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Steph Smith: “This opportunity is totally overlooked” Apr 14, 2026 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 3:01 Steph Smith So, I'd like you to guess the chance of a newborn girl in Japan as of twenty-twenty data. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 11:46 Steph Smith Also, the, the rest of that stat talks about, in Japan, the number of nursing homes has risen nearly 50% over the last decade, and Japan is interesting because it's kind of like this early case study 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 58:18 Steph Smith Last month it was on Japan.

$100M+ Advice That'll Piss Off Every Business Guru (ft. DHH) Mar 17, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 59:35 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) And I've now spent well over 20 years just absolutely loving the Ruby programming language because some guy in Japan rearranged the priorities of what was permissible to care about as a software developer.

4 dumb ideas that made people rich Jan 23, 2026 · 2 mentions

Ideas That Sound Illegal (But Print Money Anyway) Nov 26, 2025 · 3 mentions

How to Get Rich (without luck, talent, or a trust fund) Sep 24, 2025 · 1 mention

How To Turn $100K into $4,000,000 with Distressed Investing Sep 19, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:00 Thomas Braziel Eventually, they filed for insolvency in Japan in what's called a chapter 15 in the States.

I built a billion dollar company in 18 months Aug 20, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:26 Eric Glyman And yet housing isn't so crazy, unaffordable is like Tokyo or you go to Japan and it's because they actually, most of the home builders are home manufacturers.

How to Scale a Profitable Agency with 0 Employees (Using AI Agents) Jun 6, 2025 · 1 mention

How Nick Saban’s Side Hustle Might Make Him a Billionaire Apr 28, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 37:34 Shaan Puri Then he would take that final thing, and then he would send it to a human dude who was living in Japan, who would just, like, proofread it overnight, and they'd be like, yep, this all, this is, like, legitimate fact check, just kind of,…

7 Wild Business Ideas for this $3 Trillion Dollar Frontier Apr 7, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:03 Will O'Brien Yeah, but in developed countries, it's not as, you know, we've developed logistics, which means you can go down the street and walk into some sushi bar and get, like, you know, bluefin tuna probably flew in last night from Japan.

56 Minutes of Money Wisdom for High-Earning Couples Jan 6, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 46:43 Sam Parr And a lot of, like, this Japanese shit that I love, it's, like, pretty expensive.

The guy who gets paid $80K/yr to do nothing Oct 2, 2024 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 0:02 Shaan Puri There is a guy in Japan who I read about who is making 80,000 dollars a year for doing nothing. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 7:20 Sam Parr What I'm saying is what this guy about, uh, in Japan is experiencing is this lonely thing. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:42 Shaan Puri Because loneliness is not a only, only a Japan thing.

Life Hacks From The King of Introverts + 7 Business Ideas Sep 6, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:50 Sam Parr Jetting off to Japan on a blind date, and I'm like, oh, that adventure seems fun.

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

  • ▶ 32:04 George Mack And you've got China and Japan on your doorstep, which historically not the friendliest, uh, people to have on your doorstep.

3 Underdog Stories That’ll Get You Inspired This Week Jul 31, 2024 · 2 mentions

The Simple Newsletter Making $20M+ A Year With 1 Employee Jul 1, 2024 · 1 mention

The Dark Story Behind Ozempic’s $500B Business Empire Jun 26, 2024 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 3:25 Calley Means Uh, the childhood obesity rate in Japan is three percent. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 46:49 Calley Means Because I don't think the Japanese kids are, you know, just much less lazy and less suicidal than Americans at a three percent, you know, they have a three percent obesity rate. 4 times in the scene

He Turned A $300/Mo Gardening Side Hustle Into $45 Million/Year | Kevin Espiritu Interview May 31, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 57:39 Sam Parr It's like, what they all have in common is that, uh, like in Osaka, Japan, or, uh, like they lie about their age.

How Gary Vee Predicts The Next Facebook (Every Time) May 22, 2024 · 1 mention

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

  • ▶ 21:17 Shaan Puri I feel like this is a common blueprint for coming up with, you know, really, uh, really big businesses, which is you go to Japan, you observe Japanese culture, you find the most interesting bits of it, and then you export that culture to a…

This Gas Station Pizza Business Makes $540M/Yr?! May 10, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 35:48 Sam Parr And I talked to him and people are reaching out to him from all over Japan.

3 Anti-Comfort Businesses That Are Making Millions Apr 1, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 25:59 Sam Parr This is very weird, but I recently read a book called How, How Japan Saved American Fashion, and the story is basically after World War II, America takes over Japan. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 33:01 Shaan Puri I was in Japan. 2 times in the scene

6 Retro Business Ideas That Could Be As Big As LEGO ($11.8B) Jan 31, 2024 · 2 mentions

$20M In ONE Day?! (#544) Jan 29, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 32:02 Shaan Puri That, that white shoe that looks like it's from Japan, that's like 70 dollars or something, 45 dollars.

Brainstorming Ideas with The $200M Man | ft. Patrick Campbell (#519) Nov 16, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 10:36 Sam Parr I think that Japan, I mean, you looked into this more than I, Japan has suffered from this, and isn't there like a, 2 times in the scene

Wait, My Intern Became a 21-Year-Old Millionaire?? (#510) Oct 20, 2023 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 55:09 Ishan Haque And we got pretty lucky in some parts of Asia, especially Japan, right?
  • ▶ 1:17:10 Ishan Haque Uh, this one's kind of related to, like, maybe, uh, what you did with Shepard, but, um, so recently we, like, we, we had to expand to Japan, right? 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:28:17 Shaan Puri Hiring these kids in Japan because of this.

Metaverse IRL, Bollywood Protein Powder & AI Gadgets That Suck (#507) Oct 13, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 11:40 Sam Parr This guy in Japan came out with this thing. 2 times in the scene

How I Live On $25,000/Month In New York City Sep 29, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:14 Sam Parr Japan has this, like this philosophy where I think I said it last time.

Martin Shkreli Reveals How He Made His First $100 Million (#445) Apr 20, 2023 · 2 mentions

The Boys React: Tech Layoffs, IG Founder Starts A New Company & More Tech News (#415) Feb 3, 2023 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 3:59 Sam Parr The Japanese, these news apps in Japan are, it works wonderfully. 4 times in the scene

How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388) Nov 22, 2022 · 1 mention

5 Business Ideas With High Demand & Low Supply | Start These In 2022 (#374) Oct 13, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:05:45 Steph Smith So Kirin, which is K-I-R-I-N, it's a company in Japan, and they partnered with a university, and they found a way to make, to basically use a super weak electrical current, both in bowls and chopsticks, so that when you're eating,…

Solana Billionaires, MFM Goes Viral on TikTok, Right to Be Forgotten, and More Jan 4, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:22:16 Shaan Puri At one point, it just, he expands through the franchising model, expands to 380 stores, Taiwan, Japan, everybody wants a piece of Glamour Shots.

The Story of Dark Web Kingpin Ross Ulbricht Dec 29, 2021 · 1 mention

Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, "How Much is Pomp Worth?", and More Nov 19, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 28:21 Sam Parr I think it was four or five or six years ago, and it was a guy in Japan. 2 times in the scene

Shaan Challenges Sam to Ignore His Limits, Michael Rubin is the Billy of the Week, and More Nov 5, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 56:22 Shaan Puri In Japan, they, they're like, oh, we have no market share in Japan. 2 times in the scene

The Next Big Social Media Network Will Be On the Blockchain. Nader Al-Naji Tells Us Why. Nov 3, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 54:25 Nader Al-Naji Uh, my friend and I, like, went to Japan and randomly tweeted him, and he was like, come by our office.
  • ▶ 1:03:37 Nader Al-Naji Um, you can read stories about how Facebook was just horrible in Japan for a really long time, and like nobody, you know, they had to make all these optimizations that were like clue G, uh, to, to, you know, they were just leaving on the…

How to Get a Slice of Harvard's Billion Dollar Case Study Industry | My First Million #222 Sep 29, 2021 · 1 mention

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

How to Build a Community | My First Million #213 Aug 25, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 52:49 Shaan Puri It sounds silly, but these are actually really popular games, uh, both in the U S but also in Japan. 2 times in the scene

Why You Shouldn't Be A Slave to a 40 Hour Work Week | My First Million #212 Aug 24, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 47:49 Sam Parr They ship them around to Japan, to, uh, Europe as like the spokesperson, because people just want to see who Bert is.

When to Go All In on an Idea & the Crypto Exchange That Could Have Been | My First Million #200 Jul 14, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:57 Shaan Puri He's like, just yesterday, Japan announced that they're going to double the money supply in the next 10 years.

How to launch a $100M DTC brand | My First Million #194 Jun 25, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:28 Justin Mares Make something that does 20 grand a month, and like, once we hit that threshold, we'll like, blow it all on a ridiculous trip to Japan.

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

  • ▶ 55:14 Sam Parr There, there's, I saw, I saw this guy in Japan, um, he's a billionaire entrepreneur, and like this is like his third or fourth swing, but he created a suit that had these ball, like these dots on this black suit, and he would send you this…

Furqan Rydhan on What It's Like Co-founding a $20B Company | My First Million #180 May 12, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:10 Furqan Rydhan He would talk to every single kind of Japanese mobile gaming company all night, and he would just grind.

Brainstorming Million Dollar Ideas with Elaine Zelby | My First Million Ep. #175 Apr 26, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 28:39 Shaan Puri And then you pick, you're like Japan, you go to Japan and you find this artifact and then you have to bid on it.

MFM #171: How to Generate Millions from Paid Events (Bootstrapped) Apr 16, 2021 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 4:52 Shaan Puri He went for the Japan premium, which was far less appealing. 6 times in the scene

MFM #166: Why a Sudoku Company Sold for $640m, "Opendoor for X" & Franchising Tech Companies Apr 2, 2021 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 35:51 Sam Parr And then another thing is in particular, China and Japan. 5 times in the scene

MFM #159: A 9-Figure Sex Toy Company & The Man With A Million Acres Mar 10, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:53 Sam Parr And by the way, this whole sex thing, this has been a problem in Japan, I think, for years.
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