The Simplest Way To Make $1M In 2026
3/11/20261 hr 15 min
Get Shaan's 4 money rules that took him from broke to $25M by 30: https://clickhubspot.com/sfmc Episode 804: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) team up with the TBPN boys John Coogan ( https://x.com/johncoogan ) and Jordi Hays ( https://x.com/jordihays ) to break down the companies that could make you a millionaire as an employee. — Show Notes: (0:00) How to make $1,000,000 (5:05) Zuru (12:47) Varda Space Industries (19:33) Suno (28:19) TrueMed (37:32) HubSpot (45:13) SemiAnalysis (52:32) Harvey (1:00:01) SendCutSent (1:04:55) Column — Links: • ZURU - https://zurutoys.com/ • Varda - https://www.varda.com/ • Suno - https://suno.com/ • TrueMed - https://www.truemed.com/ • HubSpot - https://www.hubspot.com/ • SemiAnalysis - https://semianalysis.com/ • Harvey - https://www.harvey.ai/ • SendCutSend - https://sendcutsend.com/ • Column - https://column.com/ • TBPN - https://www.youtube.com/@TBPNLive — 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 — 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 /
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First 90 secondsShaan Puri· Host0:00
We have this podcast called My First Million where we're c- coming up with all these complicated schemes of how somebody could make their first million. Meanwhile, in the relationship, Sarah made her first million before Sam with the simplest scheme of all.
Jordi Hays· Guest0:12
[singing] I feel like I could rule the world. I know I could be what I want to. Uh, I put my all in it like no days off. On the road less traveled- Okay, so we invited our buddies from TBPN- Mm-hmm ...
Shaan Puri· Host0:23
John and Jordy here to do one of our favorite episodes that we do every year called Sarah's List. And it's called Sarah's List in honor of the queen herself, Sam's wife, Sarah. You know, it's a classic story really. She just joined a n- great company that was clearly already great as, like, employee 3,000. And the math was like this: She got a job at Airbnb, and I think it was... You know, her numbers aside, the general math is you get a job, and they'll offer you maybe, like, a 40 or 50K a year stock package in addition to your salary. So you get your salary, you get your healthcare, they got a kitchen where they're serving you lunch, they got oat milk in the fridge. So y- you're not sacrificing anything. She didn't have to come up with the idea of Airbnb. She joined it. She wasn't the first employee grinding like crazy. She was employee 3,000. But that s- stock package, which over a four-year period is y- you're granted about $200,000 worth of stock, five X'd, and she made a million bucks before either me or Sam. And so we kind of wanted to honor- Very cool ... the brilliance that is joining companies that are already clear winners, especially in tech, because the winners can run so far.
John Coogan· Guest1:28
Yeah.
Shaan Puri· Host1:29
And so every, um,