Episode

Four Ideas For AI, Twitter Empires, and Billion $ Thiel Fellowship Success Stories
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1:16:04
Published: Thu Aug 04 2022
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Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) talk about four ideas of what you can do with AI, Twitter empires, and some of the billion dollar companies that have come from the Thiel Fellowship. ----- Links: * Theo Von story * Charisma On Command * DALL*E 2 * Unreal Speech * This Person Does Not Exist * Spoonflower * Trung Phan * Sahil Bloom * Thiel Fellowship * Italic * Figma * Ethereum * Luminar * 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: (09:35) - DALL-E and AI (30:35) - John Steinberg (32:55) - Building Twitter Empires (49:05) - Thiel Fellowship success stories ----- 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
The guest on the podcast predicts that there will be billionaires created on Twitter as people continue to build empires on top of the social media platform.
00:00 - 00:52 (00:52)
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Twitter
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The guest on the podcast predicts that there will be billionaires created on Twitter as people continue to build empires on top of the social media platform. The conversation then shifts to a discussion about a dinner with comedian Hasan Minhaj.

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Four Ideas For AI, Twitter Empires, and Billion $ Thiel Fellowship Success Stories
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My First Million
In this podcast episode, the speaker discusses how humor is a skill that must be learned and practiced, and shares his experience of trying to improve his own sense of humor.
00:53 - 04:29 (03:36)
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Humor
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In this podcast episode, the speaker discusses how humor is a skill that must be learned and practiced, and shares his experience of trying to improve his own sense of humor. The conversation takes a strange turn towards the end when the speaker makes a completely unrelated and disturbing comment about child molestation.

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Four Ideas For AI, Twitter Empires, and Billion $ Thiel Fellowship Success Stories
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A speaker shares their experience of learning how to improve their comedic storytelling skills which involves learning how to deliver setups and tagging jokes.
04:29 - 08:18 (03:48)
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Comedy
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A speaker shares their experience of learning how to improve their comedic storytelling skills which involves learning how to deliver setups and tagging jokes.

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The episode explores the capabilities of graphic design tools such as 'I have 99 Designs' to create custom-made images and deepfake software that can be trained to mimic human voices, movements and expressions to create synthetic videos that are difficult to differentiate from real ones.
08:18 - 13:30 (05:11)
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Graphic Design, Deepfakes
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The episode explores the capabilities of graphic design tools such as 'I have 99 Designs' to create custom-made images and deepfake software that can be trained to mimic human voices, movements and expressions to create synthetic videos that are difficult to differentiate from real ones.

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Four Ideas For AI, Twitter Empires, and Billion $ Thiel Fellowship Success Stories
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The transcript discusses how a side project resulted in a thousand dollar bill, due to it becoming more expensive than expected to maintain.
13:30 - 18:46 (05:16)
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Side Project
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The transcript discusses how a side project resulted in a thousand dollar bill, due to it becoming more expensive than expected to maintain.

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Four Ideas For AI, Twitter Empires, and Billion $ Thiel Fellowship Success Stories
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The podcast briefly covers the topics of Halloween costumes and clothing patterns from websites, discussing their accessibility and cost efficiency.
18:46 - 22:51 (04:04)
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Halloween costumes, Clothing patterns
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The podcast briefly covers the topics of Halloween costumes and clothing patterns from websites, discussing their accessibility and cost efficiency.

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Four Ideas For AI, Twitter Empires, and Billion $ Thiel Fellowship Success Stories
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GitHub Copilot is a new tool that is predicted to make hundreds of millions of dollars for the company, but some are concerned about its potential impact on employment.
22:51 - 28:44 (05:53)
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GitHub Copilot
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GitHub Copilot is a new tool that is predicted to make hundreds of millions of dollars for the company, but some are concerned about its potential impact on employment. Other tools discussed in the podcast include The Noun Project.

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Four Ideas For AI, Twitter Empires, and Billion $ Thiel Fellowship Success Stories
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The speaker discusses how he planned to build a 24-hour news network and have a cable company buy the company because it would be cheaper for them.
28:44 - 30:59 (02:14)
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News
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The speaker discusses how he planned to build a 24-hour news network and have a cable company buy the company because it would be cheaper for them.

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Four Ideas For AI, Twitter Empires, and Billion $ Thiel Fellowship Success Stories
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My First Million
The hosts discuss the evolution of social media platforms and the rise of influencers, reflecting on how initial skepticism has given way to the current reality of often low-quality content being heavily promoted.
30:59 - 33:52 (02:52)
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Social Media
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The hosts discuss the evolution of social media platforms and the rise of influencers, reflecting on how initial skepticism has given way to the current reality of often low-quality content being heavily promoted.

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Four Ideas For AI, Twitter Empires, and Billion $ Thiel Fellowship Success Stories
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This podcast discusses how some individuals have used various media platforms such as podcasting, Instagram, and YouTube to build large empires worth tens to hundreds of millions of dollars by consistently producing and sharing quality content.
33:52 - 38:45 (04:53)
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Social Media
Summary

This podcast discusses how some individuals have used various media platforms such as podcasting, Instagram, and YouTube to build large empires worth tens to hundreds of millions of dollars by consistently producing and sharing quality content.

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Four Ideas For AI, Twitter Empires, and Billion $ Thiel Fellowship Success Stories
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The success of an influencer marketing campaign depends on more than just a simple promotion; creating a real-life context for the product helps to make it feel more legitimate and can attract more audience engagement.
38:45 - 42:40 (03:54)
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Influencer Marketing
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The success of an influencer marketing campaign depends on more than just a simple promotion; creating a real-life context for the product helps to make it feel more legitimate and can attract more audience engagement.

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Four Ideas For AI, Twitter Empires, and Billion $ Thiel Fellowship Success Stories
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This episode discusses successful companies that were created by individuals who were part of the Thiel Fellowship, including Ethereum and Figma, and how Peter Thiel's unorthodox teaching methods have contributed to their success.
42:40 - 54:19 (11:39)
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Thiel Fellowship
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This episode discusses successful companies that were created by individuals who were part of the Thiel Fellowship, including Ethereum and Figma, and how Peter Thiel's unorthodox teaching methods have contributed to their success.

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Four Ideas For AI, Twitter Empires, and Billion $ Thiel Fellowship Success Stories
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The speaker discusses a gym that rewards clients with better fitting gear as they earn points and level up and shares his curiosity about experiencing things on level 12.
54:19 - 1:03:41 (09:22)
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Fitness
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The speaker discusses a gym that rewards clients with better fitting gear as they earn points and level up and shares his curiosity about experiencing things on level 12.

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Four Ideas For AI, Twitter Empires, and Billion $ Thiel Fellowship Success Stories
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My First Million
The transcript talks about how trust plays a significant role in strategy-based board games and workplace meetings, leading to an enhancement in teamwork and collaboration among people.
1:03:41 - 1:07:37 (03:55)
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Trust
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The transcript talks about how trust plays a significant role in strategy-based board games and workplace meetings, leading to an enhancement in teamwork and collaboration among people.

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The speaker compares the acquisition of customers through Bitcoin to neuroscience and Battle of the Bulge, indicating how the person in the discussion is finding rules and maximizing his edge to acquire more customers, compared to his peers.
1:07:37 - 1:10:33 (02:56)
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Customer Acquisition
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The speaker compares the acquisition of customers through Bitcoin to neuroscience and Battle of the Bulge, indicating how the person in the discussion is finding rules and maximizing his edge to acquire more customers, compared to his peers.

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Four Ideas For AI, Twitter Empires, and Billion $ Thiel Fellowship Success Stories
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The speaker expresses feeling both enthusiastic and overwhelmed by the potential and ideas for growing their project, feeling panicked about the amount of work they have to do to achieve it all.
1:10:33 - 1:12:43 (02:09)
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Overwhelmed
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The speaker expresses feeling both enthusiastic and overwhelmed by the potential and ideas for growing their project, feeling panicked about the amount of work they have to do to achieve it all.

Episode
Four Ideas For AI, Twitter Empires, and Billion $ Thiel Fellowship Success Stories
Podcast
My First Million