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Shaan Puri

👤 Speaker
7758 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

My First Million
‘Think and Grow Rich’ Is a Lie. (But The Advice Still Works)

I wanted to learn.

My First Million
‘Think and Grow Rich’ Is a Lie. (But The Advice Still Works)

I wanted to hear.

My First Million
‘Think and Grow Rich’ Is a Lie. (But The Advice Still Works)

And I was like, wow, this guy's just showing up in a great way.

My First Million
‘Think and Grow Rich’ Is a Lie. (But The Advice Still Works)

Can I talk to you about one more thing?

My First Million
‘Think and Grow Rich’ Is a Lie. (But The Advice Still Works)

Yeah.

My First Million
‘Think and Grow Rich’ Is a Lie. (But The Advice Still Works)

Check this out.

My First Million
‘Think and Grow Rich’ Is a Lie. (But The Advice Still Works)

All right, Sam puts this photo here of this extremely jacked man who's clearly a bodybuilder, clearly some sort of athlete, clearly that's his profession.

My First Million
‘Think and Grow Rich’ Is a Lie. (But The Advice Still Works)

Do you know who that guy is?

My First Million
‘Think and Grow Rich’ Is a Lie. (But The Advice Still Works)

This is the Open Claw guy, right?

My First Million
‘Think and Grow Rich’ Is a Lie. (But The Advice Still Works)

So there's a guy named Pete.

My First Million
‘Think and Grow Rich’ Is a Lie. (But The Advice Still Works)

So he's an Austrian dude.

My First Million
‘Think and Grow Rich’ Is a Lie. (But The Advice Still Works)

He learns to code.

My First Million
‘Think and Grow Rich’ Is a Lie. (But The Advice Still Works)

He builds like a PDF side project of sorts called PS PDF Kit.

My First Million
‘Think and Grow Rich’ Is a Lie. (But The Advice Still Works)

And it actually becomes like the gold standard for like a PDF library for developers.

My First Million
‘Think and Grow Rich’ Is a Lie. (But The Advice Still Works)

It's used by like Apple and Box and DocuSign.

My First Million
‘Think and Grow Rich’ Is a Lie. (But The Advice Still Works)

And he basically bootstraps the thing.

My First Million
‘Think and Grow Rich’ Is a Lie. (But The Advice Still Works)

He ends up selling a majority stake.

My First Million
‘Think and Grow Rich’ Is a Lie. (But The Advice Still Works)

I think he sold it for a lot of money, like $100 million, $100 million.

My First Million
‘Think and Grow Rich’ Is a Lie. (But The Advice Still Works)

Tries to retire early.

My First Million
‘Think and Grow Rich’ Is a Lie. (But The Advice Still Works)

He's like, golf sucks.