Five +$10M Ideas (from a guy who's done it 3 times)

My First Million

Hubspot

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Get our Business Monetization Playbook: https://clickhubspot.com/monetization Episode 667: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Sheel Mohnot ( https://x.com/pitdesi ) about the biggest opportunities he sees right now. — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (2:33) iPod mini hustle (10:40) Being a dot collector (20:30) The $100M story of Thistle (24:30) IDEA: Affinity-based retirement home (34:30) IDEA: Yelp for professional services (38:48) IDEA: Pearly whites (42:10) IDEA: Outsourced pizza (44:40) The story of Grey Goose (48:00) IDEA: School for AI Tools (52:00) Sheel's credit card stack (59:00) Sheel's position on crypto (1:03:00) Learning to sell — Links: • Thistle - https://www.thistle.co/ • Sam’s List - https://samslist.co/ • Pizzeria DeLuna - https://pizzeriadeluna.com/ • U.S. Bank Smartly Visa - https://www.usbank.com/credit-cards/bank-smartly-visa-signature-credit-card.html — 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	All right, we have Sheel today here, who is, by my call, the most interesting man in tech.
0:06.7	And that is a big claim. And I'm aware of the power of my words, but I did not stutter.
0:12.1	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
0:19.3	off on a road. Let's travel. I think I've told you this before, but I think of all in it like no days off on the road. Let's travel.
0:21.0	I think I've told you this before, but I think of all people, I feel like you live in this
0:26.5	beautiful blend of you do things that make you successful, but then you do a lot of things
0:31.6	that just seem like a lot of fun and they're random.
0:34.2	And you're letting life kind of bounce you in whatever direction it's going
0:38.5	to take you. And it's kind of inspiring. And Sam, I know it's inspiring for you because Sam is a
0:43.3	perfect square. And he just likes to be a perfect square. And he doesn't know what to do with this
0:48.7	crazy blob shape like you. Sam, is that right? Yeah. I mean, he's inspiring to me. Like, he just does the silliest stuff.
0:54.7	But let's just say, so, Shil, here's like, I'll brag on your behalf.
0:58.1	So basically, you have, what, a $320 million VC fund.
1:02.2	You've built the business called Thistle to $100 million in revenue.
1:04.7	And you've built another business that sold domains.
1:07.0	I think you've sold half a billion dollars in domains. You've done all this amazing stuff. But then you do like the silliest things. Like you did like an online version of the Bachelor.
1:15.2	You're in a Justin Bieber music video. Like you do ridiculous stuff. He got married sponsored by Taco
1:20.5	Bell in the Metaverse. He had a wedding in the Metaverse with Taco Bell somehow. I don't even
1:25.1	know what that is. I didn't know about that. That's awesome. What was that?
1:28.6	Oh, it's a long story. But yeah, Taco Bell sponsored my wedding. We had a series, I figured, like, if you're going to have a wedding, it's a great excuse to bring your friends together. And so I was like, and it's an excuse for all your friends to come together. As many times you do it, they're all going to come. So we had six
1:44.5	weddings and nine wedding related events over the course of a year, one of which was sponsored by Taco Bell
1:52.4	because we entered a contest and my amazing wife let me do this. Yeah, makes sense. I don't even know
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