From making $6/week selling worms to making $110M+

My First Million

Hubspot

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Help us win a Webby for BEST CREATOR and BEST VIDEO SERIES Join Shaan Puri and Nick Huber for a free CEO Bootcamp on April 16th at 2pm EST Episode 697: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) sits down with James Currier ( https://x.com/JamesCurrier ) to talk about going from $0 to $110M through network effects. — Show Notes: (0:00) $0 to $1.6B (4:23) Your life on network effects (8:00) Savage founders (13:40) Speed (15:49) The art of unlearning (21:23) Technology window curves (30:29) Network Vampire attacks (37:37) Language first (43:15) Tickle (42:29) Finding a business bromance (58:47) James isolation mistake (1:01:27) Become an API (1:05:02) AI business ideas (1:16:07) What to do in your 20s (1:22:18) One world currency (1:32:16) Go to therapy — Links: • Steal Shaan's $20M Pitch Deck: https://clickhubspot.com/qrd • NFX - https://www.nfx.com/ — 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 HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

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0:00.0	So you went from selling worms to how much money does NFX have under management now?
0:05.7	Close to 1.6 billion.
0:07.7	Does that blow your mind?
0:09.1	Blows my mind.
0:10.0	What are the traits of a savage founder?
0:12.6	Speed.
0:13.2	School taught you what time looks like.
0:15.6	And now you think this is how the world moves.
0:17.9	You're wrong.
0:18.6	Your speed bar is wrong.
0:20.2	So if I'm a founder, what are the most
0:21.3	common emotional blockers slowing me down? The big one is just fear. We have these mindsets
0:26.8	bred into us by the normies. Why is it that sort of 85, 90% of all returns and tech have come
0:31.8	from the Bay Area? It's because the mindsets here are slightly different. So can you make me smarter
0:37.3	as a founder? Because it seems like this is important. So can you make me smarter as a founder?
0:38.0	Because it seems like this is important.
0:39.7	Don't think of yourself as choosing a job or choosing an industry.
0:42.9	Think of yourself as choosing a network.
0:44.6	What do you think of people who are investing in Open AI or the sort of the models?
0:48.0	Is that where the value is going to accrue?
0:49.4	Yeah, I don't get it.
0:50.8	I don't get it.
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