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My First Million

3 Wild Stories to Get You Hyped This Week

My First Million

Hubspot

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Want Sam's top 7 books for entrepreneurs (& his reading strategy)? Get it here: https://clickhubspot.com/ndf Episode 736: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) tell 3 wild stories of business lore. — Show Notes: (0:00) Amadeo Giannini (23:31) Preston Thorpe (30:45) Stefan Thomas — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — 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 HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

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0:00.0

The first story made me inspired.

0:01.0

The second story made me double inspired. And the third story just pissed me off. I feel like I can rule the world. 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. All right. So I have a theme here for this episode. Have you seen this meme that's going around on Twitter where it's like a stick figure? And he's like this. He's at his computer and it says,

0:21.0

share a bit of lore about

0:24.7

yourself. So share some lore. And the lore is a sort of lore means, you know, the epic backstory or the

0:31.4

sort of untold backstory of something. And so I have three pretty insane lore stories that I want to tell you. I think you might

0:40.9

know about this first person. It was new to me. And I'm going to call them, we haven't done this

0:46.2

segment a while, but they are the Billy of the Week. And the Billy of the Week is a person

0:50.6

named Amadeo Giannini. Do you know who that is? No, I don't think so. All right, so Amadeo, you are the bill of the week. Here's the story. So this guy is born in San Jose. He's born to, like, you know, Italian immigrant parents. His father is murdered when he's seven years old. So he's raised by his mom. His mom remarried. So his stepfather is in a business that you're kind of familiar with. He was stepfather was a fruit stand wholesaler, which is I think kind of what your parents do. They're wholesale adjacent for fruit, something like that. Your dad's like a fruit broker. They are produce and fruit brokers, yes.

1:28.8

So that's exactly what his family did. And at age 14, Amadeo drops out of school, decides to

1:34.6

come work in the family business because he needs to help the family make money. And this guy's

1:40.9

an incredibly sharp business operator. And so he joins the business.

1:44.8

He ends up just really taking over the business and really revamping it to the point

1:48.8

where by the time he's in his mid-20s, the business has done so well.

1:53.2

They're selling fruit all throughout California now.

1:56.0

And he's able to sell his share of the business for $100,000.

2:01.0

That doesn't sound like much.

2:01.9

This is the equivalent of a few million dollars, maybe $2 million back then.

2:06.2

This is like in like 1900.

2:08.0

So he does that and he's thinking about what's next and he decides, you know, I want to

2:12.2

give back to my community a little bit.

2:13.8

He volunteers to be on a board of a bank.

2:17.1

And when he's at the bank, he notices

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