McDonald's

includes McDonald's Dollar Menu, McDonald's Happy Meal, McDonald's France, McDonald's Monopoly

7 statements across 7 episodes · 6 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Nov 19, 2021 by Shaan Puri · said 106 times in 45 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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brought up most by Shaan Puri (70), Sam Parr (25), Matt Mazzeo (3), Andrew Wilkinson (2), Will Guidara (1), Scott Galloway (1), Sarah Guo (1), Palmer Luckey (1)

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2025 19 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
2024 36 mentions in 10 episodes 4 per episode
2023 10 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
2022 7 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
2021 30 mentions in 15 episodes 2 per episode

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Everything said about McDonald's, oldest first

Nov 19, 2021 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Puri: Drive-thru order takers will be outsourced remotely before full AI automation
“First, they're going to do the remote thing that I talked about, which is Instead of paying somebody 24 dollars in California, they're going to find somebody in Nebraska who can zoom in and say, can I take your order? As long as they could say, can I take your…”
Shaan Puri Nov 19, 2021 ▶ 39:46 Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, "How Much is Pomp Worth?", and More
Sep 8, 2022 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
McDonald's employs 10% of the 3.5 million Americans working in fast food
“About three and a half million Americans work in fast food jobs, which is like a point. That's significant, dude. That's significant. 10% of those work at McDonald's. So McDonald's employs like 253 100,000 people.”
Sam Parr Sep 8, 2022 ▶ 36:31 4 Robot Businesses That Will Take Over The Fast Food Industry (#359)
Oct 12, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Shaan Puri: Celebrity commercial shoots will be replaced by API licenses
“And so, you know, in the future, when LeBron James does a McDonald's commercial, he's not gonna have to go fly to Georgia and film that commercial. They're just gonna set, put in an API request pay the money, Get the license to his face, his voice, his whateve…”
Shaan Puri Oct 12, 2023 ▶ 22:07 10 AI Startup Ideas in 43 Minutes (#506)
Apr 1, 2024 positive
Insight
Pairing luxury streetwear designers with casual licensed IP creates compelling merch
“If you take this kind of, like, luxury, high fashion streetwear type of, like, designer, but you use them on licensed IP that's usually pretty low-end casual, you get kind of an interesting result.”
Shaan Puri Apr 1, 2024 ▶ 29:37 3 Anti-Comfort Businesses That Are Making Millions
Sep 20, 2024 positive
Opinion
Puri: MrBeast Succeeds by Making Mass-Market 'McDonald's' Content
“Mr. Beast has made it his success because he's decided to be McDonald's on the internet, right? He is Creating the videos that are mass market that are going to get the most number of views, even if they're not the most life changing, introspective, emotional,…”
Shaan Puri Sep 20, 2024 ▶ 34:19 How I Went From Broke to $7 Million With An Airbnb Business
Sep 10, 2025 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Puri: Tom Ryan Created the Dollar Menu, McFlurry, and Smashburger
“So he creates the dollar menu, creates the McFlurry and then he goes to Quiznos. Quiznos poaches him. He does a little bit of work there, but the owner of Quiznos is like, yo, this is the guy. So he says, forget Quiznos. Let's just create a whole new concept t…”
Shaan Puri Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 12:31 This guy made Millions by inventing the $1 Menu
Sep 4, 2026 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Puri: LeBron rejected McDonald's and Coca-Cola for Blaze Pizza equity
“You know, LeBron did a bunch of things that most guys don't do, so he turned down McDonald's and Coca-Cola early on, and why, one of the reasons why was, they basically discovered this pizza chain called Blaze, and they were like, look, you could do this McDon…”
Shaan Puri Sep 4, 2026 ▶ 52:37 How to use your "useless” hobby to make money
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