Episodes featuring My First Million
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Graham Weaver, an $18.9B private equity investor and Stanford professor, joins My First Million to explain how buy-and-build rollups in boring industries beat AI startups and how to find financial freedom.
Sam Parr and Shaan Puri lay out a four-step process for developing good taste, which they argue is a key edge as AI makes building products easier for everyone.
Mohnish Pabrai joins My First Million to argue that avoiding big losses and compounding steadily over decades beats stock-picking or market timing.
Sam Parr and Shaan Puri cover Anthropic's record-breaking $6 billion monthly revenue, an entrepreneur who used AI to cure his dog's cancer, and where the next business opportunities in AI are.
DHH of 37signals joins Sam Parr and Shaan Puri to argue that profitability, autonomy, and founder happiness beat chasing growth and investor returns.
David Placek, who named BlackBerry, Swiffer, and Febreze, walks Sam Parr and Shaan Puri through his 3-step formula for creating brand names that compound in value.
Sam Parr and Shaan Puri pitch 'Sarah's List,' a ranking of companies worth joining as an employee to build wealth through equity, rather than starting a business from scratch.
Venture capitalist Bill Gurley joins Sam Parr and Shaan Puri to discuss who will benefit from AI, how to find the right career, and what separates great founders from the rest.
Zach Yadegari, a 19-year-old, joins Sam Parr and Shaan Puri to talk about building and selling his AI calorie-tracking app Cal to MyFitnessPal after hitting $30M in revenue.
Sam Parr and Shaan Puri discuss how to create more luck and opportunity through asymmetric risk-taking, smarter relationship-building, and picking the right kind of business to build.
Sam Parr and Shaan Puri look at fraud in the self-help industry, using Napoleon Hill as a case study, then explore why making lots of work beats chasing perfection.
Pat from Starter Story joins My First Million to explain why simple iPhone apps are making solo founders serious money again, and how he built and sold Starter Story to HubSpot.
My First Million covers how Gordon 'Butch' Stewart went from selling air conditioners in Jamaica to building Sandals Resorts into a multi-billion dollar luxury brand.
The My First Million hosts react to Elon Musk's Cheeky Pint podcast appearance, covering his hiring philosophy, AI fears, and how declining attention spans are creating new business opportunities.
Scott Galloway joins My First Million to argue U.S. stocks are overvalued and shares views on wealth, male loneliness, and a consumer boycott movement against big tech.
The My First Million hosts walk through AI tools that go well beyond ChatGPT, showing how anyone can now produce professional-quality work without specialist skills.
Sam Parr interviews his mother-in-law Smithy Sodine, a 50-year-old immigrant who built a seven-figure decorative pillow business starting with just $10,000 and no e-commerce experience.
The My First Million hosts discuss six business trends aimed at entrepreneurs in their 40s, covering shifts in alcohol consumption, fitness tech, AI devices, nicotine pouches, sports betting, and podcasting.
The My First Million hosts debrief on a basketball camp for founders, sharing three counterintuitive mindset shifts observed among billionaires like Joe Gebbia and Jesse Cole.
The My First Million hosts share five philosophies for building memorable projects and events, using their basketball camp with billionaires and celebrities as a case study.