The Crazy Story of Google’s 7 Angel Investors

My First Million

Hubspot

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Get our Business Monetization Playbook: https://clickhubspot.com/monetization Episode 669: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) do a deep dive on the 7 strangers that made the greatest investment of all time. — Show Notes: (0:00) Andy Bechtolsheim (7:10) David Cheriton (10:10) Ron Conway (29:20) Alfred Lin (35:00) Shaquille O'Neill (37:20) Susan Wojcicki (38:50) Pejman Nozad (46:20) Jeff Bezos — Links: • SV Angel - https://svangel.com/ — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd — 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 The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

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0:00.0	Today, I'm going to tell you about seven strangers who made the greatest investment of all time.
0:05.7	I feel like I can rule the world.
0:07.7	I know I could be what I want to.
0:10.4	I put my all in it like no days off.
0:14.0	I'm just going to put my finger to your lips and just say, let me cook here because I got something for you.
0:18.3	I'm just going to take you down a road here.
0:20.2	All right.
0:20.5	So I've been down this rabbit hole dude for the last, I want to call it six hours preparing
0:25.8	for this podcast because I just got obsessed with the random story and lore of the first
0:32.9	people that invested in Google.
0:35.0	This is crazy.
0:35.8	So this is the story of all the people who invested early at Google. And the lessons from this are not about investing Google. This is crazy. So this is the story of all the people
0:37.6	who invested early at Google.
0:39.0	And the lessons from this
0:40.1	are not about investing in Google.
0:41.3	This was like, you know, 20 years ago.
0:43.2	But how crazy the world of angel investing is
0:47.1	and how much you can almost create your own luck.
0:50.8	And I want to show you how these people
0:52.1	created their own luck step by step.
0:54.1	So first, let me show you something. And if you're on iTunes, go to YouTube right now.
0:59.4	You're going to want to see my little PowerPoint I made for Sam. All right, Sam, check this out.
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