Story Of The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of

My First Million

Hubspot

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

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🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Get our Resource Vault - a curated collection of pro-level business resources (tools, guides, databases): https://clickhubspot.com/jbg Episode 786: Sam Parr ( ⁠https://x.com/theSamParr⁠ ) and Shaan Puri ( ⁠https://x.com/ShaanVP⁠ ) tell the story Demis Hassabis ( https://x.com/demishassabis ) and the creation of Deepmind. Show Notes: (0:00) Demis the Menace (22:05) The only resource you need is resourcefulness (2457) Move 37 (29:38) The olympics of protein folding (4639) We are the gorillas — Links: • The Thinking Game - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d95J8yzvjbQ • Why We Do What We Do - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwFOwyoH-3g • Fierce Nerds - https://paulgraham.com/fn.html • Isomorphic Labs - https://www.isomorphiclabs.com/ • If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies - https://ifanyonebuildsit.com/ — 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 — 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	Sam, I think today we should talk about somebody who is one of the most important founders in the world, one of those brilliant founders in the world that nobody talks about.
0:13.8	I feel like I can rule the world. I know I could be what I want to. I put my all in it like no days off.
0:17.2	I don't even know how to say this guy's name properly.
0:23.9	And he is one of the most important tech founders in the world.
0:27.0	His name is Dennis Hasabas.
0:29.9	Is he currently the guy who's like warning people?
0:31.9	Is he on like a podcast tour warning people?
0:32.9	No, no, no.
0:34.3	He's pro AI.
0:35.5	So he's not warning people.
0:36.8	No, then I don't know anything about him.
0:37.3	Enlightened me. Okay. So this guy is Demis the Menace is what I'm going to call this guy, because this guy is an absolute animal. Okay, so I watched this documentary called The Thinking Game. It's on Prime Video, if anybody wants to go watch it. I'd heard good things from some smart people, so I thought, okay, let me check it out. And let me just first lay out my case for Demis as Billy of the Week, because he's
0:59.3	kind of legendary. Okay, so I didn't understand how much of a prodigy this guy was. And this was a
1:06.4	documentary that was like, you know, pretty straightforward, but like this could have easily
1:09.9	been a movie like the social network because the social network basically covered the most transformative, young, brilliant founder from the kind of 2004 to 2010 era, which is Zuck.
1:24.0	And it talks about Zuck in college and how he's this kid and, you know, all the ups and downs he goes through trying to build this thing.
1:29.9	Demis is maybe that guy now, him and Sam Altman. They're both basically like two guys who are creating the most important technology of all time.
1:38.4	You think those are the two guys. Those are the guys. Well, Elon would be the other, right? So Elon's the obvious other person that needs a movie and has a crazy life. But this guy, I think, is the most underrated, less talked about
1:49.0	for who he is. Okay, so who is he? He started this company called DeepMind. DeepMind got bought
1:53.4	by Google. And DeepMind is basically Google's AI play. And the DeepMind team, which was basically
1:59.5	a research team that was building AI, is the
2:02.6	reason that Open AI exists. It is the reason that ChatchipT exists. It is the reason Elon is interested
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