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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where eBay comes up
7 things Bezos, MrBeast & Thiel do that you don’t
- ▶ 20:07 Shaan Puri Like, you might be fighting fraud from the Ukraine right now, and you might be trying to optimize virality of the PayPal button on eBay, and this other guy might be trying to, you know, um, lower our, you know, processing fees with the…
We asked a $18.9B Investor how to survive the AI bubble
- ▶ 15:44 Graham Weaver I think the, I think there were 400 companies that went public, and the only one that I'm aware of that survived was Amazon, maybe eBay.
How NOT to Make $1,000,000 (I Tried 17 Ways)
Make $8K/day From These Side Hustles You’ve Never Heard Of
How this dumb doll makes $2M per day
How Nick Saban’s Side Hustle Might Make Him a Billionaire
- ▶ 19:57 Shaan Puri eBay, Amazon, Airbnb, et cetera, Uber.
6 under-the-radar trends (+ our business ideas)
- ▶ 2:45 Shaan Puri eBay.
$100B Founder Breaks Down The Biggest AI Business Opportunities For 2025
- ▶ 47:15 Shaan Puri Flipping scooters on eBay to now, you know, runs a multi-billion dollar company called Flexport.
Unicorn Founder on Unseen Arbitrages, the Paradox of Wealth + Charlie Munger Wisdom
- ▶ 1:10 Shaan Puri The other side of it, though, that's, I think, a lot more relatable is you were, you know, working at Domino's Pizza as a team, you flipped scooters from, you know, on eBay,
I failed 22 times... then I built a $2.5B Company
- ▶ 7:09 Christina Cacioppo I knew I was a person who benefits from structure and isn't always great at doing it for myself, so what I did was a friend of mine had just sold a company to eBay New York and opened up this, this big space in New York that was actually…
The Top 0.1% Of Ideas I've Stumbled Upon On The Internet
Jack Smith On Biohacking, 2 Easy Business Ideas, PLUS Why Procrastination Is Good
10 AI Business Ideas From The Queen of AI ft. Sarah Guo
- ▶ 28:21 Shaan Puri Etsy and eBay and Amazon, a bunch of different places to sell things.
Business Tricks We've Learned From Gamblers, Pickup Artists, & Feynman
- ▶ 17:53 Shaan Puri So if you go back, Jack was in there and he talked about, you know, when he was a high schooler, what he was doing, flipping things on eBay and then how he hacked his way into an accelerator.
My Mother-in-Law Started a $1M Side Hustle In Her 50's
- ▶ 26:10 Shaan Puri Um, so it's like, you know, that or the, the sneaker flippers, the eBay flippers, uh, you know, when we started this podcast is called my first million, I was interviewing people. 3 times in the scene
6 Retro Business Ideas That Could Be As Big As LEGO ($11.8B)
From High School Dropout To $952 Million At 33 | Jess Mah Interview (#526)
- ▶ 42:30 Shaan Puri And, um, so I wasn't that way, but I've met a lot of people who were, you know, they were, like, teenagers, they were flipping things, like, you know, on eBay, or they were,
99 Years of Charlie Munger Wisdom in 52 Minutes (#525)
- ▶ 36:24 Shaan Puri I'm like, holy shit, this is like eBay for China or something. 2 times in the scene
Cody Ko On Building A YouTube Empire, Partying With Elon & Stand-Up Comedy (#503)
How Jason Yanowitz Bootstrapped Blockworks To A +$20M/yr Company
- ▶ 17:05 Jason Yanowitz I'll get to the story, but I would buy, uh, MLB showdown cards on eBay that I thought they were marketing it poorly. 2 times in the scene
How Dave Ramsey Built A $300M/Year Media Empire (#428)
The 2022 Milly Awards (#401)
BREAKING: Shaan Sells the Milk Road - A Conversation With the Buyers
- ▶ 1:26:08 Mike Wittmeyer Um, and so I think the first thing he did was he was like the biggest eBay power seller and he was selling like CDs and stuff on there.
8 Profitable Side Hustles For The Halloween & Christmas Season (#381)
- ▶ 32:26 Shaan Puri And eBay's they're selling for a thousand dollars.
- ▶ 35:16 Sam Parr We had to like find this cart on eBay for however hundreds of dollars.
From Flipping iPhones To Selling Oculus For $2 Billion To Facebook | Palmer Luckey (#378)
- ▶ 0:12 Palmer Luckey I mean, like, if the iPhone wouldn't have existed, there wouldn't have been broken iPhones for me to buy, unlock, repair, and sell on eBay.
- ▶ 37:55 Palmer Luckey I mean, like, if the iPhone wouldn't have existed, there wouldn't have been broken iPhones for me to buy, unlock, repair, and sell on eBay.
The Easiest Way To Make $10,000/Month In Passive Income
- ▶ 43:39 Shaan Puri eBay did it for that.
6 Profitable Business Ideas You Should Start in 2022
- ▶ 1:08 Shaan Puri And so, this idea of Milo, Milo got bought by eBay for, like, seventy-five million. 2 times in the scene
$1M By 19, $100M+ By 35 -- Here's How He Did It
Solana Billionaires, MFM Goes Viral on TikTok, Right to Be Forgotten, and More
- ▶ 1:00:29 Shaan Puri It's basically like eBay. 2 times in the scene
The Story of Dark Web Kingpin Ross Ulbricht
- ▶ 15:21 Sam Parr Uh, if you do like today's dollar, uh, it basically made Bitcoin popular because it was like eBay for drugs and something like ten billion dollars went through it in only two years since he started it.
- ▶ 49:53 Sam Parr And keep in mind, he was only, it's like eBay. 2 times in the scene
MFM Goes to Jail, Startup Cities, Julian Shapiro Building a Ranch, Testing Out Purchases, and More
How Brumate Made $20M with 0 Employees, Shahid Khan is the Billionaire of the Week, and More
- ▶ 29:17 Shaan Puri I think you were more of a hustler early on than me. 2 times in the scene
3 Patterns for Great Business Ideas with Jack Abraham, Founder, Managing Partner & CEO at Atomic
- ▶ 1:57 Shaan Puri He had, he built Milo, he sold it to eBay.
- ▶ 7:32 Sam Parr Stayed there at eBay for two years.
- ▶ 11:10 Sam Parr Milo ends up becoming a pretty big deal, like a, a main part of eBay. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:18 Jack Abraham And when I left eBay, I had 250 potential ideas for my next company, um, is the temptation is to try them all.
- ▶ 26:09 unnamed speaker It went public, you know, ended up being merging with eBay.
12 Startups Where Stock Grants Can Make You a Millionaire | My First Million #220
- ▶ 35:50 Shaan Puri Built a company, sold it to eBay pretty early on, uh, was like kind of a hotshot at PayPal spun out and he's has his own like studio.
What Venture Capital Will Look Like in the Future | My First Million #215
- ▶ 22:54 Shaan Puri And he goes, in the United States and Europe, Amazon, eBay, and other e-commerce platforms have too many returns, and there's no redundant warehouses to accommodate those returns.
How to Make Millions by Unbundling Etsy | My First Million #207
A Discussion on Sam & Shaan's Recent Investments | My First Million #195
- ▶ 22:16 Shaan Puri It's eBay for houses. 3 times in the scene
Making Billions with Greeting Cards & Rich People (not) Paying Taxes | My First Million #192
- ▶ 38:48 Shaan Puri Who are the people that want a marketplace that'll sell them anything, even different stuff than I can sell on eBay.
How to Network with Billionaires with Andrew Wilkinson | My First Million Ep. #174
- ▶ 24:34 Andrew Wilkinson Or an eBay or a Google, but you just don't know which one they are.
MFM #168 - How to Reverse Engineer Businesses, The Indonesian King of Coal & the Story of Adidas
- ▶ 33:57 Shaan Puri And this is kind of like some common to do, uh, like Uber's homepage back in the day, Snapchat's homepage back in the day, the first Facebook homepage, the first eBay homepage, first Amazon homepage.