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My First Million

The Secret Founders Of +$1,000,000,000 Brands

My First Million

Hubspot

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.72.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) dive into the business moguls behind the world’s biggest celebrity brands. Learn how Emma Grede leveraged the Kardashian’s name to build multiple 9-figure brands, how Guthy-Renker cornered the TV market with Proactiv ads, and how Scott Storch produced some of the most popular songs of all-time and managed to (literally) blow his $100M earnings away. Want to see more MFM? Subscribe to the MFM YouTube channel here. — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com/ Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com/ • Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant • Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing • Small Boy Newsletter: https://smallboy.co/ • Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com/ — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (2:30) Sam Broke His Finger (4:45) Emma Grede: Skims, Good American, Safely, etc. (14:15) Brian Lee: Honest Company (17:05) Robert Earl: Virtual Dining Concepts, Planet Hollywood, etc. (26:30) Guthy-Renker: Proactiv, JLo Beauty, etc.  (51:20) Rise of the creator brand (54:30) Scott Storch: Still D.R.E., Lean Back, etc. (1:02:15) People who game the system — Links: • Skims - https://skims.com/ • Good American - https://goodamerican.com/ • Safely - https://getsafely.com/ • Guthy-Renker - https://www.guthy-renker.com/ • Ben Van De Bunt Clips - https://tinyurl.com/3tchy5su • Austin Rief Tweet - https://twitter.com/austin_rief/status/1690737829943402497 • Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. — 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. — Other 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

So here's some quotes I'd like to read you, okay?

0:02.8

On blowing a hundred million dollars, quote, it happens.

0:06.8

Thanks, quote.

0:09.1

When you talk about blowing a hundred million,

0:11.3

I know cats that blue double that.

0:13.5

That's a second response.

0:15.3

It continues. It can happen to anyone.

0:18.1

Which I'm not a third.

0:21.3

I don't think you can have it anyone.

0:24.2

I feel like I could rule the world.

0:26.4

I know I could be what I want to.

0:29.2

I put my all in it like no days.

0:31.2

All right, what's up?

0:33.1

We got a fun episode here.

0:34.4

So we're going to do we're going to play a little game.

0:37.2

And the game is that, Sam, I want me and you to go back and forth.

0:42.2

Kind of like we do when we hang out.

0:43.5

If we were just back in the day when we both used to drink a drink of beer or two.

0:47.2

And we would just try to entertain each other sort of one up each other with stories.

0:50.7

And I'll tell you a story, a business story that I think is pretty juicy.

0:54.8

You tell me a business story that you think is pretty juicy.

0:57.5

And we're going to see who we're going to we're going to measure these on,

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