Shaan Puri
Entrepreneur and investor, co-host of My First Million podcast.
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“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→“I use Mercury for all my businesses. I think I have like maybe seven or eight businesses. We use Mercury as our business banking across all of them.”
Source→“There's no car salesman. You literally just buy the car and then it gets dispensed out of this gigantic car vending machine.”
Source→“Roe Nutrition — they're doing like millions and millions of dollars in revenue by just changing the form factor.”
Source→“Mary Ruth — she's built like an empire on liquid vitamins right now.”
Source→“They have this new form factor for sunscreen where they do it in a whipped cream bottle. This thing's taken off, goes viral every time on social media because it's super fun.”
Source→“We use Postpilot for our econ brand and we would do re-engagement campaigns... the ROI was like 5 to 8x return on your investment. So it's kind of a no-brainer to do it.”
Source→“There's not like a place. There's not like a way you can opt in and go be hardcore for 48 hours or 72 hours, something like that.”
Source→“They also own a thing called Garta Capital Partners, which is a $10 billion plus size hedge fund... Because they have to hedge commodities, you know, on behalf of the farmers and for themselves as well at this point.”
Source→“One of the great things about reading about John Rockefeller, he was this madman businessman... His son, John, also John, he was a great dad... And they loved each other very much. And they showed a lot of mutual respect.”
Source→“You saw like at this recent college graduation speeches, Solomon, the CEO of Goldman was like talking about AI and everyone was booing. People walked out, right.”
Source→“The Walmart family owns — have you heard of Rafa? It's like a cool bike D2C company. They own that.”
Source→“The Hearst organization, Hearst company, which owns like GQ is like a famous magazine they own, but they also own like a hundred businesses that you'd never even heard of. And they, including like they own half of ESPN or whatever.”
Source→“He comes up with this little handheld device where you can kind of like put cotton in there and kind of cranks it and it gets the seeds out to the point where one slave could produce 50 pounds of cotton... America had to import like eight to 10 times more slaves than we currently had.”
Source→“A lot of people are saying that AI is going to put people out of work. I think it is the exact opposite. I believe that code will get more cheap. Therefore, demand will increase a significant amount to the point that we can't even understand.”
Source→“James Jevin was basically this guy in the 1800s. He wrote a book in 1865 called The Coal Question. And he basically says, I have a feeling that because of how amazing this new steam engine is, that Britain potentially is going to get rid of all of our cheap coal... He was exactly right.”
Source→“They have this rule called the 80-20 rule. So 80% of all profits will get reinvested back in the business. 20 goes out as dividends to the family.”
Source→“My business partner, Ben, who's the guy who emailed 77 times to you and your team to get you to be on this podcast... he's an amazing connector. He's an amazing supporter. He wanted this moment to happen, even though he's not at the table.”
Source→“It's when you're here and we're just doing things, you know, we get to sort of bump into each other. Like, you know, our atoms get to bump into each other. Good things happen.”
Source→“I think trust is going to be the thing that is in lowest supply over the next 10 years... we're going into like peak fakeness around the world. And what happens when everything is easy to fake? Trust becomes incredibly important.”
Source→“The point I want to make is that I think that that is super underrated and not enough people do it. And brands could benefit from doing it a lot more than they currently are.”
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