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

My First Million

Hubspot

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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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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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,
0:19.7	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-the-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.
0:39.4	This means you don't have to worry
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