Shaan Puri
Entrepreneur and investor, co-host of My First Million podcast.
- We put a multimillionaire’s portfolio into Claude (the results shocked us)
- 3 embarrassing moments that changed my life
- The creative genius behind Squatty Potty & Poo-Pourri reveals his marketing playbook
- 3 businesses we think are about to blow up
- There’s 98 days until 2027...Do this and you’ll thank yourself on Jan 1st
- i got internet famous... if i started again from scratch, here's what I'd do this time
- Decoding Tony Hawk’s mindset in 72 minutes
- How we scaled to $100M in under a year (ft. IM8 co-founder Danny Yeung)
- How to naturally monetize what you love
- 7 things MrBeast, Bezos & Thiel do that you don’t
- I built a $2,000,000,000 business on vibes
- 3 millionaires reveal their super niche businesses
“Tell me if you know... where I'm going to die so I know not to go there.”
Source→“you can get a thousand runs with one correct swing of the bat”
Source→“my default state is I don't care. So, it's pretty easy then.”
Source→“He was the class clown, he was athletic, he was a nice guy”
Source→“We're living in Trevor's aunt Patty's basement. We're no closer to the restaurant than we were 5 months ago.”
Source→“People who have this trait, what it means is that they feel like they are special, and their life is going to be special”
Source→“I created a show, and I booked a studio, and I got my friend to be my first guest, and that became episode one of My First Million.”
Source→“a psychedelics company just got acquired for $3 billion by Eli Lilly (he cites $2.8 billion in the same breath)”
Source→“a movie cost '14 million to make' and '40' on marketing”
Source→“Adam Neumann somewhere is like, yes, not weird. We are doing that”
Source→“They're doing 400 plus million dollars a year in ARR... 450 million in ARR. It's a public company”
Source→“screen time limiting apps and Brick are reactions to the current norm”
Source→“when you years ago were like, oh, I hurt my Achilles. And so I injected BPC, whatever, 157... And now peptides are shockingly common”
Source→“they ended up hacking into a whole nother company altogether, Hugging Face... created a security incident with another company”
Source→“HubSpot's Breeze AI Assistant drafts campaign copy, blogs, and emails in brand voice using customer data.”
Source→“Shaan speaks about Mercury as a genuine user across 'seven or eight businesses' and personal accounts, citing ease of use, joint accounts, virtual cards, and savings yield as reasons for switching from Wells Fargo and Chase.”
Source→“There's not really hacks... we had a cold, honest conversation with ourselves that no, we were not better. And then we decided, well, we actually have to be better if Google is going to rank us higher.”
Source→“I use Mercury for all of my businesses... I'm just all in on Mercury.”
Source→“"He goes, I walk through the aisles and I look for a sea of sameness. So basically I'm looking for these sleepy categories where everything looks the same in the aisle and I want to come and be different."”
Source→“Michael Acton Smith is another guy who started Calm. A huge guy in Calm. And Moshi Monsters. Similar to Tolan's. Exactly. Like these like you, like truly creatives who just love like... being willing to do something that's weird.”
Source→“there's dozens or hundreds of injuries or illnesses where people feel like no one's listening to me... And so they go to these communities and they buy these products where it's like, finally, I'm being heard”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.