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My First Million

Sam Parr and Shaan Puri brainstorm new business ideas based on trends & opportunities they see in the market. Sometimes they bring on famous guests to brainstorm with them.

The 2 businesses AI can never make obsolete
Nov 2026
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$100M hedge fund manager: Do not make the mistake of dying rich
Nov 2026 · 4 books
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Cover of Your Money or Your Life
Your Money or Your Life
Joe Dominguez and Vicky Robin
i read a book called your money or your life ▶ tap to play from here
Cover of Die with Zero
Die with Zero
Bill Perkins
the book is called die with zero ▶ tap to play from here
Cover of The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
like the sun also rises hemingway type life you know what i mean ▶ tap to play from here
Cover of Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
i know that um there's design your life which was that stanford course they had like a handbook ▶ tap to play from here
Ex-Amazon VP tells us what it’s really like working with Jeff Bezos
Oct 2026 · 1 book
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Cover of The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Brad Stone
i've read the everything store i've read uh some books about him now we're talking to you ▶ tap to play from here
How to find your arbitrage (from the guy who’s done it 3x) ft. Nick Kokonas
Oct 2026 · 3 books
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Cover of Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
David Bayles and Ted Orland
have you ever read that book art and fear they i think they have to use this uh the pottery class example do you know the story ▶ tap to play from here
Cover of Flash Boys
Flash Boys
Michael Lewis
flashboys is all bullshit because if you show up and start askers hey how did you do that and you engender their trust in order to betray it 'cause they know you're gonna write a ▶ tap to play from here
Cover of Market Wizards
Market Wizards
Jack D. Schwager
a tautological stupidity that is in a book called market wizards so this this book called market wizards it's one of the rare trading books that's great ▶ tap to play from here
We spent 8 hours finding the best stuff on X. Here it is.
Oct 2026 · 6 books
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Cover of If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer
If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer
O.J. Simpson
he has to come out and write a book called well if i did it here's exactly how i did it ▶ tap to play from here
Cover of East of Eden
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
she just started east of eden ▶ tap to play from here
Cover of Mistborn
Mistborn
Brandon Sanderson
i'm reading the mistborn series ▶ tap to play from here
Cover of Project Hail Mary
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
hail project hail mary things like that ▶ tap to play from here
Cover of Ender's Game
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
have you read like anders game or ready player one or anything ▶ tap to play from here
Cover of Ready Player One
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
have you read like anders game or ready player one or anything ▶ tap to play from here
This 3-hour Elizabeth Holmes doc broke our brains
Oct 2026 · 1 book
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Cover of Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
John Carreyrou
if you've watched the t v show and other things like that and you've read the book bad blood yeah basically what happened was the edmund edison machine pretty much didn't work ▶ tap to play from here
We put a multimillionaire’s portfolio into Claude (the results shocked us)
Oct 2026 · 1 book
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Cover of Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks
Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks
Barry McDonagh
i read this book about a month ago it's called dare d a r e and the drug the drug programmer it's the same name but it stands for um it's a book on how to deal with panic attacks ▶ tap to play from here
the 6 traits of people who can’t stop making money
Oct 2026
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3 embarrassing moments that changed my life
Oct 2026
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The creative genius behind Squatty Potty & Poo-Pourri reveals his marketing playbook
Oct 2026 · 5 books
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Poop to Gold
Jeff Harman
i read your book back in the day yeah poop to gold ▶ tap to play from here
Cover of Nail It Then Scale It
Nail It Then Scale It
Paul Ahlstrom
one entrepreneur paul alstrom who wrote the book nail and skelet he calls it your beak head ▶ tap to play from here
Cover of The User Method
The User Method
Jeff Schwarting
there's a book called the user method by jeff schwarting ▶ tap to play from here
Cover of The YouTube Formula
The YouTube Formula
Darryl Eves
he runs vid summit and he does the youtube formula that book ▶ tap to play from here
Cover of Bible
Bible
Various
and neil had been in the bible he flipped it open ▶ tap to play from here
3 businesses we think are about to blow up
Oct 2026
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We tested Instinct, MUSE and Grokbot. They’re ridiculous.
Sep 2026
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MIT scientist: Elon Musk was right, we are almost certainly in a simulation
Sep 2026 · 6 books
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Simulacron-3
Daniel F. Galouye
but uh the thirteenth floor was actually based on a novel called similacron iii which was from the 1960s ▶ tap to play from here
Cover of 2010: Odyssey Two
2010: Odyssey Two
Arthur C. Clarke
now later if you read the f the followon book 2010 you see the reason was he was given conflicting directives ▶ tap to play from here
Cover of Autobiography of a Yogi
Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda
he wrote a book called autobiography of a yogi which was steve jobs you know favorite book ▶ tap to play from here
Cover of Zen Entrepreneurship
Zen Entrepreneurship
Riz Virk
and when i wrote my first book zen entrepreneurship it was kind of about all of these things ▶ tap to play from here
Cover of The Zen Entrepreneur and the Dream
The Zen Entrepreneur and the Dream
Riz Virk
in fact i'm just coming out with a new book which is a sequel to that first one called the zen entrepreneur and the dream where i get into even weirder stuff that i was afraid to put ▶ tap to play from here
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The Simulation Hypothesis
Riz Virk
right after i wrote my book the simulation hypothesis people who had been on dmts told me oh hey i know we're in a simulation ▶ tap to play from here
There’s 98 days until 2027...Do this and you’ll thank yourself on Jan 1st
Sep 2026 · 2 books
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The Untethered Soul
Michael A. Singer
i went and started reading this book called untethered soul which is kind of a fine book ▶ tap to play from here
Cover of Six Thinking Hats
Six Thinking Hats
Edward de Bono
well there's this great book called the six thinking hats ▶ tap to play from here
Whatnot founder: This is the future of e-commerce
Sep 2026
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Coach for SpaceX & OpenAI destroys your limiting beliefs for 88 minutes straight
Sep 2026 · 6 books
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Cover of How to Win Friends and Influence People
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
so that's one of these things where you read a book like how to win friends and influence people and you're like duh that's obvious and it almost becomes a reminder ▶ tap to play from here
Cover of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
Sogyal Rinpoche
many traditions use this which is visualizing their own death and the tibetan book of living and dying samurai ▶ tap to play from here
Cover of The Inner Game of Tennis
The Inner Game of Tennis
W. Timothy Gallwey
the inner game of tennis talks a lot about that great book and i actually just listened to um uh a talk by the coach of george saint pierre ▶ tap to play from here
Cover of Descartes' Error
Descartes' Error
Antonio Damasio
so and you can read a book about this it's called descartes' error it was written by a neuroscientist in like 2012 or something ▶ tap to play from here
Cover of The Body Keeps the Score
The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk
i've read the body keeps the score and i like intuitively know that like trauma is a physical thing but like to put it on a really ▶ tap to play from here
Cover of Listen: Five Simple Tools to Meet Your Everyday Parenting Challenges
Listen: Five Simple Tools to Meet Your Everyday Parenting Challenges
Patty Wipfler and Tosha Schore
there was this thing called handinhand parenting which i highly recommend a book called listen which is like one of the most profound practices of my life ▶ tap to play from here
i got internet famous... if i started again from scratch, here's what I'd do this time
Sep 2026 · 1 book
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Cover of Atomic Habits
Atomic Habits
James Clear
james clear the author of atomic habits sells the feeling of selfcontrol a feeling that you can take control of your life ▶ tap to play from here
David Rubenstein: We took $5M and turned it into $500B
Sep 2026 · 4 books
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Cover of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
kai bird who previously wrote a book on robert oppenheimer that won the pulitzer prize ▶ tap to play from here
Cover of The Power Broker
The Power Broker
Robert Caro
i just started reading finally reading the power broker power broker is a historic book considered one of the 50 best books of the ▶ tap to play from here
Cover of The Years of Lyndon Johnson
The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Robert Caro
everybody's waiting for him to finish the fifth volume of his series on lyndon johnson ▶ tap to play from here
Cover of Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
James L. Swanson
have you read manhunt about lincoln's assassination ▶ tap to play from here
Decoding Tony Hawk’s mindset in 72 minutes
Sep 2026
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How we scaled to $100M in under a year (ft. IM8 co-founder Danny Yeung)
Sep 2026
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