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My First Million

The guy who gets paid $80K/yr to do nothing

My First Million

Hubspot

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Episode 634: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk  about Shoji Morimoto, the Japanese guy who’s making $80k/yr renting himself out to friendless people, Autopilot’s viral marketing stunt, PLUS how to make $1M in 8 weeks. — Show Notes:  (0:00) The Do Nothing Man: $80K/yr for doing nothing (4:23) The new male situationship (11:24) Setting long term intentions (14:06) Non-sexual companionship-as-a-service (21:52) Professional grievers (24:18) Autopilot’s badass marketing stunt (32:37) Blue Collar Side Hustle: Porch Pumpkins ($1M in 8 weeks) — Links: • Rent a Friend - https://rentafriend.com/ • Papa - https://www.papa.com/ • Sugar Daddy - https://www.sugardaddy.com/ • Autopilot - https://www.joinautopilot.com/ • Porch Pumpkins - https://porchpumpkins.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

All right, Sam, I got to tell you about this. There is a guy in Japan who I read about who is making $80,000 a year for doing nothing.

0:11.0

I feel like I can rule the world. I know I could be what I want to.

0:15.6

They called him the do-nothing man.

0:21.1

Have you ever heard of this guy?

0:22.1

No, what you read about this?

0:24.0

Well, I originally saw it, I don't even know where, I saw it somewhere and I was fascinated

0:29.2

because what happened is this guy was at work and his boss called him a do-nothing man and he was insulting him as like dude you just do nothing you don't really add anything you don't provide any value and he says

0:44.1

that he thought to himself and he goes hmm is there value in society for a man who

0:48.8

does nothing and he went online and he posted a tweet saying,

0:54.0

I'm starting a new service.

0:55.7

It's called Rental People Who Do Nothing.

0:59.2

And it was like, I will be a companion,

1:02.3

a friend who will do nothing.

1:03.6

So what this guy does is you rent him out

1:06.1

and he'll go hang out with you and he says nothing.

1:08.8

It's pretty much a silent companion,

1:11.1

completely non-physical, non-sexual, basically an introvert for hire.

1:17.1

And so what people do is they will, either they have a task, they need to do like an errand

1:21.3

they need to run, or they just feel really lonely and they just want

1:24.4

somebody to have some tea with them and he'll come and he'll sit and he won't really say anything and if you ask

1:29.9

him a question he'll give you a simple answer but it's really just the presence of another

1:33.7

human body and this guy made $80,000 in a year renting himself out and he then he wrote a book

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