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My First Million

Sam Parr and Shaan Puri brainstorm new business ideas based on trends & opportunities they see in the market. Sometimes they bring on famous guests to brainstorm with them.

Website ↗ Last published 2 November 2026 917 posts collected by Sputnik

Said on My First Million

“Your net worth peak is actually a date, not a number. Just given the fact that your body is a decaying asset and its ability to convert that money into fulfillment and useful experiences declines. … And so more money means nothing at a certain point in your life.” — Bill Perkins, My First Million
Bill Perkins · 2 Nov 2026 Listen →
“Jeff was about to have a shitty quarter and he could see things lining up. It was right after the internet crashed. He could see the quarter wasn't going to be what Wall Street wanted. And so he said, we need something. And so Prime was originally called Project 100 because they had to figure out how to announce it and start doing it in 100 days. … The origin was Jeff trying to have good news to tell investors in a rough time.” — Ethan Evans, My First Million
Ethan Evans · 28 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Jeff said between data and anecdotes, trust the anecdotes. His reasoning was, even at Amazon's scale, let's say 99% of packages get to houses on time and right. Well, yeah, but 1% of Amazon scale still means like 25 million packages a day not getting there right. And so when somebody calls up to say, I didn't get my thing, that's a real story from that 1%, which is still huge.” — Ethan Evans, My First Million
Ethan Evans · 28 Oct 2026 Listen →
“You don't simply go like, well, here's the recipe and it should taste like this. You have to know what great is. And knowing what great is is making mostly shit 99% of the time.” — Nick Kokonas, My First Million
Nick Kokonas · 26 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Expertise is such a trap, right? It's such a trap. And you know that a non-expert is going to come after you. Once you get to expert level, you're screwed because somebody who's younger, hungrier, fresher eyes, more willing to break convention to find the new way through is going to kick your ass. So before your ass gets kicked, you should quit.” — Nick Kokonas, My First Million
Nick Kokonas · 26 Oct 2026 Listen →
“The line between crime and hustle is thinner than people think in the startup world.” — Shaan Puri, My First Million
Shaan Puri · 20 Oct 2026 Listen →
“You go into the documentary expecting it to clarify and tell you what to think. And instead, it just weaves all these paths that you can go down and show you how little you know rather than knowing more coming out. … It's like there's a second sentence on top of that. It's you can see everything and still not know.” — Shaan Puri, My First Million
Shaan Puri · 20 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I've never met a billionaire that doesn't want to make movies. And I know a lot of billionaires.” — Jeffrey Harmon, My First Million
Jeffrey Harmon · 7 Oct 2026 Listen →
“It's way easier to train a comedian to be a marketer than it is to train a marketer to be funny.” — Jeffrey Harmon, My First Million
Jeffrey Harmon · 7 Oct 2026 Listen →

Hosts

My First Million is hosted by Shaan Puri , Sam Parr , Ben Wilson , Ezra Bakker Trupiano , David Perell and Arie Desormeaux .

Recent Episodes

  1. 2 Nov 2026

    $100M hedge fund manager: Do not make the mistake of dying rich

    With Bill Perkins

  2. 28 Oct 2026

    Ex-Amazon VP tells us what it’s really like working with Jeff Bezos

    With Ethan Evans

  3. 26 Oct 2026

    How to find your arbitrage (from the guy who’s done it 3x) ft. Nick Kokonas

    With Nick Kokonas

  4. 23 Oct 2026

    We spent 8 hours finding the best stuff on X. Here it is.

    With Ben Levy

  5. 20 Oct 2026

    This 3-hour Elizabeth Holmes doc broke our brains

  6. 19 Oct 2026

    We put a multimillionaire’s portfolio into Claude (the results shocked us)

  7. 16 Oct 2026

    the 6 traits of people who can’t stop making money

  8. 12 Oct 2026

    3 embarrassing moments that changed my life

  9. 7 Oct 2026

    The creative genius behind Squatty Potty & Poo-Pourri reveals his marketing playbook

    With Jeff Harmon and Jeffrey Harmon

  10. 5 Oct 2026

    3 businesses we think are about to blow up

  11. 30 Sep 2026

    We tested Instinct, MUSE and Grokbot. They’re ridiculous.

  12. 28 Sep 2026

    MIT scientist: Elon Musk was right, we are almost certainly in a simulation

    With Rizwan Virk

Guests

Andrew Wilkinson (24 episodes), Steph Smith (12 episodes), Greg Isenberg (8 episodes), Jack Smith (7 episodes), Dharmesh Shah (6 episodes), Alex Hormozi (6 episodes), Ben Levy (5 episodes), Anthony Pompliano (5 episodes), Nick Huber (5 episodes), Moiz Ali (4 episodes), Noah Kagan (4 episodes), Ramit Sethi (4 episodes), and 287 more.