Milk Road
also referred to as: the milk road
24 statements across 15 episodes · 8 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Oct 11, 2022 by Shaan Puri · said 125 times in 52 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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brought up most by Shaan Puri (81), Sam Parr (24), Austin Rief (8), Mike Wittmeyer (3), Kendall Saville (3), David Perell (3), Ishan Haque (2), Suleman "Suli" Ali (1)
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2025 7 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
- Five $10M+ Ideas (from a guy who's done it 3 times)
- I Did Nothing For 2 Weeks. It Made Me Better At Everything.
- How to go from founder to CEO (without imploding)
- How Nick Saban’s Side Hustle Might Make Him a Billionaire
- Just found out my neighbor’s business sold for $450M
- How to Make $1,000,000 After You Graduate (5 steps)
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 37 mentions in 17 episodes 2 per episode
- Brainstorming +$1M Weird Business Ideas With Morning Brew’s CEO Austin Rief (#543)
- Our buddy sold his app for $200M in just 6 weeks?!
- Building A 100+ Year Legacy + Peter Thiel’s Fellowship + Bomb Hiring Questions
- $100M Founder Reveals The Secret To Making Data Profitable ft. Anand Sanwal
- How To Master Storytelling ft. David Perell
- The AI App Doing $6M With 1 Employee
- We Bet This App Idea Could Be Bigger Than Reddit
- My Step-By-Step Process To Building a $1M+ Business
- 9 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 32 mentions in 14 episodes 2 per episode
- Behind The Scenes of Selling My Company For Millions | Suli Ali (#410)
- Sam Reveals The Company He's Worked On For The Last 8 Month
- How Dave Ramsey Built A $300M/Year Media Empire (#428)
- How We Got Our First 100 Customers (No Bulls**t, Specific Details) (#534)
- My $100M Mistake + 6 Company Exit F**k Ups To Avoid (#522)
- 4 Profitable Business Ideas That Men Are Sleeping On | ft. Codie Sanchez (#512)
- Wait, My Intern Became a 21-Year-Old Millionaire?? (#510)
- Favorite Finds: McDonald's Employee Goes Viral, Pelosi's Finances & How To Close A Deal (#498)
- 6 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 49 mentions in 15 episodes 3 per episode
- BREAKING: Shaan Sells the Milk Road - A Conversation With the Buyers
- Brainstorming The Best Business Ideas To Start In 2022 with Noah Kagan
- This Guy Went From $0 to Billionaire By Starting A Toy Factory In China (#372)
- 9 Business Ideas To Profit From The 2022 A.I. Gold Rush (Using Dall-E & GPT3) (#376)
- The 2022 Milly Awards (#401)
- Ranking The Best And Worst Businesses To Start w/ Billionaire Investor Andrew Wilkinson (#386)
- How To Get Started With Building An Audience in 2022 (#373)
- Our Producer Had A 90-Minute Phone Call With Mr Beast…
- 7 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
Everything said about Milk Road, oldest first
Oct 11, 2022
Oct 11, 2022 negative
Shaan: Professional branding is founder pride, unnecessary before 100k subscribers
“The brand will be important. I just don't think it's important for us to get our first 10,000 subscribers or even a 100,000 subscribers. So let's make a deal. If we can get to a 100,000 subscribers through our janky thing that will reward ourselves by investin…”
Oct 12, 2022 positive
Puri: Named Milk Road independently from himself to enable future sale
“When I created the milk road, it's intentionally not called Sean's crypto newsletter, which actually would have been easier at the start to get subscribers for because people already had bought into the Sean franchise... But instead I called it the milk road b…”
Dec 17, 2022
Dec 17, 2022 bullish
Puri Predicts His Retained Milk Road Equity Will Surge In Value
“And they're people that I thought if I give them, you know, this company and I own, I still own a minority stake in it, that minority stake in five years is going to be worth a lot because I believe in these guys and what they've done.”
Dec 17, 2022 bullish
Wittmeyer: Milk Road Hits Record Subscriber Growth During Market Crash
“What's been interesting for the milk road and our businesses, you know, this has actually been for growth, a good thing, right? We cover the news and there's certainly been a lot of news. So we're seeing, you know, record subs coming in that the reader scores …”
Dec 17, 2022 negative
Dec 17, 2022
Dec 17, 2022 positive
Dec 17, 2022
Dec 29, 2022 neutral
Shaan Puri sold Milk Road because he lacked a three-year commitment
“Same thing with the milk road. Part of the reason I sold it was I was like, I don't think this was the project that I want to work on every year. You know, for the next three years. And so if I don't want to work on it for the next three years, I should just s…”
Jan 24, 2023
Shaan Puri: Disclosing Company Flaws Upfront Builds Acquirer Trust
“My, you know, I think the entrepreneur's instinct is hide that, you know, as far, put it behind your back, you know, if they ask for it, you show them, but like, don't scare them away. And in fact, what you want to do is like find out as quickly as possible if…”
Jan 24, 2023 positive
Mar 28, 2023
Puri: Sam Parr's mastermind was the blueprint for building Milk Road
“Had I not been in a mastermind with you, I wouldn't have seen how you built the hustle and I wouldn't have known. How to build the milk road, a business I didn't know I was planning to create five years later, but that blueprint was etched in my brain from tho…”
Nov 24, 2023
Nov 30, 2023
Puri: We Sold The Milk Road to Quality Buyers Over Highest Bidder
“When we sold the milk road, I've said this before, but one of the reasons we sold to the guys we did was I really, really respected these guys. It was not the highest offer, but these were the highest quality people that we could sell to.”
Dec 4, 2023 neutral
Shaan Puri conceived crypto newsletter The Milk Road at an agriculture conference
“I literally started a company While I was there, because I was, like, piecing together, like, two ideas, one from the tech world, and one from this, like, farmer that we had met, and, like, it, you know, that was you know, when we created the Milk Road, and we…”
Dec 22, 2023 neutral
Dec 22, 2023 neutral
Apr 30, 2024 bullish
Shaan Puri: Passed on Beehiiv but invested after becoming a customer
“So I did end up investing. I actually, I think I passed the first time. And so I, what I did was I passed the first time because I was like, ah, I don't know how big this can get. And then we started using it for the milk road and I use it for my personal news…”
May 24, 2024
Jun 11, 2024 neutral
Puri: Milk Road used proprietary crypto whale research as free marketing
“We would go to like 25 of the biggest crypto whales. These are guys who are placing tens of millions or a hundred million dollar bets on NFTs and coins... And we interviewed them and we talked about how, what's your bullishness? What's basically sentiment on t…”
Aug 7, 2024 positive
Shaan Puri launched The Milk Road after attending a farming conference
“I went to a farming conference because I knew it would put me completely out of my bubble, exposed to a whole bunch of different people with different thoughts and philosophies and different views about the world right now. And I knew I would get new ideas and…”
Aug 28, 2024 positive
Puri: Milk Road distributed ~$36k in ETH micro-grants from ad revenue
“So we created a grant called the milk money grant. And we're like, this is not enough to get rich, but it's a little bit of milk money, right? It's enough where you can justify spending like two or three months on a project. And it was one ETH, which at the ti…”