#147 - How Sam Hacked Amazon's Book Rankings, A $600m Exit, And Crypto with Brother Aaaron

My First Million

Hubspot

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@theSamParr) discuss: - Sam explains the origins of the QAnon movement - Could buying collectibles from infamous people work? - Romance stories are big business: Sam almost launched a company in the space (https://www.shortbutromantic.com/daily-story) - Wattpad which started as a romance novel community was sold for $600m recently - Sam explains how he hacked Amazon's book rankings for his novel "Captivating Clare" - Sam brings up pickleball (a booming sport in Austin) -- Shaan points out, there are always opportunities when new sports are created - Aaron Barrera (@TheGrinchofAS) joins Shaan to go down the rabbit hole of crypto and more 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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0:00.0	All right, if you're listening to this pod,
0:02.5	that means you're pretty entrepreneurial.
0:04.3	You're like me and Sean, and I'm actually in this situation
0:07.0	that I'm reading this ad all about right now.
0:08.9	I'm actually starting a new company and surprise,
0:11.1	I'm using HubSpot.
0:12.4	Why?
0:13.3	Because basically when I started a bunch
0:14.8	of my earlier companies, we had a website,
0:17.0	we had an email service provider,
0:18.5	we had all these other systems,
0:19.6	and we can't combine them and duct tape them
0:21.8	into one service, but in reality,
0:23.9	HubSpot does all these things all in one,
0:26.5	and it's pretty affordable because you're not paying
0:28.6	for tons of different services.
0:29.8	And that's actually what I'm using for my new projects.
0:32.7	So HubSpot's an all-in-one solution
0:34.2	to connect all the data and all of your tools together
0:36.7	because it's all actually in HubSpot.
0:38.4	HubSpot does it all.
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