3 Killer Businesses Hidden in Plain Sight

My First Million

Hubspot

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Episode 645: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about cash-printing businesses that are around us every day and how to spot them. — Show Notes: (0:00) $1M dollar product: Water quality testing (8:26) $10M dollar product: EZ Labor Law Posters (15:22) $100M dollar product: Barcodes (22:55) Idea: Casual Friday (28:44) Marketing campaigns that altered culture (36:00) Shaan reads his intro (40:06) "Torches of freedom" (44:42( Sam tours Yale campus (50:59) Idea: YC campus — Links: • Oasis - https://www.oasiswater.app/ • GS1 - https://www.gs1us.org/ • Propaganda - https://tinyurl.com/2fc959jr • Craig Clemens Episode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N9rNShYI_g — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

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0:00.0	All right, so check this out.
0:01.4	I'm going to tell you about three products that are hidden in plain sight.
0:04.3	And the genius of these is that they take something that's free and they sell it.
0:08.6	They take a free thing and they sell it.
0:10.8	And I'm going to tell you about one example that makes hundreds of thousands of dollars.
0:14.7	Another one that makes millions of dollars.
0:16.5	And then another one that's made hundreds of millions of dollars.
0:19.5	I feel like I can rule the world.
0:21.5	I know I could be what I want to.
0:24.3	I put my all in it like no days off.
0:26.9	On a road, let's travel.
0:28.1	I want to tell you about a couple of business ideas.
0:30.5	I'm going to start with one that makes thousands of dollars,
0:33.2	hundreds of thousands, let's say.
0:35.2	One that makes millions of dollars and one that makes hundreds of millions of dollars. And they're all products that are hidden in plain sight. So we've
0:42.4	all seen them, but you probably never even realize their businesses. And secondly,
0:47.3	the magic thing about all of them, they sell a product that's actually free. What inspired this?
0:52.7	Did you just see something? Found one, found a second, found a third, drew a line, three dots make a line.
0:58.2	So that's kind of what happened here.
0:59.5	So first is I'm on Twitter and I see Joe Gabby, who's the founder of Airbnb, friend of the
1:06.6	podcast.
1:07.6	I see Joe tweet out something about a screenshot of an app that was checking water
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