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My First Million

Brainstorming business ideas with a billion-dollar founder

My First Million

Hubspot

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.72.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2026

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

140+ Business Ideas (Database): https://clickhubspot.com/efdj Episode 840: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Mark Pincus ( https://x.com/markpinc ) about figuring out what projects to spend your life on.  — Show Notes: (0:00) $0- $38M in 7 months (3:00) if you pick the right body of water, you don't have to have the right boat (16:51) pattern matching  (23:17) there's always a new freak (25:00) picking macros (27:48) a case for gold (39:50) How to know what to chase (49:12) create a book of life (59:59) Frameworks vs instincts (1:09:00) being hated and misunderstood (1:11:13) the story of farmville (1:15:00) avoiding the fur coat moment (1:19:49) the nickelback problem (1:22:02) introspection vs rumination — Links: • Life At The Speed of Play - https://www.amazon.com/Life-Speed-Play-Launch-Products/dp/0063352575  — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton (joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm — 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 - Shaan uses Mercury for banking across all of his companies. you can too: http://mercury.com/  Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC • I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out: beehiiv.com/mfm-challenge 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

You don't have a lot of money, but you have access to AI.

0:23.6

Out loud, let's go through this framework. I almost want to turn this to my whiteboards. Awesome, great. This is like showing us nudes for my first million. This is like exactly what we like. I feel like I can rule the world. I know I could be what I want to. I put my all in it like no days off. On the road, let's travel. So, all right, you've done everything.

0:37.8

You built a $10 billion company. You're, I think, a seed investor in Facebook or early investor in Facebook. One thing you haven't done is sitting still. I'm looking at your biography and your timeline. It seems like you start a company, it either sells or fails,

0:42.7

and six months later, you have a new company. And you've done that like eight times, it feels like.

0:49.4

Do you ever sit still? I'm working on sitting still. My partner, Hillary, we said she's like a tree,

0:53.7

and I'm like a hummingbird. And so I'm trying to be more like a redwood tree. Why is that? Why not just embrace your

0:56.0

nature of just being this extremely generative, creative guy? Who cares? Why be the tree? Be the bird?

1:01.4

Well, I think it's good to have a balance. I'm not trying to sit still from a creative

1:07.6

business work perspective, but in home life, I think it's more, it's good balance.

1:15.7

You know, I've added like morning practice with breathing and meditation. So I definitely have

1:20.5

extreme ADD, and so, but I do better when I focus, but they both work really well together.

1:27.1

You know, my daughter,

1:28.2

Carmen, has dyslexia and ADD, and we tried Adderall and some of those things, and she liked it

1:35.3

first, and then I was like, wait, your brain is beautiful the way it is. I don't want to normalize your brain

1:41.2

and standardize it. Let's figure out what works best for your brain,

1:45.9

you know? So I'm a little bit like that with myself of just saying, the way I work,

1:51.2

I call my investment and incubator work play ventures because I love this kind of triangulation

2:00.1

between workplay and usefulness to the world.

2:03.6

And that's why this book took so long and was difficult because it took me a long time to find

2:09.6

the fun kind of narrative and voice for the book.

2:14.6

One of the cool parts is that you're very transparent about money. And

2:19.3

that was pretty cool. I think you were in your late 20s or so when you sold Freeloader.

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