Jack Smith

11 statements across 4 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement May 28, 2021 by Shaan Puri · said 87 times in 27 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

On the record as a speaker too: Jack Smith's record, appearances and statements → this page counts the times other people say the name.

Mentions by year

brought up most by Shaan Puri (46), Sam Parr (38), Andrew Wilkinson (2), Nick Gray (1)

tap a year for its mentions
00154308202020212022202320242025episodesmentions
048202020212022202320242025episodes it came up in
003468202020212022202320242025episodesmentions per episode
2025 22 mentions in 8 episodes 3 per episode
2024 30 mentions in 5 episodes 6 per episode
2023 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2022 12 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
2021 19 mentions in 6 episodes 3 per episode
2020 1 mention in 1 episode

every mention, scene by scene, with the transcript →

Everything said about Jack Smith, oldest first

May 28, 2021
Insight
Puri: Predicting winning social apps is nearly impossible even for top VCs
“And so Jack pointed out, he's like, if even the best guys who have had the home runs have a bunch of swings and misses with social, it just shows how hard it is to like correctly predict social before it plays out.”
Shaan Puri May 28, 2021 ▶ 21:14 How Vending Machines are Generating Millions & The Next Big Social App | My First Million #187
Jul 19, 2022 positive
Assertion Supported
Sam Parr: Jack Smith sold his company for $100 million
“Jack Smith, our good buddy is another one of those people. He started a company that he sold for a hundred million dollars, but like, he's not that like, he doesn't really care about that and he'll never tell you about it unless you ask about it, but he's happ…”
Sam Parr Jul 19, 2022 ▶ 1:01:10 Our Producer Had A 90-Minute Phone Call With Mr Beast…
Jun 28, 2024
Assertion Partly supported
Jack Smith Sold Ad-Tech Startup Vungle for $750 Million at 29
“He sold it for seven hundred fifty million when he was 29 years old, like crazy stuff.”
Sam Parr Jun 28, 2024 ▶ 18:46 Business Tricks We've Learned From Gamblers, Pickup Artists, & Feynman
Jun 28, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Amazon Banned Founder Jack Smith for Returning Too Many Test Purchases
“And at one point they banned him on Amazon. They banned him on Amazon for returning too much stuff because he would buy all of this stuff to test it out.”
Sam Parr Jun 28, 2024 ▶ 20:56 Business Tricks We've Learned From Gamblers, Pickup Artists, & Feynman
Aug 23, 2024
Disclosure
Smith is Building a Digital Detox Retreat For Burned-Out Tech Workers
“I'm building a place for them to detox from technology and recover from burnout.”
Jack Smith Aug 23, 2024 ▶ 32:26 Jack Smith On Biohacking, 2 Easy Business Ideas, PLUS Why Procrastination Is Good
Aug 23, 2024
Disclosure
Smith Owns an At-Home Penile Shockwave Therapy Machine
“I'm starting doing this treatment where it's like shockwave therapy that you shockwave your penis, et cetera. And he's like, I'm going once a month, et cetera. I'm like, dude, I have that machine in my house.”
Jack Smith Aug 23, 2024 ▶ 11:13 Jack Smith On Biohacking, 2 Easy Business Ideas, PLUS Why Procrastination Is Good
Aug 23, 2024
Disclosure
Smith: Vungle Tested Six Landing Pages in Three Weeks Before Succeeding
“Like, we created landing pages for each. In the space of something like two, three weeks, we iterated on six different ideas and the right idea the market pulled it out with us.”
Jack Smith Aug 23, 2024 ▶ 55:46 Jack Smith On Biohacking, 2 Easy Business Ideas, PLUS Why Procrastination Is Good
Aug 23, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Smith: Sweat Gland Freezing Reduced His Sweating by 90 Percent
“One bit I did that was actually really effective for me is I, before I sweated a lot, so kind of embarrassing, you know, if your t-shirt or whatever you're sweating, and I did this thing where they actually freeze the sweat glands under your arm, and it, now I…”
Jack Smith Aug 23, 2024 ▶ 30:22 Jack Smith On Biohacking, 2 Easy Business Ideas, PLUS Why Procrastination Is Good
Aug 23, 2024 positive
Insight
Smith: 99% of Biohacking Fails, But 1% Yields Major Impact
“So 99% of it, I don't notice anything. However, one percent, I do notice big things. And for me, it's kind of like, okay, We don't know what works, what doesn't work, but I've only got one life, and I've only got one body, and just experimenting, I can find th…”
Jack Smith Aug 23, 2024 ▶ 4:04 Jack Smith On Biohacking, 2 Easy Business Ideas, PLUS Why Procrastination Is Good
Aug 23, 2024
Disclosure
Puri Slept in His Office 215 Days During a Single Year
“When I first met Sam and I met you, Jack, I was probably 2425 years old. I remember that that year I slept in the office, I think, 215 days out of the year.”
Shaan Puri Aug 23, 2024 ▶ 36:53 Jack Smith On Biohacking, 2 Easy Business Ideas, PLUS Why Procrastination Is Good
Aug 23, 2024 positive
Opinion
Smith: An Energy Enhancement System Cured His Chronic Daily Headaches
“The, I actually think that this EES thing is the only thing that worked. I just went in there and I sat in a lawn chair for an hour, maybe two hours, and then just came out and in my stomach, like I can feel my stomach, like reorganizing, et cetera, churning. …”
Jack Smith Aug 23, 2024 ▶ 7:28 Jack Smith On Biohacking, 2 Easy Business Ideas, PLUS Why Procrastination Is Good
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 300 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.