My First Million

Laird Hamilton: The Big Wave Surfer Who Built a +$10 Million Business Empire

09 Aug 2023

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Episode 485: Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) talks with Laird Hamilton (https://lairdhamilton.com) about his well-rounded approach to life, the story behind launching Laird Superfood, why he’s such a viscous competitor, what vices he’s struggled with in the past, his thoughts on Bryan Johnson’s longevity protocol, and much more. Want to see more MFM? Subscribe to the MFM YouTube channel here. — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com/ Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com/ • Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant • Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing • Small Boy Newsletter: https://smallboy.co/ • Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com/ — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (3:00) How Laird describes himself (5:30) How Laird got into entrepreneurship (10:20) Laird’s revenue streams (11:30) Reaction to Laird’s Superfood stock plummeting (21:15) Other business ideas Laird considered pursuing (29:00) Laird’s epic house & training regimen (36:15) Most impressive athlete Laird’s trained with (39:20) Being a viscous competitor (43:00) Laird’s vices (48:30) Thoughts on Bryan Johnson (54:15) Laird's relationship with technology (56:25) How Laird tracks his personal finances (1:03:40) Laird’s 2023 goals (1:06:45) Laird’s book recommendations (1:12:25) Why the world’s so soft right now — Links: • XPTLife - http://xptlife.com/ • Life After Life - https://tinyurl.com/35w8227v • Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World - https://tinyurl.com/yckeyysm • The Psychology of Totalitarianism - https://tinyurl.com/2mksfrds • The Trap - https://tinyurl.com/y77bsj53 • The Wager - https://tinyurl.com/pvu9drrb • The Heart of the Sea - • Undaunted Courage - https://tinyurl.com/ya6zkw6k • Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. — Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. — Other episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto • #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

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