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Ex-Tesla President reveals EVERYTHING Elon does to win Apr 9, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 10:06 Jon McNeill Go down the hall to the people at the Microsoft store who have to sell a slate two doors down from a Mac, MacBook Air.
  • ▶ 25:50 Jon McNeill I, I get that it's easier to write to Amazon, Azure, and Google, and it's super difficult to write to an infinity number of tech stacks in SMB.

The Simplest Way To Make $1,000,000 Isn't Starting A Business (it's working in one of these 10) Mar 11, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 46:23 John Coogan That you can import into your valuation model for whether or not Microsoft is going to beat earnings.
  • ▶ 46:41 John Coogan But you can also buy models that are prebuilt, like Excel models with data in them.

Dumb iPhone Apps Are Making People Rich Again (Here’s how) Feb 24, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 20:38 Pat Walls He goes for like the Microsofts, the figmas, and he basically just sends them, he helps them build YouTube teams, and he sends them packaging ideas. 2 times in the scene

Elon’s wildest interview yet — our reaction Feb 18, 2026 · 2 mentions

Scott Galloway: Why I'm selling my American stocks Feb 16, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:01:57 Scott Galloway What I've noticed is the Trump administration only walks back things when the markets move, and the fastest way to make the markets move right now is to go after the companies that are 40% of the S&P by unsubscribing from, from Amazon,… 2 times in the scene

The High School Dropout Who Made Billions & Bought An NBA team Nov 5, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 27:51 Ryan Smith You know, we had the market, Microsoft was coming, like, we sold too early.

5 AI Tools I’d Use to Make $1M (w/o employees, money, or time) Oct 21, 2025 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 18:58 Greg Isenberg Like, what are you more interested in talking about, uh, AI Excel or content automation on TikTok, getting followers on TikTok?
  • ▶ 19:07 Sam Parr Uh, I, I don't like TikTok, but I do want to know how to get followers, but I want to know more so the Excel thing because I've been trying to find a replacement for 9 times in the scene

How two straight guys bought Grindr and made $2B Oct 13, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 33:55 Sam Parr I don't think that as having the skill set of looking at Excel and like running the math and doing the numbers, but is it a, just not that challenging or did you just have to acquire that skill?

Brainstorming $10M AI Business Ideas w/ the Airtable Founder Jul 11, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 18:56 Howie Liu The technology became very mature, and then it really became about, like, how can you go and either leverage your existing distribution if you're an incumbent, so it's really hard to compete against big existing players like Salesforce or…
  • ▶ 32:37 Howie Liu I, I did, um, and, uh, actually I was introduced to them by Peter Fenton from Benchmark, who's our investor at Airtable, and, uh, you know, just one of the most, like, phenomenal, uh, pickers of talent and opportunity, uh, spaces, uh, that…

Business as a sport, Surge AI, and Waymo vs. Robotaxi Jun 25, 2025 · 1 mention

How the smartest founders are winning in AI Jun 4, 2025 · 1 mention

Asking A Billionaire How To Make $1,000,000 May 2, 2025 · 1 mention

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

  • ▶ 44:52 Shaan Puri So we're turning health into a sport and where they built a race track for sperm, two competitors, two samples, one microscopic finish line, and then they have a MS paint diagram of the track.

From making $6/week selling worms to making $110M+ Apr 15, 2025 · 15 mentions

  • ▶ 5:03 James Currier Microsoft operating system. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:37 James Currier And then maybe you work for a big company to get a good brand like Google or Microsoft or whatever.
  • ▶ 35:25 Shaan Puri When I was at Twitch, Microsoft tried to do a Microsoft YouTube. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:09:42 James Currier And that's why, that's why Nvidia is trying to get everyone to use CUDA because that's their operating system level that locks people into their software, which is more of a Microsoft. 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:13:19 James Currier And then I would create two or three applications, uh, the way Microsoft did in the nineties, like office or whatever.

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

  • ▶ 24:48 Will O'Brien Yeah, so I think, um, the first experiment of this was a Microsoft, Microsoft project.

He launched a sweaty startup in high school. Now he'll be a millionaire by 18 Mar 3, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 36:14 Shaan Puri And do you have like your Excel file that basically kind of shows your, your unit costs and your percentages? 3 times in the scene

We talk to the guy who knows Silicon Valley’s darkest secrets Feb 26, 2025 · 1 mention

What’s truly going on inside DOGE? Feb 17, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 40:13 Shaan Puri I read this story about Bill Gates, and it was a story about how Bill Gates was building Microsoft, and people don't know because Bill Gates is now a philanthropist slash like, you know. 4 times in the scene

The insane story of Blake Scholl: the high school dropout who’s building supersonic jets Feb 11, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 8:41 Shaan Puri Apple and Microsoft invested in Apple when they were big competitors.
  • ▶ 12:33 Shaan Puri So I think it was two weeks where he does like, he goes and buys a book because he's like, I don't know anything about how airplanes fly, but he goes and he buys a book and he creates an Excel spreadsheet on one tab was the cost model.

I run a $180M+ company...here's how I'm using AI on a daily basis Jan 24, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 43:44 Andrew Wilkinson So all these huge companies like, you know, uh, Amazon and Microsoft and Anthropic and whatever, they all need data centers and they need the data centers to be centralized in one place. 2 times in the scene

The Crazy Story of Google’s 7 Angel investors Jan 16, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:22 Shaan Puri After Google was started there, a company called Danger was started there, sold for five hundred million to Microsoft by the guy who created Android right after that.
  • ▶ 46:34 Shaan Puri It's the same way that, you know, Microsoft also invested in Apple and kind of saved Apple from failure at one point in time.

Investing Wisdom from Nassim Taleb, plus ChatGPT Questions That Will Change Your Life Jan 3, 2025 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 23:54 Sam Parr And you could do your KPIs, which is typically like an Excel spreadsheet, like
  • ▶ 25:45 Shaan Puri Yeah, I think the, uh, the CEO of Microsoft, um, I don't know if you heard this story, but I guess when Balmer stepped down and they needed a new CEO, um, and at the time, Microsoft was kind of in a downward, downward to flat. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 45:53 Shaan Puri Hey, I'm trying to do this in Excel, but I don't know how to do it. 2 times in the scene

The #1 Most Underrated Quality in an Entrepreneur Dec 18, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 57:46 Sam Parr Is this, all decisions, I think, I should, every big decision I have in life, I, I need to put together a PowerPoint like this. 3 times in the scene

6 College Students Pitch Us Their Startups | MFM Shark Tank Nov 8, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 1:17:03 Shaan Puri Do I really believe that you are going to be able to get people off of Outlook, off of Gmail, and onto your service? 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:17:12 Shaan Puri Google, Google's definitely going to be adding AI into this, and so is Superhuman, and so is Microsoft, right?

I failed 22 times... then I built a $2.5B Company Nov 6, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:00 Shaan Puri You were like, I'm going to test this idea with an Excel spreadsheet only.

How Silicon Valley’s Most Prolific Investor Picks Unicorns | Elad Gil Interview Oct 8, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:14 Elad Gil Minecraft was like, I don't know what, three people when Microsoft bought it.

10 Startups w/ Stock Grants That’ll Make You A Millionaire | Sara’s List 2024 Sep 13, 2024 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 35:26 Sam Parr It was also a cybersecurity cloud company sold to Microsoft for a billion dollars. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 48:58 Shaan Puri So, like, you know, OpenAI, ChatGPT, is, like, aligned with Microsoft, and Google's trying to do Gemini and all this stuff, but, like, if Perplexity keeps executing, you know, it's the way that Facebook bought WhatsApp for twenty billion,…
  • ▶ 57:58 Shaan Puri This is, um, instead of having to have Microsoft office, but have the software on my computer, have the file on my computer, I can just go to any computer anywhere, go to a doc. 2 times in the scene

Jesse Pujji on Bootstrapping a +$1B Business + Selling To The Ultra Rich Aug 26, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 18:47 Shaan Puri Any color coded Excel sheet, we're like, ah, this is great. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 52:53 Shaan Puri There's a funny tweet that Chamath put out the other day where he was like, Bill Gates, um, you know, if he had just basically held his Microsoft stock would be, I think the richest man in the world or, or, you know, number one or number…

Jack Smith On Biohacking, 2 Easy Business Ideas, PLUS Why Procrastination Is Good Aug 23, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 42:31 Shaan Puri Like, Paul Allen and Bill Gates, before they started Microsoft, they started, you know, TrafoData. 2 times in the scene

We Bet This App Idea Could Be Bigger Than Reddit Jul 19, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:03 Sam Parr And then I had like two or three growth people and they spent half of their time filling out Excel sheets to try to just track all the information.

3 Startup Ideas: Mouse Jigglers, Employee Monitoring Softwares and Photoshop Copycats Jul 12, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:42 Shaan Puri I mean, it looks like After Effects and it just says free alternative to editors such as Adobe After Effects, web based, nothing to install works on Windows, Mac and Linux.

Our buddy sold his app for $200M in just 6 weeks?! Jul 10, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 35:04 Sam Parr It's just like, you're practically working on an Excel sheet on how to change things.

How I Made My First $1M - The Andrew Wilkinson Story Jul 5, 2024 · 1 mention

Business Tricks We've Learned From Gamblers, Pickup Artists, & Feynman Jun 28, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 56:05 Shaan Puri We're trying to run like, we're like typing Excel, like how much money are we winning or losing?

3 Things You Need To Outperform 99% Of Entrepreneurs Jun 21, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 56:39 Shaan Puri Well, Sam, what's, uh, what's Microsoft's core value? 2 times in the scene

25 Years Of Founder WISDOM In 55 Minutes (ft. Jason Fried) Jun 5, 2024 · 1 mention

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

  • ▶ 38:40 Sam Parr And then you get some type of like doc send or PowerPoint or you get something

How To Master Storytelling ft. David Perell May 24, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 49:15 Shaan Puri So she, um, for anybody who doesn't know, she's basically like an Excel influencer, for lack of a better word. 2 times in the scene

CEOs Pay Him $10,000 Per Appointment May 8, 2024 · 1 mention

Her Viral Formula Breaks 100 Million Views On YouTube Shorts (ft. Jenny Hoyos) May 3, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:39 Shaan Puri She creates content of all things about Microsoft Excel, how to use it better, but like she's super high energy. 2 times in the scene

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

  • ▶ 32:00 Sam Parr Um, yeah, man, dude, I, if I had, if I could purchase like a really cool old, uh, Apple or Mike, like remember how Apple used to have the, the Apple that was a rainbow or how Microsoft had the, the four squares that the retro vintage…

The Man Who Owns 1% Of ALL Bitcoin Mar 27, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 49:22 Shaan Puri And he's like, yeah, this guy Vivek, he's like, you know how Office went from, like, Microsoft Office went from something you down, buy a disk, and you download, and you, like, type in the key, you pay 30 dollars once to, like, this thing…
  • ▶ 49:22 Shaan Puri And he's like, yeah, this guy Vivek, he's like, you know how Office went from, like, Microsoft Office went from something you down, buy a disk, and you download, and you, like, type in the key, you pay 30 dollars once to, like, this thing…
  • ▶ 49:37 Shaan Puri Like, he was at Microsoft, he, like, created at his desk. 2 times in the scene

It’s The Most Taboo Business Model We’ve Ever Seen Mar 25, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 27:43 Shaan Puri Like Miss Excel did this with just teaching people Excel. 2 times in the scene

Elon Musk SUES Sam Altman Mar 8, 2024 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 53:25 Shaan Puri You take fifty million dollars from me, you hire the best people in the world, and you, you write down that this is your charter, and then you end up a closed source, maximum for-profit company owned by the most valuable company in the… 7 times in the scene

3 Niche Business Ideas We Thought Would Fail… But Actually Crushed It Feb 16, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:51 Sam Parr Do you know how, like, Microsoft used to have Clippy, who would, like,

What Stock Would Warren Buffett Buy If He Started Over In 2024? Feb 12, 2024 · 1 mention

How This +$80M Founder Launches A Startup In A Weekend | ft. Noah Kagain (#546) Feb 2, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 21:59 Noah Kagan I don't even know if that was around probably Microsoft paint.
  • ▶ 24:58 Shaan Puri Well, I think there's even more revisionist history, which, which is interesting here because then later there's another story that Zuck actually accepted an offer from, I think it was, I think it was Yahoo and, um, there's the Yahoo or… 2 times in the scene

If I Had To Make $1 Billion... Here’s The Business I Would Start Dec 8, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:57 Sam Parr And what he said to me was basically, look, you kind of have to detach yourself, and your payroll needs to just, you just, it's just a number on an Excel sheet.

From $0 to $100 Million In 3 Years Selling Cold Plunges (#527) Dec 6, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:28 Shaan Puri It shows their ad spend, and it shows it broke it down on Google, Facebook, and even Bing a little bit.

99 Years of Charlie Munger Wisdom in 52 Minutes (#525) Nov 30, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:36 Sam Parr Dude, if you ask people at The Hustle, like one of my big weaknesses is, is it's looking at the numbers of the Excel sheet, and you know, you see like, uh, seven million here, uh, and you're like, what if we took that seven and deleted it…

3 Business Ideas You Should Start in 2024 (ft. Pomp) (#524) Nov 29, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 54:50 Anthony Pompliano They're just going to get an Excel sheet with like, how do I get rich without doing a lot of work and go do those opportunities, right?

My $100M Mistake + 6 Company Exit F**k Ups To Avoid (#522) Nov 24, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 36:15 Sam Parr When you sell a company for 300,000,015 million, they basically give you this Excel sheet, and it has five pages, and each page has literally 50 bullet points, and each bullet point is a big deal.

How I Bought A Multi-Million Dollar Egg Carton Business For $0 | Sarah Moore Interview Nov 2, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:51 Sarah Moore So we created a big Excel file, guessed the combinations, and then ran them through something.

This Hedge Fund Manager Got Away With Insider Trading… Then Made Billions (#509) Oct 19, 2023 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 28:37 Shaan Puri I'm either going to go long Microsoft and short Apple, or I'm going to go long Apple and short Microsoft. 4 times in the scene

Our 2020 Predictions For OpenAI Came True… Here’s What’s Next (#508) Oct 17, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:01:13 Shaan Puri And in Silicon Valley, people were like kind of having fun with it a little bit, but it didn't seem like a serious, like he's like, I had like job offers from Microsoft or whatever.

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

  • ▶ 15:00 Shaan Puri Yeah, one last thing on the Facebook thing, I think, but here's my random prediction, in 10 to 15 years, Facebook is gonna be, Facebook, like, Meta is gonna own the largest work platform, so I think that they're gonna be the, the Zoom, the…
  • ▶ 45:04 Shaan Puri Person out there that made some software, sold it to some golf clubs, and what a company like Constellation will do is they're like, perfect, because that software is not going to be like, you know, Microsoft is not going to go compete in…

CEO Lessons: Bulls**t Mission Statements, Firing People & Saying ‘NO' (#505) Oct 10, 2023 · 1 mention

Jesse Itzler's Exact Playbook For Creating HIT AFTER HIT (#504) Oct 5, 2023 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 28:50 Jesse Itzler So we came back the next week, and we realized we can never sell them in a PowerPoint, which is like what everyone, guy sees a hundred PowerPoints every year. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 47:45 Jesse Itzler He takes the liking to me, but he says, we don't buy PowerPoints or Coca-Cola. 2 times in the scene

Cody Ko On Building A YouTube Empire, Partying With Elon & Stand-Up Comedy (#503) Oct 3, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 33:54 Shaan Puri She goes, she finds it for all the different sources, puts it in an Excel sheet, takes a screenshot, text it to me so that when I wake up in the morning, I don't go on Twitter or check my email.

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

  • ▶ 12:21 Shaan Puri She goes, she finds them for all the different sources, puts it in an Excel sheet, takes a screenshot, text it to me so that when I wake up in the morning, I don't go on Twitter or check my email.

This $3B Founder Is The Next Elon Musk (#499) Sep 26, 2023 · 1 mention

Martin Shkreli Reveals How He Made His First $100 Million (#445) Apr 20, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:05:57 Martin Shkreli And the companies that are sort of missing this and messing it up are kind of like too close to the, to sort of reality and, and the day-to-day product management to even see it and really understand it, that people wanted this, you know,…
  • ▶ 1:34:16 Martin Shkreli I like Microsoft. 2 times in the scene

Brainstorming ChatGPT Business Ideas With A Billionaire | ft. Dharmesh Shah (#438) Mar 30, 2023 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 54:31 Dharmesh Shah I have to kind of catch myself, but, um, and so, 17 years ago I had, and I, this is before HubSpot, um, I had this idea and the idea was, um, everyone was using kind of email and Outlook back then.
  • ▶ 54:52 Dharmesh Shah Uh, you know, I just want to be able to do that and type an email up and have her like, oh, I have this file in our shared file server in SharePoint somewhere.
  • ▶ 57:53 Dharmesh Shah We went from DOS to Windows, which is we went from a character-based interface to a graphical mouse-based click-and-touch interface.
  • ▶ 58:00 Dharmesh Shah That's the thing we built Microsoft on, which lasted for decades.

Facebook's Stock Is Up 43%, Jack Butcher's NFT Makes Millions & More Tech News (#418) Feb 10, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 6:03 Shaan Puri He's like, oh, I was at Microsoft.
  • ▶ 6:08 Shaan Puri I invented, uh, the, the, you know, Microsoft three 65, like, uh, you know, I was like, we should go to the cloud and make this a subscription and nobody agreed with me.

The Boys React: Tech Layoffs, IG Founder Starts A New Company & More Tech News (#415) Feb 3, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:48 unnamed speaker That includes 12,000 at Google, 18,000 at Amazon, 11,000 at Meta, 10,000 at Microsoft.

Behind The Scenes of Selling My Company For Millions | Suli Ali (#410) Jan 24, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:42 Shaan Puri You worked at Microsoft, you quit, you decided to start your own company.

The 2022 Milly Awards (#401) Dec 29, 2022 · 2 mentions

BREAKING: Shaan Sells the Milk Road - A Conversation With the Buyers Dec 17, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:27:42 Mike Wittmeyer He's just like a, if you give him a business and like an Excel sheet and a few weeks to like, look at it, he's going to come back with like, here are the three things that this could be doing that would like to an exit.

From Flipping iPhones To Selling Oculus For $2 Billion To Facebook | Palmer Luckey (#378) Oct 25, 2022 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 16:04 Palmer Luckey And that's what you're going to need to compete with Google, to compete with Sony, to compete with Microsoft, all of which have seen what you're doing. 5 times in the scene

9 Business Ideas To Profit From The 2022 A.I. Gold Rush (Using Dall-E & GPT3) (#376) Oct 18, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 10:06 Sam Parr But he says stuff like, you know, that's the problem I've always had with Microsoft.

This Guy Went From $0 to Billionaire By Starting A Toy Factory In China (#372) Oct 11, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 36:18 Sam Parr The alpha accountant is gonna be his new thing, and he's gonna have a, he's gonna have a Twitter handle on, like, Excel courses. 2 times in the scene

How Successful Startups Got Their First 1000 Customers (Uber, Product Hunt & More) (#362) Sep 15, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 33:33 Sam Parr His Microsoft one was around also 200,000 dollars a year. 2 times in the scene

4 Robot Businesses That Will Take Over The Fast Food Industry (#359) Sep 8, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 56:28 Sam Parr Bio just says like, I used to work with Bill Gates at Microsoft.
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