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Episode 872: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) and Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talk about the different types of founders.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Natural Money-Makers
(1:52) Attributes of Natural Money-Makers
(3:10) The Story of Nick Kokonas
(8:12) The Story of Jay Gould
(10:00) Can It Be Learned?
(13:04) The Story of Syed Balkhi
(17:58) Only Spend the Second Derivative
(22:27) Trading Valuable Hours for Useless Dollars
(26:50) Other Play Styles That Win
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Links:
• Syed Balkhi episode – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzHdrQ5pDFo
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Check Out Sam’s Stuff:
• Hampton (joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it…apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm
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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 – Shaan uses Mercury across all of his companies. you can too: http://mercury.com/
Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., Members FDIC
• I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we’re giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out:
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