Founding Stories and Financial Endorsements

Episode 678: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Siqi Chen ( https://x.com/blader ), the founder of Runway.com.

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Early days at Zynga 

(14:34) Business ideas

(52:18) Touchy-feely class

(1:07:24) Siqi’s favorite interview question

(1:12:48) Insane growth of ElevenLabs

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Links:

• Limitless - https://www.limitless.ai/ 

• Rewind - https://www.rewind.ai/ 

• Runway - https://runway.com/ 

• Hoffman Institute - https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/ 

• Pump - https://pump.fun/board 

• ElevenLabs - https://elevenlabs.io/ 

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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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