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Sam Parr and Shaan Puri brainstorm new business ideas based on trends & opportunities they see in the market. Sometimes they bring on famous guests to brainstorm with them.
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- Today1h 0m
How the Ex-Goldman CEO actually invests his own money
Get our Investment Guide: https://clickhubspot.com/rgek Episode 834: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) sits down with former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blanfein ( https://x.com/lloydblankfein ) to talk about what he does with his money. — Show Notes: Lloyd on Money, Day Trading, and Feeling “Rich” Meeting Elon What the worst traders have in common Warren Buffett’s handshake deal Lloyd breaks down his portfolio Advice to young investors biggest mistakes Anxiety as a superpower Family finances Scarcity The Goldman Obituary Test Lessons from history — Links: • Streetwise - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/780438/streetwise-by-lloyd-blankfein/ — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton (joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Shaan uses Mercury for banking across all of his companies. you can too: http://mercury.com/ Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC • I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out: beehiiv.com/mfm-challenge My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano /
- 4 days ago1h 8m
The most simplified breakdown of the SpaceX IPO on the internet
Get our Business Idea Database: https://clickhubspot.com/wjsl Episode 833: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) breakdown the biggest IPO of all time. — Show Notes: what even is SpaceX What even is a trillion dollars? Launches explained Starlink Data centers in space Starship Grok a wonderful business at a silly price? the mission SBF's $114B fumble funny, weird, surprising nuggets from the IPO (42:35Who's getting rich this week? The genius insight of Luke at Gigafund Pessimists get to be right, optimists get to be right Elon's comp package — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton (joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC • I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out: beehiiv.com/mfm-challenge My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano /
- 6 days ago55 min
Brutally honest guide to not losing money in the market
Get our Investment Guide: https://clickhubspot.com/klsr Episode 832: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to legendary fund manager Barry Ritholtz( https://x.com/Ritholtz ) about the behaviors that destroy returns for investors and how to avoid them. — Show Notes: Intro christmas tree portfolio the cowboy account day trading Barry yells at Lloyd Blankfein panic selling sam picks a fight direct indexing Great investors 90% of everything is crap Elon's foray into PE Predicting the housing crisis spending a year as the dumbest guy on wall street Why bubbles are good for the economy — Links: • How Not To Invest - https://www.hownottoinvestbook.com/ — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton (joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC • I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out: beehiiv.com/mfm-challenge My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano /
- 1 weeks agoconversational1h 4m5-min read
He quit Wall Street to sell meat (now he makes $270M/year)
The episode dives into the story of Pat LaFrieda, a family-run butcher shop that evolved into a $270 million business by treating meat like a brand, not a commodity. The hosts explore how being the best at anything — even something as unglamorous as butchering — can lead to massive success, and they riff on related themes like counterintuitive business models, the power of branding, and how quiet, humble companies often outperform flashy, advertising-heavy ones.
- 2 weeks agoconversational48 min5-min read
We found 7 business ideas that will blow up in 2026
Sam Parr and Shaan Puri dive into a series of seemingly crazy startup ideas to determine which are 'good crazy' (potentially revolutionary) versus 'bad crazy' (doomed to fail), using their signature blend of humor and sharp business insight. The conversation explores the fine line between innovation and absurdity in entrepreneurship.
- 2 weeks agointerview1h 2m6-min read
The insane true story behind MTV
Tom Freston helped build MTV, Nickelodeon, and Comedy Central into cultural and financial powerhouses by betting on edgy, youth-driven content and pioneering niche cable networks, turning a $25 million investment into billions in revenue. Despite being fired for not acquiring MySpace, his instincts about digital disruption — including nearly buying Facebook early — proved prescient.
- 2 weeks agointerview1h 5m8-min read
The 50 richest families in America are betting on this trend
Joe Liemandt, a once-secretive billionaire who dropped out of Stanford in the 1980s to co-found Trilogy—a pioneering AI software company—has returned to the public spotlight to reinvent education through Alpha, a network of schools built on high standards, high support, and AI-powered learning that enables students to learn twice as fast in two hours as they would in a full traditional school day. He believes this model can unlock the greatest untapped resource on Earth: human potential.
- 3 weeks agointerview1h 46m11-min read
Mohnish Pabrai: How to be a top 1% investor
Less than 1% of Americans who actively pick stocks are good investors. The key to success isn't IQ or complex models, but temperament — patience, humility, and the ability to act decisively only when conditions are perfect. Investing is less about constant action and more about waiting for rare, high-conviction opportunities, then acting with courage.
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