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Tony Hawk inspiring us for 72 minutes straight
A high school dropout reveals how he built a $200M brand
- ▶ 28:12 Danny Yeung In San Francisco. 2 times in the scene
How to use your "useless” hobby to make money
- ▶ 25:07 Shaan Puri The second thing is, she did sing the song, so the, so one of the things that happened was, when she went out to go try to be a, a artist, she leaves the home, she's gonna go try to make it, and like, there's like this hero's journey of…
7 things Bezos, MrBeast & Thiel do that you don’t
- ▶ 3:09 Shaan Puri Not even that much money, not enough money to be, I would say an angel investor, but I wanted to be, I was sitting in San Francisco 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:06 Shaan Puri So people, you know, you'll only know if you know, which is back in the day in San Francisco, this app became the rage for like, I want to say, 30 days.
Steph Smith: “This opportunity is totally overlooked”
We asked a $18.9B Investor how to survive the AI bubble
$100M+ Advice That'll Piss Off Every Business Guru (ft. DHH)
- ▶ 51:39 Shaan Puri One was in San Francisco and like the tech world, and the other one was going to be with 37 Signals. 2 times in the scene
The Simplest Way To Make $1,000,000 Isn't Starting A Business (it's working in one of these 10)
From selling ACs to becoming the tourism king of Jamaica
- ▶ 24:41 Shaan Puri In, in San Francisco, they were doing this thing where they were getting rid of the gifted and honors programs because it was like, uh, made the other people feel bad. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:05 Shaan Puri And if you look at, you know, today he lives in San Francisco and he's had this great life, but like, you know, it's kind of unheard of from a village in India, right?
Elon’s wildest interview yet — our reaction
- ▶ 9:38 Shaan Puri There's a long running joke, which is like in San Francisco, like it's one of the highest status.
- ▶ 56:47 Shaan Puri And I, maybe I just live in San Francisco and I'm around too many, like kind of tech, uh, you know, addicts, but, but I think it's almost what, whatever the ratio is, it should be like nine to 10 or whatever.
Scott Galloway: Why I'm selling my American stocks
- ▶ 29:20 Shaan Puri San Francisco. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:13 Scott Galloway I was raised in a generation in San Francisco where Steve Jobs is our mentor and, and there was this terrible gestalt that infected a bunch of young tech executives, including myself, that if you were talented and nice, you were talented. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:45 Scott Galloway If you want to live in Manhattan or LA or San Francisco, or even now Miami and have a fabulous lifestyle, you're going to have to make a shit ton of money, which means you're going to have to work all the time, unless you're smart enough…
4 dumb ideas that made people rich
- ▶ 56:47 Shaan Puri I mean, you don't even have to go as far as the finding a Picasso at a garage sale example, which is, you know, that's more of an edge case, but like, you're a founder of a startup in San Francisco.
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Ideas That Sound Illegal (But Print Money Anyway)
- ▶ 0:16 Sam Parr You're an SF running around like rich people, weirdos.
- ▶ 24:14 Sam Parr Um, so you put on here something about peptides because everyone, because everyone in SF is doing it. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:11 Sheel Mohnot Yeah, so we, we hung out with her, like, so we're in San Francisco, she's in the Las Vegas area, we've hung out with her, she's, she's come to our house, we like her, we text with her, um, you know, when the transfer happened,
- ▶ 47:00 Sheel Mohnot I, I, I couldn't find, I couldn't find one in, in a cursory search, but I think you basically build a berries of EMS where, like, you have a workout routine 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:02 Sam Parr Uh, you're in SF, you're kind of running around, like, a bunch of, like, rich people, weirdos, successful people, like, this really cool combination of people. 4 times in the scene
I Failed 12 Times Before Making My First Million (Here's Every Failure)
- ▶ 20:37 Shaan Puri I was like, and on my way in, I had flown into San Francisco for this, but I, I was killing time before the interview, and there was a Burlington Co-factory, if you remember, right next to our office, and next to it, next to that was the…
How NOT to Make $1,000,000 (I Tried 17 Ways)
- ▶ 8:33 Shaan Puri Okay, so now you moved to San Francisco. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:41 Sam Parr Okay, and then around that same time, when I moved to, uh, San Francisco, I met a guy who had an idea for a roommate matching app, and I was like,
- ▶ 14:10 Sam Parr In San Francisco, we live by Yosemite and the redwood, uh, trees.
- ▶ 23:42 Shaan Puri There's not a lot of other really smart, super geniuses running around San Francisco trying to do what I'm doing.
- ▶ 28:39 Shaan Puri That's also why you got to move to San Francisco is because you'll be surrounded by success stories and you'll see them.
I Did Nothing For 2 Weeks. It Made Me Better At Everything.
- ▶ 37:22 Shaan Puri And, like, somehow my dad, like, you know, was born there, and now, like, sixty-something years later, he's got, like, a mansion in San Francisco and, like, an iPhone in his pocket.
- ▶ 50:46 Sam Parr Or like, I remember like moving to San Francisco and walking around on the Stanford, uh, the Stanford campus.
- ▶ 1:01:52 Sam Parr Interestingly, this, this guy actually has an SF connection. 2 times in the scene
The High School Dropout Who Made Billions & Bought An NBA team
- ▶ 38:24 Ryan Smith When we're on the road show to go public, like, you normally go, like, one day in San Francisco, two days in New York, one day in Boston, one day in Maryland, then back to New York.
How to go from founder to CEO (without imploding)
How To Get Ahead of 99% of People (Starting Today)
The Hospitality Principles That Build Billion-Dollar Startups
How to Get Rich (without luck, talent, or a trust fund)
- ▶ 10:03 Shaan Puri So if you want to be a tech founder, you need to move to San Francisco. 3 times in the scene
The man who made a billion off blueberries
- ▶ 32:18 Shaan Puri I was like, should I own the best venue in San Francisco? 2 times in the scene
I built a billion dollar company in 18 months
- ▶ 22:48 Eric Glyman And his first big opportunity, um, really was in like the, I think it was like the earthquake of 19 oh six in San Francisco were effectively, you know, he was working and kind of supporting and lending to like grocers, immigrants, farmers,… 3 times in the scene
3 Wild Stories to Get You Hyped This Week
- ▶ 2:46 Shaan Puri So he opens up the Bank of Italy in San Francisco in the North Beach neighborhood. 7 times in the scene
How this dumb doll makes $2M per day
Business as a sport, Surge AI, and Waymo vs. Robotaxi
- ▶ 9:33 Shaan Puri He, you know, at one point he also started a church in San Francisco.
- ▶ 39:49 Shaan Puri I've taken the Waymo's in San Francisco and RoboTaxi in Austin, the Tesla, the Tesla self-driving just launched in Austin, um, I think like two days ago or something, but they took two different approaches. 3 times in the scene
How to Scale a Profitable Agency with 0 Employees (Using AI Agents)
- ▶ 1:00:09 Matt Mazzeo And go to San Francisco and meet a bunch of the startup companies. 2 times in the scene
How the smartest founders are winning in AI
- ▶ 38:53 Shaan Puri Like back when we were in San Francisco early on, like the small lifestyle business would get you the equivalent of a job. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:47 Shaan Puri So right when I moved to San Francisco, I remember we, you know, I joined Birch's startup studio, and there was a single mobile developer, and he would, my very first day, he was giving a tutorial to the other 12 engineers who were like,…
5 under-the-radar trends (+ our business ideas)
- ▶ 15:13 Steph Smith You take, like, Waymo, which is a lot of people think of as in, like, Phoenix or San Francisco.
- ▶ 18:37 Sam Parr He said it was a shaman, and I was thinking it was gonna be some brown dude and like, uh, like a, like a, like a sheet, like, he's gonna say, like, namaste as I walk into their house and take off my shoes, and they ask us to go to this…
From making $6/week selling worms to making $110M+
- ▶ 1:02:51 Shaan Puri And what do you think about people who leave California, leave San Francisco, because they don't want to pay taxes?
7 Wild Business Ideas for this $3 Trillion Dollar Frontier
- ▶ 0:05 Shaan Puri This episode was like my favorite conversations living in San Francisco, where you run into a weirdo who knows a lot about something you know very little about, and like, 45 minutes, your mind gets blown, like, five times, and you just get…
- ▶ 13:26 Will O'Brien So, you know, in our first year we did, um, a million dollars in, in revenue, just kind of like, you know, first, first year, five person team based here in San Francisco.
- ▶ 18:54 Shaan Puri And it was, there was basically zero, uh, zero weapons startups in San Francisco.
- ▶ 29:47 Sam Parr Sean, so when you and I moved to San Francisco in, well, I moved there in 12, and we're about the same age, it was the sharing economy. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:15 Shaan Puri This is in San Francisco.
- ▶ 48:31 Sam Parr Well, maybe you can like put words to it, but there's this new like breed that, that Austin and San Francisco had a baby.
- ▶ 56:19 Will O'Brien If you want to come here to San Francisco and see some real robots in ocean, the door is always open, Sam.
How to build a $100M+ newsletter business
6 under-the-radar trends (+ our business ideas)
5 Conversations that broke our frames this week
- ▶ 1:27 Shaan Puri So I hosted this dinner in San Francisco and, um, invited maybe, I don't know, 15, 20 people to this thing. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:38 Shaan Puri The contrarian thing he said was he was talking about, uh, leaving San Francisco. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:07 Sam Parr For years, it was sort of a joke because when you would drive in San Francisco, they had billboards, uh, where they were trying to recruit engineers, and the name AppLovin came out right, or we still associated it with McLovin, and it was… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:12 Sam Parr Jack's favorite restaurant in San Francisco, or Jack said he wants to be by the U.S. 2 times in the scene
He launched a sweaty startup in high school. Now he'll be a millionaire by 18
We talk to the guy who knows Silicon Valley’s darkest secrets
- ▶ 9:27 Nick Bilton It was near San Francisco, but he had taken two pictures, uh, uh, three pictures, sorry. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:13 Nick Bilton What really happens is, and as I say in Hatching Twitter, and after, and no one knew this, I was like, I had to talk to all these different people to kind of pin it together, except Noah Glass knew it, um, was, you know, Jack was living in…
What’s truly going on inside DOGE?
The Crazy Story of Google’s 7 Angel investors
Five $10M+ Ideas (from a guy who's done it 3 times)
- ▶ 2:48 Shaan Puri I went back, and I listened, because you've been on the podcast way back when I first started it, because you were a friend of mine in San Francisco, and I wanted to have interesting people on the podcast, so back in 2019, you're probably…
- ▶ 18:44 Sheel Mohnot It's like so many people that you meet, I guess like I've lived in San Francisco for 12 years now. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:06 Sheel Mohnot So the origin is myself and my roommate in San Francisco at the time, we were, we felt like we were just like making unhealthy choices and like eating the fastest thing possible to get back to work or whatever. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:40 Sam Parr Have you guys ever known like the joke in San Francisco when we lived there was Yelp is where you go to learn how to do sales because it's such a hard sales job and all they, they would hire anyone with a pulse.
- ▶ 51:10 Sheel Mohnot I'm going to go organize their new place in Switzerland.
How to Make $1,000,000 After You Graduate (5 steps)
- ▶ 19:41 Shaan Puri So, of all of my friends, we were in San Francisco together, we were in our early twenties, and we all wanted to be successful.
56 Minutes of Money Wisdom for High-Earning Couples
The 2024 Milly Awards
3 Stories of Crazy Geniuses: Fenn’s Treasure, Michael Saylor’s Infinite Money Glitch + more
- ▶ 7:43 Shaan Puri Steve definitely put me onto this because it was happening both in the, in San Francisco and also in the UK. 2 times in the scene
$100B Founder Breaks Down The Biggest AI Business Opportunities For 2025
- ▶ 55:05 Furqan Rydhan I'm from the Bay area normally. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:07 Shaan Puri You have great team, you're in San Francisco, beautiful office,
- ▶ 1:19:50 Furqan Rydhan So the same thing I saw these two guys building here in San Francisco, they're like random warehouse in the back of some other store, like 2 times in the scene
6 College Students Pitch Us Their Startups | MFM Shark Tank
I failed 22 times... then I built a $2.5B Company
- ▶ 1:02 Shaan Puri You have a company that's working, it's got, like, a cool startup name, it's got a cool office in San Francisco, last valuation, I believe, 2.4 or five billion, but who's counting?
- ▶ 25:05 Christina Cacioppo Because look, if I take a car, I'm just gonna, like, sit in the back with my laptop writing emails, you know, uh, and in a bus, like, I don't want a San Francisco bus, I'm not pulling on my laptop on that, unless something's, like, really… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:01 Christina Cacioppo So people, or VCs in San Francisco, broadly, like, knew we were doing well, because of kind of the Slack channel chatter, like, Advantage had come up, but they sort of didn't know how well, and so there was one pitch meeting, I remember…
3 Killer Businesses Hidden in Plain Sight
Q&A: Gut punches, favorite guests, plus advice for life
You Have 70 Days to Win the Year
- ▶ 20:12 Sam Parr But, uh, like, your network, partially because, mostly because of San Francisco, to be honest, but a lot of it because of Duke and Sarah's network because of Penn, like, it was so much more global than mine was at a small rinky-dink school…
- ▶ 40:07 Sam Parr And I had a guy listen to the podcast and he sent me the deck that he's trying to raise money for a monument that's based in San Francisco on Alcatraz. 6 times in the scene
The Wild Story of Mike Lynch’s Rise From Janitor to Tech Billionaire
- ▶ 0:43 Shaan Puri They bring him over, and he arrives in San Francisco, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:57 Sam Parr By the way, the last time I met with the mayor, um, it was in San Francisco, and so I met with London Breed, and she was just a council person, whatever, a district, I don't even know what it was called.
- ▶ 29:29 Sam Parr Ed Lee being, uh, the mayor of San Francisco up until like 18 or 20 or something.
How Silicon Valley’s Most Prolific Investor Picks Unicorns | Elad Gil Interview
- ▶ 23:45 Sam Parr I remember when I lived in SF from 12 to 20, and I think there was a handful of schools that were started for elementary kids. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:51 Elad Gil I mean, it's pretty simple minded, but imagine if you walked out in San Francisco and you looked across, you know, to the, the view with the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz, and there was a giant statue that's kind of an ode to the future.
5 Random But Useful Things I Learned At A Private Equity Conference
- ▶ 8:56 Shaan Puri Because these people listen to the podcast, so it's not, uh, you know, I, I don't want to put them on blast like that, but, I mean, you've, you've seen this in San Francisco. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:26 Shaan Puri All the major cities, you know, San Francisco is sort of whispering in your, in your ear, you're not ambitious enough. 4 times in the scene
The guy who gets paid $80K/yr to do nothing
- ▶ 5:23 Sam Parr So before, uh, so I basically lived in San Francisco, and I moved from San Francisco to Austin. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:59 Shaan Puri Okay, so now type in, like, just type in San Francisco and click search, and then you're going to see just like a huge list of totally platonic friends who are down to hang out and just have a day together.
10 Startups w/ Stock Grants That’ll Make You A Millionaire | Sara’s List 2024
- ▶ 2:22 Shaan Puri And you and I were living in San Francisco at the time, and it was stupidly obvious.
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