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Puri: Not pivoting Blab to B2B video cost hundreds of millions
“And instead of looking at those clues and being like, huh, maybe we could do that. We missed that project selection choice. I remember that day. Cause that was a, probably a multi hundred million dollar fork in the road moment, you know, maybe you still had to…”
Shaan Puri Nov 26, 2024 ▶ 1:09:10 $100B Founder Breaks Down The Biggest AI Business Opportunities For 2025
Disclosure
Puri: Monkey Inferno burned $8M across 4–5 years building consumer apps
“So this business I would give a B and our profit was minus eight million dollars of investor capital. So we basically were burning Something like a million and a half dollars, maybe two million dollars for four or five years.”
Shaan Puri Nov 19, 2025 ▶ 14:46 I Failed 12 Times Before Making My First Million (Here's Every Failure)
Assertion Supported
Shaan Puri became CEO of Monkey Inferno six months after joining
“I'm 24 years old. I'm the youngest person in the company. I'm the newest hire in the company. And six months later, I got named CEO.”
Shaan Puri Feb 5, 2024 ▶ 42:28 How I Went From Intern To CEO In 6 Months (My First Startup Gig)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Puri: Ryan Hoover was rejected by Monkey Inferno before founding Product Hunt
“Basically, Ryan was interviewing to come work at Monkey Inferno, where I was the CEO at the time. I was trying to recruit Ryan, because I loved his blog posts, and he was interviewing with us, and he got to the final interview and didn't make it.”
Shaan Puri Apr 21, 2021 ▶ 22:33 How Beachbody Makes Money, & Brainstorming "HackerNews for X" | My First Million #173
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