We found the weirdest ways to make $1M, $1B, and $5B

My First Million

Hubspot

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Episode 716: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the 6 weird ways to make millions. — Show Notes: (0:00) $1M Twerking Class (5:55) Fecal transplants (12:00) A brief history of butts (15:05) $1B BBLs (20:26) $5B hookup app (31:16) $200M bonus: DUDE Wipes (37:19) How many millionaires from the pod? (47:17) Having it all (50:18) Shaan's reading list (53:28) Wisdom extraction — Links: • Want Sam's Top 7 Books as a Founder (& his Reading Strategy)? Get the guide here: https://clickhubspot.com/apw • OpenBiome - https://openbiome.org/ • Grindr - https://www.grindr.com/ • DUDE Wipes - https://dudewipes.com/ • Tushy - https://hellotushy.com/ • Modern Wisdom - https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisWillx • Save The Cat - https://tinyurl.com/4nwpec6z — 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 — 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 • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ 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	So today we're talking about a very specific topic that I never thought we would go there.
0:05.4	Sam, did you ever think we'd go here?
0:07.9	Maybe by episode 2000, but I wasn't sure if it's going to happen this soon.
0:10.8	Yeah, it's a little early.
0:12.8	Today's episode is about the business of butts and guts.
0:18.1	Cue the intro music.
0:18.9	I feel like I can rule the world. I know I could be what I want to.
0:24.5	I put my all in it like no days off on a road. Let's travel. Never looking back.
0:29.7	So, Sam, have you ever seen this story about how honestly, actually, it's not an act of desperation to
0:35.8	talk about this? It's actually, this is us flexing on everybody.
0:39.2	It's like, dude, we can take anything and we can make it entertaining and about business.
0:43.4	I don't know if you've ever seen Larry Bird one year.
0:45.5	He was playing against the Atlanta Hawks.
0:47.5	And he decided in the second half, he was just too good.
0:49.7	And he's decided to only shoot with his left hand.
0:51.7	Yeah, I saw that.
0:52.5	For the whole second half. That's this.
0:58.6	This is our shoot only with our left hand to try to do a full great business episode with the constraint of everything's got to be related to butts and guts.
1:02.7	Dude, we actually, we, you know, we've done an episode on Rose Nama Eunice when the UFC
1:06.1	fighter when she was doing like her walkout because we thought that was inspiring we actually should have done a whole thing on larry bird trash talking
1:11.1	doesn't relate to business but just his ego i love also one of the greatest nicknames ever uh and in fact
1:17.7	if i was white i would try to steal this you should try to steal this the hick from french lick is one of the
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