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My First Million

We react to Bill Ackman's advice to young men

My First Million

Hubspot

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Get the free guide on 5 Ways to Start a Business with Less Than $1k: https://clickhubspot.com/icv Episode 767: Sam Parr ( ⁠https://x.com/theSamParr⁠ ) and Shaan Puri ( ⁠https://x.com/ShaanVP⁠ ) react to Bill Ackman’s dating advice for young men. Plus, the 20-something kid who’s making $300K/month doing man-on-the-street interviews. — Show Notes: (0:00) May I meet you? (10:52) $300K/mo Street interviews as a service (17:14) Taking a stance (25:53) The crazy story of Pandora (30:43) Taking simple ideas seriously (37:31) Ben Horowitz, a great hang (45:49) Noticing the AI tipping point — 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 //

Transcript

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0:00.0

I got the best opener.

0:01.5

May I meet you, Sam? Oh, my God. I feel like I can rule the world. I know I could be what I want to. I put my all in it like no days off. On a road, let's travel. Never looking back. Did you see this? May I meet you thing? I did see the context, but I saw the quote. Bill Ackman said, this is how you meet women. May I meet you. Is that right?

0:24.2

Yeah, oh, dear. Did you see this? May I Meet You thing? I did see the context, but I saw the quote. Bill Ackman said, this is how you meet women.

0:22.4

May I meet you? Is that right? Yeah, oh, dude, we're doing a deep dive, by the way. This is not a casual reference. I'm going all, this is my first topic. Okay, so tell me about it. What happened? The Great Bill Ackman. We won't just call him Bill Ackman.

0:35.3

He's going to be called the great Bill Ackman.

0:37.0

He's not only has he proven to be a prolific billionaire investor. He's also just the best at Twitter

0:43.8

because he uses it all wrong. It's like, have you seen how Magic Johnson uses Twitter?

0:50.1

No.

0:51.1

All right. So Magic Johnson, the great basketball player does not know how to use Twitter.

0:57.1

So he just tweets the most obvious thing.

1:02.1

So it'll be like,

1:03.4

Lakers playing the Celtics tonight.

1:05.5

Whoever scores more points tonight's going to take it home.

1:08.3

And it's like,

1:09.1

what?

1:09.5

Yeah, that's how all games work. Whoever scores more points wins. Or he'll be like, they're losing now. If this stays this way, they'll lose the game. But he's not joking. He's been doing this for like seven years. And so Bill Ackman, if you don't know, originally famous for being controversial and prolific investor, right?

1:28.7

Yeah, he basically owns this company called Pershing Square Management. He's an activist investor.

1:33.6

So what he would do is he would buy stakes in companies that he either really believed in that he thought were undervalued.

1:39.2

But he's also an activist in that if he sees sort of corporate wrongdoing or he thinks a company has had some sort

1:45.2

of malfeasance, then he will come out and talk about it while taking a big short position against

1:50.2

it. And so he did that with Herbalife because he's like, this is an MLM and this is not right

1:55.6

the way that they do their MLM. And he got kind of burned on that one. But that's what he does.

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