Fake it till you make it
Subject in Entrepreneurship
Fake it till you make it has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including My First Million. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Shaan PuriEntrepreneur and investor, co-host of My First Million, former Twitch executive
Puri remarked that in the startup world the line between crime and hustle is thinner than people think.
“It's kind of like the line between crime and hustle is thinner than people think in the startup world”
My First Million: This 3-hour Elizabeth Holmes doc broke our brains (Oct 20, 2026) · Listen from 53:33
Puri framed one interpretation of Holmes as a founder doing the Silicon Valley fake-it-till-you-make-it routine who got caught before succeeding.
“did she just do the Silicon Valley kind of fake it till you make it thing, except for she got kind of caught before she could make it”
My First Million: This 3-hour Elizabeth Holmes doc broke our brains (Oct 20, 2026) · Listen from 11:50
Podcasts
- My First Million · 1 episode
Episodes
This 3-hour Elizabeth Holmes doc broke our brainsMy First Million · Oct 20, 2026 · 56 min
Shaan Puri, Sam Parr and team members Ben and Diego dissect Nathan Fielder's Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything and debate whether Holmes knowingly committed fraud.