The Startup Sins Of Uber, Why Scaling Is Overrated, and More

My First Million

Hubspot

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Episode 362: Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) talk about businesses that don't scale well, but are still successful, the startup sins of Uber, how to make millions from a salaried position, and more. ----- Links: * Sundae Conversation * Product Hunt * Newspapers.com * Rahul Pandey / 5 Offers with FAANG * PreciTaste * WGSN * Grabr.io * jdnoc * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan's newsletter. ------ Show Notes: (01:25) - Custom rap tracks and why scaling is overrated (14:25) - The many startup sins of Uber (18:05) - Scott Belsky (31:45) - How to make millions from a salaried position (45:50) - The insanely high value of predicting things (55:55) - The surprisingly big opportunity of private security (01:02:30) - Writing a note to your spouse every day ----- 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. ----- Additional 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

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0:00.0	If you have $10 million at a jawline,
0:02.9	that's insolent.
0:03.8	Sam is all it.
0:04.8	Yeah.
0:05.8	Yeah.
0:06.7	Definitely all it.
0:07.7	So like I love this guy.
0:20.3	I have a feeling you're coming with fire or something.
0:22.5	Do you seem firey today?
0:23.8	I got some good stuff.
0:25.0	I saw this ad on Instagram and this is the most amazing marketing funnel
0:29.4	I've ever seen.
0:30.4	Maybe ever, but definitely for a musician.
0:33.0	So check this out.
0:37.3	Stop scrolling.
0:38.0	You have 24 hours.
0:39.4	We're Carol Lunkham, an independent hip hop group.
0:41.9	Last year we had the honor of being placed on Brock
0:44.5	Hinton's official community playlist and we were also
0:47.1	shattered out by Kenny Beats.
0:48.6	Carol Lunkham go off and bet you can do it.
0:50.9	This year we're trying to grow our fan base.
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