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My First Million

Are the Olympics a Waste of Time?, The Tinder Swindler, Paper Cut Companies, Money Therapy, and More

My First Million

Hubspot

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

šŸ—“ļø 17 February 2022

ā±ļø 71 minutes

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Summary

Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@theSamParr) discuss the Olympics and whether it is worth while to spend time trying to get a gold medal, companies that make billions solving small "paper cut" problems, why Sam thinks he needs a money therapist, 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: (00:20) - The Paralympics and the Olympics (18:15) - Creating new docs and "paper cut companies" (28:05) - How to create great experiences (37:20) - Is Sam Ovens legit? (46:55) - The 0.01% Rule (52:50) - Money therapy (57:00) - The Tinder Swindler ----- Links: * https://www.golinks.io/ * https://coolors.co/ * https://www.boardroominsiders.com/ * https://pitchbook.com/ * The Tinder Swindler: https://www.netflix.com/title/81254340 ----- 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

Yeah, we have the big spectacle. We have the screens. We have the thing when we hit our donation

0:03.4

gold. There's going to be the big like fireworks or whatever for doing the moment. That's the moment.

0:08.8

So the difference between us and everybody else is that we also care about the moments between

0:13.0

the moments. I feel like I could rule the world. I know I could be what I want to put my all in it

0:19.7

like no days on a road. Let's travel never looking back. All right. John, do me a favor. Go to our

0:25.6

document and look at the video that I posted to the Instagram, the Instagram link. So I found this

0:32.4

this weekend. I was sitting in the bath. Just watch this. I right before the pond. I watch this.

0:38.2

Yeah. Does that? Okay. So I was sitting in the bath just chill and watching Instagram. You

0:43.2

ever sit in the bath? You're like bath Sundays and just kind of sit for a few minutes.

0:46.6

I have kids. Dude, my bath is very different than yours now. Well, that's true. So I just,

0:51.2

it was Sunday bath. Just chilling, going through Instagram. And I got this video of this lady.

0:57.7

It's a woman from Germany. I think she's German and a guy and they're running together on a 200 meter

1:04.4

race at the Paralympics. She's blind and he's the guide runner and they win the race and they

1:10.0

start hugging and she's all crying. Is that the coolest video you've seen today or what?

1:15.2

This I didn't actually understand what was happening. It just looks like they're racing against

1:18.0

each other. I wouldn't even know what this was if you hadn't said anything. So she's blind and she's

1:25.2

must not be fully blind and what they do in the Paralympics is if you're if you're not. Yeah,

1:30.4

they put a blindfold on everyone because some people might be legally blind and they could still

1:34.6

kind of see a little bit. And so what they do is they put this blindfold on everyone and then

1:38.8

these women are like really fast women. So like another woman can't be their guide because

1:44.0

they're just you know faster men who can keep up. And so it's they're all teamed up with a guy who

1:48.9

helps their foot into the blocks and puts their hand in the right place and then has to run

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