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Shaan Puri

Co-Host, My First Million · 1 appearance 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.

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1 prediction · 2 assertions · 7 insights · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 0 are resolved, and 3 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.

The record, in short

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Everything Shaan Puri said on TBPN that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Media is a terrible business model; creators must monetize through equity
“Media is a pretty shit business model. And so the trick is to do media to build media is great at a certain a few things, right? It's great at Building brand and distribution and awareness and all those things, but it's pretty terrible at monetizing. And so th…”
Shaan Puri Mar 15, 2025 ▶ 15:11 Shaan Puri talks about Podcasting, Elevating Talent, the Power of Social Media.
Insight
Tech workers cannot be contrarian because they consume identical media feeds
“The problem that the tech guys have is you we will all go consume, not necessarily garbage content, but just the same content, right? So we're all on X, We're all reading the same things. We're listening to all in and listen to the same podcast. And then guess…”
Shaan Puri Mar 15, 2025 ▶ 3:18 Shaan Puri talks about Podcasting, Elevating Talent, the Power of Social Media.
Insight
Brands only get credit for traits that are weird or controversial
“There's one other in the branding thing that's important is you're only going to get credit for what's weird. You should make a list of what's weird about you or about your brand or that you do. That's unusual. That might even be like controversial. It might e…”
Shaan Puri Mar 15, 2025 ▶ 13:23 Shaan Puri talks about Podcasting, Elevating Talent, the Power of Social Media.
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Somewhere.com grew to eight-figure profit post-acquisition
“When we bought that business, it was making millions a year in profit. So like it was already seven, multiple seven figures of profit and now it's eight figures of profit.”
Shaan Puri Mar 15, 2025 ▶ 16:05 Shaan Puri talks about Podcasting, Elevating Talent, the Power of Social Media.
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Shaan Puri predicts Kevin Espiritu's Epic Gardening could reach billion-dollar valuation
“I think that guy, if he does this right, he could build a billion dollar company as a gardening YouTuber, which is fantastic.”
Shaan Puri Mar 15, 2025 ▶ 18:25 Shaan Puri talks about Podcasting, Elevating Talent, the Power of Social Media.
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Shaan Puri drafted his entire upcoming book in one night using Claude
“I got a full draft of the book in one night just by going back and forth with Claude.”
Shaan Puri Mar 15, 2025 ▶ 22:34 Shaan Puri talks about Podcasting, Elevating Talent, the Power of Social Media.
Insight
Podcasts are merely feedstock for short-form social media clips
“The Andrew tape might've been the first, but you guys are the second to say, Hey, I'm going to create a podcast. And it doesn't, the podcast is nothing. The podcast is just feedstock for the shorts, for the clips. And that, that is a core, core insight that yo…”
Shaan Puri Mar 15, 2025 ▶ 1:16 Shaan Puri talks about Podcasting, Elevating Talent, the Power of Social Media.
Insight
Career progression depends on a CEO's internal trust score, not titles
“So the thing I realized was that basically for the CEO, they look at all their employees and there's just a trust score. And the trust score is basically like, can I trust you to be watching out for problems and identifying them yourself, or am I gonna have to…”
Shaan Puri Mar 15, 2025 ▶ 6:59 Shaan Puri talks about Podcasting, Elevating Talent, the Power of Social Media.
Insight
Brand positioning is always counter-positioning relative to existing consumer beliefs
“It starts with a very simple principle, which is all positioning is counter positioning. So you gotta, you wanna position yourselves in the consumer's mind, but it's always gonna be relative to what's already in the consumer's mind.”
Shaan Puri Mar 15, 2025 ▶ 11:20 Shaan Puri talks about Podcasting, Elevating Talent, the Power of Social Media.
Insight
In AI writing, all value shifts to taste, editing, and curation
“And now all the values in the edits, it's the taste. It's the curation at the end.”
Shaan Puri Mar 15, 2025 ▶ 22:40 Shaan Puri talks about Podcasting, Elevating Talent, the Power of Social Media.

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Appearances (1)

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Shaan Puri talks about Podcasting, Elevating Talent, the Power of Social Media. Mar 15, 2025 16m
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