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My First Million

The best stuff we’ve read in the last 12 months

My First Million

Hubspot

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.72.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Want Sam's top 7 books for entrepreneurs (& his reading strategy)? Get it here: https://clickhubspot.com/bvp Episode 781: Sam Parr ( ⁠https://x.com/theSamParr⁠ ) and Shaan Puri ( ⁠https://x.com/ShaanVP⁠ ) break down the best things they’ve seen over the last 12 months.  Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (11:18) die with zero (20:24) selling out (37:06) 48 Laws of Power (41:28) The Terminal List (46:17) The Navalmanak (49:13) Working smarter, not harder (51:52) The $510M boom box (54:08) Sam's richer, better looking twin — Links: • Die With Zero - https://www.diewithzerobook.com/  • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant - https://www.navalmanack.com/  • Poor Charlie’s Almanack - https://www.poorcharliesalmanack.com/  • The Will of the Many - https://www.amazon.com/Will-Many-1-Hierarchy/dp/1982141174  • The Terminal List - https://www.officialjackcarr.com/books/the-terminal-list/  • The 48 Laws of Power - https://powerseductionandwar.com/48-laws-of-power/  • Selling Out - https://www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/memo/selling-out  — 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 — 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

Most people live their life like this.

0:02.0

They build a well and they start to pump water. And at the end of their lives, after a lifetime of pumping, they see they are still thirsty. They spent their whole life pumping rather than drinking, which was the reason they started pumping in the first place. 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 on a road. What up, Sam? I wanted to do something a little different today. End of the year. I was doing a little

0:26.5

slack clean out and I was looking at, I had this one channel for like the best stuff I read this week.

0:32.6

I call it my content diet channel. It's basically what were the vegetables? What were my whole foods that I consumed?

0:38.1

Because I consumed a lot of junk, but this stuff was actually good. I was just kind of browsing through

0:42.3

what really stood out or resonated with me. And I have a couple. I don't know. And I wanted to

0:46.9

know yours, because you read a lot more than me. And I think we read totally different things.

0:50.9

So I'm curious if anything comes to mind for you on that topic.

0:54.9

Yes. For me, it's a lot of books. And so, like, for example, the topic that I got obsessed

1:00.8

with this year was presidential assassinations. I went deep on the four different presidents who

1:07.1

were assassinated, and that interested me. But, you know, I'm a huge history fan. And so I could talk to you all about history, which I can say some of the most amazing stuff that I learned. I feel like we did a whole bit when the Trump assassination thing happened on presidential assassination. There's some crazy stories, right? There's like the guy who had a speech in his pocket that like blunted the blow. And so he got shot. And he survived. And he's survived. and he gets shot by his car on his way to his speech at his pocket that like blunted the blow and so he got shot and he survived

1:27.8

he gets shot by his car on his way to his speech doesn't die because the speech is so thick

1:33.6

in his pocket gives the speech while bleeding yeah that was Roosevelt there's only been four presidents

1:40.2

that have been successfully assassinated and three of them happened between like 1865 and

1:45.9

like 1905. And like pretty much up until Andrew Garfield was assassinated, which I think was like

1:50.7

around 1904, any human, any American, it was like customary, you can just go to the White

1:56.2

House and schedule an appointment with the president. And the idea here was that they were supposed to be

2:01.0

like a man of the people. And I think that's ridiculous. And the Secret Service, even up until

2:05.3

1963, 64, 65, when JFK was shot, it was only like 300 people. And so like basically was

2:11.7

non-existence. And so I'm like obsessed with that about how like something became an institution,

2:16.5

even after four years or sorry, four

2:18.7

deaths happened. And so I've been obsessed with that. I've also been obsessed with leadership and the

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