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My First Million

Tiny Desk Awards: 13 Companies Making $1M+ With 0 Employees

My First Million

Hubspot

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

šŸ—“ļø 6 July 2023

ā±ļø 72 minutes

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Summary

Episode 472: Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) unveil their list of the best companies making more than $1M annually with no full time employees. Want to see more MFM? Subscribe to the MFM YouTube channel here. ----- Check Out Sam's Stuff: * Hampton * Ideation Bootcamp * Copy That Check Out Shaan's Stuff: * Try Shepherd * Shaan's Personal Assistant System * Power Writing Course * Daily Newsletter ----- Show Notes: (00:00) - Introduction (03:50) - Biggest One-Person Business - Stardew Valley, Streamyard, and Plenty of Fish (15:45) - Highest Degree of Difficulty - TinyWow and Photopea (26:00) - Easiest to Recreate: GetCyberLeads, Lenny Rachitsky, and Marketing Examples (36:00) - Most Fun: Joe Rogan and Gym Streak (42:00) - Business You Would Most Want to Own: Milled and BuiltWith (46:30) - Rookie of the Year: Joseph Mambwe and Only Finder (55:30) - Worst of the Best: The Van Trump Report ------ Links: * Stardew Valley * Streamyard * Plenty of Fish * TinyWow * Photopea * GetCyberLeads * Lenny Rachitsky * Marketing Examples * Gym Streak * Milled * BuiltWith * Hampton Blog on Joseph Mambwe * OnlyFinder * Van Trump Report * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. ------ 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

I was like have you done any deals are like that would have heard of and he's like you know Disney land

0:07.5

He's like a lot of windows in Disneyland we do all the windows in Disneyland. Oh my god

0:14.4

They bought a window company got him a Disney contract we do all the windows in Disney

0:18.4

I

0:20.4

Feel like I could rule the world. I know I could be what I want to

0:25.0

I put my all in it like a days

0:27.0

All right, what's up? We are talking about something pretty special this episode

0:31.7

This is gonna be different than our normal episodes, which are you know free wheeling free styling today

0:36.7

We got a plan and the plan is we're gonna talk about companies that crush it with only one or two employees

0:44.3

So the reason we thought about this was there was some news I don't know a couple weeks ago

0:49.4

That a company that I had never heard of called war graphs sold for $54 million and

0:55.4

The yeah, that's I mean that's obviously impressive

0:58.1

But the most impressive part was that war graph was just one dude so one guy sold his company $54 million and

1:04.4

I don't know do you know what war graphs did no is it a gaming thing? It's a gaming thing

1:09.1

Yeah, so he built basically a companion app. I think for League of Legends

1:13.0

So if you play League of Legends

1:14.4

This was like a thing that would keep track of your stats and stuff like that help you get better at the game

1:18.8

So he built this little companion app and it got really popular

1:22.8

I think he got into like a million players that used it and

1:26.1

Was generating serious revenue and so he sold it for 50 more 54 million in cash and he was up front

1:30.8

He was like I got half of the sorry got half of the 54 million in cash up front

1:34.6

And I have the other half as like my earn out that I have to leave it like

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