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My First Million

Masterclass: How to go from founder to CEO (without imploding)

My First Million

Hubspot

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Get Shaan's CEO Masterclass Guide: https://clickhubspot.com/esd Episode 759: Sam Parr ( ⁠https://x.com/theSamParr⁠ ) and Shaan Puri ( ⁠https://x.com/ShaanVP⁠ ) talk about the things they wish they knew when they were first-time CEOs.  — Show Notes: (0:00) CEO Masterclass (38:06) Abusing Your Edge — 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, today we're talking about something that is the brutal truth about startups, which

0:03.3

is that your business's success is completely dependent on your growth as a CEO.

0:09.1

And so we're talking about from starting a company to getting to that first one to three

0:13.5

million in revenue, what you need to be doing as a CEO.

0:15.9

And then Sam was sharing, you know, basically examples of after three million and scaling up

0:20.3

from three to the tens of millions to, you know, to get of after three million and scaling up from three to the

0:21.5

tens of millions to, you know, to get to 100 million in revenue, how you have to make this

0:25.6

brain shift. And what do you got to do as a CEO? Mistakes we've made, stuff that works for us,

0:30.6

tactics, techniques, specific frameworks we're using. It's all again.

0:35.4

I feel like I can rule the world.

0:37.6

I know I could be what I want to.

0:40.6

I put my all in it like no days on.

0:43.2

I was writing like journaling this morning.

0:44.8

Can I tell you what I was writing about and tell me if you've ever experienced this way?

0:48.2

Yeah, but you have to start with Dear Diary.

0:50.4

So I was realizing and tell me if you ever had this realization, that my company's growth

0:55.2

is limited by my personal growth. My company can only grow as fast as I can grow as a leader.

1:01.4

Have you ever experienced that?

1:02.8

Yeah, I have a similar belief, which is like the bottleneck of any business is the psychology

1:06.9

of the founder. That's kind of the way I've always said it. So it's not necessarily my growth,

1:10.8

but like my psychology is the limiting factor. Yeah, your, of the founder. That's kind of the way I've always said it. So it's not necessarily my growth,

1:17.3

but like my psychology is the limiting factor. Yeah, your business is basically a mirror of your strengths and weaknesses. And here's what happens is a lot of people, they don't realize that. I haven't

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