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Episode 655: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Dharmesh Shah ( https://x.com/dharmesh ) about how to increase the odds of hitting your first million and your next million.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(3:33) Lesson 1: Get leverage

(9:26) Lesson 2: Be an asset, not a liability

(13:40) Lesson 3: Get even closer to the value creation

(19:42) Mini Masterclass on Power Negotiating

(24:35) Dharmesh's little-known $2M failure

(29:35) Lesson: Insight compression

(34:08) Dharmesh sells Chat.com

(41:06) Agents are the new apps

(44:51) The future is hybrid teams

(49:23) Agents Dharmesh uses today

(53:20) Dharmesh's next big thing

(1:02:58) Uncomfortable company values

(1:05:33) Local maximum vs global maximum

(1:06:57) RaaS: Results-as-a-Service

(1:09:59) Being a first time billionaire

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Links:

• Agent AI - https://agent.ai/

• Harvey MacKay books - https://harveymackay.com/books/

• Getting To Yes - https://tinyurl.com/43ne6v97

• Connecting Dots - https://connectingdots.com/

• MFM Vault - https://frontend-production-f8b7.up.railway.app/

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd

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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/

My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

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