I talk to Ben about creating luck, his barbell method, plus 6 half-baked business ideas

My First Million

Hubspot

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Want to scale? Get 700 side hustle prompts: https://clickhubspot.com/blv Episode 719: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talks to his business partner Ben Levy about creating luck, his barbell method for building relationships and 6 half-baked business ideas. Apply to join Club LTV - https://tinyurl.com/3y478hm2 — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (4:01) Your first believer (6:11) The K Academy (9:38) Ben as a product (17:53) Measuring luck (23:43) Barbell method (30:24) Idea: Court side seats (33:44) Idea: Lunch Bounty (36:51) Idea: Birkins for everyone (45:31) Idea: Survivor for post-economic people (50:50) Idea: Cool carpel tunnel brand (53:42) Idea: Coach K in a box — 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 — 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	All right, we got Ben here, and this is the real deal, Ben.
0:02.7	This is Ben, the business partner.
0:04.4	If you listen to every single episode of this podcast, you hear me two hours a week.
0:07.7	I probably talk to Ben 20 hours a week.
0:09.9	Yeah, pretty much.
0:10.7	I feel like you have 100 times more great stuff that never makes it anywhere.
0:14.5	It just goes into our text thread and dies immediately.
0:18.1	And we got to bring it out.
0:19.1	I feel like I can rule the world.
0:21.6	I know I could be what I want to.
0:24.3	I put my all in it like no days off.
0:26.9	On a road,
0:27.6	let's travel, never looking back.
0:29.4	Ben, I was counting before we started this episode.
0:31.4	So together, we've been working together for five years now.
0:34.6	We've created nine different things.
0:37.3	I don't know if you've seen this. We've created
0:38.2	nine different projects that have made more than a million dollars each. So the very first thing
0:43.7	we did together is the all access pass, which was a pretty bat-shit crazy idea where I was like,
0:48.8	what if listeners of the pod could actually see what I'm doing every day to build a business.
0:55.1	And I basically was like for three months, I'm, I'm 90 days.
0:58.8	I'm going to send an email every day just showing you what I worked on each of those days while I try to do X thing.
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