5 under-the-radar trends (+ our business ideas)

My First Million

Hubspot

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Want to spot trends before they explode? Get the guide here: https://clickhubspot.com/wdv Episode 700: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talks to Steph Smith ( https://x.com/stephsmithio ) about business trends that are currently untapped and ripe for opportunity to build businesses around. Use code "MFM" to get access to Steph's Internet Pipes - http://internetpipes.com/ — Show Notes: (0:00) Trend 1: Hearing Loss (11:33) Trend 2: eVTOL (17:42) Trend 3: Psychedelics (24:26) Trend 4: New Job Skills (42:50) Trend5: Nature technology — Links: https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/new-rule-faa-ready-air-travel-future https://psychedelicalpha.com/data/psychedelic-laws https://x.com/stephsmithio/status/1877418726485799283 https://www.amazon.com/Immense-World-Animal-Senses-Reveal/dp/0593133234 https://asknature.org/ https://internetpipes.com/ https://mischiefusa.com/ https://clickhubspot.com/wdv — 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	We all run into these stats throughout our lives, and most of us are just like, oh, that's cool.
0:05.2	But I think there are some where it's like, maybe you should actually examine this a little more closely.
0:09.9	And so I compiled 100 plus of these, and we can talk about some of them today.
0:14.5	I feel like I can rule the world.
0:16.6	I know I could be what I want to.
0:19.5	I put my all in it like no days off.
0:21.9	On a road, let's travel, never looking back.
0:24.5	Steph Smith, this is your 10th time on MFM.
0:27.8	Ninth.
0:28.8	Is that right?
0:28.8	Ninth.
0:29.3	Not quite the tenor.
0:31.2	And Steph Smith, the background, if you're just now listening for the first time,
0:34.8	she used to work with me at The Hustle where she ran this thing called Trends, Trends.com, and then she went and joined A16Z, one of the most prominent
0:42.4	venture capital firms. And your whole thing right now is finding up-and-coming trends, but you do it
0:49.2	by looking at the data. Is that right? I try to. I try to. But yeah, I guess now after trends, I run this thing called internet pipes.
0:57.7	And that was kind of like trends in the way that you want to surface things that other people
1:02.5	don't know about, but it's also about how do you show people how to catch their own fish,
1:07.5	if that makes sense.
1:08.9	And you come on every once in a while, and you just basically have all of this data
1:14.3	that you rattle off a story behind the number, a story behind the data, and you explain why
1:21.0	it's an interesting trend.
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