Episodes featuring My First Million
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Ex-Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein joins Sam Parr and Shaan Puri to talk investing strategy, risk-taking, resilience, and what separates top performers from everyone else.
Sam Parr and Shaan Puri break down SpaceX's $1.8 trillion IPO, explaining how Starlink, rockets, AI, and X are bundled into one giant holding company.
Barry Ritholtz joins Sam Parr and Shaan Puri to expose how financial media and gurus mislead investors, and why most people should just buy low-cost index funds and hold.
Sam Parr and Shaan Puri break down Elon Musk's 'idiot index,' a calculation that finds overpriced inputs, and show how spotting hidden markups creates billion-dollar advantages.
Sam Parr and Shaan Puri look at seven unconventional startups to separate genuinely contrarian ideas with real potential from ones that just sound interesting.
Sam Parr and Shaan Puri talk with Tom Freston, who built MTV, Nickelodeon, and Comedy Central, about how he spotted winning ideas and the talent behind them.
Billionaire Joe Liemandt joins Sam Parr and Shaan Puri to discuss how his Alpha Schools model uses AI to cut academic learning to 2 hours a day and teach life skills with the rest.
Investor Mohnish Pabrai joins My First Million to explain why temperament and patience matter more than intelligence in investing, and where he sees opportunity in 2026.
Gary Vaynerchuk joins Sam Parr and Shaan Puri to talk about running seven businesses each doing $10M+ in revenue and the systems and relationships that make it work.
Sam Parr and Shaan Puri run a live strategy session for their own podcast, My First Million, exploring how to grow it without losing what makes it work.
Sam Parr and Shaan Puri look at billionaires like Palmer Luckey and Jim Ratcliffe who follow childhood obsessions, and break down how TikTok social commerce is reshaping e-commerce.
Sam Parr and Shaan Puri discuss how much of investing behavior is genetic versus controllable, and where startup opportunity is shifting next.
Amjad Masad, CEO of Replit, joins Sam Parr and Shaan Puri to explain how his AI coding platform grew from $2.5M to near $1B in annual revenue in two years.
Rohan Oza joins Sam Parr and Shaan Puri to explain how he built and sold Poppy to PepsiCo for $4.1B by spotting trends early, embedding brands in culture, and mastering deal negotiations.
Sam Parr and Shaan Puri discuss where opportunity exists right now in gaming, AI, and media, using William Randolph Hearst's business playbook as a throughline.
Sam Parr and Shaan Puri break down why 'follow your passion' is bad advice and offer a practical framework for finding work you'll stick with.
Sam Parr and Shaan Puri riff on cryonics and longevity, AI becoming the boss inside companies, why Shaan holds a big chunk of his net worth in Tesla, executive coaching, and Trump's The Art of the Deal.
Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit, joins Sam Parr and Shaan Puri to explain how habit loops, communication skills, and simple systems beat willpower and long to-do lists.
Steph Smith joins Sam Parr and Shaan Puri to share overlooked macro trends, from aging populations to emerging sports, that point to underserved business opportunities.
Former Tesla president Jon McNeill joins My First Million to share the methods behind Tesla's growth, from Elon Musk's hiring style and 10x goals to spotting business opportunities and why he is hopeful about AI.