Episode 526: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) talks to Jess Mah about building a +$100M biotech company as a C- Biology student. She also opens up about money stuff no one else wants to talk about–like how to save tens of thousands on taxes by buying a private jet.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(7:00) Jess's non-small boy holdco

(11:00) Building without fear of failure

(16:00) Overcoming negative the self talk

(20:00) What would Shaan do if he was a billionaire?

(26:00) The danger of waiting

(32:00) Realistic breakthroughs in the future

(36:30) Meeting belly-to-belly in business

(41:00) Pulling it off with no reputation

(47:00) Billionaire tax secrets

(52:00) 80/20-ing the Bryan Johnson Blueprint

(58:30) Buying yachts, private jets, and other luxury assets

(1:07:00) Takeaways from a 1-on-1 with Paul Graham

(1:12:00) Bold bets on science

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Links:

Mah Way - https://mahway.com/

Michael Levin TED Talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3lsYlod5OU

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• Small Boy Newsletter - https://smallboy.co/

• Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com/

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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.

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