How to Reverse Engineer Any Business - From the Archive

My First Million

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Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) discuss the tools they use to reverse engineer businesses. Also, want $5,000? Check out the My First Million Clips contest. ----- Links: * FirstVersions.com * TechCrunch * Wayback Machine * Pocket * ShopifySalesData.com * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan's newsletter. ----- 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. ----- Additional 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	Hey, mine's first million fans. This is producer Ben. We're bringing you one from the archives today
0:04.4	and I think this is a really high value episode. Now what this one is about is Sam and Sean talking
0:08.4	about their process for how they reverse engineer a business. So if they find a business that they
0:12.5	really like, how do they figure out its history, where it's been, and how it works. And so they go
0:18.4	through some of their tools. I think you guys will really like it. So please enjoy this episode from
0:22.4	the archives on how to reverse engineer any business. Here it is.
0:42.0	What's up? I saw this website. My guy Chris, Chris, who's my apprentice right now for content,
0:48.0	he sent this to me and I haven't actually spent a ton of time on it, but go to firstversions.com.
0:53.2	Check that out. And I'm pretty fascinated with this. I think you are too. We both are like
0:58.0	internet archaeologists. We like to go find the OG thing. What did I did this blog post? I got
1:05.2	like 10,000 of views once before I had any audience. It just went viral because it was,
1:09.8	what did the first web page look like for these 10 big companies? And this is kind of like some
1:14.1	common to do like Uber's homepage back in the day. Snapchats homepage back in the day.
1:19.3	Fit the first Facebook homepage, the first eBay homepage, first Amazon homepage. And these things
1:24.0	look like, you know, so basic and rudimentary. And like really just, it makes you realize, dude,
1:30.8	you need to launch. And there's that quote, if you're not embarrassed by V1 of your product,
1:34.8	you launch too late. And all these companies definitely like fall into that category. So I thought
1:39.6	firstversions.com was a cool little archive stuff like this. I think this is so cool. So I
1:44.5	actually just sent you a link to an article that I wrote. I think I wrote this in 16,
1:48.5	2016 years ago, 15, October 15. And I, you could probably just even work entirely. But anyway,
1:58.4	what I love to do, and I've always loved doing this, is I use, there's a few different websites.
2:03.6	Web archives, the easiest. And what I like to do is I will get a Google doc in a spreadsheet.
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