Spotting Billion Dollar Investments Was Hard Until I Learned These 3 Rules | Rohan Oza

My First Million

Hubspot

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Get our Unsexy Business Ideas Database: https://clickhubspot.com/fjsc Episode 820: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Rohan Oza about how his formula for simple products that end in multi-billion dollar exits. — Show Notes: (0:00) The brandfather (2:40) Rule 1: influence the influencer (7:02) Deal: Poppi on Shark Tank (20:32) rule 2: Make a brand pop culture (25:10) knowing winners from losers (26:48) Rohan breaks down his formula (29:31) "shelf space is the original algorithm" (33:39) Closing the biggest deal of your life (38:57) how to win with no network (42:07) Rohan's first million (46:45) spotting the next trend (tastebuds and TAM) (48:09) How do you sell water? (52:33) learning from the giants — Links: • CAVU - https://cavuconsumer.com/ — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton (joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm — 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 • I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out: beehiiv.com/mfm-challenge 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	Every deal on Shark Tag, that's a beverage. I know they're looking at me. Nobody wins the lottery seven times.
0:05.5	You've got sharks spitting out the product. You've got a terrible brand name, and you pick up 25% of that company.
0:11.4	Sold for a billion and a half. Is this just art or is there some signs behind it?
0:15.9	One of the biggest lines of Robert Woodruff was like, he wanted cope to be with an arm's reach of desire.
0:21.6	Brand is creating that design.
0:24.6	One in ten Americans influenced the other nine.
0:27.6	The goal is to spot that one.
0:28.6	Can you teach us more about how it's done?
0:30.6	It's actually three things.
0:31.6	One is spotting stuff early.
0:33.6	One is building the brands.
0:34.6	And the other is actually...
0:36.6	I feel like I can rule the world.
0:38.3	I know I could be what I want to.
0:41.0	I put my all in it like no days off.
0:44.4	You're the brand father.
0:47.4	You have been brand...
0:48.1	You have been crushing it in the beverage space.
0:51.0	I was reading the research on you the last couple days.
0:54.7	I knew about poppy. I knew about vitamin water, but I didn't know the extent of it. Can you brag for a second?
1:01.5	Shout out some of the brands that you've been involved with. I actually have started none of it.
1:06.1	I only co-founded one, which is Poppy, and I'll tell you that story. But the rest, I just bought them early,
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