into the 10 key ideas, predictions and hypotheses that he has, explain it to me.' Victor did a wonderful job — he just chewed up this PDF for me, explained it step by step, and then I asked follow-up questions and it was just great. Victor, by the way, is an AI thing that Sam put me on to that I am now hooked on. I ended up investing in it."
▶ 59:13Personal use in 1 episode
"I just don't even bother with their customer support. You just go to Instinct... And it's like, 'I got you.' And so it starts harassing them... and then the next day it just texts me 'Victory,' and then the next line, 'They folded.' Yes, got the money back."
▶ 15:35Warned against
"You know who's making a huge comeback is Uncrustables. But yours is like fresh and healthier than Uncrustables. Like if I buy that for my kids, I know I'm making a bad choice."
"Where do you get food recommendations today? Yelp. Yelp is the default answer. And it's like, dude, Yelp sucks. I've never seen anyone be like, 'God, I love Yelp so much. I trust Yelp so much.'"
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"One of the things he does, he calls it the speed talk... this is what you give to founders, the speed talk, which is you think you're moving fast. You could be moving far faster."
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"He knows how to get reactions. And he turned it into a very big business in Blueprint."
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"If you've watched the TV show and other things like that, and you've read the book Bad Blood, you know, basically what happened was the Edison machine pretty much didn't work."
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"I would have said second's A24, just another win on A24's notch, another massive hit."
"A24 was also a reaction to the action in a way where the movie studios and the people in Hollywood really started to become extremely conservative and predictable in the movies that they would fund."
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"Here you have the guy who himself creates these false realities for a living. That's all he did. The Rehearsal was literally creating false realities."
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"Ben, have you watched Nathan for You and The Rehearsal, fully or partially or what?"
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"Anybody who's had their first sip of Guinness is like, "What the hell is that?" I remember the first time I drank Guinness, I literally had the same reaction."
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"Alex Wang was a kind of math Olympiad kid who then went on to start Scale AI, which was one of the first big data companies for these AI labs."
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"Alex Tew is a trickster. He did the Million Dollar Homepage and then he did Calm.com."
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"You only spend the second derivative... If you make 100 grand, that's not the pool you can spend from. You now invest the hundred grand, and whatever the hundred grand is making you, that's what you get to spend. That's your you'll-never-go-broke strategy because you are only spending not your income but the investment returns off your income."
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"You find people like the Dan Carlin of Hardcore History or David Senra. There's people who have an incredible long-distance running style of mentality around the incredible endurance for history, for study."
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"A friend Val who was like this who put me on to things very early on. My first Bitcoin purchases back in like 2014 were because he immediately was like, 'Yeah, this is huge.'"
"Then you hear about something like Bitcoin which is mathematically impossible to inflate as a currency system as a savings system. You could see why that might be really valuable to people because of your Argentina experience."
"Dude, you got to buy Bitcoin, Ethereum. You got to buy this. You got to put some money over here."
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"I was like, 'Yeah, but I don't want to manage it.' He's like, 'It's a triple net lease. There's nothing to manage.'"
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"Paul Graham wrote this blog post, Fierce Nerds. I think there's something to the extremely high IQ, extremely high competitive drive, probably socially strange person."
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"I don't know if you ever played one of these like Overwatch or something like that, but they're Reinhardt, and so they're just standing there, marching forward taking bullets."
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"So he tells me this story and it honestly has inspired me. It's got me thinking a lot about this. I think every guy should start to look at areas in your life where you're being the good boy. Areas in your life where you've seen the wild man and notice him. Give it energy. Don't leave Iron John in the cage."
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"The famous example of this is the Steve Jobs commencement speech at Stanford... you cannot connect the dots in life looking forwards, only backwards. Only in retrospect does it make sense how it all connected."
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"He edited the Whole Earth Catalog. And he did all these like really interesting things in his life."
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"The Long Now Project where they build a 10,000-year clock in a mountain as an ode to long-term thinking, like a really cool art project with Bezos."
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"He started Wired magazine and, you know, he does all these projects like the Long Now Project."
"Kevin Kelly started Wired magazine and wrote 1,000 True Fans, which really shaped my thinking."
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