Episodes featuring My First Million
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Sam Parr and Shaan Puri hear pitches from three founders building businesses in food pre-orders, AI companionship, and AI video editing, then debate what it actually takes to grow them.
Sam Parr and Shaan Puri hear pitches from three founders running businesses making $1.8M to $12M a year, looking for patterns in how regular people build profitable companies.
Sam Parr and Shaan Puri hear three founders explain how they built businesses doing $8M, $10M, and $40M a year, focusing on the unconventional tactics that got them there.
Brett Adcock, founder of Figure AI (valued at $39B+), joins My First Million to share four predictions about AI agents, humanoid robots, and future hardware.
Sam Parr and Shaan Puri discuss how to find business opportunities in unglamorous, overlooked niches where competition is almost nonexistent.
Sam Parr and Shaan Puri riff on seven half-baked business ideas, from reverse vacations to Mexican Benihana, looking for the real opportunity inside each silly concept.
Sam Parr and Shaan Puri break down what actually drives sales, using Magic: The Gathering and a nonprofit ambulance network as case studies.
Sam Parr and Shaan Puri break down how the Ferrero family built a secretive $20 billion chocolate empire, then discuss spotting talent early and what it means to act with dignity.
Chris Camillo joins My First Million to explain how he turned $20K into $80M over 17 years by spotting cultural and consumer trends before the market does.
Rory Sutherland joins Sam Parr and Shaan Puri to explain how companies like Amex, Apple, Uber, and Domino's used psychology rather than product improvements to drive massive growth.
Sam Parr and Shaan Puri use Cargill's 160-year rise as a case study to explore how middlemen dominate through infrastructure control and why AI may create more work than it eliminates.
Sam Parr interviews Mark O'Brien, a Brooklyn developer who buys distressed brownstones, restores them, and sells for $500K to $1M profit per deal.
Ray Dalio joins Sam Parr and Shaan Puri to share his investing principles, including how diversification cut his risk by 80%, and how to build a meaningful life through reflection and self-knowledge.
Howard Marks joins Sam Parr and Shaan Puri to discuss why he changed his mind on AI, investing through the 2008 crisis despite fear, his 39-year partnership with Bruce Karsh, and years of unintentional career choices.
Mark Pincus, founder of Zynga, joins Sam Parr and Shaan Puri to share how he would find and test a consumer product idea today starting from scratch.
Sam Parr shares five lessons from a week networking with NYC's elite, covering how proximity, trust, and precise positioning drive business success.
Aaron Levie, founder of Box, joins Sam Parr and Shaan Puri to discuss the strategic thinking behind his 20-year company journey and frameworks for evaluating markets and competitors.
Sam Parr and Shaan Puri talk to three founders running unglamorous businesses hitting $10M, $20M, and $30M in revenue across real estate media, campground acquisitions, and retail stock tracking.
Sam Parr and Shaan Puri break down how anonymous investor Nick Sleep became a billionaire by concentrating on three stocks using one simple framework.
Sam Parr and Shaan Puri discuss why building a lifestyle first, then letting products follow, beats chasing money or copying what others want.