Shaan Puri
Co-Host, My First Million · 332 appearances on the record.
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Shaan Puri is the co-host of the business podcast My First Million and an early-stage startup investor. He previously served as the CEO of Bebo and co-founded the crypto newsletter The Milk Road.
2245statements → 1054claims → 653claims resolved → 73%fully supported → 3.78/5average certainty → 1.94/5average debate potential → 4.3/5argument clarity · the sources → 80said about them ↓
477 supported 120 partly supported 56 contradicted 57 not yet assessed 344 not checkable as stated how the 1054 claims stand · each chip opens the sources
235 predictions · 819 assertions · 199 opinions · 781 insights · 196 disclosures · 15 what ifs · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 1054 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 653 are resolved, 57 are not yet assessed, and 344 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.
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directness 4.6 · coherence 4.6 ·
precision 4.2 · compression 3.7
redirected or did not address 1 of 27 assessed questions (4%). Watch them ▸
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Everything Shaan Puri said on My First Million that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →
Puri: Future corporate hierarchies will invert, with humans working for AI bosses
“And I think actually it's going the other way, which is it's not that the AI works for us, but that we work for the AI. And people are going to hate that sentence, but let me just describe what that means. AI is very good at Understanding a broad set of inform…”
Puri: AI may cure death and revive cryopreserved people within 30 years
“It's not crazy that in the next 30 years that AI's gonna figure out how to, like, cure a lot of disease, death, to be able to bring back cryogenically frozen people to be alive, or to, like, upload their consciousness, upload their brain into some sort of, lik…”
Puri: Central AI will manage corporate strategy while humans become junior assistants
“The super intelligence is going to be the boss. You're going to be the junior thing. And so and that's what he's, that's what these guys are talking about, Brian Halligan and Jack Dorsey, which is that actually there'll be like a central AI that's making the k…”
Shaan Puri predicts China's elite talent pipeline will outcompete US education
“Whereas if other countries are taking this idea of, like, your job is to produce talent quickly and early, and that, like, it's, the goal is greatness, and let's be competitive about it. Like, what's going to happen over a 20 year arc, right? Like, you're goin…”
Puri: Functional robots will outnumber humans globally
“As soon as they have robots that can actually do functional work, they're gonna sell billions and billions. There's gonna be more robots than humans.”
Puri: DOGE is our only shot to escape US debt death spiral
“Is this one of our only shots to get out of the death spiral of excess spending? I believe so, and I cannot believe it happened.”
Puri: The best early-stage tech investors judge founders in under ten minutes
“The two best early pickers of startups ever in the history of Silicon Valley, both make their decisions based off of just, do they feel like these people are fierce founders and they can figure that out in less than 10 minutes. And then here you have people th…”
Puri: Harvard had 1 African-American studies graduate for 57 faculty
“Like, I think there was only what was it? Like, there was one degree recipient in twenty-twenty-three in African-American studies. And 57 faculty.”
Puri: Cyberstarts promises startups $2M revenue through loyal CISO network
“He promises teams of fresh graduates, graduates from tech units, not only investment support in the startup, but initial revenues of two million a year. This is usually their first year of revenue, which is intended to boost them above their competitors and he…”
Shaan Puri: Robinhood's gamified design exploits unsophisticated retail traders
“Robinhood is designed the same way. Robinhood is literally designed like a mobile game to get you addicted to trade, to get you to try to trade as much as you can. They make money. Every time you make a trade, they don't make money by you buying a low cost ind…”
Tesla and SpaceX wouldn't exist for 50 years without Elon Musk
“I think Tesla and SpaceX would not have happened and would not have happened at least for another 50 years had he not made those happen.”
Puri: AI adult entertainment is more ethical than human porn
“AI porn, I believe, is more ethical. So, you know, just like the way we have plant-based proteins and Cruelty-free makeup and vegan leather. No humans are going to be harmed in the production of this video, right? Like, I think that the idea that we could sati…”
Puri: An AI startup will beat legacy porn conglomerates
“Somebody's going to do, somebody's going to go after that market with AI. And I think they will win because again, way more powerful tool to satisfy demand, way lower cause and more ethical supply. That's a winning formula.”
Puri slams Chamath for profiting on SPACs while LPs lost money
“Chamath made money off of a bunch of his shitty SPACs because he's the promoter, and these funds manage billions of dollars, and they'll make hundreds of millions in fees along the way as a reward even if they lose their investors' money.”
Shaan Puri: Amouranth's business P&L is superior to MrBeast's
“If you just took the sort of like the face off the business, if I just showed you the PNL of both businesses, I think you would be like, well, I want her PNL, right? Because you're making almost as much money with way less expenses, with way less staff and ove…”
Puri: Crypto founders fail to deliver because they get rich upfront
“In Ripple, those guys became billionaires before banks ever used their product, which is like a really fucked up incentive, and which is why sometimes shit doesn't actually get built in crypto, because hey, I already got the millions. I could just run away. I …”
Puri: Chamath profited from poorly performing SPACs while retail investors suffered
“Chamath in reality had a bunch of really shitty SPACs where he made a bunch of money. And people who invested in his SPACs on the whole, like just got ripped to shreds this year.”
Puri: Lab-grown meat will make animal slaughter for food obsolete
“It's going to change because we're going to have a good substitute, which is lab grown meat. So people are going to be able to make, make the same steak you want without killing the animal. And then in that case, killing the animal is going to look absolutely …”
Puri: Chamath Palihapitiya is an elite virtue signaler playing the everyman
“Which, by the way, is why it's so funny when people like Chamath, and I like Chamath, I think he's great, but I think he's a virtue signaler. Like, I think he loves to say the things that make him sound like the people's, you know, the people's champion.”
Puri: White people are the least racist group compared to immigrant elders
“In reality, nobody is more, white people are the least racist. Nobody is more racist than, like, you know, an Indian parent or a Chinese grandmother.”
Puri: Business Content Creators Are Usually 'B Players' Teaching 'C Players'
“The most successful people, the true icons, you know, they're not creating a ton of content typically. And sometimes they do when they retire, sometimes it's part of their growth strategy, but for the most part, Elon Musk doesn't have a sub stack, right? He's …”
Puri: VCs Slamming Astrology Startups Are Hypocrites Unless They Condemn Religion
“If you're gonna say this about horoscopes, you better also say it about religion, otherwise I view you sort of as a hypocrite there.”
Puri: Multinational oil companies used local intermediaries to bypass bribery laws
“Those companies couldn't get their hands dirty. They could not risk Bribing foreign like politicians. So what they did was they let this guy bribe the fallout foreign politicians, get the rights, and then they would cut a commercial deal with him.”
The other half of the tape: Shaan Puri's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 73 times in 19 episodes on My First Million. 7 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Sam Parr 47Ben Wilson 11Jason Yanowitz 7Andrew Wilkinson 5Val Katayev 2Greg Isenberg 1
Statements about Shaan Puri, by other people (7)
Parr: Working purely for intrinsic enjoyment requires privilege and luck
“That's a very privileged way to go about it, which is if you hit the lottery, like maybe we have, or I mean, we've worked hard, but we've got lucky as well, where that's a very privileged way to go about it. And so I do think you have to eat shit for a certain…”
Minhaj: Anonymous online trolls can impose real economic sanctions on public figures
“For the first time in history,
There are people that stand on stage that stand on the stage of business or life or comedy or art, and they use their actual government name and then pseudonymous trolls who don't use their government name can launch digital dron…”
Parr: 'One Hour Books' will be Shaan Puri's most successful project
“If I had to bet this is going to be the most successful thing you've ever done, because my instinct, and I don't want to do this right now, but is to like, oh, can you just tell me all of the things that you learned from Rick Rubin and all these people?”
Mah: My company is building an AI digital twin of Shaan Puri
“We're actually doing, we're actually training one based off of you as well. So we're going to have it just watch every single video you've been part of. So it knows how to think like you'd be like, Hey, bring Sean into these conversations”
Samir Chaudry: Strong co-host dynamic frees podcasts from guest reliance
“When you're building a show that's guest dependent Or all about the guest bookings. It's like some people will look at this and be like, I don't know who that is, so I'm not going to click on it. Some people will give it a chance because they trust you. But re…”
Sam Parr: Immigrant founders succeed because foundational hardships reframe business risk
“What you notice talking to these people and a lot of you and I are friends with a lot of immigrant entrepreneurs or children of immigrant grants and their entrepreneurs. And you like, I often wonder, I'm like, how are these people succeeding when there's. It's…”
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2024 6 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
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2023 9 mentions in 1 episode
2022 30 mentions in 6 episodes 5 per episode
- Controversial Business Lessons From Napoleon, Edison, & Hitler (#369)
- Brainstorming The Best Business Ideas To Start In 2022 with Noah Kagan
- Saas Companies that Anyone Can Start with Rob Walling
- $1M By 19, $100M+ By 35 -- Here's How He Did It
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2021 23 mentions in 4 episodes 6 per episode
- MFM #169: How One Man Has Built 5, Billion Dollar Companies
- Andrew Wilkinson On The Secretive Billionaire Who Acquired Burger King | My First Million #185
- How to Network with Billionaires with Andrew Wilkinson | My First Million Ep. #174
- The Story of Dark Web Kingpin Ross Ulbricht
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