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My First Million

Hubspot

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Get Pat's guide to find a $1M business idea: https://clickhubspot.com/whv Episode 799: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to the Starter Story founder Pat Walls ( https://x.com/thepatwalls ) about selling his company + business ideas he’s seen lately. — Show Notes: (0:00) Being pre-close (2:11) Starter Story (5:49) Pushscroll (10:12) Puffcount (12:31) 5-0 Scanner (14:23) Cal.ai (16:10) B2B Video (30:30) Busyness is for losers (33:57) EOS (39:56) I am my own biggest obstacle — Links: • Starter Story - https://www.youtube.com/@starterstory • Starter Story database - https://www.starterstory.com/explore • “I Am My Own Greatest Obstacle” - https://patwalls.com/2020-i-am-my-own-greatest-obstacle — 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 • 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 — 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	When I talk to 12 founders a week, I'm seeing six of them are crushing it with iOS apps.
0:05.6	There's a guys that we interviewed on the channel that have an app that forces you to do push-ups.
0:09.9	They're doing 30K a month.
0:15.6	I feel like I can rule the world. I know I could be what I want to.
0:16.5	I put my all in it like no days off.
0:19.9	So Pat is here from Starter Story. Pat HubSpot just bought Starter Story.
0:23.0	Pat HubSpot just bought Starter Story.
0:25.4	That's amazing.
0:26.1	Congratulations.
0:27.5	Thank you.
0:28.0	Is the news out?
0:28.9	It is technically not closed yet.
0:32.2	So I'm going through a whirlwind.
0:34.8	I'm going to try to put on a good face for you guys.
0:37.1	You're seven days out right now from selling. and when this goes live, it is presumably close,
0:41.9	and yet you are nervous. What's that about? Well, the deal is supposed to close tomorrow.
0:49.4	But, you know, it's the psychology of it needs to be signed, closed, wired.
0:55.8	Otherwise, I cannot take myself to that place yet, that place to celebrate or tell people or anything like that.
1:02.9	And it's kind of weird, you know, doing the production process because, you know, content needs to be recorded early to go out.
1:07.9	So it's super weird to do an interview before it's done.
1:10.6	How did you do with the negotiation? Do you feel like walk us through how you approach that and
1:15.1	how you think you did? Give yourself a score there. I had a number in my head before any of this
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