3 Stories Of People Making Millions In Weird Ways

My First Million

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Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

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🗓️ 19 November 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Episode 651: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the Polymarket whale who made millions off the election, Ozempic for sleep and why Martha Stewart would have been our Billy of the Week in 1999. — Show Notes: (0:00) The rise and fall of Martha Stewart (19:04) Ozempic for sleep (33:10) The guts and brains of Polymarket's whale (44:55) Betting vs gambling — Links: • Isaak.net - https://isaak.net/sleepless/ • Polymarket - https://polymarket.com/ • Chainalysis - http://chainalysis.com • Vitalik blog - https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/11/09/infofinance.html — 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, Sean, there's a documentary that R and I, R and I were texting about, did you see it?
0:05.3	It was called Martha.
0:06.3	It was on Netflix.
0:07.3	It was about Martha Stewart.
0:09.2	I haven't seen it.
0:10.1	I actually don't know really anything about her.
0:12.3	Great.
0:12.7	This is so great, because Martha Stewart was a beast.
0:17.5	I feel like I can rule the world.
0:19.5	I know I could be what I want to. I put my all in it like my days off on a road. Let's travel. I really couldn't tell you five things about Martha Stewart. So like was she kind of the first influencer, like in a celebrity influencer who then started launching products? What's the story? Martha Stewart was a killer. She was a total shark. She was way sharkier.
0:40.3	If you only know her as her put together image of this housewife who cooks, everything I'm
0:46.5	going to say is going to blow your mind because she was a total shark. So I'm going to give you a little bit
0:49.9	of her background. So basically, she's born and raised up in the East Coast. She goes to Columbia
0:56.3	University. While she's going to school, she becomes a model because she was a cute woman when
1:02.6	she was young. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. She was fantastic. Yeah. Good for her. Very pretty woman. Yeah, go Martha.
1:10.1	She gets married at a young age, like 19 or 20 years old, but graduates Columbia and her father-in-law
1:15.4	helps her get a job as a stockbroker.
1:18.0	And by the way, she studied architectural, like, history or something like that at Columbia.
1:22.3	Nothing to do with stocks.
1:23.4	And so at the age of like 24, 25, she gets this job.
1:26.8	And you're probably wondering, how on earth did Martha Stewart become a stockbroker?
1:31.1	Well, I am wondering.
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