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Episode 783: Shaan Puri ( ⁠https://x.com/ShaanVP⁠ ) gets interviewed by his former intern about quitting a $120K/yr job in his 20s to become strategically broke and the other counter-intuitive decisions that made him successful.

Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(1:56) Quitting a $120k job to be broke and live with 3 friends (Don’t linger on bad decisions)

(10:26) Fear is what holds people back more so than anything else

(13:17) How to get what you (actually) want.

(16:37) Most people are not serious

(28:21) Who is the most important voice in your life?

(34:05) Why I decided to sell my company to Twitch & Amazon.

(40:18) The biggest waste of time is doing something that needn’t been done at all (Elon)

(41:52) “You can’t run an A/B test on life” (Act Accordingly)

(52:37) There are no bonus points for making things harder for yourself (location)

(58:23) The best people are 'down' (Buffett)

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Links:

• The Biography Podcast - https://www.youtube.com/@thebiographypod

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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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