My First Million

#151 - How To Go Viral, Grow Your Following & Tons of Ideas with Lambda School's Trevor McKendrick

05 Feb 2021

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Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP), and Trevor McKendrick (@TrevMcKendrick) discuss: Shaan's newsletter: shaanpuri.com The brainstorm session: - 2:14: Headshots are our avatars in the digital world: why do most suck? There might be an opportunity to fix this - 7:02: The startup doing handwritten mail at scale - 9:44: How to shadow successful people. Can this be productized? - 13:50: The opportunity to disrupt meetings. - 17:44: Why Shaan is bullish on catering to doctors - 19:35: Turning your life into a video game: working in public to achieve missions - 24:20: A viral “who do write like” quiz - 27:38: How to revolutionize working with lawyers - 29:50: Lambda School for executive assistants - 33:00: Trevor's journey to becoming a Chief-of-Staff Trevor begins interviewing Shaan: - 36:40: How did Shaan finally begin getting in shape? - 42:00: What’s inspired Shaan to grow his following? - 47:37: How is Shaan so good at persuasion? - 55:45: Which of your portfolio companies are you most excited about? Today's episode is brought to you by FOCUSAID. It’s the #1 and first nootropic drink in America that’s sold over 100m cans. For 30% off your first order, go to DrinkFocusAid.com. Check it out! Have you joined our private FB group yet? It's a page where people share each others million dollar ideas or what they're already working on: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ourfirstmillion. Editing thanks to Jonathan Gallegos (@jjonthan) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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