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Episode 702: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) boards the private jet of Jess Mah ( https://x.com/jessicamah ) to brainstorm business ideas and talk about her process for vetting which ideas to jump on.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Buying a jet

(5:37) Barn full of horses

(8:44) Business ideas matrix

(11:06) Idea: DOGE as a service

(13:30) Idea: Vertical agents

(16:52) Idea: Cargo ship coating

(21:26) Idea: Holy Health

(25:07) Building a team with digital twins

(28:46) Jess’s 0 - 1 framework

(31:09) Worst advice from Silicon Valley

(35:44) Find a starving crowd

(37:55) Idea: Divorce.fund

(38:36) Failures: Credboost

(46:08) Ignorant of past, realistic of present, delulu of the future

(49:58) Engineering serendipity

(56:12) AI for medicine

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Links:

• Mahway - https://mahway.com/

• YC’s Request for Startups - https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs

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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.

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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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