Episodes
12 years of tape. Every episode is checked claim by claim and playable.
23 episodes in 2026
🎙MY FIRST MILLION
1h 11m Tony Hawk inspiring us for 72 minutes straight
Skateboarding icon and entrepreneur Tony Hawk joins the My First Million podcast to share the lessons behind his legendary athletic career, discussing his relentless mindset, the boom-and-bu…
27 statements 13 featured 10 assessments 1 contradicted
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52m A high school dropout reveals how he built a $200M brand
In this interview with Sean Puri, serial entrepreneur Danny Yeung reveals how he scaled IM8 into a $200 million health brand, detailing lessons from cold-calling grit, pandemic hypergrowth a…
24 statements 7 featured 11 assessments 3 contradicted
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57m How to use your "useless” hobby to make money
Co-hosts Sam Parr and Sean Puri explore unconventional pathways to commercial success, analyzing how entrepreneurs turn quirky niche hobbies into multi-million-dollar businesses and examinin…
24 statements 6 featured 10 assessments
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41m 7 things Bezos, MrBeast & Thiel do that you don’t
Shaan Puri and Sam Parr analyze extreme management tactics from founders like Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, and MrBeast before exploring the personal trade-offs between relentless corporate great…
12 statements 5 featured 2 assessments
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1h 6m How a $5B founder is using AI (3 tutorials)
Zapier co-founder and CEO Wade Foster joins Shaan Puri and Sam Parr to share practical walkthroughs of his executive AI workflows—including adversarial strategy testing, automated executive …
19 statements 6 featured 2 assessments
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55m 9 killer $10M+ business ideas in 56 minutes (take notes NOW)
In this 'Drunk Ideas' episode, Sean Puri, Sam Parr, and guest co-host Ari pitch and debate unconventional business concepts spanning screen-free kids' hardware, theatrical dining, viral spor…
7 statements 2 featured 3 assessments
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20m I spent a day with a blue-collar millionaire in NYC
Host Sam Parr spends a day shadowing veteran real estate developer Mark O'Brien across New York City to explore the high-stakes economics, operational hurdles, and lifestyle trade-offs of lu…
12 statements 3 featured 2 assessments
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1h 2m The 50 richest families in America are betting on this trend
Billionaire entrepreneur Joe Liemandt breaks a twenty-year public hiatus to share how the high-intensity culture, talent strategies, and software acumen developed at Trilogy are powering his…
28 statements 12 featured 7 assessments 2 contradicted
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1h 4m I put 80% of my money in the S&P after a billionaire investor told me not to
Sam Parr and Shaan Puri examine the genetic and psychological drivers behind investing behavior, debate long-term S&P 500 allocation versus private equity wealth creation, and analyze emergi…
19 statements 6 featured 5 assessments 1 contradicted
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41m How to find your thing
Shaan Puri and Sam Parr deconstruct the conventional advice to 'follow your passion,' proposing actionable frameworks such as embracing tolerable friction ('blisters'), identifying energizin…
13 statements 4 featured 2 assessments
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55m 25% Of My Portfolio Is Tesla Stock, Here's Why
Hosts Shaan Puri and Sam Parr explore exponential frontiers ranging from cryonics and longevity escape velocity to AI-driven robotics, while breaking down actionable mental models for execut…
11 statements 4 featured 1 assessments
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59m Steph Smith: “This opportunity is totally overlooked”
Sam Parr and Steph Smith explore the economic, technological, and lifestyle transformations driven by increasing human lifespans, highlighting major overlooked business opportunities across …
21 statements 6 featured 16 assessments 1 contradicted
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1h 2m Ex-Tesla President reveals EVERYTHING Elon does to win
Former Tesla President Jon McNeill shares the operational principles, hiring frameworks, and first-principles problem-solving methods he utilized alongside Elon Musk to scale high-growth ent…
15 statements 5 featured 4 assessments
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1h 3m We asked a $18.9B Investor how to survive the AI bubble
Alpine Investors founder and Stanford lecturer Graham Weaver details his multi-billion-dollar private equity playbook, offers a candid critique of the AI software bubble, and shares essentia…
24 statements 9 featured 3 assessments
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20m The Underrated Money Making Skill In 2026
Host Sam Parr argues that personal taste is the ultimate competitive advantage in the AI era and introduces a systematic four-step framework to cultivate aesthetic literacy across creative a…
6 statements 2 featured
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1h 16m $100M+ Advice That'll Piss Off Every Business Guru (ft. DHH)
In this episode of My First Million, 37signals co-founder and Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) shares his contrarian views on bootstrapped entrepreneurship, software craf…
30 statements 8 featured 5 assessments 3 contradicted
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1h 10m The Simplest Way To Make $1,000,000 Isn't Starting A Business (it's working in one of these 10)
Shaan Puri and Sam Parr team up with TBPN's John Coogan and Jordi Hays to present 'Sarah's List,' breaking down high-growth late-stage companies, bootstrapped giants, and public market leade…
21 statements 7 featured 8 assessments 1 contradicted
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46m Dumb iPhone Apps Are Making People Rich Again (Here’s how)
Starter Story founder Pat Walls joins Sean Puri and Sam Parr to announce his company's acquisition by HubSpot, discuss how AI coding has revitalized solo iOS app development, and share the o…
14 statements 4 featured 1 assessments
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45m From selling ACs to becoming the tourism king of Jamaica
Shaan Puri and Sam Parr explore unconventional blueprints for massive success, spanning Gordon 'Butch' Stewart's Sandals hospitality empire and Gary Loveman's data-driven casino optimization…
10 statements 3 featured 5 assessments
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1h 5m Elon’s wildest interview yet — our reaction
Shaan Puri and Sam Parr break down Elon Musk's technical interview with Dwarkesh Patel, examining high-velocity operational frameworks and AI advancements before exploring business opportuni…
22 statements 8 featured 5 assessments
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1h 10m Scott Galloway: Why I'm selling my American stocks
NYU Stern Professor Scott Galloway joins hosts Sam Parr and Shaun Puri for a wide-ranging, candid discussion covering his decision to divest from overvalued U.S. equities, actionable framewo…
30 statements 11 featured 3 assessments
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1h 4m 4 dumb ideas that made people rich
Sean Puri and Sam Parr dissect unusual, low-complexity business ideas that generated millions, examine the discipline of world-class salesmanship, and explore billionaire profiles alongside …
15 statements 4 featured 7 assessments 1 contradicted
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57m The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of
In this episode of My First Million, hosts Shaan Puri and Sam Parr explore the life, mindset, and historic achievements of DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis, tracing his evolution from a ch…
16 statements 5 featured 8 assessments