The Simplest Way To Make $1M In 2026
My First Million
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🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 75 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We have this podcast called My First Million, where we're coming with all these complicated schemes |
| 0:04.2 | of how somebody could make their first million. Meanwhile, in their relationship, Sarah made her |
| 0:08.0 | first million before Sam with the simplest scheme of all. |
| 0:15.9 | Okay, so we invited our buddies from TBPN, John and Jordy, here, to do one of our favorite episodes that we do every year called Sarah's List. |
| 0:28.5 | And it's called Sarah's List in honor of the queen herself, Sam's wife Sarah. |
| 0:33.0 | You know, it's a classic story, really. |
| 0:34.7 | She just joined a great company that was clearly already great as like |
| 0:41.6 | employee 3,000 and the math was like this she got a job at Airbnb and i think it was you know |
| 0:48.0 | her numbers aside the general math is you get a job and they'll offer you maybe like a 40 or 50k |
| 0:53.0 | a year stock package in addition to your salary so So you get your salary, you get your health care. They got a kitchen where they're serving your lunch. They got oat milk in the fridge. So you're not sacrificing anything. She didn't have to come up with the idea of Airbnb. She joined it. She wasn't the first employee grinding like crazy. She was employee $3,000. But that stock package, which over a four-year period is, you're granted about $200,000 |
| 1:14.9 | with the stock, 5xed. |
| 1:16.8 | And she made a million bucks before either me or Sam. |
| 1:20.1 | And so we kind of wanted to honor the brilliance that is joining companies that are already |
| 1:24.6 | clear winners, especially in tech because the winners can run so far. |
| 1:29.1 | And so every few years, me and Sam have done this where we come up with our list. |
| 1:32.8 | We call it Sarah's list, which is the 10 companies you would join right now. |
| 1:36.1 | Because as a person, your time is essentially your investment, right? |
| 1:40.1 | When you join a company, that's an act of an investment. |
| 1:42.8 | It's funny because I know some investors who did, who made an investment in that unicorn round, |
| 1:49.0 | and they had the exact same logic. |
| 1:50.7 | They were like complete parloric market fit, obvious runner, like just pile money into this like easy investment and then it worked. |
| 1:57.6 | She joined, I think, at the $18 million valuation, something like that. |
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