My First Million

Wait, My Intern Became a 21-Year-Old Millionaire??

20 Oct 2023

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Episode 510: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) sits down with his former intern Ishan Haque (https://twitter.com/ishanhaq). Ishan went from making $30k/year to $40K in one minute by taking one big bet. Today he’s a 22-year-old millionaire thanks to early investments in companies now worth billions like Animoca and Afterpay. (This episode is not intended to be personal financial advice). Want to see more MFM? Subscribe to our YouTube channel here. Want MFM Merch? Check out our store here. Want to see the best clips from MFM? Subscribe to our clips channel here. — 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/ Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com/ — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (2:00) Recruiting tactic: Sliding into the DMs (7:00) Knowing your win condition (11:00) Content creation for serendipity (14:00) Ishan makes $40k in one minute (20:00) $100k bet on Animoca (28:00) Passing on $2,000,000 (35:00) Spending habits of a 21-year-old millionaire (40:00) Crypto casinos and starting Shuffle (48:00) Managing regulatory risk (51:00) Getting first customers (54:00) Influencer campaigns that work (1:05:00) Business Idea: YC for nerdy kids (1:10:00) Business Idea: CRM for cashed up niches (1:13:00) Business Idea: VIP Management Software (1:16:00) Business Idea: Cultural Concierge for Biz Dev (1:22:00) The underrated growth model behind MrBeast (1:24:00) Content creator rollups (1:26:00) No small boy stuff — Links: • AfterPay - https://www.afterpay.com/ • Animoca - https://www.animocabrands.com/ • Stake - https://stake.com/ • Shuffle - https://shuffle.com/ • Kick - https://kick.com/ • RuneScape - https://play.runescape.com/ • Spotter - https://spotter.la/ 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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