S&P 500

part of S&P

9 statements across 7 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Mar 17, 2021 by Michael Saylor · said 71 times in 35 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

Mentions by year

brought up most by Shaan Puri (30), Sam Parr (11), Ankur Nagpal (7), Tony Robbins (4), Suleman "Suli" Ali (4), Scott Galloway (4), Michael Saylor (4), Kevin Van Trump (2)

tap a year for its mentions
001583015202120222023202420252026episodesmentions
0815202120222023202420252026episodes it came up in
001.37.52.515202120222023202420252026episodesmentions per episode
2026 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2025 13 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
2024 26 mentions in 12 episodes 2 per episode
2023 10 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
2022 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2021 14 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode

every mention, scene by scene, with the transcript →

Everything said about S&P 500, oldest first

Mar 17, 2021
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Saylor: Corporate cost of capital surged to 25% after March 2020
“The treasury problem is that subsequent to March, 20 20, the cost of capital exploded from eight percent to 25%. And you can see that in the performance of the S&P 500 index, which went from about eight percent a year for a decade to more than 25% in that next…”
Michael Saylor Mar 17, 2021 ▶ 27:03 MFM #161: Why Michael Saylor Believes Bitcoin is Hope
Apr 5, 2021 bullish
Disclosure
Sam Parr reveals 90% of his net worth is in S&P 500
“Well, no, I own way more just S&P 500 than I do HubSpot and Airbnb. But I would say that 90% of my net worth is in the S&P 500.”
Sam Parr Apr 5, 2021 ▶ 5:24 MFM #167: Answering Your Questions On Investments, Businesses and Life
Jan 24, 2023
Disclosure
Ali: Holding $50M in 30-day T-bills waiting for market entry
“I've got, like, forty million dollars or fifty million dollars in US T-bills that, like, mature every 30 days, and I'm keeping them on, in, like, short-term T-bills because I'm, like, I'm gonna find some other investment, whether that's the S&P 500 or somethin…”
Suleman "Suli" Ali Jan 24, 2023 ▶ 47:07 Behind The Scenes of Selling My Company For Millions | Suli Ali (#410)
Jan 22, 2024 bullish
Assertion Supported
Major sports teams averaged 18% annualized returns over the past decade
“In the last 10 years, if you take the NBA, the Major League Baseball, soccer, and hockey, those four together, they've averaged between them, 18% compounded during that time, versus 11% there in the S&P 500.”
Tony Robbins Jan 22, 2024 ▶ 40:45 Tony Robbins Changes My Life (48 Minute Coaching Session)
Dec 5, 2024 bullish
Assertion Supported
MicroStrategy holds nearly 400,000 Bitcoin and has outperformed the entire S&P 500.
“They've basically acquired almost 400,000 Bitcoin. they've outperformed every company in the S&P 500. And last week alone, it saw one hundred and thirty six billion dollars of trading volume.”
Shaan Puri Dec 5, 2024 ▶ 37:54 3 Stories of Crazy Geniuses: Fenn’s Treasure, Michael Saylor’s Infinite Money Glitch + more
May 14, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Nagpal: Goldman Sachs wealth management returned 6% versus 13% S&P 500
“The best part of my portfolio that they did was simply indexing the S&P. The S&P has returned about 13% in that time. They did a lot of other stupid shit that averaged it down to six percent.”
Ankur Nagpal May 14, 2025 ▶ 5:01 How to retire with millions (and pay $0 taxes)
May 14, 2025 bullish
Insight
Nagpal: S&P mega backdoor Roth yields $30M tax-free by retirement age
“I built a very simple model that makes the assumption that you start contributing to your Roth Diary by 21, the mega backdoor by like 30. Even if you just indexed the S&P and you looked at the hundred year average of the S&P, you end up with thirty million dol…”
Ankur Nagpal May 14, 2025 ▶ 21:33 How to retire with millions (and pay $0 taxes)
May 11, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Parr: 80% of my Hustle exit proceeds went into the S&P 500
“Assume that 80% went into the S&P 500. Yeah, it's double. Is it up 75%? Yeah. I think the S&P, I mean, just whatever the S&P is up, 80% of my portfolio is up that amount.”
Sam Parr May 11, 2026 ▶ 26:58 I put 80% of my money in the S&P after a billionaire investor told me not to
May 11, 2026 neutral
Opinion
Sam Parr: S&P 500 is a global index, not an American index
“The S&P 500 at this point is not an American index. It's a global index.”
Sam Parr May 11, 2026 ▶ 28:29 I put 80% of my money in the S&P after a billionaire investor told me not to
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 300 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.