$1M By 19, $100M+ By 35 -- Here's How He Did It

My First Million

Hubspot

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Sam Parr (@theSamParr) sits down with Val Katayev (@ValKatayev) to talk about how he got his start making millions from a ringtone business, why he's currently launching a startup in the jewelry industry, what has fueled him to greatness along the way, and much more. ----- * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan's newsletter. ----- Show Notes: (00:23) - Val going viral on Twitter (1:35) - How he got his start (19:15) - How he builds launches new products (37:40) - Are you driven by money? (42:30) - How Sam accidentally exposed Val ----- 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. ----- Additional 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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0:00.0	All right, QuickBag to tell you about another podcast that we're interested in right now.
0:04.4	Hosepot just launched a Shark Tank rewatch podcast called Another Bite.
0:08.9	Every week, the host relived the latest and greatest pitches from Shark Tank, from Squatty
0:13.1	Potty, to the Mention a Bench, to Ring Doorbell, and they break down why these pitches were
0:18.6	winners or losers, and each company's go-to-market strategy, branding, pricing, valuation, everything.
0:24.2	Basically, all the things you want to know about how to survive the tank and scale your
0:28.4	company on your own.
0:29.6	If you want to give it a listen, you can find another bite on whatever podcast that you
0:32.9	listen to, like Apple or Spotify, or whatever you're using right now.
0:36.2	All right, back to the show.
0:38.1	It was strange.
0:39.1	I was pulling up to my university or to the college, and I would pull up in a drop-top
0:46.1	Lexus, like $70,000 a car, and that was like a 19, right?
0:50.0	Dude, so Val, Sean, he's not making it today, but that's okay.
1:06.5	So your thing went viral today.
1:09.8	How many likes did you get?
1:11.0	Like 3000?
1:12.0	3300?
1:13.0	Something like that.
1:14.0	I had to turn off my notifications.
1:15.0	I can't do when you work with.
1:16.2	I don't know how you guys do it.
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