The Acquired Podcast Hosts: How They Started and Grew a Multimillion Dollar Podcast

My First Million

Hubspot

Business, Entrepreneurship, Investing

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Episode 440: Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) are joined by the Acquired podcast (@AcquiredFM) hosts, Ben Gilbert (@gilbert) and David Rosenthal (@djrosent) to talk about scaling to a large podcast, the company they would like to own, the CEO's you don't want to compete against, and the 100+ year history of Nintendo. Plus, a YouTube Premium subscription giveaway! Want to see more MFM? Subscribe to the MFM YouTube channel here. Vote for MFM to win a Webby: mfmpod.com/webby Click here to sign up for our event in Austin, TX on Saturday April 29th: mfmpod.com/atx Check Out Sam's Stuff: * Hampton * Ideation Bootcamp * Copy That Check Out Shaan's Stuff: * Power Writing Course * Daily Newsletter ----- Links: *Acquired podcast *Wait But Why *Marques Brownlee *Nintendo *NVIDIA * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. ------ Show Notes: (01:45) - Intro to Acquired (01:58) - What to do when your schtick runs out (10:00) - How to scale to a big podcast (14:05) - How big do you have to be to be at the top of the business category? (23:55) - What commonalities are there between weird companies? (27:40) - How to tell a real from a fake contrarian (34:45) - Nintendo (37:45) - Which company would you most want to own? (40:45) - Who would you least want to compete against? (52:30) - Business ideas (56:40) - Will you ever sell Acquired? (58:20) - Best ways to make money as a podcast ----- 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

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0:00.0	What could you get for it, you think?
0:02.0	I would not be interested in having any conversations for less than on the order of like,
0:09.3	you got to like the hustle or morning brew or stuff like that.
0:13.8	10s of millions.
0:14.8	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:16.0	I mean, I just think like the value of what we've built both as a business and revenue
0:20.2	and our audience and our durability is in that category.
0:28.6	All right, let's take a second to talk about our sponsor today HubSpot.
0:39.0	They have two new AI tools that are pretty cool.
0:40.7	I want to tell you about.
0:41.6	So the first one is content assistant.
0:44.1	So we know that content's key for driving revenue because you write content, you get traffic,
0:49.8	the traffic turns into leads, the leads turn into revenue.
0:52.0	But not everybody's great at doing content.
0:54.3	And so the content assistant is basically an AI based tool that will help you come up
0:59.4	with blog post ideas or even draft the blog post or an outline for it.
1:03.9	And you can use it to write the copy that you need for your website, your landing page,
1:06.9	your prospecting emails, whatever you need to write content, this can do it for you.
1:10.6	It's built on top of OpenAI's GPT model.
1:13.5	And the differentiator is that it's an all in one AI power tool that's designed to help
1:17.2	you get more done, save you time and help you go your business faster.
1:20.8	So that's the first one.
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