How I went from $0 to $1M in 12 months

My First Million

Hubspot

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Get Shaan's money rules he used to go from broke to $25M by 30: https://clickhubspot.com/rhp Have a newsletter? Want to pitch it live on an upcoming episode of My First Million for a chance to win Shaan and Tyler becoming official advisors plus $10K? Join the MFM Newsletter Challenge → beehiiv.com/mfm Episode 790: Shaan Puri ( ⁠https://x.com/ShaanVP⁠ ) talk to Tyler Denk ( https://x.com/denk_tweets ) about every step he took to grow Beehiiv to $1M in 12 months. Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (5:10) The marketing kill shot (7:52) launch a company with one story (10:56) getting your first 100 users (15:28) the underrated customer question (1812) one feature (21:59) 7-min customer interviews (25:57) message from the founder (29:10) big desk energy (3239) 1 marketable feature (35:19) death of a co-founder (37:02) write monthly investor updates (41:00) everyone is distribution (43:10) school of common sense (44:39) inherent virality (45:23) don't make people think (5016) the 20-mile approach — Links: • Big Desk Energy - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5s8443tfYUq3LLARJwGeYP • Beehiiv - https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/ — 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	How long did it take for you to get to one million in revenue?
0:03.4	Took about us about a year to get our first million.
0:05.6	If I copied, step by step what you did.
0:08.2	Could I do the same?
0:09.4	I think most people could replicate the same strategy that we used.
0:12.2	I feel like I can rule the world.
0:14.4	I know I could be what I want to.
0:16.7	I put my all in it like no days off on the road.
0:20.3	Let's try.
0:21.1	Tyler, what's up, man?
0:22.2	How are you?
0:23.3	What up?
0:23.7	How's he going?
0:24.4	Did you see the YouTuber?
0:26.6	I think his name is Lab Coats, who copied.
0:30.2	He figured out the Coke formula from scratch after two years of testing.
0:34.6	Did you see this?
0:35.6	No, no.
0:36.4	Okay, so the Coke formula, the flavor for Coca-Cola, is top secret.
0:42.1	There's like, I don't know, a handful of people in the world who have ever known it at Coke.
0:47.0	They never patent it because if you patent it, you publish it, and then other people can clone it.
0:52.1	And so this YouTuber, after two years of scientific
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