My First Million
Business as a sport, Surge AI, and Waymo vs. Robotaxi
Sam Parr and Shaan Puri brainstorm new business ideas based on trends & opportunities they see in the market. Sometimes they bring on famous guests to brainstorm with them.
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Episode 720: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about how Surge built a $1B business in 5 years and the second-order effects of self-driving cars.
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Show Notes:
() Best idea of the month
() Business as a sport
() The inner game of tennis
() Shaan writes a letter to himself
() Patron View
() Surge
() Handshake
() Waymo vs Robotaxi
() Elon replies to Shaan's tweet
() Shaan gets in a fight with his moms doctor
() Sam wears overalls
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Links:
• The Inner Game of Tennis - https://tinyurl.com/mphz9zkr
• Patron View - https://patronview.com/
• Museum Hack - https://museumhack.com/
• Surge AI - https://www.surgehq.ai/
• Handshake - https://joinhandshake.com/
• Gemini - https://gemini.google.com/
• Grok - https://grok.com/
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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com
• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.
• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!
Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC
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Check Out Sam's Stuff:
• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/
• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/
• Copy That - https://copythat.com
• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth
• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/
My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano
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