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Episode 720: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about how Surge built a $1B business in 5 years and the second-order effects of self-driving cars.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Best idea of the month

(6:00) Business as a sport

(10:57) The inner game of tennis

(14:21) Shaan writes a letter to himself

(19:15) Patron View

(27:42) Surge

(35:00) Handshake

(39:47) Waymo vs Robotaxi

(50:30) Elon replies to Shaan's tweet

(53:13) Shaan gets in a fight with his moms doctor

(1:02:50) Sam wears overalls

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Links:

• The Inner Game of Tennis - https://tinyurl.com/mphz9zkr

• Patron View - https://patronview.com/

• Museum Hack - https://museumhack.com/

• Surge AI - https://www.surgehq.ai/

• Handshake - https://joinhandshake.com/

• Gemini - https://gemini.google.com/

• Grok - https://grok.com/

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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

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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/

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