Japan, every mention
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every year anyone Sam Parr 36Shaan Puri 29Steph Smith 9Calley Means 6Ishan Haque 4Sheel Mohnot 3Nader Al-Naji 2Martin Shkreli 2Will O'Brien 1Thomas Braziel 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Japan comes up
Steph Smith: “This opportunity is totally overlooked”
- ▶ 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)
- ▶ 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
Ideas That Sound Illegal (But Print Money Anyway)
- ▶ 5:52 Sheel Mohnot So Japan did this in the eighties. 3 times in the scene
How to Get Rich (without luck, talent, or a trust fund)
- ▶ 6:36 Shaan Puri He lives half the year in Bali, half the year in Japan.
How To Turn $100K into $4,000,000 with Distressed Investing
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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)
- ▶ 1:14 Matt Mazzeo So, uh, we took a, we took a few months and lived in Japan and Korea.
How Nick Saban’s Side Hustle Might Make Him a Billionaire
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
The guy who gets paid $80K/yr to do nothing
- ▶ 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
The Top 0.1% Of Ideas I've Stumbled Upon On The Internet
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 32:39 Shaan Puri It is huge in Japan right now. 2 times in the scene
The Simple Newsletter Making $20M+ A Year With 1 Employee
- ▶ 40:11 Kevin Van Trump Then I'm going to sell this sperm all over in Japan, all over the world.
The Dark Story Behind Ozempic’s $500B Business Empire
- ▶ 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
How Gary Vee Predicts The Next Facebook (Every Time)
- ▶ 42:04 Gary Vaynerchuk (Gary Vee) You think about, like, what happened in Japan, or all this stuff, like, it's tough.
The 5 Most Interesting Billionaires Alive...
- ▶ 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?!
3 Anti-Comfort Businesses That Are Making Millions
- ▶ 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)
$20M In ONE Day?! (#544)
- ▶ 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)
Wait, My Intern Became a 21-Year-Old Millionaire?? (#510)
- ▶ 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)
How I Live On $25,000/Month In New York City
Martin Shkreli Reveals How He Made His First $100 Million (#445)
- ▶ 1:01:53 Martin Shkreli But then in like Japan, the way you say no can be found to be insulting.
- ▶ 1:17:42 Martin Shkreli So Japan will have this for free tomorrow.
The Boys React: Tech Layoffs, IG Founder Starts A New Company & More Tech News (#415)
How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388)
5 Business Ideas With High Demand & Low Supply | Start These In 2022 (#374)
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, "How Much is Pomp Worth?", and More
Shaan Challenges Sam to Ignore His Limits, Michael Rubin is the Billy of the Week, and More
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 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
What Venture Capital Will Look Like in the Future | My First Million #215
How to Build a Community | My First Million #213
- ▶ 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
When to Go All In on an Idea & the Crypto Exchange That Could Have Been | My First Million #200
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
Furqan Rydhan on What It's Like Co-founding a $20B Company | My First Million #180
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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)
- ▶ 4:52 Shaan Puri He went for the Japan premium, which was far less appealing. 6 times in the scene