My First Million

My First Million

61 videos · Last synced May 04, 2026 11:20

two guys, talking about business. we've done it (sold our companies), and now we talk about new ideas, opportunities, and investments. hosted by Shaan Puri & Sam Parr -- produced by Hubspot. sometimes we bring on guests ranging from billionaires to stay at home moms who've got side hustles that are bringing in $10k a month. we like to have fun, and talk about business stuff.

Channel persona

My First Million · confidence 0.86 · built from 56 chunks across 60 videos · Sep 25, 2026

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Tone
curious, blunt, idea-hungry business banter
Rhythm
short questions and quick riffs followed by structured breakdowns; alternates between casual one-liners, named examples, and compact operator takeaways
Vocab tells
how big?, bull case / bear case, hidden in plain sight, wedge, moat, distribution, back-of-the-napkin
Frameworks
idea teardown: market size, distribution, unit economics, founder fit, caveats; pattern matching from one company to another: copy the mechanism, not the category; bull case versus bear case for investments and startups; operator notes: what to steal, what to test, what to avoid; contrarian niche analysis: ignored channels, weird hobbies, unsexy service businesses, and status games
Topics
startup ideas and small business opportunities, AI as a workflow, labor, and software-market unlock, founder psychology, ambition, and personal fit, consumer brands, creator-led distribution, and social growth, investing, public equities, and portfolio behavior, service businesses, roll-ups, and operational leverage, business history and reusable company-building patterns

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61

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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyaN6mg5u8Cjy2ZI4ikWaug

Videos (61)

Title Duration Status Date
98 days until 2027...Do this and you’ll thank yourself on Jan 1st 53:38 completed Sep 25, 2026
Whatnot founder: This is the future of e-commerce 1:00:19 completed Sep 21, 2026
Coach for SpaceX & OpenAI destroys our limiting beliefs for 86 minutes straight 1:26:06 completed Sep 18, 2026
8 (extremely specific) rules to grow on social media 17:20 completed Sep 16, 2026
From blue collar to billionaire: How David Rubenstein built his $500B investment firm 44:47 completed Sep 14, 2026
Tony Hawk inspiring us for 72 minutes straight 1:11:03 completed Sep 09, 2026
Don't launch an ecom brand in 2026 before watching this 52:09 completed Sep 07, 2026
How to use your "useless” hobby to make money 57:23 completed Sep 04, 2026
7 things Bezos, MrBeast & Thiel do that you don’t 41:49 completed Sep 02, 2026
$5B founder: How I automate my entire work with AI (3 tutorials) 1:06:55 completed Aug 26, 2026
Brutal startup advice from a $2,000,000,000 founder (ft. Allison Ellsworth, Poppi) 1:14:20 completed Aug 24, 2026
3 low competition businesses with massive demand in America 57:56 completed Aug 21, 2026
Asking 3 millionaires how they make $1.8M, $5M, & $12M/year 55:52 completed Aug 19, 2026
3 strangers showed us how they made $8M, $10M, & $40M/year 58:56 completed Aug 17, 2026
4 wild AI predictions from a $39B tech founder 58:10 completed Aug 14, 2026
3 killer businesses hiding in plain sight 45:20 completed Aug 12, 2026
We accidentally dropped 9 genius business ideas while drunk 55:44 completed Aug 06, 2026
The Only 4 things that actually sell (pick one) 48:29 completed Aug 04, 2026
How he turned his dad’s bakery into a $20B chocolate empire 46:26 completed Jul 31, 2026
I made $80M. Now I’m putting 70% of my portfolio in ONE stock - Chris Camillo 1:24:50 completed Jul 29, 2026
Rory Sutherland: completely legal marketing hacks that always work 1:15:17 completed Jul 27, 2026
The oldest trick in the book to make your first million 51:13 completed Jul 23, 2026
I spent a day with a blue-collar millionaire in NYC 20:10 completed Jul 21, 2026
Ray Dalio: This is the Holy Grail of Investing 1:00:36 completed Jul 17, 2026
I'm 80 and I wasted 25 years of my life. Don't make my mistake. - Howard Marks 44:38 completed Jul 15, 2026
If I was 30 with $0, I'd build this - Mark Pincus (Farmville founder) 1:25:14 completed Jul 10, 2026
I spent a week meeting NYC's elite. Here's 5 lessons they taught me. 1:01:38 completed Jul 07, 2026
A $3.6B founder's honest take on the software market right now 56:16 completed Jul 02, 2026
3 strangers reveal how they make $10M, $20M, and $30M/year 1:08:03 completed Jun 30, 2026
This guy made billions from just 3 stocks (Here's how) 56:08 completed Jun 24, 2026
How to completely reinvent yourself in 2026 55:24 completed Jun 18, 2026
Ex-Goldman CEO: 3 sectors where I'm putting my money right now 58:03 completed Jun 16, 2026
The most simplified breakdown of the SpaceX IPO on the internet 1:06:00 completed Jun 12, 2026
Lloyd Blankfein's Retirement Portfolio Got Him Roasted Live 1:15 completed Jun 10, 2026
60 minutes with the man who predicted the 2008 crash 52:59 completed Jun 10, 2026
The one calculation Elon runs everything on (it made him billions) 1:01:23 completed Jun 04, 2026
7 bizarrely good startups that the internet has not caught up to yet 46:10 completed Jun 02, 2026
The guy behind South Park, MTV and SpongeBob reveals his secret for spotting winning ideas 59:46 completed May 29, 2026
The 50 richest families in America are betting on this trend 1:02:35 completed May 27, 2026
Forget S&P, Bitcoin & AI, here’s where Mohnish Pabrai is putting his money in 2026 1:45:13 completed May 22, 2026
Gary Vee runs 7 businesses doing $10M+ each 48:43 completed May 19, 2026
Gary Vee: "i was an all-time atrocious firer" 1:25 completed May 19, 2026
A hangout with the whole team (Sam, Shaan, Ari & Cassie) 46:42 completed May 15, 2026
What Palmer Luckey does when he's not building billion-dollar companies 48:31 completed May 13, 2026
I put 80% of my money in the S&P after a billionaire investor told me not to 1:04:14 completed May 11, 2026
Why Americans Hate Sam Altman 1:04 completed May 11, 2026
This guy is trying to beat Claude Code (and winning?) 1:17:21 completed May 07, 2026
I Bought A Drink Nobody Wanted (And Sold It For $2 Billion) 1:03:26 completed May 05, 2026
GTA 6 Goldrush, TBPN's $100M OpenAI Deal, The OG Clickbait King Who Burned $4B/Year 1:11:36 completed Apr 29, 2026
How to find your thing 41:17 completed Apr 27, 2026
Quitting a Bad Habit Never Works 1:02 completed Apr 26, 2026
This guy sold his company to Unilever for $1.2B after just 3 years 1:02:46 completed Apr 24, 2026
25% Of My Portfolio Is Tesla Stock, Here's Why 55:19 completed Apr 22, 2026
He went from laundromats to a $3.5B Hollywood empire 0:38 failed Apr 17, 2026
#1 Habit Expert: Why Your To Do List Is Making You Less Productive 57:38 completed Apr 16, 2026
9 Killer Business Ideas The Internet Hasn't Caught Up To in 2026 38:34 completed Apr 14, 2026
The Simplest Way To Make $1,000,000 Isn't Starting A Business (it's working in one of these 10) 1:10:15 completed Mar 11, 2026
5 Simple business Ideas Even Your Mother Can Start (and make $120/hr) 53:41 completed --
We asked a $18.9B Investor how to survive the AI bubble 1:03:50 completed --
Ex-Tesla President reveals EVERYTHING Elon does to win 1:02:45 completed --
World's #1 Mentalist: How To Win Any Negotiation and Close Any Deal 52:27 completed --