My First Million

Hosts

• Sam ParrEntrepreneur, founder of The Hustle and Hampton, co-host of My First Million
• Shaan PuriEntrepreneur and investor, co-host of My First Million, former Twitch executive

Frequent guests

• Grant LaFontaine · 1 episodeCanadian entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of the live-shopping marketplace Whatnot
• Joe Hudson · 1 episodeExecutive coach and founder of Art of Accomplishment, former venture capitalist who coaches founders and researchers at companies including OpenAI
• David Rubenstein · 1 episodeAmerican businessman, co-founder of private equity firm The Carlyle Group, philanthropist and principal owner of the Baltimore Orioles
• Tony Hawk · 1 episodeProfessional skateboarder who commented on Strings's injury
• Danny Yeung · 1 episodeEntrepreneur, co-founder of IM8 and founder of Prenetics
• Allison Ellsworth · 1 episodeAmerican entrepreneur, co-founder of the prebiotic soda brand Poppi, which was sold to PepsiCo

Topics

• Entrepreneurship
• Facebook
• AG1
• Brand positioning
• PayPal
• Craigslist
• Company culture and management
• Twitch
• A/B testing
• Collectibles
• Venture capital fundraising
• Y Combinator
• eBay
• Growth hacking
• Online marketplaces and the chicken-and-egg problem

Recently covered

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  Whatnot founder: This is the future of e-commerce

  Sep 21, 2026 · 1 h 2 min

  Whatnot co-founder Grant LaFontaine tells Shaan Puri and Sam Parr how a Funko Pop marketplace became a $20 billion live-commerce company.

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  Coach for SpaceX & OpenAI destroys your limiting beliefs for 88 minutes straight

  Sep 18, 2026 · 1 h 28 min

  Executive coach Joe Hudson walks Sam Parr and Shaan Puri through limiting beliefs, self-reliance patterns, conflict avoidance, negative self-talk and weekly self-awareness experiments.

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  David Rubenstein: We took $5M and turned it into $500B

  Sep 14, 2026 · 47 min

  Sam Parr interviews Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein about building a $500 billion private equity firm, missing out on Amazon, historic documents and American history.

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  Decoding Tony Hawk’s mindset in 72 minutes

  Sep 9, 2026 · 1 h 13 min

  Sam Parr and Shaan Puri interview skateboarder Tony Hawk about his early career, the 900, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater royalties, Birdhouse, investing and aging.

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  How we scaled to $100M in under a year (ft. IM8 co-founder Danny Yeung)

  Sep 7, 2026 · 54 min

  Shaan Puri interviews Danny Yeung about building IM8, the David Beckham co-founded supplement brand, plus his earlier e-commerce and COVID testing businesses.

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