Episodes
12 years of tape. Every episode is checked claim by claim and playable.
57 episodes in 2025
🎙MY FIRST MILLION
1h 13m if you didn't make progress in 2025, watch the first 10 minutes.
Entrepreneurs Sam Parr and Sean Puri explore why sustainable progress in business and personal life relies on structured systems, relentless repetition, and accountability rather than fleeti…
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1h 10m 60 Minute Business Masterclass (worth more than your Stanford MBA)
In this wide-ranging masterclass, Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz shares actionable executive leadership frameworks, deep personal stories spanning hip-hop culture and philanthro…
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1h 0m Ideas That Sound Illegal (But Print Money Anyway)
In this episode of My First Million, hosts Shaan Puri and Sam Parr interview fintech investor Sheel Mohnot to brainstorm high-potential startup opportunities across vertical AI, biohacking w…
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58m I Failed 12 Times Before Making My First Million (Here's Every Failure)
Sean Puri and Sam Parr break down Sean's decade-long journey through twelve startup failures before his multi-million-dollar Twitch exit, distilling practical lessons on project selection, f…
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39m How NOT to Make $1,000,000 (I Tried 17 Ways)
In this episode of My First Million, hosts Sam Parr and Sean Puri break down Sam's extensive history of failed ventures and early side hustles prior to his first million-dollar milestone, ex…
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1h 4m I Did Nothing For 2 Weeks. It Made Me Better At Everything.
In this wide-ranging conversation, podcast hosts Sam Parr and Shaan Puri explore how intentional leisure and deep creative focus fuel breakthroughs, reflect on the power of radical parental …
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47m The High School Dropout Who Made Billions & Bought An NBA team
In this in-depth interview, Qualtrics co-founder and Utah Jazz owner Ryan Smith details his journey from an unmotivated high school student with a 1.9 GPA to orchestrating an $8 billion soft…
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56m How to go from founder to CEO (without imploding)
Shaan Puri and Sam Parr break down the operational, psychological, and cultural transitions founders must make to successfully scale a company from early revenue to nine-figure enterprise va…
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37m 5 AI Tools I’d Use to Make $1M (w/o employees, money, or time)
Entrepreneurs Sam Parr and Greg Isenberg showcase a curated collection of high-leverage artificial intelligence tools and autonomous workflows designed to help solo founders scale a business…
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21m How To Get Ahead of 99% of People (Starting Today)
Entrepreneur Sam Parr utilizes the mental model of inversion to reveal five counterintuitive anti-rules for life, showing how avoiding common pitfalls leads to profound success. By cultivati…
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1h 15m How two straight guys bought Grindr and made $2B
Silicon Valley veterans Rick Marini and Jeff Bonforte break down how they acquired Grindr during a mandated CFIUS forced sale, executed a complete operational and cultural turnaround, and to…
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1h 15m $50M Poker Pro Shares Emotional Intelligence Tricks For Founders
In this episode, legendary poker champion Daniel Negreanu joins Shaan Puri and Sam Parr to share how emotional intelligence, nonverbal tell analysis, radical personal accountability, and pro…
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46m The App That’ll Be Bigger Than TikTok
Sean Puri and Sam Parr explore the disruptive frontier of artificial intelligence, discussing OpenAI Sora's video cloning, ambient wearable hardware, and scalable AI tools for personalized e…
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59m The Hospitality Principles That Build Billion-Dollar Startups
Restaurateur and author Will Guidara joins Sam Parr to discuss the philosophy of 'Unreasonable Hospitality,' illustrating how disproportionate effort, structured generosity, and empathetic l…
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45m He turned a broke team into a billion dollars
Shaan Puri and Sam Parr analyze how Jesse Cole transformed a bankrupt minor league baseball team into the Savannah Bananas, a touring entertainment powerhouse valued near one billion dollars…
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15m How to Get Rich (without luck, talent, or a trust fund)
Entrepreneur Shaan Puri details four foundational rules of wealth creation—mastering a core skill, owning equity, practicing extreme patience, and maximizing proximity—to provide a practical…
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1h 12m Make $8K/day From These Side Hustles You’ve Never Heard Of
Entrepreneur Chris Koerner joins Sean Puri and Sam Parr to brainstorm actionable, high-margin side hustles spanning niche home services, physical asset arbitrage, and AI automation. The epis…
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1h 6m How To Turn $100K into $4,000,000 with Distressed Investing
Distressed debt investor Tommy joins Sean Puri and Sam Parr to break down how specialized legal knowledge, manual claims sourcing, and classic deep value frameworks can turn overlooked bankr…
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58m 5 Lessons in Business Negotiation from an FBI Hostage Negotiator
Former FBI lead hostage negotiator Chris Voss joins host Shaan Puri to share foundational behavioral frameworks, demonstrating how tactical empathy, active listening, and collaborative trust…
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1h 16m The man who made a billion off blueberries
Shaan Puri and Sam Parr analyze the remarkable business playbook of Canadian blueberry and telecom billionaire John Bragg, extracting broader lessons on commodity monopolies, media economics…
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55m This guy made Millions by inventing the $1 Menu
Shaan Puri and Sam Parr dissect the food chemistry and counterintuitive marketing behind legendary fast-food items and modern protein bars before analyzing high-conviction, long-term investm…
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49m I built a billion dollar company in 18 months
In this episode of My First Million, Ramp co-founder and CEO Eric Glyman breaks down how he reverse-engineered hypergrowth to build a multi-billion-dollar fintech company, deconstructing mod…
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39m 3 Wild Stories to Get You Hyped This Week
Shaan Puri and Sam Parr share wild biographical and historical lore stories spanning pioneering banking to lost Bitcoin fortunes while exploring contrarian business strategies, positioning f…
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43m 5 Live Callers Get Brutal Startup Advice from Hormozi & Shaan
In this interactive 'Hormozi Hotline' session, hosts Shaan Puri and Alex Hormozi field live calls from founders and creators, diagnosing growth bottlenecks and providing tactical advice on c…
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42m Brainstorming $10M AI Business Ideas w/ the Airtable Founder
Airtable founder Howie Liu joins Sam Parr to brainstorm high-potential AI business opportunities, detailing startup ideas in avatar-driven commerce, agentic email, automated private equity r…
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1h 1m How this dumb doll makes $2M per day
In this episode, Shaan Puri and Sam Parr analyze the billion-dollar business mechanics and psychological drivers behind viral collectible toys like Pop Mart's Labubu dolls. The conversation …
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1h 6m Business as a sport, Surge AI, and Waymo vs. Robotaxi
Shaan Puri and Sam Parr explore the intrinsic psychology of entrepreneurship as a competitive sport while breaking down the artificial intelligence boom, from bootstrapped data annotation un…
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1h 14m The Side Hustle King: “I’m making $8K/DAY from easy businesses”
In this episode, host Sean Puri interviews serial entrepreneur Chris Koerner to break down his unconventional playbook for generating $8,000 per day across multiple low-tech, high-margin sid…
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1h 2m How to Scale a Profitable Agency with 0 Employees (Using AI Agents)
Shaan Puri and venture capitalist Matt Mazzeo break down how generative AI enables zero-employee automated agencies, analyze shifting product moats and multiplayer dynamics, and share inside…
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1h 15m How the smartest founders are winning in AI
SaaStr founder Jason Lemkin joins Sam Parr and Sean Puri to analyze how artificial intelligence is transforming startup economics, collapsing traditional SaaS user interfaces, and enabling u…
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55m Business Is Now On Easy Mode
Greg Isenberg presents a comprehensive six-step AI automation framework to Sam Parr, showing how non-technical founders can discover trending business ideas, build functional software protot…
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1h 14m Hinge expert shares dating advice for ambitious nerds
Behavioral scientist and dating coach Logan Ury joins the My First Million podcast to deliver a data-driven, tactical guide to modern courtship, applying behavioral economics, app optimizati…
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1h 8m How to retire with millions (and pay $0 taxes)
In this episode, hosts Sean Puri and Sam Parr interview entrepreneur Ankur Nagpal to break down advanced tax mitigation strategies, index investing lessons, and innovative startup ideas acro…
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56m The Most Valuable Skill For Any Founder
In this episode, marketing strategist George Mack joins hosts Shaan Puri and Sam Parr to break down the philosophy of high agency, sharing actionable mental models, unconventional startup fr…
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1h 0m Asking A Billionaire How To Make $1,000,000
Recorded aboard a private jet, entrepreneur and investor Jess Mah joins Shaan Puri to reveal her alternative playbook for building a holding company of profitable nine-figure businesses, scr…
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52m How Nick Saban’s Side Hustle Might Make Him a Billionaire
Sam Parr and Sean Puri break down how Nick Saban built an automotive empire projected to make him a billionaire, while exploring defensible AI business models, media automation workflows, an…
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50m 5 under-the-radar trends (+ our business ideas)
Sam Parr and Steph Smith explore five under-the-radar market trends and generational datasets, brainstorming actionable startup opportunities across ear health, autonomous aviation, psychede…
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39m Anti-Business Billionaires: Lessons from Steve Jobs, James Dyson, and Yvon Chouinard
Host Sam Parr interviews David Senra of the Founders podcast to dissect the unconventional philosophy of 'anti-business billionaires,' highlighting how extreme disagreeableness, relentless p…
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1h 35m From making $6/week selling worms to making $110M+
In this in-depth interview, venture capitalist James Currier shares essential frameworks on network effects, founder psychology, and startup defensibility with Sean Puri, weaving his persona…
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45m Are tariffs good or bad for founders?
Sean Puri and Sam Parr analyze the devastating operational impact of newly announced trade tariffs on e-commerce founders, break down unconventional business models like Medieval Times, and …
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1h 16m 7 Wild Business Ideas for this $3 Trillion Dollar Frontier
On the My First Million podcast, hosts Sean Puri and Sam Parr interview Ulysses founder Will O'Brien about the untapped $3 trillion ocean economy, exploring how autonomous robotics, marine g…
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1h 11m How to build a $100M+ newsletter business
The Hustle founder Sam Parr and Morning Brew co-founders Alex Lieberman and Austin Rief provide an in-depth, year-by-year post-mortem of how they built, scaled, and sold their newsletter med…
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1h 3m 6 under-the-radar trends (+ our business ideas)
Shaan Puri and Sam Parr analyze six nascent commercial trends—including short-form mobile drama apps, rucking fitness gear, plastic-free living, somatic nervous system recovery, agricultural…
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52m 2 Trends Hidden in Plain Sight (+ $1M ideas)
Sam Parr and Shaan Puri analyze lucrative business opportunities hidden in plain sight, exploring private equity roll-ups in modern flea markets and white space opportunities across the boom…
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1h 11m 5 Conversations that broke our frames this week
Co-hosts Shaan Puri and Sam Parr break down the mental models, unconventional tactics, and idiosyncratic traits of exceptional entrepreneurs and investors they recently encountered. Through …
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1h 8m He launched a sweaty startup in high school. Now he'll be a millionaire by 18
Shaan Puri and Sam Parr host an office hours session with Formidable Fellowship founder Anand Sanwal and three impressive teenage entrepreneurs, delivering tactical business frameworks on pr…
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1h 15m We talk to the guy who knows Silicon Valley’s darkest secrets
Acclaimed author and investigative journalist Nick Bilton joins hosts Shaan Puri and Sam Parr to share behind-the-scenes revelations about tech icons like Steve Jobs and Jack Dorsey, while b…
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1h 3m What’s truly going on inside DOGE?
In this episode of My First Million, Sam Parr and Shaan Puri explore the archaic underground paper storage behind federal retirement systems, analyze Elon Musk's mission with DOGE and OpenAI…
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52m The insane story of Blake Scholl: the high school dropout who’s building supersonic jets
Shaan Puri and Sam Parr examine the concept of 'high agency' in entrepreneurship through the extraordinary stories of Boom Supersonic's Blake Scholl, ZURU's Nick Mowbray, and Fly E-Bike's An…
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43m We spent 48 hours with MrBeast + 11 Billionaires
Shaan Puri and Sam Parr unpack seven transformative business frameworks, psychological principles, and lifestyle insights gathered from an exclusive weekend retreat with MrBeast and prominen…
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1h 6m I run a $180M+ company...here's how I'm using AI on a daily basis
In this episode, entrepreneur Andrew Wilkinson joins Sean Puri and Sam Parr to discuss the transformative power of artificial intelligence, sharing concrete automation workflows and debating…
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1h 1m The Crazy Story of Google’s 7 Angel investors
Shaan Puri and Sam Parr explore the legendary, serendipitous stories of Google's original angel investors while breaking down key startup principles surrounding physical proximity, founder-f…
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58m Just found out my neighbor’s business sold for $450M
Shaan Puri and Sam Parr analyze the $450 million bootstrapping playbook of Muscle Milk, explore the direct-response funnels powering Ukrainian mobile app studios, and discuss contrarian inve…
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1h 11m Five $10M+ Ideas (from a guy who's done it 3 times)
Serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist Sheel Mohnot joins hosts Sean Puri and Sam Parr to brainstorm high-potential business opportunities, breakdown lessons from building Thistle and Fl…
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36m How to Make $1,000,000 After You Graduate (5 steps)
In a guest lecture at UC Berkeley, entrepreneur and investor Shaan Puri outlines a pragmatic five-step roadmap for young graduates to achieve their first million dollars in their twenties by…
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56m 56 Minutes of Money Wisdom for High-Earning Couples
In this discussion, personal finance author Ramit Sethi joins host Sam Parr to explore how couples can manage money collaboratively, overcome deep-seated financial anxiety, and cultivate int…
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1h 6m Investing Wisdom from Nassim Taleb, plus ChatGPT Questions That Will Change Your Life
Shaan Puri and Sam Parr explore contrarian investing principles from Nassim Taleb, practical frameworks for deploying ChatGPT as an executive operating system, and high-leverage mental model…
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