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$100M+ Advice That'll Piss Off Every Business Guru (ft. DHH) Mar 17, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 6:19 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) Uniform thinking around a whole host of big topics, and 37 Signals was born in Chicago at a time where that had zero tech community of note. 2 times in the scene

The Simplest Way To Make $1,000,000 Isn't Starting A Business (it's working in one of these 10) Mar 11, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 48:41 John Coogan So if you're familiar with Moody's, they do credit ratings and Moody's got started during the railroad build out because the, the, the railroad build that was so capitally capital intensive that there was a huge, there was a huge secondary…

4 dumb ideas that made people rich Jan 23, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:43 Shaan Puri Are in the playoffs, and Chicago has this rival, the Green Bay Packers, and the Packers have been great for a long time, and the Bears have sucked for a very long time, and so it's, like, kind of a rivalry just by, like, location, but…

The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of Jan 19, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 50:20 Shaan Puri For example, we did a podcast about the Kanye documentary, and the craziest thing about the Kanye documentary is not about Kanye, it's about the guy who just decided, you know what, I'm going to just film this young guy in Chicago over a…

The Hospitality Principles That Build Billion-Dollar Startups Sep 30, 2025 · 2 mentions

Anti-Business Billionaires: Lessons from Steve Jobs, James Dyson, and Yvon Chouinard Apr 17, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 38:58 David Senra You're gonna go to Chicago, you're gonna New York and go to all those other places.

5 Conversations that broke our frames this week Mar 12, 2025 · 1 mention

Life Hacks From The King of Introverts + 7 Business Ideas Sep 6, 2024 · 1 mention

He Sold His Company For $15M, Then Got A Job At McDonald’s Aug 7, 2024 · 1 mention

The Simple Newsletter Making $20M+ A Year With 1 Employee Jul 1, 2024 · 1 mention

25 Years Of Founder WISDOM In 55 Minutes (ft. Jason Fried) Jun 5, 2024 · 1 mention

6 Retro Business Ideas That Could Be As Big As LEGO ($11.8B) Jan 31, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:41 Shaan Puri Like, where, I tried in Chicago, then I tried in Colorado, and then, you know, I just tested out different places in order to see where do I want to be, and, um, I think that's a very smart way to, to go about things.

How We Got Our First 100 Customers (No Bulls**t, Specific Details) (#534) Dec 22, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 15:26 Sam Parr And so what we did was I stole that, that, that learning and I created, we launched in LA, Chicago, Boston, New York, San Francisco, five or six cities. 2 times in the scene

Jesse Itzler's Exact Playbook For Creating HIT AFTER HIT (#504) Oct 5, 2023 · 1 mention

4 Robot Businesses That Will Take Over The Fast Food Industry (#359) Sep 8, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 41:15 Sam Parr So the background in the show, is it necessarily the important topic here, but it's a topic I want to ask you about, but the background is basically a restaurant in Chicago.

We Hosted A Shark Tank For Tech Startups | My First Million Demo Day (#356) Aug 31, 2022 · 1 mention

6 Hilarious Business Ideas That Could Make You $1,000,000 in 2022 (#351) Aug 23, 2022 · 1 mention

Half-Baked TV Show Ideas, Miss Excel Making Millions, The Adventure Challenge, and More Dec 17, 2021 · 1 mention

Hasan Minhaj - Comedy, Netflix, Haters, & Money Dec 15, 2021 · 1 mention

12 Startups Where Stock Grants Can Make You a Millionaire | My First Million #220 Sep 17, 2021 · 1 mention

How a $25 Million a Year Sweepstakes Business Works | My First Million #193 Jun 23, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 56:31 Sam Parr I think it was only in San Francisco, or maybe San Francisco and Chicago, and he raised sixty million dollars, all this money.

Andrew Wilkinson On The Secretive Billionaire Who Acquired Burger King | My First Million #185 May 25, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 50:24 Andrew Wilkinson and they said, look, there's this doctor in Chicago and he injects Botox into the 2 times in the scene

MFM #171: How to Generate Millions from Paid Events (Bootstrapped) Apr 16, 2021 · 2 mentions

MFM #169: How One Man Has Built 5, Billion Dollar Companies Apr 9, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 37:54 Andrew Wilkinson Uh, you know, literally like you go there and there's like skyscrapers and he's just, it's like going to Chicago and he's like,

MFM #161: Why Michael Saylor Believes Bitcoin is Hope Mar 17, 2021 · 1 mention

MFM #159: A 9-Figure Sex Toy Company & The Man With A Million Acres Mar 10, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:47 Shaan Puri Uh, so, so basically these guys who are, um, from Chicago, they're like, 23 year old guys who love the podcast.

Lead Gen Businesses, Islamic Finance & COVID-19 Virality | My First Million Podcast 03-10-2020 Mar 13, 2020 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 15:30 Sam Parr It's typically, uh, more middle of them, more places where they have high rise buildings, which we don't have a lot here, but basically if you Google Chicago apartments, 3 times in the scene

How to Get Your Product in 10,000 Retail Stores - Hustle Con 2015 May 13, 2015 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:03 Alejandro "Alex" Velez Going to farms from Hawaii to Chicago to New York, uh, one of those was, this top right, uh, that is actually, believe it or not, that is an avocado.
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