The Story Behind The $1.5B Pornhub Curse

My First Million

Hubspot

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Episode 548: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) tell you the greek tragedy behind the Pornhub empire. If you like stories about nerds taking over, arson, secret billionaires and….foosball tables, you’re going to like this episode. No more small boy spreadsheets, build your business on the free HubSpot CRM: https://mfmpod.link/hrd — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (2:00) Who's the new king of porn? (16:00) Bill Ackman vs Pornhub (24:00) Pornhub's $77M exit (29:30)The reality distortion of entertainment businesses (35:30) Sam shrinks Shaan (38:00) DuckDuckGo in the top 10?!? — 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/ 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 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

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0:00.0	All right, Sam, I want to play a game. I want to start this with a game where I'm going to read you.
0:05.0	And you don't know this, by the, you didn't know I was going to do this.
0:08.0	We have that, I'm going to read you the most trafficked websites in the United States,
0:12.0	and as a simple test, you're a business guy you studied
0:14.4	the business world I want you to tell me do you know who's the owner or CEO of these
0:19.9	businesses okay all right I like this game. Number one.
0:23.0	Google.com.
0:24.0	Sergei and Larry Page.
0:26.0	Sergei something and Larry Page.
0:28.0	Correct.
0:29.0	Next one, YouTube.
0:31.0	Chad H and. YouTube. Reddit, Hoffman and Oh, hey, Ian.
0:44.0	Correct.
0:45.0	Amazon.
0:46.0	Baysos.
0:47.0	Okay, number five, now we're getting, we're getting to the good stuff.
0:49.0	Okay, so first, this is, I think you'll get this one,
0:51.0	easy, Facebook, Zuckerberg. get this one easy, Facebook.
0:52.6	Zuckerberg?
0:53.6	Okay, number six, Pornhub.
0:56.0	Bastion something, a German guy.
0:58.4	Incorrect, sir.
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