Episode
Best of This Week: Feb 14th
30:53
Published: Fri Feb 18 2022
Description
Some of the best moments from this week of My First Million. ----- * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan's newsletter. ----- Show Notes: (01:05) - The BTC thieves and Sam's interaction with them (10:30) - Paper cut companies (18:30) - Max Lytvyn on how he knew Grammarly could be a big opportunity (23:25) - How to avoid accidentally over-indexing ----- Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. ----- Additional episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More
Chapters
A crypto heist caused widespread fear in the market, leading to a web of small transactions between wallets.
00:00 - 02:26 (02:26)
Summary
A crypto heist caused widespread fear in the market, leading to a web of small transactions between wallets. Other exchanges attempted to prevent the stolen money from being cashed out.
EpisodeBest of This Week: Feb 14th
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The operators of cryptocurrency exchanges are required to comply with regulations like KYC, and clean cut engineers are often the ones running the operations, making the exchanges look more legitimate.
02:26 - 08:07 (05:40)
Summary
The operators of cryptocurrency exchanges are required to comply with regulations like KYC, and clean cut engineers are often the ones running the operations, making the exchanges look more legitimate.
EpisodeBest of This Week: Feb 14th
PodcastMy First Million
A bride built a golden mini Taj Mahal to sit in and had her bridesmaids lift her on her shoulder to bring her into the wedding.
08:07 - 11:20 (03:13)
Summary
A bride built a golden mini Taj Mahal to sit in and had her bridesmaids lift her on her shoulder to bring her into the wedding. The wedding audience was uncomfortable with the bizarre display.
EpisodeBest of This Week: Feb 14th
PodcastMy First Million
The use of Go links can aid in the setup of human-readable links, anchoring it to any document.
11:20 - 15:47 (04:27)
Summary
The use of Go links can aid in the setup of human-readable links, anchoring it to any document. This makes finding a specific link easier without unnecessary searching.
EpisodeBest of This Week: Feb 14th
PodcastMy First Million
While other product features may require a certain level of technological expertise, implementing Go Links for shorter and cleaner Google Docs links is a simple yet effective solution for better organization and productivity.
15:47 - 19:29 (03:41)
Summary
While other product features may require a certain level of technological expertise, implementing Go Links for shorter and cleaner Google Docs links is a simple yet effective solution for better organization and productivity.
EpisodeBest of This Week: Feb 14th
PodcastMy First Million
The key to creating successful software products is to sweat the small details and remove any user experience issues by scratching your own itch as a user of the product.
19:29 - 25:47 (06:18)
Summary
The key to creating successful software products is to sweat the small details and remove any user experience issues by scratching your own itch as a user of the product.
EpisodeBest of This Week: Feb 14th
PodcastMy First Million
The pursuit of greatness can come at a high cost, requiring years of dedicated effort and sacrifice.
25:47 - 29:52 (04:05)
Summary
The pursuit of greatness can come at a high cost, requiring years of dedicated effort and sacrifice. This podcast explores the tradeoffs between achieving momentary fame and the cost of the work required to achieve it.