Instagram, every mention
349 scenes, the whole family · ← back to Instagram
every year anyone Shaan Puri 282Sam Parr 147Isaac French 8Dr. Andrew Huberman 7Steph Smith 6Kaitlyn Siragusa (Amouranth / Kate) 6Chris Koerner 6Ramit Sethi 5Kevin Espiritu 5Saagar Enjeti 4
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Instagram comes up
How to use your "useless” hobby to make money
- ▶ 0:42 Sam Parr And so this lady reached out to me because she listens to the pod and I had coincidentally also seen her Instagram 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:22 Shaan Puri We've talked about him before on here, mostly because I don't really use Instagram, and I bumped into this guy in New York, and now he's like the one example I keep going to, because I think it's pretty remarkable what he's done. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:40 Shaan Puri Yeah, Sendo Sushi, and he was like, oh, well, you know, I basically spent a decade building up my Instagram because I just love sushi. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:35 Sam Parr There's a funny meme going on right now in the Instagram space of like, I guess there's a, there must be a channel or something, but it's popular now for athletes to talk about how much money they made.
Steph Smith: “This opportunity is totally overlooked”
- ▶ 33:05 Steph Smith She's got five million followers on Instagram, one million on YouTube.
We asked a $18.9B Investor how to survive the AI bubble
- ▶ 1:03:10 Shaan Puri Is YouTube kind of your main spot or Instagram or TikTok? 2 times in the scene
The Underrated Money Making Skill In 2026
The Simplest Way To Make $1,000,000 Isn't Starting A Business (it's working in one of these 10)
- ▶ 25:35 John Coogan I would just see it similar to Sora and Instagram reels or VO three from Google and YouTube shorts.
- ▶ 37:12 John Coogan You are incredible at skating in those videos on Instagram.
Dumb iPhone Apps Are Making People Rich Again (Here’s how)
- ▶ 8:20 Shaan Puri I haven't used Instagram at all this week because of whatever, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:05 Sam Parr What's funny is like, so starting in December, I started doing, uh, I tried, I wanted to learn Instagram, so I was like, I'm gonna make a video a day.
- ▶ 31:39 Pat Walls Additionally, we have all of our production for our company, including YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, everything, everything we post on any sort of social media, we track it all inside notion here, and we have freelancers helping edit the…
Elon’s wildest interview yet — our reaction
- ▶ 48:29 Shaan Puri Like if I type I right now for Instagram, I get Instacart.
Scott Galloway: Why I'm selling my American stocks
- ▶ 41:18 Scott Galloway It might be our Instagram posts.
4 dumb ideas that made people rich
- ▶ 25:04 Shaan Puri Have you seen this guy, uh, Yang Mun on Instagram?
The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of
if you didn't make progress in 2025, watch the first 10 minutes.
- ▶ 10:40 Sam Parr Uh, so it's 1215 at 11 55 when I log in, I got this text from Sean, and it was this really good, like, Instagram reel, but it wasn't on Instagram, and it was Sean telling the story about how he has quit being a business person and is now… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:24 Shaan Puri It's how people communicate online, whether it's long form like this on YouTube or it's short form, which is growing, growing more and more popular across, you know, YouTube shorts, reels, TikToks, et cetera.
- ▶ 1:01:19 Sam Parr Charismatic and epic way just to say you're gonna start posting on Instagram? 8 times in the scene
Ideas That Sound Illegal (But Print Money Anyway)
I Did Nothing For 2 Weeks. It Made Me Better At Everything.
- ▶ 30:11 Sam Parr Like I can't have an unread text message, but then I have text, Slack, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, email.
- ▶ 39:56 Shaan Puri It's very easy to, you know, like, mix sort of this praise and criticism, but, um, my brother-in-law has been doing the same thing with his daughter, who showed a little bit of talent in soccer, and then he, like, went all in and was like,…
- ▶ 53:33 Shaan Puri Like this today seems like, you know, this could be an Instagram account maybe, or, you know, something, something so simple. 2 times in the scene
5 AI Tools I’d Use to Make $1M (w/o employees, money, or time)
- ▶ 25:53 Sam Parr Just TikTok, not Instagram? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:24 Greg Isenberg Now I say that with like, I don't want to go on, on X and Instagram and see AI slop all day long. 2 times in the scene
The App That’ll Be Bigger Than TikTok
- ▶ 42:29 Shaan Puri So it's like, and while you're walking around, you can scroll Instagram and I'm like,
The Hospitality Principles That Build Billion-Dollar Startups
Make $8K/day From These Side Hustles You’ve Never Heard Of
- ▶ 1:58 Chris Koerner So I'm on Instagram. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:56 Chris Koerner It's just like a chocolate bar stuffed with like pistachios that looks cool on Instagram.
- ▶ 42:41 Sam Parr So on your, it's on your Instagram, I'm, I'm just reading the tick tock.
- ▶ 44:46 Shaan Puri The comment section of Instagram and TikTok on any viral video is like where I would send my worst enemy.
5 Live Callers Get Brutal Startup Advice from Hormozi & Shaan
- ▶ 33:06 unnamed speaker TikTok and Instagram. 5 times in the scene
Brainstorming $10M AI Business Ideas w/ the Airtable Founder
How this dumb doll makes $2M per day
- ▶ 9:36 Shaan Puri Because she posted on her Instagram. 2 times in the scene
Business as a sport, Surge AI, and Waymo vs. Robotaxi
- ▶ 25:27 Shaan Puri And then when the internet came out and you got Facebook and Twitter and Instagram and Snapchat, then social media became a thing and everybody became a little broadcaster, right?
- ▶ 51:13 Shaan Puri My wife put it up on her Instagram story, and I was like,
- ▶ 1:03:35 Shaan Puri By the way, I was very inspired by your Instagram post.
The Side Hustle King: “I’m making $8K/DAY from easy businesses”
- ▶ 6:27 Shaan Puri or we set up a camera here where you get like an Instagram worthy story for, you know, for, for this thing.
- ▶ 20:43 Chris Koerner Yes, and so I'm swiping Instagram one day, and I see this video that just broke my frame.
- ▶ 48:15 Shaan Puri You had this, um, Instagram video.
How to Scale a Profitable Agency with 0 Employees (Using AI Agents)
- ▶ 8:06 Shaan Puri and I could stitch it together into a cool, like Instagram ready reel. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:22 Shaan Puri The best teachers were teaching on Instagram and YouTube and other places like that.
Hinge expert shares dating advice for ambitious nerds
- ▶ 4:04 Logan Ury Oh, I need to get 30,000 followers on Instagram?
- ▶ 30:04 Logan Ury So there's this concept called the power of weak ties, which is the idea that you're much more likely to get a job from an acquaintance than from one of your close friends, because your close friends have such overlapping lives with you…
The Most Valuable Skill For Any Founder
From making $6/week selling worms to making $110M+
- ▶ 28:00 James Currier And, um, the more people there, the more valuable those, those networks are Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook.
7 Wild Business Ideas for this $3 Trillion Dollar Frontier
- ▶ 32:23 Shaan Puri And that's when Instagram, Uber, Snapchat, like a bunch of companies got built that relied on you having a computer with you at all times that had internet connection that had an accelerometer that had a map, a GPS, uh, feature in it.
6 under-the-radar trends (+ our business ideas)
- ▶ 33:51 Shaan Puri It's just slack and email and, you know, scrolling on, on Instagram and feeling like you're not good enough and like looking at your body in the mirror and feeling like you're too fat.
- ▶ 46:57 Shaan Puri So, you know, you had, uh, Facebook, which was 2004, and then roughly 2012, you had this next generation of social networks, and those were Snapchat, Instagram, and they were taking off. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:42 Shaan Puri So every decade or so, there's a new big hit social product, Facebook, then Instagram, Snapchat, now TikTok.
2 Trends Hidden in Plain Sight (+ $1M ideas)
- ▶ 4:01 Sam Parr We made the, uh, the Instagram of these guys, but they built this flea market. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:00 Sam Parr So go to the Instagram. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:22 Shaan Puri How they turned this, like, thing that seemed like work and kind of hard into something that was fun, a bit of an Instagram opportunity, and almost like a-
- ▶ 48:04 Shaan Puri Billy, uh, took to Instagram to address the concerns.
5 Conversations that broke our frames this week
- ▶ 3:29 Shaan Puri And when they hear photos, they think about Facebook and Instagram. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:43 Sam Parr She's got an Instagram called Turtle Creek Lane. 4 times in the scene
He launched a sweaty startup in high school. Now he'll be a millionaire by 18
We spent 48 hours with MrBeast + 11 Billionaires
56 Minutes of Money Wisdom for High-Earning Couples
- ▶ 43:51 Ramit Sethi It's literally one episode after another of nitpicking, and the perfect example I have is a, uh, a person who wrote me on Instagram DM,
The 2024 Milly Awards
The #1 Most Underrated Quality in an Entrepreneur
- ▶ 44:44 Shaan Puri You could literally be publishing on YouTube, on TikTok, on Instagram, on Spotify.
- ▶ 49:50 Shaan Puri They're all got an Instagram.
3 Stories of Crazy Geniuses: Fenn’s Treasure, Michael Saylor’s Infinite Money Glitch + more
- ▶ 6:04 Shaan Puri One of the things that he did at the time that I remember was he grew his Twitter and Instagram accounts like crazy by doing a very simple thing.
- ▶ 19:22 Shaan Puri They're going to spend a million dollars on an influencer campaign with these Instagram moms.
$100B Founder Breaks Down The Biggest AI Business Opportunities For 2025
- ▶ 38:53 Shaan Puri I'm just using, like, kind of round numbers or whatever, but it's the same way that right now, if you're a content creator, you go post on Instagram, it's pretty tough.
- ▶ 1:15:58 Shaan Puri Now you can have Instagram, right?
3 Stories Of People Making Millions In Weird Ways
- ▶ 17:55 Shaan Puri If she could have just owned her own Instagram and TikTok channels and built everything off the back of that,
6 College Students Pitch Us Their Startups | MFM Shark Tank
- ▶ 35:30 Shaan Puri They know how to tell their story on TikTok and Instagram and YouTube, and that's where they're getting just like a sort of runaway growth compared to everybody else who just doing very basic static ads on Facebook type of thing.
3 Killer Businesses Hidden in Plain Sight
- ▶ 6:06 Shaan Puri Apps like TikTok and Instagram Reels to a slightly lesser extent, YouTube Shorts to a lesser extent, you can just, once you find a format that works, you can literally repost the same thing, and the algorithm is just going to say, yep,
Did the creator of Bitcoin just get unmasked?
The guy who gets paid $80K/yr to do nothing
- ▶ 30:04 Shaan Puri They have a Instagram account called politicians
- ▶ 34:26 Shaan Puri And then she posted on Instagram, and that kind of drives the flywheel, and then people like us talk about this, and it gets on the local news,
From Navy SEAL To Viral Content Creator - MrBallen’s Insane Story
- ▶ 21:12 John B. Allen (MrBallen) Weird sketch comedy on, on Instagram and, and LinkedIn.
How I Went From Broke to $7 Million With An Airbnb Business
- ▶ 8:49 Isaac French 40,000 of direct bookings and 5000 followers on Instagram from scratch. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:03 Isaac French Well, with this property, we built a 150,000 followers on Instagram plus like 30 or 40,000 people on the email list.
- ▶ 15:11 Shaan Puri And you had never realized that I should be using Instagram content through influencers or, or through my own to do direct bookings. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:24 Isaac French With an iPhone and a 20 dollar tripod on Instagram and TikTok.
- ▶ 24:01 Isaac French They've got 600,000 followers on Instagram.
- ▶ 28:52 Isaac French Absolutely blown up on Instagram recently.
- ▶ 41:25 Isaac French And I just like throw together a nice green screen, maybe video of me talking about it and telling that story, like really snappy on Instagram, on Instagram and TikTok.
- ▶ 46:37 Sam Parr So in order to learn Instagram, I got to study it and I'm going to execute perfectly.
- ▶ 51:01 Shaan Puri This video on his Instagram and it's him in a flannel shirt and the like old timey Irish hat and the caption is my kale is doing well.
From Nonprofit Founder To Building A $300M Pilates Business
Life Hacks From The King of Introverts + 7 Business Ideas
The Top 0.1% Of Ideas I've Stumbled Upon On The Internet
- ▶ 27:50 unnamed speaker Slack, WhatsApp, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram.
Jesse Pujji on Bootstrapping a +$1B Business + Selling To The Ultra Rich
- ▶ 6:15 Jesse Pujji And meanwhile, Instagram and TikTok have got these like full vertical videos. 2 times in the scene
Jack Smith On Biohacking, 2 Easy Business Ideas, PLUS Why Procrastination Is Good
- ▶ 29:55 Shaan Puri Like there's Instagram influencer, like transplant daddies that are like the, the, the, the Turkish guys and they're just every day.
How To Grow An Audience If You Have 0 Followers
- ▶ 3:19 Shaan Puri Every platform has some version of this, Instagram, Twitter, whatever your, your platform is.
- ▶ 7:26 Shaan Puri If I just took my set of inner nerdy obsessions, it's like, oh man, I really love, on one hand, I love startups and building companies, and I'm, I love going and reading old stories about the PayPal mafia and leaked email transactions…
I Lost Everything Twice… Then Made $26M In 18 Months
- ▶ 4:27 Alex Hormozi There's a guy who hits me up randomly on Instagram says, Hey, do you have work for me?
He Sold His Company For $15M, Then Got A Job At McDonald’s
- ▶ 18:19 Sam Parr As Instagram before Instagram, but I didn't know that it was that financially successful. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:43 Shaan Puri Now the skills trainers have their own Instagram.
6 Things I Learned From Not Drinking For 1 Year
10 AI Business Ideas From The Queen of AI ft. Sarah Guo
- ▶ 14:17 Shaan Puri This is like an Instagram guy. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:20 Shaan Puri But then, you know, Instagram, Snapchat, you know, they, they actually, they stuck.
Business Brainstorm: SAT Prep Cartoons, The Onion For Millennial Moms & More
We Bet This App Idea Could Be Bigger Than Reddit
- ▶ 1:25 Shaan Puri There was a Instagram influencer. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:07 Shaan Puri And again, I was kind of like, dude, why are you paying to this random Instagram influencer?
- ▶ 58:29 Shaan Puri Brian, I love you, but I will not use this website until you link their names to an Instagram. 2 times in the scene