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The Pursuit of Becoming a Billionaire
They discuss the fascination behind becoming a billionaire and the analogy of it being the final boss in the game of entrepreneurship. They also reflect on the importance of being content and having a relationship with 'enough'.
Episode 491: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) talks with Samir Chaudry (https://twitter.com/samirchaudry) — Youtuber and co-host of the Colin and Samir. You’ll hear Samir share how he prepares for interviews with folks like Tim Ferriss, MKBHD and Dream, where he thinks the creator economy puck is heading, what he’s learned from working with MrBeast, which Youtubers are building billion-dollar empires, and much more.
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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
• Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com/
• Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant
• Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing
• Small Boy Newsletter - https://smallboy.co/
• Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com/
Check Out Sam's Stuff:
• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/
• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/
• Copy That - https://copythat.com/
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro
(2:00) High stakes interviews
(5:15) How Samir preps for big interviews
(11:45) Learnings from Tim Ferriss interview
(19:45) The next wave of creators
(26:00) The future of the creator economy
(34:30) AI tools Samir uses
(37:30) What’s MrBeast actually like?
(44:00) If Samir was advising MrBeast…
(49:00) Why Samir made a newspaper
(56:00) Creating scared
(1:05:30) Hiring a collaborator
(1:07:45) Most interesting creator businesses
(1:18:55) Which Youtubers are building billion-dollar empires?
(1:39:30) How long does it take to “make it” on Youtube?
(1:44:10) Dabblers vs. Masters
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Links:
• Publish Press - https://www.thepublishpress.com/
• Autopod - https://www.autopod.fm/
• Dude Perfect - https://tinyurl.com/4jdpsbkj
• Cody Ko - https://www.youtube.com/c/codyko
• Chicken Shop Date - https://tinyurl.com/2wbfu9xc
• Deestroying - https://www.youtube.com/@Deestroying
• Paul Rabil - https://www.youtube.com/c/paulrabil
• PPL - https://premierlacrosseleague.com/
• Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel.
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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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Other episodes you might enjoy:
• #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits
• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future
• #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto
• #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates
• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More
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