
My First Million
Sam Parr & Shaan Puri
Entrepreneurs and investors sharing unconventional paths to rapid wealth creation and startup success.
Why we picked this
My First Million tracks the mechanics of modern business building through unstructured conversations with founders and operators. The hosts skip high-level theory in favor of tactical specifics: how a product found its first customers, where an early hire went wrong, and what an unusual growth loop looks like in practice. The show is erratic and informal, but its back catalog contains a vast archive of pragmatic case studies for anyone building a company from scratch.
Recent episodes

Decoding Tony Hawk’s mindset in 72 minutes
Sep 9, 20261h 13m

How we scaled to $100M in under a year (ft. IM8 co-founder Danny Yeung)
Sep 7, 202654 min

How to naturally monetize what you love
Sep 4, 202659 min

7 things MrBeast, Bezos & Thiel do that you don’t
Sep 2, 202643 min

How a $5B founder is using AI (3 tutorials)
Aug 26, 20261h 9m

I built a $2,000,000,000 business on vibes
Aug 24, 20261h 16m

3 millionaires reveal their super niche businesses
Aug 21, 202659 min

Asking 3 young millionaires how they make $1.8M, $5M, & $12M/year
Aug 19, 202658 min

3 strangers showed us how they made $8M, $10M, & $40M/year
Aug 17, 20261h 1m

$39B founder says his company could 100x in 5 years
Aug 14, 20261h 2m

3 killer businesses hiding in plain sight
Aug 12, 202647 min

9 drunk ideas that sound stupid (but are secretly genius)
Aug 6, 202657 min
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