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Shaan Puri

👤 Speaker
7758 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

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

And she just did it in Excel, did it manually and started helping companies manually and eventually turned that into software.

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

And that eventually became Vanta, which now does hundreds of millions in annual revenue, which is like this pretty crazy success story.

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

And she had this quote on the top of her website, of her personal site that just, it was from the book, Art and Fear.

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

And the quote was this, it says, the function of the overwhelming majority of work is simply to teach you how to make the small fraction of your art that soars.

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

And I think if you take that mentality, you will have a very different result than if you take the mentality of, I need to make something great, and then you try to make one thing, and then you're sort of disappointed in your results, and you sort of go down a discouragement loop.

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

Yeah, I think I started the podcast with like,

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

And the Forbes ranked her like, you know, over Katy Perry and under Oprah or something.

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

Like most successful, richest women in the country.

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

It's one of those subjects that's best stepped around.

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

I've read Harry Potter 30 times.

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

And when I watched the movie, I was like, Hermione?

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)

What the hell?

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

It's been 10 years of Hermoine.

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)

She's impressive.

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

When you meet her, you're like, okay, I get it.

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

You know, sort of has that, what is, what's that word you say?

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

Oh, the oven burns hotter.

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

The oven burns hotter.