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My First Million

This Hedge Fund Manager Got Away With Insider Trading… Then Made Billions

My First Million

Hubspot

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.72.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Episode 509: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) dive into the white collar crimes of Steve Cohen, the pros and cons of working 100 hours a week, and how to play the right game as a founder, investor, or asset manager. Want to see more MFM? Subscribe to our YouTube channel here. Want MFM Merch? Check out our store here. Want to see the best clips from MFM? Subscribe to our clips 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 (2:00) Steve Cohen's $19b insider trading empire (12:30) 996 Work Culture (20:00) Sam and Shaan's daily work schedules (24:00) Best Career Advice: Stuff the "Other" column (30:30) Law and Crime acquired for 9-figures (40:00) Tyler Hogge on sardines and tech valuations (44:00) Profit is a hypothesis. Cash is s fact (49:00) Know what game you're paying  (53:00) Inside the weird world of Bryan Johnson — Links: • Black Edge: https://tinyurl.com/j5646dbd • GLG Insights - https://glginsights.com/ • Sapiens - https://www.ynharari.com/book/sapiens-2/ • Abrams Media - https://dan-abrams.com/projects/ • Soap Hub - https://soaphub.com/ • Margin of Safety - https://tinyurl.com/5etkzb7t • Tyler Hogge article - https://tinyurl.com/4wmjnmfm • The Smartest Guys in the Room - https://tinyurl.com/2jec5z23 • Blueprint | Bryan Johnson - https://blueprint.bryanjohnson.co/ 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

Uh, Sam, what's up, man? I got, uh, I got some good news for you. Great.

0:03.6

Click that link. I just put it in there. It's uh, uh, it's your lucky day, bro.

0:08.5

Here's an article in the financial times called the Alpha of Ugliness.

0:12.5

And it turns out that being ugly outperforms, they analyzed a bunch of investors and the investors

0:21.0

who were conventionally ugly outperformed by 2%. I think. So, uh, yeah, I, I saw that. But here's

0:28.0

the problem. I'm, I'm a five, I'm five, 10. I'm not ugly enough to be made fun of.

0:34.4

But I'm definitely not hot enough to be six foot to get any advantages. Yeah. So.

0:41.5

That's the issue. Should I get uglier or hotter? I guess uglier.

0:44.3

Yeah, when I was in second grade, I really liked this one girl and I was like, um, hey,

0:58.4

I want to ask that girl to the, whatever the dance or something. We had like some party and like

1:02.3

third grade. And, um, now I think about it. That's kind of young to be asking girls. But that's

1:07.9

what happened. So I went up to her or no, my friend went up to her and he was like, Hey, Sean

1:11.0

likes you. And she goes, um, Sean's ugly. And then that was third grade. And then I'm still

1:16.9

reeling. I'm 30, I'm 35 now. I'm hoping at 36. I'm, I'm off that. But, uh, you know, still

1:24.0

recovering, I would say. Let's take a quick break to ask this question. What if you could find

1:28.2

tracking close all your deals in one place? What if your schedule, your goals, your to-do list,

1:32.1

your emails were all organized in one tab instead of dozens of tabs? What if connecting with

1:35.9

customers didn't leave you with so many what ifs? What if I stopped talking about what ifs? And I

1:39.0

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1:43.2

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1:47.9

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1:53.1

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