This Opportunity Is Hidden In Plain Sight
4/29/20261 hr 15 min
Get our Business Idea Database: https://clickhubspot.com/etsl Episode 819: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) answer the question, “If you’re smart and in your 20s, where’s the opportunity?” — Show Notes: (0:00) Where is the opportunity right now? (08:01) the buff billionaire (19:43) We break down the TBPN acquisition by OpenAI (31:59) 2 stories of John Coogan being locked in (41:56) William Randolph Hearst (54:48) Collecting 100x talent — Links: • GTA VI - https://www.rockstargames.com/VI • John Coogan on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@JohnCooganPlus/videos • Hearst Castle - https://hearstcastle.org/ — 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 /
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First 90 secondsShaan Puri· Host0:00
Very important question is where is there opportunity?
Sam Parr· Host0:01
Well, yeah, I wanna do an Oz Pearlman style. I'm gonna write something down, and we'll see if I'm right. Go ahead.
Shaan Puri· Host0:07
Let's see.
Sam Parr· Host0:07
Yeah.
Shaan Puri· Host0:07
All right, did you write it down? Tell me when it's done.
Sam Parr· Host0:12
All right, it's done.
Shaan Puri· Host0:13
So obviously there's a big opportunity in AI right now. Obviously there's a big opportunity in peptides or, like, uh, biology with AI, something like that. What I'm about, about to talk about is [beep].
Sam Parr· Host0:25
[laughs] I did not write that down.
Shaan Puri· Host0:29
[laughs] All right, carry on then.
Speaker 20:31
[laughs] [laughs] 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, never looking back.
Shaan Puri· Host0:42
I, I was looking at, like, where, um, where is there opportunity right now? [laughs] And, um- What, what, do you open your laptop?
Sam Parr· Host0:50
[laughs] Like, what, what does your to-do list say? Scheme?
Shaan Puri· Host0:53
Yeah. No, it's not even a laptop. It's, like, a notepad. It's the hotel notepad. [laughs] I don't think most people actually ask themselves this very important question, where is the opportunity right now?
Sam Parr· Host1:01
[laughs] That's like, like, uh, you know, I was sitting there as a 14-year-old, "How do I have sex?" Like [laughs] like- No, that, that's literally what you should be thinking.
Shaan Puri· Host1:11
You should be thinking, uh, as a 14-year-old, you're like, "Which girl's gonna kiss me?" [laughs] "Where are the girls that might kiss me, and how do I get them to kiss me?" Right? [laughs] That's, like, actually what you should be thinking about. I think entrepreneurs need to think like that. It's like, sounds caveman, sounds stupid, but, like, it's actually the thing. Where is the opportunity right now? You, you met me