Episode 697: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) sits down with James Currier ( https://x.com/JamesCurrier ) to talk about going from $0 to $110M through network effects.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) $0 to $1.6B

(4:23) Your life on network effects

(8:00) Savage founders

(13:40) Speed

(15:49) The art of unlearning

(21:23) Technology window curves

(30:29) Network Vampire attacks

(37:37) Language first

(43:15) Tickle

(42:29) Finding a business bromance

(58:47) James isolation mistake

(1:01:27) Become an API

(1:05:02) AI business ideas

(1:16:07) What to do in your 20s

(1:22:18) One world currency

(1:32:16) Go to therapy

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Links:

• Steal Shaan's $20M Pitch Deck: https://clickhubspot.com/qrd

• NFX - https://www.nfx.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.

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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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