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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
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 capital and can have a lean team Quite profitable Cons : Churn can be high Likely can’t scale to me huge Won’t get better with size necessarily (if user content-driven, deal-driven, or otherwise, more can be better. If connection related, less is better) Seem challenging to sell i...
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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 Rally Rd and Nifty Gateway founders Now what : What's going to happen now? Sam thinks nothing’s going to happen -- the guys are too busy. Shaan: you’re afraid to fail Collecting old Apple computers Opportunity : Old Apple computers like the Macintosh II and Apple II sell for a...
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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 marketing10:38 Buying Michael Jordan's house and turning it into a business28:00 Investing in athletes?38:10 The startu...
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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 twitch, and head of hedge funds. Shaan got into a Duke program as a teenager via TIP program by scoring high on PSAT. Shaan: This is a great marketing trick -- he’ll do this when he starts his school For athletics, the opposite is done. MJ’s house Michael Jordan’s Chicago home w...
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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...
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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/DylanJardon/status/1366274333858017282?s=20 . This is how you get the job you want. Don’t send a resume. Do the work instead. Don’t ask for permission. Food topics The food companies of Instagram : Companies mycookiedealer.com , 1-900-Ice-Cream , and Allie’s Banana Bread are ...
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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’...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Feb. 3, 2021
#150 - Jason Calacanis Joins The Brainstorm To Talk Robinhood, Gambling and the Opportunities He's Investing In
Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP), Sam Parr (@theSamParr), and Jason Calacanis (@jason) discuss:- The reason Jason gambles and how much he has made over the years- How Jason made the transition from being a journalist to being an investor- How Jason became a...
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Jan. 29, 2021
#149 - The Craziness of r/WallStreetBets, an $100k Bet, and Startup Ideas with Mercury Banks Founder
Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP), Sam Parr (@theSamParr), and Immad Akhund (@immad) discuss:- How Shaan 3x his Twitter following in 2 months- The wild r/WallStreetBets trades and Shaan's $100k bet- Immad brings his ideas: a new CRM, startups catering t...
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Jan. 27, 2021
#148 with Jack Smith - How r/WallStreetBets is Beating Wall Street, Taboola's Billion-dollar Payday, and How Grayscale is Printing Money
Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP), Sam Parr (@theSamParr), and Jack Smith (@_jacksmith) discuss:- Balaji Srinivasan on why people will have to hide their real identities in the future- How Silkroad was actually a well-run company while co-workers remained anon...
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Jan. 22, 2021
#147 - How Sam Hacked Amazon's Book Rankings, A $600m Exit, And Crypto with Brother Aaaron
Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@theSamParr) discuss:- Sam explains the origins of the QAnon movement- Could buying collectibles from infamous people work?- Romance stories are big business: Sam almost launched a company in the space (https...
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Jan. 20, 2021
#146 with Suleman "Suli" Ali - Voluntarily Selling Our Data, Creating The New Religion and A Fund Making Millions Shorting Pharma Companies
Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Suleman "Suli" Ali (@sulemanali) discuss:- Creating a reputation database for people- Voluntarily selling your data to companies- Dealing with scammers- Creating a publically available org chart- A new re...
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Jan. 15, 2021
#145 with Reed Duchscher - MrBeast's Manager Joins the Brainstorm
Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) discuss:- Who is Reed Duchscher- How does managing a YouTuber work- Who is MrBeast and how he got so big- Creating empires with celebrities and influencers- What is a "Personal Media Com...
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Jan. 13, 2021
#144 - Shaan's Giving Away A Company, A Mysterious, Anonymous New App and The Most Gimmicky Marketing Thing The Guys Have Done
MFM Apex: https://joinapex.com/i/pwr8nkShaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) discuss:- DTC smelling salts?- A mysterious, anonymous new app- Should you hide your real opinions?- The amazing story of Katalin Kariko- Should you ...
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Jan. 8, 2021
#143 with Jeremy Cai of Italic - Influencer Coffee Making Millions, What Cold Chain Is and Why It's Booming, And Tons of Ideas
Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) discuss:- Is Sam Parr Time Person of the Year?- Jeremy introduces himself- Idea: subscription box for bread (and the millions in subscription boxes)- The big business of selling to middle Ameri...
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Jan. 6, 2021
#142 - Digital Meet and Greets, A Little Known $30m Empire, And Shaan's Twitter Controversy
Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) discuss:- 02:52: A home security idea- 06:02: Wynter.io and other powerful simple plugins- 15:24: Kevin Systrom's and Mark Zuckerburg's transcripts from the Instagram acquisition- 22:...
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Dec. 30, 2020
#141: The 2020 MFM Award Show
Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP), Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Andrew Wilkinson (@awilkinson) wrap up 2020 by awarding and highlighting the best moments in the business world, the MFM podcast and their personal lives. The guys also make some fun predictions for wha...
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Dec. 25, 2020
#140 - How Much Do VCs Make?, A Booming Startup Replacing Fridges, and A Board Game Making $5m A Month
Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) discuss:- 06:05 A booming grocery delivery startup, Fridge No More- 12:00 The "Ukranian Tik-Tok", Coub- 13:01 The $4b startup you haven't heard of: GoPuff- 21:09 A board game doi...
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Dec. 23, 2020
#139 - The Rise of "Clout" Kitchens, Why Martin Shkreli is a Rockstar, and a $100m Acquisition
Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) discuss:- 00:30 Is it better to rent and invest your money elsewhere?- 05:32 Penny Hoarder acquired for over $100m- 09:20 MrBeast Burger and clout kitchens- 17:01 Guthy-Renker and the lucrative w...