Jack Smith: Selling A Company For $800M At 29, Million Dollar Businesses that Can Be Started Just From Reading a Manual, and More

My First Million

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Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Episode 470: Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) talk to entrepreneur Jack Smith (@_jacksmith) about selling his company for $800 million, how he's choosing to raise his child, his latest business idea, and more. Want to see more MFM? Subscribe to the MFM YouTube channel here. Check Out Shaan's Stuff: * Try Shepherd * Shaan's Personal Assistant System * Power Writing Course * Daily Newsletter Check Out Sam's Stuff: * Hampton * Ideation Bootcamp * Copy That ----- Show Notes: (02:50) - Jack's first company (08:25) - Early Retirement (18:30) - Business Ideas: Nomad Capitalist (26:30) - RTFM (34:20) - Why You Should Hack the Apple Vision Pro (40:25) - Law of Attraction (01:04:30) - Baby stuff (01:17:15) - Unschooling ------ Links: * Don't Tell Me I Can't: An Ambitious Homeschooler's Journey * Nomad Capitalist * Practical Law of Attraction * Portugal Nature Getaway * Tweet thread of Jack's favorite products * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. ------ 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	You wake up at something like 3am or 5am.
0:03.4	And the first two to three days,
0:05.3	the only instruction that give you is,
0:07.4	hey, feel how the breath feels on your lips
0:10.5	when you're breathing in and out.
0:11.6	Okay, see you in three days.
0:13.2	And you sit next to it.
0:14.0	Really extreme.
0:15.8	What?
0:17.1	This is my management style too.
0:18.6	Ha, ha, ha.
0:20.8	I feel like I could rule the world.
0:22.8	I know I could be what I want to.
0:25.8	I put my all in it like a day's old.
0:28.8	All right, we're live here.
0:30.5	We have a guest, Jack Smith.
0:32.4	What are my best friends?
0:34.0	In my wedding, an amazing person.
0:37.4	I don't even know how to describe you, Jack.
0:38.9	What you, I guess like the top line is,
0:41.0	you started a company that you sold for like $800 million
0:43.6	when you were 29.
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