Puri: 'My First Million' was originally launched with Ishan Haque
Shaan Puri · Wait, My Intern Became a 21-Year-Old Millionaire?? (#510) · Oct 20, 2023 · at 2:57
Shaan Puri and his former intern Ishan Haque discuss the origin story and early production of the podcast 'My First Million'.
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“One thing that people don't know is this podcast was started actually not with me and Sam, me and you. I hit you up on Twitter DMs. And I saw that you were doing a, you were a podcast editor for somebody else I knew I think Corey or Angel List or something like that. Yeah, Corey Levy. And so I had this idea or I want to do a podcast. I hit you up. I didn't know how old you were, but I was like, Hey, Do you want to produce for me? Then we got on a call. I was like, oh man, this is like a kid somewhere. You were at school at the time. And I was like, will you, do you know how, how audio works? And you're like, yes, I got you. So the, if people see the cover art of the podcast, you made that the initial, like, you know, 20 episodes or whatever, all those intros and all the audio, you made that.”
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