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61 statements across 46 episodes · 28 bullish · 14 bearish · 19 people on the record · first statement Mar 12, 2020 by Shaan Puri · said 1,370 times in 277 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
Mentions by year, the whole family
brought up most by Sam Parr (522), Shaan Puri (512), Dharmesh Shah (19), Balaji Srinivasan (18), Andrew Wilkinson (16), Furqan Rydhan (14), Julian Shapiro (12), Samir Chaudry (11)
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2026 40 mentions in 11 episodes 4 per episode
- The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of
- Dumb iPhone Apps Are Making People Rich Again (Here’s how)
- The Simplest Way To Make $1,000,000 Isn't Starting A Business (it's working in one of these 10)
- $100M+ Advice That'll Piss Off Every Business Guru (ft. DHH)
- From selling ACs to becoming the tourism king of Jamaica
- A high school dropout reveals how he built a $200M brand
- We asked a $18.9B Investor how to survive the AI bubble
- Elon’s wildest interview yet — our reaction
- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 223 mentions in 43 episodes 5 per episode
- The Crazy Story of Google’s 7 Angel investors
- The insane story of Blake Scholl: the high school dropout who’s building supersonic jets
- 5 AI Tools I’d Use to Make $1M (w/o employees, money, or time)
- How to Make $1,000,000 After You Graduate (5 steps)
- The man who made a billion off blueberries
- 5 Live Callers Get Brutal Startup Advice from Hormozi & Shaan
- We talk to the guy who knows Silicon Valley’s darkest secrets
- The High School Dropout Who Made Billions & Bought An NBA team
- 35 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 314 mentions in 74 episodes 4 per episode
- Elon Musk SUES Sam Altman
- 10 Startups w/ Stock Grants That’ll Make You A Millionaire | Sara’s List 2024
- Jesse Pujji on Bootstrapping a +$1B Business + Selling To The Ultra Rich
- The Dark Story Behind Pornhub’s $1.5B Business Empire
- The 2024 Milly Awards
- 5 Business Ideas To Start Today With $0 ft. Shark Tank's Sabri Suby
- My Mother-in-Law Started a $1M Side Hustle In Her 50's
- We Got Drunk And Came Up With 8 Business Ideas (#540)
- 66 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 112 mentions in 34 episodes 3 per episode
- Martin Shkreli Reveals How He Made His First $100 Million (#445)
- 3 Business Ideas You Should Start in 2024 (ft. Pomp) (#524)
- Brainstorming ChatGPT Business Ideas With A Billionaire | ft. Dharmesh Shah (#438)
- From $0 to $100 Million In 3 Years Selling Cold Plunges (#527)
- 99 Years of Charlie Munger Wisdom in 52 Minutes (#525)
- Finding +$1M Businesses From Weird Trends (#523)
- Wait, My Intern Became a 21-Year-Old Millionaire?? (#510)
- Our 2020 Predictions For OpenAI Came True… Here’s What’s Next (#508)
- 26 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 173 mentions in 32 episodes 5 per episode
- Brainstorming The Best Business Ideas To Start In 2022 with Noah Kagan
- Asking Colin & Samir How To Make $1,000,000 On YouTube
- Solana Billionaires, MFM Goes Viral on TikTok, Right to Be Forgotten, and More
- BREAKING: Shaan Sells the Milk Road - A Conversation With the Buyers
- The 2022 Milly Awards (#401)
- How To Come Up With Billion Dollar Business Ideas | Hubspot Co-Founder Dharmesh Shah
- 3 Profitable Business Ideas You Should Start in 2022
- From Flipping iPhones To Selling Oculus For $2 Billion To Facebook | Palmer Luckey (#378)
- 24 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 462 mentions in 78 episodes 6 per episode
- MFM #163: How Chrome Plugins Are Making Millions & How A Studying App is Going Viral
- Sam & Shaan Bet $500, Ozy Media Scam, Why Google is Dying, and More | My First Million #223
- How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, QVC for Mobile, and More
- Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Communities & Crypto | MFM #178
- How to Stop Your Tech Addiction | My First Million #205
- Making Millions Improving Mobility & How to Beat LinkedIn | My First Million #184
- How to Get a Slice of Harvard's Billion Dollar Case Study Industry | My First Million #222
- MFM #168 - How to Reverse Engineer Businesses, The Indonesian King of Coal & the Story of Adidas
- 70 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
2020 44 mentions in 4 episodes 11 per episode
- How to Navigate the Upcoming Depression | My First Million Podcast | 03-24-2020
- Lead Gen Businesses, Islamic Finance & COVID-19 Virality | My First Million Podcast 03-10-2020
- Nicotine Gum, Dating Apps for the Elderly & Vested Shares Tax | My First Million Podcast 03-03-2020
- What Does It Take To Become Rich? How Some People Make Millions! My First Million Podcast 04-02-2020
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
2015 2 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Google, oldest first
Mar 12, 2020 bullish
Puri: Buying FAANG stocks outperformed top VC returns over 10 years
“If you had just brought, bought the fang companies, so Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google in the 10 years it outperformed all VCs or sorry, It outperformed even this sort of top like expected returns of venture capital. So the public market, if you just bought th…”
Mar 17, 2021 bullish
Mar 17, 2021 bullish
Apr 7, 2021 negative
Shaan Puri: Foreign spies stole Google machine learning models on USB sticks
“Of course there are people working for China, for Russia, for different countries as foreign agents, and there's actually been like cases of this where guys basically took the, you know, like The machine learning model out on a USB stick out of Google and like…”
May 5, 2021 bearish
May 26, 2021 bullish
May 26, 2021 neutral
May 26, 2021 negative
Marc Lore refuses to interview candidates with lateral career moves
“Any kind of deviation to that, I don't, I just don't even, won't even interview. So a lateral move, out. Right. You know, move from a Google to Kmart. Sorry, Kmart, but out. Like, I just, I, anything, any little, like, tap that says not top five percent, and s…”
Jul 9, 2021 bullish
Puri: UnitedHealth stock outperformed Amazon and Google after Obamacare passed
“Oh, you know, like, as the, as Obamacare kicked in, the stock price went from, like, 24 dollars a share to 400 dollars a share now. And so you know, that was a better investment than Amazon, Google, Netflix, whatever, during the same period of time because the…”
Jul 14, 2021
Puri: Renting out time rarely creates wealth; equity ownership is required
“You'll never get rich renting out your time, which is, you know, 90 something percent of people are employees somewhere. You are basically renting your time to an employer and you'll never become wealthy or you rarely become wealthy. With that path you become …”
Jul 17, 2021 positive
Oct 5, 2021 bearish
Parr: Google and Facebook will lose their tech dominance by 2031
“I actually think that if you told me this could be like crazy wrong in 10 years, if Facebook and Google are not like
I think they'll exist, but if they're not like the big shots, I actually, I'll be surprised if they're still the big shots.”
Oct 5, 2021 negative
Nov 5, 2021 positive
Sam Parr: Breaking Up Facebook and Google Would Make Their Founders Richer
“If Facebook and Instagram had to compete with each other it would actually make Zuckerberg richer. Same with YouTube and Google. If they had to compete, it would probably make them better. And thus the owners a little bit more rich.”
Jan 4, 2022 positive
Jul 12, 2022 negative
Dharmesh Shah: Big-name press release hires are wrong for early startups.
“If we felt like we ever hired someone that was worthy of a press release, we did it wrong. Right. That's not the kind of person we were looking for because they may have done amazing things at Google, Microsoft, Facebook, pick your company of choice, but the s…”
Jul 28, 2022 positive
SEO aggregators make millions selling senior living facility leads for $200 each
“Dude, I knew a guy who owned one of those search engines, and he was making a couple million bucks a year, and basically he would come up on top on Google, and then sell the lead for 200 dollars to your guy, and he would buy that lead, and then hopefully close…”
Oct 6, 2022 bearish
Tesla's Competitive Advantage Is Overestimated Due to Apple and Google Software
“I just think that everyone overestimated their competitive advantage. And then at the end of the day, you've got all these legacy manufacturers and, you know, ultimately if Apple and Google are providing the interface that most people use, it barely matters, r…”
Oct 18, 2022 bearish
Puri: Record label pricing power prevents Spotify from generating tech-like cash flow
“To deliver music, you have to have the rights of the record labels. They can always, they own the pricing power. And that's why, you know, Spotify after, you know, like building the best in class product, getting everybody to use it after 15 years or whatever,…”
Oct 25, 2022 positive
Luckey: Facebook had unique incentives to push VR over Google and Microsoft
“Facebook was one of the very few companies that had a strong incentive to make virtual reality and immersive computing writ large to come about as quickly as possible, because unlike Google, unlike Microsoft, they did not benefit from the status quo in the har…”
Dec 17, 2022
Dec 29, 2022 bullish
Wilkinson: Major AI competitors to GPT-3 will emerge within six months
“There's going to be a lot of. A lot of other players in that space coming out over the next probably three to six months. And that it will be, there's going to be an ecosystem of offering similar to AWS and Azure and Google cloud. I think it'll be the same thi…”
Apr 20, 2023 negative
Apr 29, 2023 bearish
Puri: Big Tech will reduce AR captioning hardware to a software feature
“And they're going to get there first, most likely, as to having the lightweight form factor. And at that point, captions might just be a feature Or an app on top of their thing. And so you're gonna waste a ton of money. I think doing, trying to get the hardwar…”
Sep 14, 2023 positive
Oct 3, 2023
Oct 24, 2023 positive
Galloway: Getting rich slowly at monopolies like Google is vastly underrated
“Going to work for a big company is vastly underrated. They can abuse their monopoly position. They will have that mole removed. You will get rich slowly working at Google or at McKinsey. So if you're credentialed you know, we over romanticize entrepreneurship.…”
Nov 30, 2023
Puri: Sustainable SEO Requires Objectively Better Pages Rather Than Tricks
“You can do all the tricks, but at the end of the day, you have to have the best result. Like you have to have the best page and you have to have an honest conversation itself of, is your page better than these other pages? He's like, if you really want to sust…”
Dec 8, 2023
Parr: University of Phoenix spent $3B on marketing over five years
“The University of Phoenix in the last five years has spent three billion dollars in marketing. On Google alone, it's estimated that they're spending roughly five million dollars a month. And they receive roughly 70,000 to 80,000 clicks per month off of Google.”
Feb 5, 2024
Shaan Puri: One prestige brand logo is enough to carry a resume
“And one is enough. One is enough. That's the key. I think one problem people can do is they go logo collecting. One is enough. If you got Harvard, Awesome. You don't need to also go get another MBA from some other place. Or if you have Facebook, you don't have…”
Feb 7, 2024 neutral
YouTube founders sold to Google to avoid copyright infringement bankruptcy
“YouTube was also flooded with pirate content. Because of that, they were getting sued like crazy, and because they were worried that they would go out of business, they sold to Google for, like, a billion and a half dollars.”
Feb 12, 2024 bullish
Mar 8, 2024 neutral
Puri: Musk attempted a $500M emergency bid to block Google buying DeepMind
“Elon then went to the PayPal co-founder, this guy, Luke Nosek, and tried to quickly like emergency raise, five hundred million dollars to buy DeepMind instead of Google, just to keep it out of the hands of Google. And he fails, he can't pull the deal together …”
Mar 8, 2024 positive
Puri: Sergey Brin made an impromptu appearance at a Bay Area hackathon
“During the hackathon, this guy walks in with this cool-looking jacket and, like, disheveled hair like he's been in, like, a cryogenic freezing tube for the last 10 years, and it's Sergey Brin, it's the founder of Google, just showing up at the hackathon, and h…”
May 10, 2024 neutral
Jun 7, 2024 bullish
Puri: Charity: Water Used Real-Time IoT Flow Meters To Drive Fundraising
“He literally installed like little Google donated these like IOT devices, these flow meters so that you can see that the well you helped build, you can go in the app, and you can literally see how much water is flowing through that well right now, and so he di…”
Jun 21, 2024 positive
Jul 19, 2024 bullish
Puri: Generic AI Search Will Create Demand for Human Community Wisdom
“In an AI world, a lot of shit's going to change. And if you're gonna just type into, you know, a box, and it's just gonna give you the answer, and it's gonna scrape the internet, it's just gonna give you some generic answer, That's going to be big for sure. Th…”
Aug 28, 2024
Parr: Kaggle Raised $12M Before Google Acquisition and Hosted 19M Engineers
“There's this thing called Kaggle, Kaggle competitions, where it was a startup that raised twelve million dollars. It was eventually bought by Google. According to their website, they've had nineteen million engineers compete in their competitions.”
Sep 13, 2024 bullish
Nov 8, 2024 bearish
Shaan Puri: The AI email assistant market will be an absolute bloodbath
“I do feel undoubtedly that email inboxes are going to start to have AI in them and the AI is going to help you process, categorize summarize your emails in a way and respond, help you with the responses. The problem is Do I really believe that you are going to…”
Nov 26, 2024 negative
Rydhan: Google's failure to lead in LLMs is a lifetime-scale fumble
“I think the biggest fumble
You know, in our lifetime.
Decade fumble.
Yeah.
They built the technology for Transformers.
Right.
The thing that OpenAI and others have used to develop this large language model, they are the ones that were the first entry and like …”
Nov 26, 2024 positive
Rydhan: Perplexity saves multiple steps over slow, ineffective Google Search
“I try not to do Google search anymore, mostly because it's slow and ineffective and perplexity really made it where it does a search. It reads the result as I would. It clicks into the links as I would, and then it tries to answer my question more purposefully…”
Jan 3, 2025 bullish
Parr: AI software will track screens and speech to give direct feedback
“Well, the next step of that is here's what's going to happen. There's going to be software. It probably exists. And I'm tinkering with a few of them that records your computer screen, your phone screen, the words that you say out loud, the things you type. And…”
Jan 16, 2025
Shaan Puri: 165 University Avenue housed Logitech, PayPal, Google, and Danger
“What you're looking at is one six five University Avenue, also known as the Lucky Office, also known as the Karma Building. You might recognize a little better here when you see one of the companies that was started here. So Google was started here. Before Goo…”
Jan 16, 2025 neutral
Jan 16, 2025
Jan 16, 2025 positive
Jan 16, 2025 positive
Jan 16, 2025
Jan 16, 2025 positive
Feb 26, 2025 positive
Bilton Uses NotebookLM to Parse Millions of Words for Research
“What's been interesting is I have this new project that we're doing,
And we've been using LLM, Google LLM's notebook.
And so now we stuff millions of words into these things and I can just query it.
Whereas before we had to build like Excel spreadsheets and da…”
Feb 26, 2025 positive
Vimeo Was Vastly Superior to YouTube but Lost on Storytelling
“There were other video platforms that were, I would argue, way better than YouTube, and I mean, Vimeo is a perfect example. Vimeo was a thousand times of a better product, and a prettier, easier to, all these things, and YouTube just told a great story, and Go…”
Apr 15, 2025 bearish
Jun 6, 2025 negative
Oct 3, 2025 positive
Shaan Puri: Google released an AI tool that builds personalized learning curricula
“Google just released this thing called, like, I forgot what it's called, like, personalized learning, where you can basically tell it what you want to know, and then it just, like, develops this incredibly personalized curriculum for you and feeds you, like, t…”
Oct 3, 2025 bullish
Nov 5, 2025
Jan 19, 2026
Jan 19, 2026 neutral
Aug 26, 2026 neutral
Foster: Google found hiring managers have no predictive edge over each other
“I remember Google sharing like a lot of their hiring insights where they did a ton of tests around this stuff like this. And I think what they found was that no hiring managers were like, had an edge over any other hiring managers with one exception. And the o…”