The Hustle

Get Steph's database with 100+ stats that will shape the next decade: https://clickhubspot.com/ehsf Episode 814: In this special episode, we’re pulling our best moments with the trends queen herself, Steph Smith ( https://x.com/stephsmithio ).  — Show Notes:  (0:00) Intro (0:44) Silver Tsunami  (8:05) Sports (11:39) Mega trends (declining birthrate, air quality) (21:41) Nerd Neck (25:49) Nature  (32:02) Breakup Spending — 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 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 • I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out: beehiiv.com/mfm-challenge My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano /

Steph Smith

Host

Andreessen HorowitzDoing Time RightThe HustleTrends.co

This Week In Startups is made possible by: Luma AI - https://lumalabs.ai/twist Northwest Registered Agent - https://www.northwestregisteredagent.com/twist  Lemon IO - https://lemon.io/twist Today’s show:  DID YOU KNOW… most of the tried and true techniques devised by marketing gurus in the ‘40s and ‘50s still apply today? On TWiST, we’re joined by online marketing expert Sam Parr, host of “My First Million” and founder of Hampton. He’s sharing all of his top tips and tricks for making your writing more compelling, and converting your readers into new customers. In this essential pod for any and all founders, hear Jason and Sam run down their list of the best-ever marketing books, why there’s no such this as “too long” only “too uninteresting,” when to use AI and when to rely on your own brain, why you’re the average of your five best friends, and lots more deep insights. Timestamps: (00:00) Sam Parr of The Hustle, Hampton, and My First Million is here to teach us how to become better copywriters (03:59) How Sam got interested in the (then-shady) world of internet marketing (06:26) Why Sam recommended THESE advertising books to Jason (08:15) All the principles that ad execs developed in the ‘50s still work! (09:43) Glengarry had it right; the magic of A.I.D.A. (11:19) Luma AI - Stop guessing and start directing with Ray3 Modify from Luma AI, the AI-powered post production tool. Explore it at: https://lumalabs.ai/twist (14:30) There’s no such thing as “too long,” just “too uninteresting” (16:15) The goal is to write at a 4th grade reading level (18:12) Why Sam only uses AI for “The Big Idea,” not the actual writing (19:37) Why you’re the average of your five best friends (21:14) Northwest Registered Agent - Form your entire business identity in just 10 clicks and 10 minutes. Get more privacy, more options, and more done—visit https://www.northwestregisteredagent.com/twist today! (22:15) Using AI to dig in and research, to make your writing more interesting (23:42) CopyWork: The technique that helped Sam fine tune his writing (28:41) Avoiding “The Feature Death March” (30:56) Lemon.io - Get 15% off your first 4 weeks of developer time at https://lemon.io/twist (32:00) Words are better than images, but videos are better than anything (34:43) Why stories make such a huge impact (37:36) Sam and Jason are both obsessed with the book “How to Be Rich” (43:02) First World Problems are still problems!! (44:31) Why Sam launched Hampton and what it takes to get in (47:10) Why scaling a community is so much harder than launching (51:04) The lessons founders can take from Ted Turner (58:36) What Jason likes best about My First Million (1:00:28) It’s never too early to get your first $10 million (1:04:07) How accurately did Producer Claude guess what Sam was going to teach us? * Subscribe to the TWiST500 newsletter: https://ticker.thisweekinstartups.com/ Check out the TWIST500: https://twist500.com Subscribe to This Week in Startups on Apple: https://rb.gy/v19fcp * Follow Lon: X: https://x.com/lons * Follow Alex: X: https://x.com/alex LinkedIn: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexwilhelm/ * Follow Jason: X: https://twitter.com/Jason LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasoncalacanis/ * Thank you to our partners: (11:19) Luma AI - Stop guessing and start directing with Ray3 Modify from Luma AI, the AI-powered post production tool. Explore it at: https://lumalabs.ai/twist (21:14) Northwest Registered Agent - Form your entire business identity in just 10 clicks and 10 minutes. Get more privacy, more options, and more done—visit https://www.northwestregisteredagent.com/twist today! (30:56) Lemon.io - Get 15% off your first 4 weeks of developer time at https://lemon.io/twist

Sam Parr

Founder

HamptonMy First MillionThe Hustle

Get Steph's free Digits Database with 100+ generation-defining stats: https://clickhubspot.com/stm Episode 776: Sam Parr ( ⁠https://x.com/theSamParr⁠ ) and Shaan Puri ( ⁠https://x.com/ShaanVP⁠ ) are joined by Steph Smith ( https://x.com/stephsmithio ) in this year’s LIVE Milly Awards.  — Show Notes: (0:00) Welcome to the 2025 Milly Awards (1:21) Best Investment of the Year (11:09) Worst Investment of the Year (20:30) Biggest Personal L (29:18) Billy of the Year (39:10) Coolest Moment of the Year (52:49) Frame-Breaking Person / Favorite Guest (1:25:38) Meme of the Year — 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 //

Steph Smith

Host

Andreessen HorowitzDoing Time RightThe HustleTrends.co

Want to spot trends before they explode? Get the guide here: https://clickhubspot.com/wdv Episode 700: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talks to Steph Smith ( https://x.com/stephsmithio ) about business trends that are currently untapped and ripe for opportunity to build businesses around.  Use code "MFM" to get access to Steph's Internet Pipes - http://internetpipes.com/ — Show Notes:  (0:00) Trend 1: Hearing Loss (11:33) Trend 2: eVTOL (17:42) Trend 3: Psychedelics (24:26) Trend 4: New Job Skills (42:50) Trend5: Nature technology — Links: https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/new-rule-faa-ready-air-travel-future https://psychedelicalpha.com/data/psychedelic-laws https://x.com/stephsmithio/status/1877418726485799283 https://www.amazon.com/Immense-World-Animal-Senses-Reveal/dp/0593133234 https://asknature.org/ https://internetpipes.com/ https://mischiefusa.com/ https://clickhubspot.com/wdv — 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

Steph Smith

Host

Andreessen HorowitzDoing Time RightThe HustleTrends.co

Episode 633: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talks to Steph Smith ( https://x.com/stephsmithio ) about the mega trend called the Silver Tsunami. — Show Notes:  (0:00) Silver tsunami (7:10) Perimenopause = 6k new customers a day (10:57) One chart opportunity: Nursing homes and assisted living (18:28) Why entrepreneurs are sleeping on this space (20:11) Opportunity: Measuring and tracking (27:36) Idea: Stava for CGMs (39:41) Idea: Solutions for nerd neck (44:19) Idea: Niche paddle sports leagues (56:18) The smile curve — Links: • Our World In Data - https://ourworldindata.org/ • The Longevity Imperative - https://tinyurl.com/mr2m46vk • Bonafide Health - https://hellobonafide.com/ • Gennev - https://www.gennev.com/ • All Akiyas - https://www.allakiyas.com/ • Numlock News - https://www.numlock.com/ • Outlive - https://tinyurl.com/ybewhrw4 • Levels - https://www.levels.com/ • Dexcom - https://www.dexcom.com/ • Stelo - https://www.stelo.com/ • Q Bio - https://www.q.bio/ • Internet Pipes - http://internetpipes.com/ — 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/ — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

Steph Smith

Host

Andreessen HorowitzDoing Time RightThe HustleTrends.co

Episode 529: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) talk to Steph Smith about the 5 Internet goldmines she uses to spot $1b dollar trends before anyone else.  No more small boy spreadsheets, build your business on the free HubSpot CRM: https://mfmpod.link/hrd — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (1:30) Leveraging expiring patents (9:00) One chart sports (14:00) Mining Sci-Fi for IRL ideas (20:00) Spotting the mega trends (36:30) Building off of adjacent waves (47:30) Workshopping Steph's upcoming launch strategy — Links: • Internet Pipes - https://internetpipes.com/ • Blue Chew - https://bluechew.com/ • Sci-Fi Idea Bank - https://tinyurl.com/e3w5nfrd • Fastest growing sports (based on SFIA data) - https://recreateyou.com/blog/post/the-25-fastest-growing-sports-in-America • Newsletter on patent filings: https://patentdrop.substack.com/ • Patent expiry tracker: https://patentsexpiringtoday.com/ • Entering the 2024 public domain: https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2024/ • Patrick Collison's pollution page: https://patrickcollison.com/pollution • Our World in Data air pollution home base: https://ourworldindata.org/air-pollution • Varda - https://www.varda.com/ • Gadget Flow - https://thegadgetflow.com/ • Dyson Zone - https://www.dyson.com/headphones/zone • Berkey Water Filter - https://www.usaberkeyfilters.com/ — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com/ • Free 2024 Goal-Setting Session - https://planfor2024.com/ • Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant • Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing • Small Boy Newsletter - https://smallboy.co/ • Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com/ Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com/ Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. — Other episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto • #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

Steph Smith

Host

Andreessen HorowitzDoing Time RightThe HustleTrends.co

Steph Smith (@stephsmithio) talks making millions in content subscriptions, working at a16z, putting the AI genie back in the bottle, thread boys on Twitter, educational vs entertainment podcasts, and media companies that monetize aspiring entrepreneurs with Courtland (@csallen) and Channing (@ChanningAllen).

Steph Smith

Host

Andreessen HorowitzDoing Time RightThe HustleTrends.co

Episode 459: Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) talk with a16z podcast host and author, Steph Smith (@stephsmithio) about trends in business, her new list - jobs of the future and so much more. Want to see more MFM? Subscribe to the MFM YouTube channel here. Check Out Sam's Stuff: * Hampton * Ideation Bootcamp * Copy That Check Out Shaan's Stuff: * Power Writing Course * Daily Newsletter ----- Links: * Steph Smith * a16z podcast * How To Be Great? Steph Smith blogpost * Immersive Temple Instagram * Rage Rooms Google Trends * Raleigh Williams Twitter * Salary Transparent Street * The Five Dysfunctions of a Team * Eden Data * Hostage Tape * Lupini Beans Google Trends * Cool advent calendars * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. ------ Show Notes: (00:40) - Shaan and Sam's disclaimers (04:25) - Background on Steph Smith (11:40) - Is a16z smarter than anywhere else you have worked? (13:35) - Fractional real estate (20:50) - Pay Transparency (24:55) - OTC Hearing Aids (29:15) - Steph's List: Jobs of the Future (54:30) - Mouth Tape (56:15) - Lupini Beans (59:30) - Advent Calendars ------ Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. ----- Additional episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto * #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

Steph Smith

Host

Andreessen HorowitzDoing Time RightThe HustleTrends.co

Episode 374: In this episode Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) joins Steph Smith (@stephsmithio), host of the a16z podcast, to talk about anti-cheat businesses, ethical hacking, and inflections that create companies. ----- Links: * Steph Smith * a16z podcast * Sh*t You Don't Learn In School podcast * r/contagiouslaughter * Fake data to catch cheaters tweet * Wiz * Interactive resume Robby Leonardi * Bruno Simon * Neal.Fun * Electric Chopsticks tweet * air up * Meet the People Who Design Restaurant Menus * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan's newsletter. ------ Show Notes: (01:50) - Podcasting (09:15) - Cheating Scandal (28:20) - Ethical hacking (31:00) - Internet portfolio (42:25) - Salty bowls and smelly water (44:50) - Idea: A/B Testing Menus (51:15) - Inflections that create businesses (01:03:40) - Breakup Businesses ----- Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. ----- Additional episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto * #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

Steph Smith

Host

Andreessen HorowitzDoing Time RightThe HustleTrends.co

Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) are joined by Steph Smith (@StephSmithIO) to discuss why you shouldn't think beyond step 1 when starting a business, how to identify 10X productivity employees, and how to automatically generate side-hustle ideas. ----- Links: * Steph's website - http://stephsmith.io/ * Steph's podcast - http://listenandlearn.co/ * Spring loading community - https://discord.gg/xhhFEwgWTf * NYT First Said - https://twitter.com/NYT_first_said * Nuuly - https://www.nuuly.com/ * MSCHF - https://mschf.xyz/ * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan's newsletter. ----- Show Notes: (01:30) - Chewie.com Billionaire (6:30) - Are you buying the dip (16:15) - New York Times first said (22:00) - MSCHF (27:00) - Is 10X talent real? (32:30) - Why Steph still works for an employer (40:00) - Nuuly (49:00) - The side hustle generator (01:15:00) - Why Steph still calls her fiancee her "partner" ----- Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. ----- Additional episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

Steph Smith

Host

Andreessen HorowitzDoing Time RightThe HustleTrends.co

Today I'm talking to Steph Smith (@stephsmithio). She runs Trends.co and recently got my attention when she posted on IH how she grew her podcast from 0 to 15k downloads/month. She took a really unique approach to launching her show, The Sh*t You Don't Learn in School, and I want to find out how she did it.  Follow Steph on Twitter: https://twitter.com/stephsmithio Check out her new book: https://doingcontentright.com (Enter code "INDIE" to get 60% off!) Subscribe to her podcast: https://keeplearning.buzzsprout.com

Steph Smith

Host

Andreessen HorowitzDoing Time RightThe HustleTrends.co

In Episode 583, Rob Walling chats with Sam Parr about about building an email list, selling to Hubspot, podcast growth, and how to spot business opportunities. The topics we cover [3:53] Building Hustle to 8 figures in revenue [5:52] Growing an email list [11:01] Selling to a B2B SaaS [19:00] My First Million and growing podcasts [23:45] TikTok marketing [27:30] Spotting interesting opportunities [34:70] Manifest cowboy Links from the show Sam Parr (@theSamParr) | Twitter If you have questions about starting or scaling a software business that you'd like for us to cover, please submit your question for an upcoming episode. We'd love to hear from you! Subscribe & Review: iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher

Sam Parr

Founder

HamptonMy First MillionThe Hustle

Sam Parr (@theSamParr) sits down with Steph Smith (@StephSmithio), indie creator and host of the "Sh*t You Didn't Learn in School" podcast, to talk about Tyler Perry and how he was able to become a billionaire in the entertainment industry.  _____ * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Would you like to participate in our clips contest? Earn up to $10k by remixing My First Million episodes. To learn more, go to mfmpod.com/clips. * Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan's newsletter.

Steph Smith

Host

Andreessen HorowitzDoing Time RightThe HustleTrends.co

Sam Parr (@theSamParr) sits down with Steph Smith (@StephSmithio), indie creator and host of the "Sh*t You Didn't Learn in School" podcast, to talk about companies with only one employee that are making millions and what we can learn from them.  _____ * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Would you like to participate in our clips contest? Earn up to $10k by remixing My First Million episodes. To learn more, go to mfmpod.com/clips. * Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan's newsletter. _____ Show Notes: (00:50) - How Steph plans to become a billionaire (04:30) - BuiltWith.com, Levels.io, and Ugmonk. (08:00) - Carrd. About.me. Unfold. Media kits. (11:30) - NextEpisode.net (18:30) - The MotoMeter (22:15) - HeadLime (26:00) - Sites that have a surprising amount of traffic - GlitchnDealz.com, FoodTimeline.org (40:30) - "Your listicle is my opportunity" (45:15) - Magnus Carlsen and chess

Steph Smith

Host

Andreessen HorowitzDoing Time RightThe HustleTrends.co

How do you make a ton of money on the internet, and how do you manage it once you've got it? In this crossover episode from the Brains podcast, we have a fun discussion about money with Anthony Pompliano (@APompliano) who's a Bitcoin 9-figure millionaire and Sam Parr (@theSamParr) who sold his startup The Hustle for a reported $27 million. Whether you enjoy this crossover episode or not, tweet me and let me know! I'm @csallen on Twitter. You can subscribe to Brains in your favorite podcast player or via our website: https://www.brainspodcast.com

Anthony Pompliano

Entrepreneur and Investor

Morgan Creek DigitalFull Tilt CapitalProfessional Capital ManagementPomp Investments

Sam Parr

Founder

HamptonMy First MillionThe Hustle

In this episode Shaan (@ShaanVP) is joined by Steph Smith (@stephsmithio) for an idea packed episode. They start off talking about opportunities around spending your FSA dollars and on swag packs. They transition to talk about the role of automation at companies and Steph shares how she would go about automating repetitive parts of her role. The end the episode talking about Steph's new course, approaches to building a company, and Fidelity allowing trading accounts for teenagers. --------- * Want Steph's course? You can find it at https://doingtimeright.com * Want to be featured in a future episode? Drop your question/comment/criticism/love here: https://www.mfmpod.com/p/hotline/ * Support the pod by spreading the word, become a referrer here: https://refer.fm/million * Have you joined our private Facebook group yet? Go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/ourfirstmillion and join thousands of other entrepreneurs and founders scheming up ideas. --------- Show notes: * (1:06) Intro * (2:20) Ideas around spending your FSA dollars * (15:58) Ideas around giving out awesome swag * (21:52) The role of chief automation officer * (27:37) Building a company around automation * (35:03) Giving away free alcohol as marketing * (41:22) How Steph invests her time & money * (43:50) Steph's new course - doingtimeright.com * (47:44) Approaches to building a company * (51:39) Fidelity allowing teenagers on the platform * (56:52) How to find Steph online

Steph Smith

Host

Andreessen HorowitzDoing Time RightThe HustleTrends.co

Sam Parr (@theSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) have both sold their businesses and are currently hosting one of the best business podcasts out there. In this episode, we talk about what it's like to be in their position now and what kind of businesses they would start if they were doing it all over today. Listen to My First Million: https://thehustle.co/my-first-million-podcast/ Follow Sam on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theSamParr Follow Shaan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ShaanVP

Sam Parr

Founder

HamptonMy First MillionThe Hustle

Shaan Puri

Co-host & Entrepreneur

My First MillionThe Milk RoadMIMonkey Inferno

Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Trung Phan (@TrungTPhan) discuss: - How the HubSpot/The Hustle deal came about? - Why did Sam decide to sell? - What will be Sam's biggest purchase now that he's sold? - What will change with The Hustle and MFM going forward? - Trung brings some massive opportunities: financial engineering for good, improving the lives of prisoners and the big potential of paid Twitter Articles mentioned: - https://thehustle.co/he-was-facing-life-in-prison-now-hes-the-ceo-of-the-instagram-for-the-incarcerated/ - https://thehustle.co/how-one-man-went-from-a-life-prison-sentence-to-a-100k-engineering-job/ Thank you to Lemon.io for sponsoring today's episode! They are offering a 15% discount for the first 6 weeks of work for all MFM fans. Go to Lemon.io/mfm to claim the offer! Have you joined our private FB group yet? It's a page where people share each others million dollar ideas or what they're already working on: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ourfirstmillion. Editing thanks to Jonathan Gallegos (@jjonthan)  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Trung Phan

Writer

The Hustle

Sam Parr (@theSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) invite Steph Smith (@stephsmithio) on the pod today. Stephen is an employee at The Hustle, world traveler and all around indie-hacker. In today’s episode you’ll hear: Shaan and Sam introduce Steph (0:40), Steph introduces a fresh idea around remote/WFH by tackling all of the needs of someone newly adjusting to WFH life (4:00), the group talked about unorthodox company perks (12:10), Sam and the group brainstorm around “What are the most interesting 1-3 person operations you’ve seen?” (16:30), Steph pitches an idea of becoming the agency for celebrities because most celebrities have terrible web presence (24:00), Steph’s third idea revolves around HIPAA compliant (or other compliance) services and creating first-mover advantages by tracking legislation (30:15), Steph introduces the guys to a reddit tool that allows you to mind map topics on Reddit (36:00), the group talks about the advantages of tracking insider trades (40:30), Sam talks about a company called FION which is building A technology platform that allows you to track and predict where wildfires will start and spread (46:00), Steph talks about hiring gen-zers to build corporate training material (50:00), Companies, people and resources mentioned: - Benefits company: https://www.compt.io/ - Benefits company: https://www.hoppier.com/ - https://twitter.com/chrisjbakke/status/1296107846472364033 - Live music discovery platform: https://www.keyvalues.com/ - Peter Levels @levelsio - Fastest growing Inc 5000 company: https://www.onetrust.com/ - Related subreddit tool: https://anvaka.github.io/sayit/?query= - Nuclear energy girl: https://twitter.com/isaboemeke - Gen Z Mafia https://genzmafia.com/ - https://www.songkick.com/ - Insider trading reporting: https://finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx - Wildfire tracker: fion.tech - Art school game: https://artsqool.cool/ Check out this week's sponsor: Ourcrowd. They make it easy to invest in early startups. Go to ourcrowd.com/thehustle to get started. Joined our private FB group yet? It's a page where people share each others million dollar ideas or what they're already working on: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ourfirstmillion.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Steph Smith

Host

Andreessen HorowitzDoing Time RightThe HustleTrends.co

0:51 Jason intros Zach Coelius & Sam Parr 2:28 Barstool Sports vs. Call Her Daddy 6:49 Penn National Gaming stock soaring, Dave Portnoy winning this controversy 13:17 SoftBank reports $17.7B annual loss, worst figures in 39-year history 17:19 Does SoftBank's involvement typically include a loss of focus for the founder? 21:43 TikTok’s parent co. Bytedance trades at a $140B valuation, poaches Disney’s former Head of Streaming as new CEO of TikTok 25:08 Was Kevin Mayer wrong to take this role? Are TikTok's recommendation algorithms the best in the world? 28:52 How do Chinese companies grow so rapidly? 32:06 Facebook launches Shops, is Zuck trying to kill e-commerce giants? Zach on his experience with Facebook slowly killing his business 40:06 How does Facebook's product organization work? 47:13 Jason on the future of social networks 49:56 Amazon potentially acquiring AMC Theatres, could this be an Amazon Prime upsell? 53:52 Everyone gives their best idea for Amazon's first move after buying AMC 59:59 Zach on his quarantine deal flow

Sam Parr

Founder

HamptonMy First MillionThe Hustle

Zach Coelius

Managing Partner

Coelius Capital

Sam Parr (@theSamParr) returns to the podcast for the second time. You may remember his journey as the midwesterner that went from running a hot dog stand to creating an 8-figure ad-supported newsletter. In this episode, Sam shares how he's now on track to build an 8-figure paid newsletter — Trends.co — and how other indie hackers can do the same. We talk growth strategies for media businesses, advertising vs subscription revenue, and why learning to write persuasively is the most important skill any founder can have. Transcript, speaker information, and more: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/161-sam-parr-of-the-hustle

Sam Parr

Founder

HamptonMy First MillionThe Hustle

Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) describes himself as a midwestern small business owner who discovered the Internet, and his journey from running a hot dog stand to building a media empire seems to prove that. His current business, The Hustle, generates 8 figures in annual revenue from newsletter advertising alone, a feat Sam attributes to great copywriting, relentless experimentation, and the massively underrated power of email. In this episode we talk about how founders can build profitable businesses by resisting the urge to make their tech businesses more complex than they need to be, why it's important to borrow lessons from businesses in other industries, and the art of getting help from others by swallowing your pride and making specific requests. Transcript, speaker information, and more: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/108-sam-parr-of-the-hustle

Sam Parr

Founder

HamptonMy First MillionThe Hustle

Sam Parr (@theSamParr) is the founder of The Hustle - a simple email newsletter that has surpassed 1M daily subscribers and will be north of 8 figures this year. Sam walks us through how he built The Hustle from scratch as well as his adventures starting a hot dog stand (7min), selling booze on the internet (13min), meeting celebrities on the street and convincing them to hire him (11min) and how he would get rich if he was 21 again! (33min)  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sam Parr

Founder

HamptonMy First MillionThe Hustle