From High School Dropout To $952 Million At 33

My First Million

Hubspot

Entrepreneurship, Business, Investing

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Episode 526: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) talks to Jess Mah about building a +$100M biotech company as a C- Biology student. She also opens up about money stuff no one else wants to talk about–like how to save tens of thousands on taxes by buying a private jet. No more small boy spreadsheets, build your business on the free HubSpot CRM: https://mfmpod.link/hrd — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (7:00) Jess's non-small boy holdco (11:00) Building without fear of failure (16:00) Overcoming negative the self talk (20:00) What would Shaan do if he was a billionaire? (26:00) The danger of waiting (32:00) Realistic breakthroughs in the future (36:30) Meeting belly-to-belly in business (41:00) Pulling it off with no reputation (47:00) Billionaire tax secrets (52:00) 80/20-ing the Bryan Johnson Blueprint (58:30) Buying yachts, private jets, and other luxury assets (1:07:00) Takeaways from a 1-on-1 with Paul Graham (1:12:00) Bold bets on science — Links: Mah Way - https://mahway.com/ Michael Levin TED Talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3lsYlod5OU — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com/ • Free 2024 Goal-Setting Session - https://planfor2024.com/ • Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant • Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing • Small Boy Newsletter - https://smallboy.co/ • Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com/ Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com/ 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. — Other 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	All right, this is going to be a special episode. I think that the best episodes we do are the ones where we highlight a business or a person who is
0:09.7	amazing that you've never heard of. And that's what today's episode is the person that we have on just
0:14.8	Ma she has built herself I don't know 10 companies that have combined you know they're worth
0:20.0	950 million dollars she and not only just has she made a bunch of money or been successful with business, but she's just a force of nature.
0:30.0	People that I respect think she's one of the best entrepreneurs in the world.
0:33.7	And that's kind of amazing for somebody who you don't know her name.
0:36.2	You never really seen her do interviews.
0:37.8	Paul Graham, when he met her and she was at YC, put her on the very short list of a couple
0:42.2	people with Sam Altman and a few others as the most impressive people the people that he thought 30 years from now will have done done the most and gone the furthest.
0:50.9	I was at a dinner that's how I met her and a friend of mine pointed out he goes that woman over there
0:56.0	is the best entrepreneur I've ever met and he's lived in Silicon Valley for 15 years and to say that that's high praise
1:02.4	so I had to have her on the podcast to talk about
1:05.6	everything from her beginning where she was basically a loser amongst loser,
1:10.9	losers in school. She talks about like you know not only was she not
1:14.9	cool even in the computer club she got bullied and didn't really fit into school
1:19.2	didn't get good grades really like was just kind of like school wasn't for her she ended up dropping out of high school
1:24.7	because school wasn't for her she's but she started a business and it started off as a very
1:29.4	and you know when she was a teenager she ended up making hundreds of thousands of
1:32.2	dollars on this little server business that she was creating just paying for her own video games.
1:36.5	We talk about that all the way to where she is today building these biotech companies that are doing crazy stuff.
1:42.4	And I asked her her I was like were you like
1:45.8	a science genius how did you know to go with this how did you have the confidence to go into a space like that?
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