This Opportunity Is Hidden In Plain Sight

My First Million

Hubspot

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Get our Business Idea Database: https://clickhubspot.com/etsl Episode 819: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) answer the question, “If you’re smart and in your 20s, where’s the opportunity?” — Show Notes: (0:00) Where is the opportunity right now? (08:01) the buff billionaire (19:43) We break down the TBPN acquisition by OpenAI (31:59) 2 stories of John Coogan being locked in (41:56) William Randolph Hearst (54:48) Collecting 100x talent — Links: • GTA VI - https://www.rockstargames.com/VI • John Coogan on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@JohnCooganPlus/videos • Hearst Castle - https://hearstcastle.org/ — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton (joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC • I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out: beehiiv.com/mfm-challenge My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano /

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0:00.0	Very important question is where is their opportunity?
0:01.8	Well, yeah, I want to do an O's Perlman style. I'm going to write something down and we'll see if I'm right. Go ahead. Let's see. All right, do you write it down? Tell me what's done. All right, it's done. So obviously there's a big opportunity to AI right now. Obviously, there's a big opportunity in peptides or like biology with AI, something like that.
0:21.7	What I'm about that to talk about is I did not write that down.
0:30.4	All right, carry on them.
0:33.0	I feel like I can rule the world.
0:35.3	I know I could be what I want to.
0:38.0	I put my all in it like no days off.
0:40.6	On a road, let's travel.
0:41.9	Never look at, man.
0:43.4	Where is their opportunity right now?
0:48.5	When you open your laptop, what does your to-do list say?
0:52.7	Scheme?
0:53.0	Yeah, it's not even a laptop.
1:11.1	It's like a notepad. It's the hotel notepad. I don't think most people actually ask themselves this very important question. Where is the opportunity right now? That's like, you know, I was sitting there as a 14-year-old. How do I have sex? No, that's literally what you should be thinking.
1:13.0	You should be thinking as a 14-year-old,
1:14.8	you're like, which girl's going to kiss me?
1:16.7	Where are the girls that might kiss me?
1:18.3	And how do I get them to kiss me?
1:19.9	That's like actually what you should be thinking about.
1:22.7	I think entrepreneurs need to think like that.
1:25.4	It's like, sounds caveman, sounds stupid,
1:26.5	but like it's actually the thing.
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