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My First Million

Steph Smith On Anti-Cheat Businesses, Ethical Hackers, and 5 Business Ideas With High Demand & Low Supply

My First Million

Hubspot

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

šŸ—“ļø 13 October 2022

ā±ļø 66 minutes

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Summary

Episode 374: In this episode Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) joins Steph Smith (@stephsmithio), host of the a16z podcast, to talk about anti-cheat businesses, ethical hacking, and inflections that create companies. ----- Links: * Steph Smith * a16z podcast * Sh*t You Don't Learn In School podcast * r/contagiouslaughter * Fake data to catch cheaters tweet * Wiz * Interactive resume Robby Leonardi * Bruno Simon * Neal.Fun * Electric Chopsticks tweet * air up * Meet the People Who Design Restaurant Menus * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan's newsletter. ------ Show Notes: (01:50) - Podcasting (09:15) - Cheating Scandal (28:20) - Ethical hacking (31:00) - Internet portfolio (42:25) - Salty bowls and smelly water (44:50) - Idea: A/B Testing Menus (51:15) - Inflections that create businesses (01:03:40) - Breakup Businesses ----- 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's the number one hacker convention.

0:02.1

I don't know why anybody would go to this.

0:03.5

It's like walking into a shark den basically,

0:06.3

but one thing they showed is just how much hacks

0:08.6

is not like brilliant computer engineering.

0:10.9

It's human engineering.

0:11.8

They basically just like trick you into giving up information.

0:15.1

I feel like I could rule the world.

0:17.1

I know I could be what I want to.

0:20.0

I put my all in it like no days old.

0:22.5

On a road, let's travel never looking back.

0:25.0

What's up, Steph?

0:25.8

Steph is back in the house.

0:27.6

One of the most requested return guests of all time.

0:32.0

We should have you on more.

0:33.0

What are you doing now, by the way?

0:34.1

You left the hustle slash helps bot.

0:36.5

You went to Andreessen.

0:37.6

Is that where you're at still or are you doing other things?

0:39.5

Yeah.

0:40.4

Exactly.

0:41.2

I'm at A16Z.

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