My First Million
Episodes
#58 - How To Navigate The Upcoming Depression
24 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Shaan (@shaanvp) is joined by producer Ishan (@ishanhaq) to talk Corona virus and where they think it's at, where it's headed and what you can do to p...
#57 - Corona Business Ideas, Stock Buybacks & Recession Proof Businesses
20 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sam (@thesamparr) and Shaan (@shaanvp) are chatting over the internet about Corona virus and all things business, markets and life impact it's having....
#56 - The Recession Proof Skill Sets
15 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sam (@thesamparr) is by himself today without Shaan (@shaanvp) to tell you about what he thinks are 4 essential skill sets that will withstand a reces...
#55 - Lead Gen Businesses, Islamic Finance & COVID-19 Virality
07 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sam (@thesamparr) and Shaan (@shaanvp) talk ideas, news, trends and businesses. Why aren't you in our Facebook group yet? www.facebook.com/groups/ourf...
#54 - Atrium Closing Down, B2B Gifting & Curly Girl Hair
06 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sam (@thesamparr) and Shaan (@shaanvp) talk ideas, news, trends and businesses. We've partnered with Rippling! The startup that gives you back your ti...
#53 - Nicotine Gum, Dating Apps For The Elderly & Tax on Vested Shares
03 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sam (@thesamparr) and Shaan (@shaanvp) talk ideas, news, trends and businesses. Sign up for our Run The World conference: https://organizer.runtheworl...
#52 - AI Teachers, Deskless Workforce & The Passion Economy with Zak Kukoff
01 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sam (@thesamparr) and Shaan (@shaanvp) talk ideas, trends and businesses. We're joined by Zak Kukoff (@ZCK), a 25 year old VC of $500M Emergence Capit...
#51 - Coronavirus, Being on Shark Tank & At-Home Testing Kits with Julia Cheek
29 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sam (@thesamparr) is back from his New York trip to chat with Shaan (@shaanvp) about ideas, trends and businesses. Today, mid-way through we're joined...
#50 - Digital Tithing, Influencer Based Cloud Kitchens & Uber Driver Revenue Streams with Stu Iverson
28 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With Sam (@thesamparr) gone, Stu (@StuIverson) takes his place. Remember Ramon’s soap opera blog that he sold for $9M in cash? He did that through t...
#49 - Meeting Bitcoin's Billionaire Kingpin, Boy Scouts Files for Bankruptcy & Branded Canned Water
23 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
POR FAVOR: Sam is going on Gary V's podcast monday. It would be hilarious if hundreds of us tweeted @garyvee how lucky he is to have @thesamparr on hi...
#48 - NSFW Tech, HQ Trivia & Auctions
22 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sam (@thesamparr) and Shaan (@shaanvp) are back talking news, trends, interesting products and businesses. Topics for today: Playboy for Snapchat gene...
#47 - Robot Lawyers, Pay to Lose Weight & Prudent vs. Wild Card Managers
20 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sam (@thesamparr) and Shaan (@shaanvp) are back talking news, trends, interesting products and businesses. We've partnered once again with the online ...
#46 - Corporate Universities, Hotel Experiences & New Credit Cards with Lance Armstrong
15 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sam (@thesamparr) and Shaan (@shaanvp) are back talking news, trends, interesting products and businesses. Today Lance Armstrong (@lancearmstrong) hap...
#45 - Drones Washing Windows, Airpod Guided Tours & Mario Kart VR with Furqan Rydhan
14 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sam (@thesamparr) and Shaan (@shaanvp) are back talking news, trends, interesting products and businesses. Today we’re joined by Furqan Rydhan (@Fur...
#44 - New e-mail clients, Sharing the craigslist office & How to keep your star players
10 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sam (@thesamparr) and Shaan (@shaanvp) are back talking news, trends, interesting products and businesses. Dear all loyal listeners: 1) Please, please...
#43 - Getting your team to take big risks, Turning office workers into remote, Quiet founders making big money
08 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sam and Shaan are back talking news, trends, interesting products and businesses. The way to make a million is by surrounding yourself around other pe...
#42 - Wall Street Bets & Tesla Shorts, Curating Job Boards & Executive Recruitment Firms
07 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sam and Shaan are back talking news, trends, interesting products and businesses. The way to make a million is by surrounding yourself around other pe...
#41 - Dating app that has an admissions process like Harvard
05 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
** In our Facebook group yet? We hang out there so come join and let's talk ideas: www.facebook.com/groups/ourfirstmillion ** Amanda Bradford (@amanda...
#40 - Paid Courses with Tom Wang, Barstool Acquisition & New Startup Hubs
31 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
*** JOIN OUR FACEBOOK GROUP for share ideas and insight with each other: www.facebook.com/groups/ourfirstmillion *** Today we first chat to Tom Wang, ...
#39 - Getting a Billion People Working From Home
29 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We interviewed the founder of Rev.com (they transcribe audio into text), to hear how he built this into a $206M (to be precise) business. We used them...
#38 - Truth about ad agencies with Brendan Gahan + Brainstorming with Daniel Gross
26 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Hustle's My First Million presents: Million Dollar Brainstorm is back. Host Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and The Hustle CEO Sam Parr (@theSamParr) sit do...
#37 - Mastering Amazon FBA
22 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ever think your side-hustle could become a million-dollar company? Paul Anderson (@paul_d_andersen) did. Today on My First Million, we sit down with ...
#36 - Data Privacy Tools, Food Franchises & Silicon Valley Mistruths
18 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Hustle's My First Million presents: Million Dollar Brainstorm is back. Host Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and The Hustle CEO Sam Parr (@theSamParr) sit do...
#35 - King of Kickstarter
15 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Shaan sits down with Peter Dering (@peterdering), Founder & CEO of Peak Design, maker of beautiful, highly functional redesigns of photography equipme...
#34 - CES Highlights, Cloning US Startups & Compliance Education
12 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Hustle's My First Million presents: Million Dollar Brainstorm is back. Host Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and The Hustle CEO Sam Parr (@theSamParr) sit do...
#33 - Pioneering The No-Code Movement
08 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We're back with Season 3, brought you by Microsoft: The latest episode of My First Million, Shaan sits down with Vlad Magdalin (@callmevlad), Co-Found...
#32 - Product Genius: Scott Belsky
25 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We've got a different flavor today for you. We sat down with Scott Belsky (@scottbelsky) join us today and instead of hearing his backstory, we bounce...
#31 - The Wild Wild West of Mineral Real Estate
18 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Brown is my new hero. He's an ex military man, who came back & built a super lean business (5 employees and 10's of millions in revenue annually)...
#30 - Reinventing the Energy Drink
11 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
LifeAid’s Aaron Hinde (@aaronhinde) stopped by to talk “vitamins that you’ll enjoy drinking.” He built a new beverage brand from zero to $100...
#29 - Powder Diets, Instagrammable Experiences & Distribution First
04 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Hustle's My First Million presents: Million Dollar Brainstorm is back. Host Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and The Hustle CEO Sam Parr (@theSamParr) sit do...
#28 - Building Big Ass Fans For Big Ass Money
27 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Carey Smith sold Big Ass Fans for Big Ass Money. As you can probably tell, he found a way to make ceilings fans sound sexy, but more importantly a sex...
#27 - 10 Million Reasons Why He Plays Poker
20 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Faraz Jaka (@FarazJaka) is a Poker pro who’s made $10M on the felt... What started out as a fun game during his spare time in college turned into bi...
#26 - Shopify Spy Tool, Apartment Plants & Lucrative Content Sites
15 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Hustle's My First Million presents: Million Dollar Brainstorm is back. Host Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and The Hustle CEO Sam Parr (@theSamParr) sit do...
#25 - Mission Driven: Bringing Solar Power to 1M People in Africa
13 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
He's not on a mission to make money, quite the opposite. Xavier Helgesen is a mission driven founder, who uses money to do more good in the world. His...
#24 - Unicorn Signals, Alternative Milk & Movie Incubators
10 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Hustle's My First Million presents: Million Dollar Brainstorm is back. Host Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and The Hustle CEO Sam Parr (@theSamParr) sit do...
#23 - Disney for Dogs
06 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Henrik Werdelin (@werdelin) is your dog's best friend. No really, he sends your dog gifts every month. Millions of dogs around the world love this guy...
#22 - Cloud Kitchens, Kava Bars & Religious Products
01 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Hustle's My First Million presents: Million Dollar Brainstorm is back. Host Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and The Hustle CEO Sam Parr (@theSamParr) sit do...
#21 - How To Value, Sell and Buy Online Businesses
30 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
I want to buy your business. What's your discretionary earnings? or how about you buy mine, can you get an SBA loan approved? No idea what we're talki...
#20 - Reinventing The Autograph
23 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The infatuation of Celebrity is something we can all relate to and Steven Galanis (@Mr312) is making sure to take opportunity of that. When was the la...
#19 - Drone Light Shows, No Code Movement & Plugin Empires
20 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Hustle's My First Million presents: Million Dollar Brainstorm. Host Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and The Hustle CEO Sam Parr (@theSamParr) sit down and d...
#18 - The Big Business of Wacky Domains
16 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ever wonder who owns all the internet domains like .com, .co, all the way to goofy domain names like .george and .plumbing? Well it turns out, many of...
#17 - Keto Ceral, Specialized Job Boards, Digital AA Meetings
14 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Hustle's My First Million presents: Million Dollar Brainstorm. Host Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and The Hustle CEO Sam Parr (@theSamParr) sit down and d...
#16 - TRT Subscriptions, Cord Blood Banking, Digital Museums
09 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Hustle's My First Million presents a new weekly show: Million Dollar Brainstorm. Host Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and The Hustle CEO Sam Parr (@theSamPa...
#15 - Dr. Iman's Incredible Idea
02 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Iman Abuzeid (@ImanAbuzeid) just finished raising $15M for her nurse hiring platform Incredible Health which was led by Silicon Valley's premier ventu...
#14 - The Bitcoin Believer
25 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Arianna Simpson (@AriannaSimpson) quit her comfortable job at Facebook to take a big bet on Bitcoin. She put over 50% of her net worth into Bitcoin ba...
#13 - He Made Millions From... Blankets, Bean Bags & Candles?
18 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
John Fiorentino (@johnhfio) wants you to relax. And so far, its' working. He sold over $15 million worth of his product Gravity Blanket and Moon Pod. ...
#12 - The 1-800-GOT-JUNK Story
11 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Scudamore (@BrianScudamore) is North America’s Junk Man. He turned a $700 pickup truck into one of the world's most successful franchises. Hea...
#11 - Clawing Back From $250K Debt at 20
04 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Aleks Svetski (@AleksSvetski) wanted to be a millionaire by 20... and he was on that path. He turned his $5K textbook money into more than $50,000 in ...
#10 - Using $1k to Build $100M Deodorant Business
28 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Season 2 of The Hustle's podcast is here - and we're talking to Moiz Ali (@moizali). Have you ever looked at the back of your deodorant stick and read...
#9 - Bonus episode! Answering listener questions
18 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
There's a lot of you out there and we (showrunners Shaan Puri - @ShaanVP & Ishan Haque - @IshanHaq) wanna spend some time chatting to you and answer s...
#8 - Real Estate: How The Wassermans Do What They Do
14 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We have on Gelena (@gelenasays) & Keith Wasserman (@Keith_Wasserman), a husband and wife Real Estate duo who borrowed $5k during the end of the 2008 r...
#7 - The Hippie With A Billion Dollars
07 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Birch sold his social networking site to AOL for $850M....and then bought it back for $1M years later. (buy low, sell high. boys and girls). ...
#6 - How This Silicon Valley Outsider Hustled His Way to $750M Exit - Meet Vungle's Jack Smith
31 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jack Smith (@_jacksmith) is the most clever entrepreneur I know. He’s cofounded multiple startups: Vungle, Coin, Shyp. With Vungle recently selling ...
#5 - The First Viral Website: "Hot or Not"
23 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
James Hong (@jhong) is the creator of Hot or Not? He sits down to tell us how the silly website went from 42 friends, to 2 million page views per day ...
#4 - How Product Hunt's Ryan Hoover Built A $20M Community From Scratch
16 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Who knew a product about other products could be worth tens of millions... Ryan Hoover (@rrhoover) tells us the struggle of trying to find a place in ...
#3 - Making Millions off an Email Newsletter?! Sam Parr from The Hustle Tells All
09 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Parr (@theSamParr) is the founder of The Hustle - a simple email newsletter that has surpassed 1M daily subscribers and will be north of 8 figures...
#2 with Ramon Van Meer - Blogging His Way To $9M in Cash
02 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ramon Van Meer (@ramonvanmeer) has never seen a soap opera. Yet somehow, he built the most popular soap opera blog on the planet - and was raking in m...
#1 - From making $76k at Microsoft to selling TinyCo for $100M+
23 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We talk with tech founder & investor Suleman "Suli" Ali (@sulemanali) about his journey from making $76k a year at Microsoft to selling multiple compa...