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A high school dropout reveals how he built a $200M brand Sep 7, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 19:58 Shaan Puri Is the market in China or India for that pattern, like two big population places, is the, is the supplement market the same? 2 times in the scene

We asked a $18.9B Investor how to survive the AI bubble Apr 7, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 35:19 Graham Weaver Any consulting or finance firm, he's going to India, um, where his, his family's from to help them build free hospitals.
  • ▶ 38:49 Shaan Puri I want to build the hospital in India. 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

  • ▶ 57:18 Shaan Puri It's like, what's that story like in India where they were like, there's too many pythons and they put a bounty, like, if you bring us a dead python, you get like, you know, whatever.

From selling ACs to becoming the tourism king of Jamaica Feb 20, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 41:01 Shaan Puri So my dad was telling me, uh, so my dad grows up in India, right? 2 times in the scene

Scott Galloway: Why I'm selling my American stocks Feb 16, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:51 Scott Galloway If you're taking two families to India, which I'm doing, you get a big plane, and you don't, you basically just text them.

if you didn't make progress in 2025, watch the first 10 minutes. Dec 8, 2025 · 2 mentions

I Did Nothing For 2 Weeks. It Made Me Better At Everything. Nov 12, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 37:00 Shaan Puri So the best thing my grandpa ever did as a dad, um, which I'm gonna steal, and I think others should steal it too, um, so my, my dad and my family, my, my dad's family grew up, like, dirt, dirt, poor India.
  • ▶ 44:25 Sam Parr Or the important university in India. 4 times in the scene

How two straight guys bought Grindr and made $2B Oct 13, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:36 Jeff Bonforte And when you need to know about trans healthcare and you need to find a doctor who will give you vaccines and you're a trans person and you're in India, well, that database is funded and built by Grindr.

$50M Poker Pro Shares Emotional Intelligence Tricks For Founders Oct 6, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 56:23 Shaan Puri And then, of course, you know, 45 minutes in, I'm dancing, I'm like, this is amazing, this is so good, and he says this thing in his talk, he's like, um, and he's like, I'm fucking Tony Robbins, and he's like, he tells the story of when he…

3 Wild Stories to Get You Hyped This Week Aug 18, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:08 Shaan Puri You know, for pennies from sketchy companies in India and China and Canada and Holland, and they would sell them in bulk.

How to retire with millions (and pay $0 taxes) May 14, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 46:17 Ankur Nagpal In India, it's like, oh, you have someone to do all this stuff for you.
  • ▶ 58:19 Ankur Nagpal And dude, it's such a monopoly because India is the biggest country in the world, and it's truly a one-sport country.

From making $6/week selling worms to making $110M+ Apr 15, 2025 · 1 mention

Are tariffs good or bad for founders? Apr 11, 2025 · 1 mention

6 under-the-radar trends (+ our business ideas) Mar 19, 2025 · 1 mention

Five $10M+ Ideas (from a guy who's done it 3 times) Jan 10, 2025 · 19 mentions

  • ▶ 8:43 Sheel Mohnot So like in India, when TVs were coming out, like growing up, like there's only like one TV station and then expanded from there. 13 times in the scene
  • ▶ 52:02 Shaan Puri Do you, do you have the, like, Indian, uh, frugality gene? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:07:11 Sheel Mohnot My dad sold him encyclopedias door to door when he just moved here from India. 4 times in the scene

The 2024 Milly Awards Dec 30, 2024 · 5 mentions

The #1 Most Underrated Quality in an Entrepreneur Dec 18, 2024 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 19:52 Sam Parr Bhutan is in between India and China. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 26:47 Shaan Puri You see, India's a democracy.
  • ▶ 37:59 Shaan Puri So they bought it for a billion dollars being like, cool, we're just going to take the IMG brand and we're going to pop it up in China and India and, and all these different countries in order to, to, to get those types of students who are… 3 times in the scene

Unicorn Founder on Unseen Arbitrages, the Paradox of Wealth + Charlie Munger Wisdom Nov 11, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 51:42 Shaan Puri So we had this dude call into the podcast once and he's a guy in India. 4 times in the scene

Q&A: Gut punches, favorite guests, plus advice for life Oct 30, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 18:10 Sam Parr So if you ask him about his background, he grew up poor in India, and he was like, I wanted to be the best because I wanted to prove that I was capable of achieving. 3 times in the scene

How Mike Posner built a music empire from his dorm room Oct 25, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:12:09 Shaan Puri Uh, he says he goes on some trip and he meets some guy in India or whatever, and the guy goes, um, asked him something about suffering.

Did the creator of Bitcoin just get unmasked? Oct 14, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 35:19 Shaan Puri India tried to ban it.
  • ▶ 44:41 Sam Parr The guy who died in India, and they're like, dude, you faked your death, and like the Indian doctor, uh, we already talked about it, the Indian doctor, um, faked the autopsy.

How Silicon Valley’s Most Prolific Investor Picks Unicorns | Elad Gil Interview Oct 8, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 44:44 Elad Gil so I'd go to India for two months and do yoga for two months there with a guy who learned from a guy in a cave kind of thing, or 2 times in the scene

Life Hacks From The King of Introverts + 7 Business Ideas Sep 6, 2024 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 15:30 Nick Gray I tried to move to India to start a software company and hire people because I thought that I could bootstrap it farther there. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 18:19 Sam Parr The first time was after that India trip with your, you and your father, right? 2 times in the scene

The Top 0.1% Of Ideas I've Stumbled Upon On The Internet Aug 31, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 36:11 Shaan Puri And basically I think that if you look at countries like, you know, my parents, they grew up in India and India is so hot that during the day, during like your brain's most kind of productive hours, they take like a three hour process.

Building A 100+ Year Legacy + Peter Thiel’s Fellowship + Bomb Hiring Questions Aug 28, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 31:25 Sam Parr Then there's Oyo Rooms, which was like a, a hotel style startup out of India that also was worth, uh, many, many billions.

Jack Smith On Biohacking, 2 Easy Business Ideas, PLUS Why Procrastination Is Good Aug 23, 2024 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 25:06 Jack Smith And that's why we can do it in 45 minutes instead of four hours, et cetera, like you're saying, Sean, I did the same thing in India and got exactly the same results, and I was only doing it for 40 minutes. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 26:52 Jack Smith He just took us to all these different labs in India. 6 times in the scene

10 AI Business Ideas From The Queen of AI ft. Sarah Guo Jul 24, 2024 · 1 mention

3 Startup Ideas: Mouse Jigglers, Employee Monitoring Softwares and Photoshop Copycats Jul 12, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 34:14 Shaan Puri Seamless, private, you know, fully in your control, autonomous experience to like back to what felt like a rickshaw in India, like it felt terrible.

5 Business Ideas To Start Today With $0 ft. Shark Tank's Sabri Suby Jun 25, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:43 Sabri Suby Shilajit is like a, it's like a black tar that they get in the Himalayas in India, and it has like, all of like, the essential minerals.

The GameStop Guy Has Returned… (And Has A New $210M Bet) Jun 7, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 57:37 Shaan Puri Uh, which was, it went to, the campaign went to India, so we provided clean water and wells to, to people in India, and I think we raised, like, something like 50,000, so I want to provide an update of, like, what happened with that, the… 2 times in the scene

The 5 Most Interesting Billionaires Alive... May 15, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:50 Shaan Puri Facebook is the Facebook of India and Facebook dominated everywhere.

What Stock Would Warren Buffett Buy If He Started Over In 2024? Feb 12, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 22:59 Shaan Puri They, you know, have like camps all throughout Africa and India. 2 times in the scene

How This +$80M Founder Launches A Startup In A Weekend | ft. Noah Kagain (#546) Feb 2, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 32:22 Sam Parr I remember when Sarah, my wife worked there, they were like, we're doing this thing in India where we put blimps or drones up in the sky. 2 times in the scene

$250M Founder Reveals How The Rich Avoid Taxes (Legally) | ft. Ankur Nagpal Jan 17, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 50:12 Ankur Nagpal Um, if every, even, even now, I mean, you know, if you try tweeting out the Indian diet is like traditionally unhealthy or something, you'll get all these people in India, like getting super, super angry about it.

We Got Drunk And Came Up With 8 Business Ideas (#540) Jan 15, 2024 · 1 mention

5 Internet Goldmines To Spot The Next $1B Trend | Steph Smith (#529) Dec 11, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 26:15 Steph Smith Um, that I'll just quickly share, which is, uh, from a newsletter called Charter, which says that India's capital, um, this was recently breached the 450 mark on the air quality index over four times the healthy level. 2 times in the scene

Sam Returns - The Boys Hang Out (#516) Nov 7, 2023 · 1 mention

Our 2020 Predictions For OpenAI Came True… Here’s What’s Next (#508) Oct 17, 2023 · 2 mentions

Metaverse IRL, Bollywood Protein Powder & AI Gadgets That Suck (#507) Oct 13, 2023 · 11 mentions

  • ▶ 31:49 Shaan Puri And the reason why is that the stars in India, it's not like, so it's not like George Clooney. 9 times in the scene
  • ▶ 40:06 Shaan Puri His father passed away, and his father owned a chemical plant in India, and he's running CB Insights, a tech startup in America that's doing well, and then he just was like, I have to deal with this. 2 times in the scene

10 AI Startup Ideas in 43 Minutes (#506) Oct 12, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 26:53 Shaan Puri However, there's one big cost that, you know, people get enraged when you call, you know, you're calling Dell for help and, uh, you know, all of a sudden you're getting Arjun in India who says, Hey, it's Arjun from Dell and he's got the… 2 times in the scene

+$1 Billion Businesses You've Never Heard Of (#497) Sep 21, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:00:20 Sam Parr Me and Neville were out to dinner with Dharmesh at HubSpot, and Neville was saying how he doesn't, he's like, man, India, like, that's where I'm from, and I go back there, and it makes you grateful to be in America, because like, these… 3 times in the scene

Scott Harrison: From Nightclub Promoter to Charity Water Founder (#443) Apr 19, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 28:05 Scott Harrison The staff salaries, the office costs, the toner for the Epson copy machine, the flights to Africa and India and Asian where we'd eventually build our projects.

How To Grow A Small Agency Into A Billion Dollar Company (#414) Feb 2, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:31 Sam Parr I know I have friends that have built pretty big businesses are building them right now, and they're using Indian talent versus American talent, and they're getting great products.

Behind The Scenes of Selling My Company For Millions | Suli Ali (#410) Jan 24, 2023 · 2 mentions

Ranking The Best And Worst Businesses To Start w/ Billionaire Investor Andrew Wilkinson (#386) Nov 17, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 53:11 Shaan Puri Uh, you know, the, the sort of bribery corruption is very common in India and Indonesia and a bunch of different places.

8 Profitable Side Hustles For The Halloween & Christmas Season (#381) Nov 1, 2022 · 1 mention

9 Business Ideas To Profit From The 2022 A.I. Gold Rush (Using Dall-E & GPT3) (#376) Oct 18, 2022 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 5:58 Sam Parr He goes, it introduced me to India and it's just, he talks about, he's talking about God. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:42 Sam Parr So the first half of the call, he talks all about India and these like kind of platitude, like life advice type of things, which were pretty amazing.

This Guy Went From $0 to Billionaire By Starting A Toy Factory In China (#372) Oct 11, 2022 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 35:27 Sam Parr And I guess he, he just has this blog and he talks about this stuff. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 59:47 Shaan Puri I have this guy in India who's like my designer for all my projects and to create that milkman character who I think is actually the best part of the brand. 2 times in the scene

Ryan Holiday Reveals How Much Best Selling Authors Make, Crazy Peter Thiel Stories & More (#370) Oct 4, 2022 · 1 mention

How Roger Federer Became The First Tennis Billionaire (#367) Sep 27, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 13:34 Sam Parr Basically, it was like in India right now, like there's, you know, the stereotype of like a guy playing like a horn or I don't know what it's called and like the Cobra coming up and like dancing. 2 times in the scene

We Hosted A Shark Tank For Tech Startups | My First Million Demo Day (#356) Aug 31, 2022 · 16 mentions

  • ▶ 15:20 unnamed speaker So, 56% of patients in India have poor medication adherence. 8 times in the scene
  • ▶ 23:30 Shaan Puri And, um, I'd also like to talk to some of the e-pharmacy people and be like, Hey, why isn't there a pill pack for India? 8 times in the scene

6 Hilarious Business Ideas That Could Make You $1,000,000 in 2022 (#351) Aug 23, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 36:22 Shaan Puri Um, there's a drone camera that just flies right above the table, and it's just recording the whole thing, and it's just gonna, it just dumps it in a Google Drive folder, and there's a guy in India, one guy,
  • ▶ 45:10 Shaan Puri Yeah, that's like, if you're ever a girl who does like live streaming on like whatever, Twitch or like whatever, Periscope, whatever, whatever app, uh, they're all like, what is, why are there so many men in like Turkey, the Middle East…

Our Producer Had A 90-Minute Phone Call With Mr Beast… Jul 19, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 43:03 Sam Parr If this woman from India can come knowing nothing and she ends with like this big family and she's, I, I, your parents are pretty successful.

How To Turn $10,000 Into $150,000 With Angel Investing Mar 26, 2022 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 5:47 Shaan Puri So I did the same with the people in India or the people in Southeast Asia.
  • ▶ 13:14 Shaan Puri Cause they'll say, Oh, I saw you did these five Indian unicorns. 2 times in the scene

Drunk Business Ideas That Could Make You Millions Mar 8, 2022 · 1 mention

Ryan Holiday On The Economics Of Book Publishing Feb 8, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 14:09 Shaan Puri It reminds me of in India, uh, I don't want to do a deep dive on this at some point, but there's like, India has this culture of gurus, right? 2 times in the scene

Saas Companies that Anyone Can Start with Rob Walling Jan 12, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:14:25 Sam Parr A lot like when I was starting, everyone said like, oh, just go on Odesk and hire someone in India to do it.

The Milly Awards 2021 Dec 31, 2021 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 11:04 Shaan Puri India was going through a really tough patch in COVID. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 47:21 Shaan Puri So like in India, they'll get like happened in America. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:36:55 Andrew Wilkinson And I w one of the things I've realized is that people in India and the Philippines are obviously just as smart, but they're far more motivated. 2 times in the scene

This Year's Best Twitter Accounts to Follow Dec 21, 2021 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 38:50 Shaan Puri So this guy, Aviral Bhattnagar, he is a venture capitalist in India. 8 times in the scene

Holiday Special: Great Finds (Products, Apps, Media) Nov 30, 2021 · 2 mentions

Dr. Andrew Huberman’s Path to Fame, Money, and Total Human Optimization Nov 18, 2021 · 3 mentions

Why Everyone Is Wrong About the Metaverse, Gaingels, Companies that Don't Advertise, and More Nov 11, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:13 Sam Parr Dude, so many people use Facebook that, when Sarah worked there, I think they were sending satellites to India because they just literally needed more people on the web in order to get more users.

Shaan Challenges Sam to Ignore His Limits, Michael Rubin is the Billy of the Week, and More Nov 5, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 48:51 Shaan Puri So like, you know, the Maharaja in India would, would have it in his crown or, you know, some Egyptian person would have it in their, in their garment, but it was, it was so rare that you didn't even see it around.

The Next Big Social Media Network Will Be On the Blockchain. Nader Al-Naji Tells Us Why. Nov 3, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:03:07 Nader Al-Naji Um, and then, you know, in other countries, and this is, I think, something that Dharmesh really likes, uh, you know, for example, in a country like India or Russia or something like that, uh, today they use Twitter a lot.

MFM Goes to Jail, Startup Cities, Julian Shapiro Building a Ranch, Testing Out Purchases, and More Oct 27, 2021 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 32:18 Shaan Puri So we went to Indonesia and we went to India where they were like, yeah, hey, here's a huge plot of land. 3 times in the scene

What Venture Capital Will Look Like in the Future | My First Million #215 Sep 1, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 46:16 Shaan Puri It's like, we have this idea, like, my wife really wants to open up an orphanage in India. 2 times in the scene

A Discussion on Sam & Shaan's Recent Investments | My First Million #195 Jun 30, 2021 · 16 mentions

  • ▶ 10:56 Shaan Puri And tweaking a little bit, but they're doing it in India. 16 times in the scene

Making Billions in Coworking & the Dark Side of Confidence | My First Million #190 Jun 11, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 21:39 Shaan Puri So the version of that, that I saw was that math teacher, that guy, Biji in India, who sold out a stadium. 2 times in the scene

Second-hand E-commerce, Door-to-door Sales, and Live Show Recaps | My First Million #189 Jun 9, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:06:17 Shaan Puri He goes, I came from India, and I'm a student at university. 2 times in the scene

Billionaire Marc Lore on What He Would Build Today and Future of Ecommerce | My First Million #186 May 26, 2021 · 1 mention

Andrew Wilkinson On The Secretive Billionaire Who Acquired Burger King | My First Million #185 May 25, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:06:38 Sam Parr So we got a bunch of questions about metal lab, uh, building a metal lab in India.

How an Astrology App Makes $10m+ & Why a Boxing Announcer is Worth $400m | My First Million #182 May 14, 2021 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 12:01 Shaan Puri By the way, in India, they have this, they have India's like this times 10. 3 times in the scene

Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Communities & Crypto | MFM #178 May 5, 2021 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 7:51 Shaan Puri So I got one, I don't know if it was yesterday or the day before, it was basically like, you can get 3000 bucks in Bitcoin if you create memes that will promote, you know, crypto in India, or, you know, help, help package that idea in a… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 51:47 Balaji Srinivasan You know, I tweeted out, like, for the COVID relief thing in India, and, you know, the Notion CEO and the, um, the, uh,
  • ▶ 2:01:25 Balaji Srinivasan And I think, you know, I think maybe two, a few good examples of that, if you look at the, uh, Balogs.com posts on India, you know, like, uh, why India should buy Bitcoin, how India legalizes crypto, um, add crypto to India stack. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:17:06 Balaji Srinivasan For example, yesterday when I went and said I was donating, you know, money for Indian COVID relief, I was able to post the link on chain so people could see the funds flowing and see that I donated exactly as much as I said to the address…

MFM #172 - Advice to Young Entrepreneurs, Indie Businesses Making Millions, & How to Grow a Podcast Apr 19, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 25:15 Shaan Puri And like, now he's literally putting fucking satellites into the sky to give people in India the internet so that they can use Facebook.
  • ▶ 54:31 Shaan Puri We're gonna do a firm for India, whatever, right?

MFM #166: Why a Sudoku Company Sold for $640m, "Opendoor for X" & Franchising Tech Companies Apr 2, 2021 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 34:45 Sam Parr So there's Business Insider India, there's Business Insider Australia, there's Business Insider Germany, I believe. 6 times in the scene

MFM #160: How to Build a Paid Community Making $20M a Year Mar 12, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:22:32 Shaan Puri I saw the video Sam posted and the operator, the security guard who spoke back was like clearly not like, you know, my relative in India.
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