My First Million Podcast

Episode 714: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) sits down with Matt Mazzeo ( https://x.com/Mazzeo ) about using AI agents as your go-to-market. 

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro 

(3:30) AI as the Go-to-Market

(8:50) The Billion Dollar Secret

 (12:03) Mario Kart Theory

(18:55) Being a Tinkerer/Supabase

(25:38) Amjad Masad/Replt

(28: 41) Taste

(36:44) Agents replacing VCs

(37:57) Agent Employees

(42:28) Story Game



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Links:

• Want Sam's guide to use ChatGPT? Get it here: https://clickhubspot.com/wpv

• Supabase - https://supabase.com/ 

• Replit - https://replit.com/ 

• Clay - https://www.clay.com/ 

• Alpha Go Movie - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXuK6gekU1Y 





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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

Episode 713: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Jason Lemkin ( https://x.com/jasonlk ) about cloning yourself with AI and how ChatGPT will be the end of incumbent apps. 

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Show Notes:

(0:00) AI body doubles Users tell AI things they won't tell humans

(15:15) The incumbents are dying

(27:25) Inside the office of OpenAI

(34:12) How to be an AI billionaire

(44:40) The story of Saastr

(55:49) Being a relentless recruiter

(58:52) Seeing through the fog of war

(1:07:53) The future of work for gen alpha

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Links:

• Want Sam's playbook to turn ChatGPT into your executive coach? Get it here: https://clickhubspot.com/ejv

• Saastr - https://www.saastr.com/ 

• Delphi - https://www.delphi.ai/

• Windsurf - https://windsurf.com 

• Coursiv - https://coursiv.io/ 

• Lovable - https://lovable.dev/ 

• Higsfield - http://higsfield.ai/ 





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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

For the full experience, watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0j_n3OOM7c



Episode 712: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talks to Greg Isenberg ( https://x.com/gregisenberg ) talk about how to find a startup idea and build it in a couple hours using AI. 

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Step 1: Find an idea

(7:57) Step 2: Sketch out the idea

(9:48) Step 3: Scope out the MVP

(18:25) Step 4: Vibe code a prototype

(36:06) Step 5: Vibe marketing the business

(49:14) Step 6: AI agent product manager





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Links:

• Want Greg's guide to Build an AI Startup in 3 Hours with <$500? Get it here: https://clickhubspot.com/wrc

• Idea Browser - ideabrowser.com 

• TLDraw -  https://www.tldraw.com/ 

• Wispr Flow - https://wisprflow.ai/ 

• Manus - https://manus.im/ 

• Bolt - https://bolt.new/ 

• The Vibe Marketer - https://www.thevibemarketer.com/ 

• Kubera - https://www.kubera.com/ 

• Lindy - https://www.lindy.ai/ 

• Lovable - https://lovable.dev/ 

• Windsurf -  https://windsurf.com/ 

• Cursor - https://www.cursor.com/ 

• Supabase - https://supabase.com/ 

• Prospect AI - https://www.prospectai.co/ 

• Boring Marketing - https://www.boringmarketing.com/ 

• Gumloop - https://www.gumloop.com/ 

• N8N - https://n8n.io/ 

• Ahrefs - https://ahrefs.com/ 

• Semrush - https://www.semrush.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.

• 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/

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

Episode 711: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talks to Guillermo Rauch ( https://x.com/rauchg ) about building Vercel plus 7 business ideas to start in AI.  

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Dropout to job offer from Facebook

(3:38) Genius vs accident

(21:04) Building Vercel

(25:26) AI startup ideas

(31:38) IDEA: V0 for Video Games

(33:09) IDEA: Doom CAPTCHA

(40:04) IDEA: AI Typeform

(46:54) IDEA: AI Camera

(54:06) IDEA: Auto Complete

(58:51) IDEA: Granular V0





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Links:

• Guillermo Rauch - https://rauchg.com/ 

• Vercel - https://vercel.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.

• 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/

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

Episode 710: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about how to evaluate risk and upside of new ideas. 



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Show Notes:

(0:00) Bessemer's $140B misjudgment of Shopify

(5:47) Shaan's Anti-portfolio

(15:26) Goal: Avoid Ruin

(21:30) Outlier personalities

(24:51) Underestimating Uber

(32:16) "You can't overinvest in AI"

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Links:

• Want Sam's Playbook to Uncover Business Opportunities? Get it here: https://clickhubspot.com/bzo

• “How to miss by a mile” - https://tinyurl.com/2rxubfwa 

• Leaked OpenAI emails - https://www.techemails.com/p/elon-musk-and-openai 



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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/

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