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April 9, 2021
#169 - How One Billionaire Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett
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April 7, 2021
#168 - How to Copy Businesses Successfully, The Indonesian King of Coal & the Story of Adidas
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April 5, 2021
#167: What We're Investing In
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April 2, 2021
#166 - Why a Sudoku Company Sold for $640m, "Opendoor for X" & Franchising Tech Companies
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March 31, 2021
#165 with Jack Butcher - Why Jack is Selling his Art for $76m, How to Research Wealthy People & How BitClout Went Viral
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March 26, 2021
#164 - BitClout Explained, How To Successfully Angel Invest & A Police Sting?
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March 24, 2021
#163 - Plugins, Gumroad's Crazy Valuation and a Viral APp
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March 19, 2021
#162 - Why Clubhouse Will Fail
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March 17, 2021
#161 with Michael Saylor - Why Michael Saylor Believes Bitcoin is Hope
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March 12, 2021
#160 - Paid Communities Making $20m+ (and How to Build One), Fighting Inertia & An Interview With Dave Selinger of Deep Sentinel
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Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP):
- 1:51 The guys break down Tiger 21 and similar grou...
March 12, 2021
#160 - Paid Communities Making $20m+ (and How to Build One), Fighting Inertia & An Interview With Dave Selinger of Deep Sentinel
MFM #160 The guys breakdown paid communities Why paid communities are good businesses: You can make them kinda fast (much faster if you have an audience) Fun to run if you like the interest Don’t need a lot of start-up capita...
March 10, 2021
#159 - Update on Michael Jordan's House, a Nine Figure Sex Toy Company & the Man with a Million Acres
Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP):
3:57 Investing in old Apple computers
7:04 Update on buying MJ's house
17:46 Opportunities in male sex toys
32:08 Brad Kelley, the Billy of the Week
43:40 The end of Indie VC
MFM #159
MJ hous...
March 10, 2021
#159 - Update on Michael Jordan's House, a Nine Figure Sex Toy Company & the Man with a Million Acres
MFM #159 MJ house update Recap : Last episode the guys spoke about buying MJ’s house. The plan was to potentially turn it into a museum or Airbnb. Problem : zoning and parking -- but those might be overcome Shaan: Spoke to Ra...
March 5, 2021
#158: Buying Michael Jordan's House (and Making a Profit), Investing in Athletes & Successful Startup-Studios
Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP):
2:40 Andrew Chen's early college experience and why it's smart marketing
10:38 Buying Michael Jordan's house and turning it into a business
28:00 Investing in athletes?
38:10 The startu...
March 5, 2021
#158: Buying Michael Jordan's House (and Making a Profit), Investing in Athletes & Successful Startup-Studios
MFM #158 Andrew Chen story University of Washington has a program for gifted high schoolers who want to do college early. Andrew took part and graduated at 19. He met some pretty cool people doing this including emmit of twit...
March 3, 2021
#157 - Instagram Food Drops Making $200k a Week, Chrome Extensions That are Crushing It & Open Salaries
Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP):
MFM #158
- Rewarding hustle: MFM is hiring two kids to do video production because they took the job without permission. They heard Sam complain about needing a recording studio and offered to do t...
March 3, 2021
#157 - Instagram Food Drops Making $200k a Week, Chrome Extensions That are Crushing It & Open Salaries
MFM #157 Rewarding hustle : MFM is hiring two kids to do video production because they took the job without permission. They heard Sam complain about needing a recording studio and offered to do the work https://twitter.com/D...
Feb. 26, 2021
#156 - David Segal Talks Building a 9-Figure Tea Business, Decommoditizing Boring Products & The Future of Retail
Sam Parr (@TheSamParr), Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and David Segal (@_davidsegal) discuss:
David’s background
- At 26, David teams up with his 70-something-year-old cousin, Herschel Segal, to start DAVIDsTEA.
- Herschel had made his fortune in Canada’...
Feb. 24, 2021
#155 - NFTs Explained: How Digital Art Is Being Sold For Millions and What the Opportunities Are
Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) discuss:
Negotiation as a Service (NaaS)
- The guys talk about (and maybe invent) a new category of business: negotiations as a service. The idea here is that there are certain big ticket items where ...
Feb. 22, 2021
Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt Breaks Down the Biggest Opportunities He Sees
In today's episode Sam Parr (@theSamParr) interviews Ryan Hoover (@rrhoover). Ryan has seen thousands of companies launch since founding Product Hunt in 2014. He shares dozens of places that he sees opportunities, including several of his own inve...
Feb. 19, 2021
#154 - Making Millions Anonymously, How Pornstars Clean Search Results, & What is Gayburgers?
Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) discuss:
- Investing like a $16B dollar fund
- The guys who built multi-million dollar businesses anonymously
- A genius company manipulating web results
- The big opportunities in privacy
- The h...
Feb. 12, 2021
#153 - Selling The Hustle for Millions: How The Hustle & Hubspot Deal Happened
Sam Parr (@TheSamParr), Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Kieran Flanagan (@searchbrat) discuss:
- Crafting the perfect cold email to catch Sam's attention
- The grueling process of selling a company and how to do it right
- The best advice on how to...
Feb. 10, 2021
#152 - Sam Talks How the Hubspot Deal Came About & Ideas With Trung Phan
Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Trung Phan (@TrungTPhan) discuss:
- How the HubSpot/The Hustle deal came about?
- Why did Sam decide to sell?
- What will be Sam's biggest purchase now that he's sold?
- What will change with The Hustle and MF...
Feb. 5, 2021
#151 - How To Go Viral, Grow Your Following & Tons of Ideas with Lambda School's Trevor McKendrick
Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP), and Trevor McKendrick (@TrevMcKendrick) discuss:
The brainstorm session:
- 2:14: Headshots are our avatars in the digital world: why do most suck? There might be an opportunity to fix this
- 7:02: The startup doing handwritte...