Shaan Goes to LA, The Number 2 Guy Network and Getting Bucked Up

My First Million

Hubspot

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Episode 482: Shaan leaves his house! In this episode, Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) tells Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) about his wild trip to LA. You’ll hear about an NBA players “cheating agreement” with his wife, the difference between LA obnoxious vs. SF obnoxious, why the Number 2 Guy network is widely underrated, how Bucked Up scaled to $250M / yr, and much 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 • Small Boy Newsletter Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton • Ideation Bootcamp • Copy That — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (2:30) Sam & Shaan’s Cadence (5:00) Shaan’s LA trip (9:30) CEO perplexed by sweaty startups (14:45) How CEO turned failing company around (24:05) NBA player’s agreement with his wife (26:10) LA obnoxious vs. SF obnoxious (33:35) Rich person who donated +$10M to a high school (37:00) Shaan's VC friend who only goes all-in (42:30) Neighborhoods, not cities (46:00) The best networker Shaan’s ever met (49:15) The Number 2 Guy Network (52:10) Bucked Up: $250m / yr supplement company (1:00:25) The Enhanced Games (1:06:00) Shaan’s Youtube channel idea (1:10:00) Shaan’s Erewhon experience — Links: • Little Big Details - http://littlebigdetails.com/ • Bucked Up - http://buckedup.com/ • Aron D’Souza - https://uk.linkedin.com/in/arondsouza • 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. — Other 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	He'd just come back to it.
0:01.5	We were talking about a whole different topic and he's like,
0:04.2	big O tires?
0:05.5	Really?
0:06.4	You could just own 12 big O tires and that's it?
0:08.1	Like it would just come back to the example
0:11.4	of one of these like shitty brick and mortar chains
0:15.3	that are like, you know, so easy, sweaty, cash flow business.
0:19.8	I feel like I could rule the world.
0:21.8	I know I could be what I want to put my all in it
0:25.8	like a day's old.
0:27.6	All right, we're gonna start the pod.
0:29.0	But before we do, we have an announcement.
0:30.3	We are looking to hire a new producer.
0:32.6	This producer is gonna be the person
0:34.2	who sits live on these podcasts, helps us edit them
0:37.1	and make the videos in podcast popular, helps us get guests.
0:41.2	And so we're hiring.
0:42.5	We're hiring, I almost call them a band manager.
0:45.1	It's like, you know, the band manager's job is to make sure
0:48.0	that the band blows up, right?
0:50.8	And so this podcast has grown a lot.
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