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Shaan Puri

Co-host, My First Million, My First Million

Search every verified Shaan Puri interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Shaan Puri, co-host of the podcast My First Million, has been active in recent months producing episodes that cover business ideas, marketing strategies, and entrepreneur interviews. In October 2026, he and co-host Sam Parr discussed topics such as viral tweets, the diamond industry's decline and marketing history, and different founder archetypes, with Puri describing himself as a "decent entrepreneur" rather than a "natural money maker." Puri also delivered solo episodes, including one where he recounted three personal embarrassing moments and the lessons he drew from them, and another offering eight rules for building a social media audience, based on his experience growing the podcast to over 100 million downloads. He described his approach as focusing on "A+ content with C minus delivery." Puri has also conducted interviews with figures such as Angel Studios founder Jeff Harmon, Whatnot founder Grant LaFontaine, and coach Joe Hudson, who works with executives including Sam Altman. In episodes, Puri discussed simulation theory with an MIT scientist, AI personal assistants like Instinct and Grokbot, and the use of AI agents by Zapier founder Wade Foster. He described the economy as "smart people paying beautiful people to promote stuff to insecure people" and expressed a belief that Bryan Johnson is "the greatest social media player of all time." Puri recently sold a company, a topic he referenced in one of his personal storytelling episodes.

Recent appearances

  • Tweets that broke the internet this week

    October 23, 2026 · 📺 My First Million

    Database of 300+ business ideas: https://clickhubspot.com/d51n Episode 875: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) and Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) are joined by Ben Levy ( https://x.com/benmlevy ) to react to the best stuff on X this week. — Show Notes: (0:00) Idea: Wedding Crashers (3:10) Idea: Clavicular's Billion-Dollar Business Opportunity (7:55) Elon's Flying Tesla Roadster (12:25) Elon Wants to Give Every Kid a Share of SpaceX (16:50) Inside Andrew Huberman's Fridge (20:10) Peter Levels on Moats (26:40) Bryan Johnson's Quest to Dunk at 49 (35:15) The Craziest Rich-Guy Purchase…

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  • We watched the 3hr Elizabeth Holmes doc so you don’t have to

    October 20, 2026 · 📺 My First Million

    Sam's database on how long it takes to become a millionaire: https://clickhubspot.com/3jgb Episode 874: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) and Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) are breaking down the best documentary of the year. — 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…

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

    October 19, 2026 · 📺 My First Million

    Investing guide: 35+ money principles from investors/financial operators https://clickhubspot.com/mojf Episode 873: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) and Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talk about an investor who makes 2.9 decisions a year, Zuck’s victory lap and what happened when Sam hired an executive coach. — Show Notes: (0:00) Zero Action Investing (7:55) Premortems (10:05) Zuck's Victory Lap (16:50) The Superpower of 100x Leaders (20:45) Sam Hires an Executive Coach (21:35) Identify the Game You're Playing (30:15) Keep Your Sails Up (33:45) Sam Attacks His Panic Attacks (38:55…

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  • There are only 6 types of founders. Which one are you?

    October 16, 2026 · 📺 My First Million

    Take our founder personality quiz: https://clickhubspot.com/xvm9 Episode 872: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) and Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talk about the different types of founders. — Show Notes: (0:00) Natural Money-Makers (1:52) Attributes of Natural Money-Makers (3:10) The Story of Nick Kokonas (8:12) The Story of Jay Gould (10:00) Can It Be Learned? (13:04) The Story of Syed Balkhi (17:58) Only Spend the Second Derivative (22:27) Trading Valuable Hours for Useless Dollars (26:50) Other Play Styles That Win — Links: • Syed Balkhi episode -    • From $0 To +$100M With G…

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  • 9 Surprising Truths About What It Takes To Win - Shaan Puri

    October 15, 2026 · 📺 Chris Williamson

    Shaan Puri is an entrepreneur, former CEO, podcaster and an angel investor. Expect to learn why the economy is basically run on insecure people, why it's better to ask for forgiveness rather than permission, what’s holding most young people back from achieving more, why you should follow your obsessions, the importance of leaving your hometown at some point in your life, why greatness is the most overrated trait we tend to admire and much more… - Get 35% off your first subscription on the best supplements from Momentous at https://livemomentous.com/modernwisdom Get up to $350 off the Eight…

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  • The dark rise and fall of the diamond industry

    October 14, 2026 · 📺 My First Million

    $1M Attention Guide: 15+ ways to get eyeballs on what you're building https://clickhubspot.com/um02 Episode 870: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) and Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talk about the diabolical marketing tactics that De Beers used to convince every man to spend 20% of his annual income on a diamond. — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (2:15) A Brief History of Diamonds (8:25) The Marketing Genius of De Beers (18:15) Lab-Grown Diamonds (20:00) Shaan Goes Into the Back Room at the Jeweler (23:15) Bitcoin’s Marketing Genius (26:55) The Greatest Generation (28:10) Pronoia. Be It.…

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  • 3 embarrassing moments that changed my life

    October 12, 2026 · 📺 My First Million

    $1M Solopreneur MVP guide: https://clickhubspot.com/rxhh Episode 870: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) tells 3 embarrassing stories. — Show Notes: (0:00) intro (1:15) recent embarrassment (5:20) Lesson: “You Can Make Hell Out of Heaven” (8:15) business embarrassment (12:58) Lesson: “Worship at the Church of Action” (15:35) personal embarrassment (19:55) Lesson: “The Decision Is Upstream of All Action” — 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…

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  • How to find and exploit the "glitch" that can make any business take off

    October 07, 2026 · 📺 My First Million

    $1M Attention Guide: 15+ ways to get eyeballs on what you're building https://clickhubspot.com/bvo9 Episode 869: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talks to Angel Studios founder Jeff Harmon ( https://x.com/JeffreyHarmon ) about finding and exploiting glitches. — Show Notes: (0:00) I helped a dentist create one of the greatest marketing campaigns (8:35) How to find the glitch in the system (11:10) Go for your own problems (13:25) Where is the attention going? (16:10) ANGEL (19:15) 19-minute ad experiment (25:30) The genius moment behind Squatty Potty, Poo-Pourri (26:55) Poo-Pourri ad (27:…

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  • 3 businesses we think are about to blow up

    October 05, 2026 · 📺 My First Million

    Database of 140+ business ideas: https://clickhubspot.com/2blw Episode 868: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) and Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talk about 3 business ideas. — Show Notes: (3:08) Idea: Oxytocin dosing (20:17) Idea: Loneliness solutions (27:30) Idea: Faith-based businesses (27:33) Angel Studios (34:36) What’s the reaction to the action? (42:03) The brutal business of making hit movies — Links: • Anduril - https://www.anduril.com/ • Oculus - https://www.meta.com/quest/ • BlueChew - https://bluechew.com/ • Hims - https://www.hims.com/ • Beckley Psytech - https://www…

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  • We tested Instinct, Muse and Grokbot. They’re ridiculous.

    September 30, 2026 · 📺 My First Million

    Get Sam's guide to turn AI into your executive coach: https://clickhubspot.com/z24x Episode 867: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) and Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) test out the new ai personal assistants. — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (2:42) AI is the highest ELO game in the world (5:18) Instinct (9:31) Grokbot (20:24) It’s not all about intelligence (38:35) Micro1 (44:08) Exploiting vulnerabilities (58:48) $100 billion companies everywhere — Links: • Instinct - https://instinct.com/ • Grokbot - https://x.ai/news/introducing-grok-bot • micro1 - https://www.micro1.ai/ • OpenRou…

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  • There’s proof that we are living in a simulation! (ft. MIT Scientist)

    September 28, 2026 · 📺 My First Million

    (Free) MFM's business resources shared by the best: https://clickhubspot.com/wx5i Episode 866: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talks to MIT Scientist about whether or not we’re living in a simulation. — Show Notes: (0:00) Are We Living in a Simulation? (8:30) Ancient Religions Already Believed This (14:40) AI Agents Are Getting Weird (28:40) Quantum Physics & the Simulation Theory (40:50) Aliens, UFOs & Glitches in the Matrix (51:30) Dreams, Past Lives & DMT (55:00) How Simulation Theory Changes How You Live — Links: • The Simulation Hypothesis by Rizwan Virk - https://www.penguinrand…

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  • Do this and you’ll thank yourself on Jan 1st

    September 25, 2026 · 📺 My First Million

    Sam's database on how long it takes to become a millionaire: https://clickhubspot.com/5ji2 Episode 865: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) and Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talk to about how to win 2027. — Show Notes: (0:00) There are 99 days left in the year (1:40) Parkinson’s Law (3:35) The toxic love of events (9:25) Joel Greenblatt’s Jelly Bean experiment (12:25) The aftershocks of Joe Hudson (15:30) Shaan’s “5 voices in the head” theory (18:05) Six Thinking Hats (20:00) The two minds of a creator (22:45) Blue notebook vs. red notebook (23:50) Sam’s three notebooks (27:00) “You…

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Verified interview transcripts

Notable quotes

“I think that network effects is probably one of the most important. If you look at some of the greatest companies of all time, their products might totally suck. Craigslist, eBay, a bunch of different marketplaces fall into this, but you use them because that's where everyone else is.”

“So, check this out. A few weeks ago I met this guy in Hamptons and basically his story is that a while back he sold his company and he made something like eight figures in money after he sold his business. And I was like, 'What have you been doing?' He's like, 'Well, actually, I'm a public investor. I invest in public stocks.' Yeah. I was like, 'I'm pretty nosy. Do you have your laptop on you? Pull up your brokerage ”

“The economy is just smart people paying beautiful people to promote stuff to insecure people. I mean, isn't it right? Like, once you see it, you kind of can't unsee it. But, you know, I just kind of observed that one day that a lot of the way the world works is you have a small group of people who have some sort of idea or an agenda. And by the way, this is not always nefarious. They just might believe that this prod”

“So, I don't know if you've seen this, but diamond prices are just absolutely crashing. So, they're down 70% from their peak and just like 50% from like COVID times till now. Do you know how much a 2 karat lab grown diamond costs now? You want to buy lab grown? Try $148. It's the price of dinner. You could have a diamond ring or dinner is the trade right now. By the way, just the whole this whole thing is a marketing ”

“So, check this out. So, we're talking about the loneliness epidemic a little bit. So in 1882, there was this guy. He was a priest up in New Haven in Connecticut. What was his name? His name was McGivney. He was a Catholic priest. Someone in his parish died. And he was like, 'Dude, this sucks. This man had two kids and a wife and he died. He was the earner for his family. We have to do something about this.' So he con”

“So, Palmer Luckey, CEO, founder of Anduril, also started Oculus. He was at this conference and someone said something to him, a question that I tend to hate and he's one of the few people I've ever seen to answer this question in a great way. The question was basically, Palmer, if you were starting from zero and you had nothing, no connections, what would you do? What would you work on? And he had the best answer. I ”

Other executives at My First Million

  • Sam Parr, Co-host, My First Million; Founder of Hampton

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