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My First Million

EXCLUSIVE: $3B Founder Reveals His Next Big Idea

My First Million

Hubspot

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Episode 597: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) talks to Brett Adcock ( https://x.com/adcock_brett ) about his next big idea, his checklist for entrepreneurs, and his framework for learning new things and moving fast. — Show Notes: (0:00) Solving school shootings (3:15) Cold calling NASA (6:14) Spotting the mega-trend (8:37) "Thinking big is easier" (12:42) Brett's philosophy on company names (16:22) Brett's ideas note app: genetics, super-sonic travel, synthetic foods (19:45) "I just want to win" (21:46) Brett's checklist for entrepreneurs (25:17) Being fast in hardware (30:15) Brett's framework for learning new things (33:00) Who does Brett admire — Links: • [Steal This] Get our proven writing frameworks that have made us millions https://clickhubspot.com/copy • Brett Adcock - https://www.brettadcock.com/ • Cover - https://www.cover.ai/ • Figure - https://figure.ai/ — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd — 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 The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

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0:00.0

If you had to describe yourself, what would you say you are?

0:03.2

I just want to go build important things and win.

0:06.7

That's it.

0:07.7

I feel like I can rule the world.

0:09.7

I know I could be what I want to.

0:12.1

I put my all in it like no days off.

0:15.0

We're live with Brett Adcock.

0:17.0

I wanted to start off with something crisp.

0:20.0

You told me this story, and this is something that's fascinating about you which is about your ability to learn.

0:26.0

So I think I don't want to butcher the story but you said something like I was reading old I think research papers and you found that I think in the 70s NASA came up with

0:36.7

this amazing thing and you cold called or cold emailed NASA and you're like can you

0:41.2

actually show me this device?

0:42.8

Is that story right?

0:43.8

Yeah, it's pretty close.

0:45.9

It's like the first time I've talked about this publicly.

0:47.9

So, sorry for maybe for context, I have been kind of following what's happening at K through 12 schools in the

0:57.2

US as relates to school shootings and if you look at the charts of like know, how many shootings are actually happening to the schools, how many deaths are happening in schools, it's, it's like basically you have like a school shooting like basically once per day now in the U. K through 12. That's true is that true that's

1:14.8

insane. I'm to say we're like I think it was like 200 over 200 people like last year were like either shot or wounded or killed in the US at K through 12 and a third of those are all in elementary and the charge look like a line graph of the chart it's just like

1:34.0

exponential it's we we like five X in 2018 kind of almost like year over year

1:41.8

and then we like took another three X moves.

1:43.5

So we basically 10 X the number of school shootings over the last like seven years or so

1:50.4

decade and it's just getting worse and worse. What I found is that most of all

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