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Business as a sport, Surge AI, and Waymo vs. Robotaxi

2025/6/25
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Sam Parr
以《My First Million》播客主持人和企业家身份而闻名，专注于发现和分享高利润商业模式。
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Shaan Puri
成功主持《My First Million》播客，分享创业策略和资源。
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Shaan Puri: 我越来越把商业看作是一项运动，而不是单纯的赚钱工具。就像网球运动员不会因为赢得一场比赛就停止打网球一样，企业家也不会因为赚到足够的钱就停止创业。商业的乐趣在于不断改进和享受过程，而不仅仅是追求金钱。我已经赚到了我这辈子能花完的钱，但我仍然在创业，因为我喜欢这种竞争和挑战。我享受将想法变成现实的过程，这比金钱本身更令人兴奋。我把商业看作是一场游戏，一场我喜欢玩的游戏，我会一直玩下去，直到我不能再玩为止。

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This chapter discusses the unexpected success of a hole-in-one golfing challenge idea, initially shared on the podcast. The hosts discuss the idea's potential for scaling and its transformation into an MFM project.
  • Hundreds of replies received after sharing a golfing challenge idea.
  • The potential for the idea to generate significant revenue ($300-500K).
  • Transformation of the idea into an MFM project.

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Episode 720: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about how Surge built a $1B business in 5 years and the second-order effects of self-driving cars.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Best idea of the month

(6:00) Business as a sport

(10:57) The inner game of tennis

(14:21) Shaan writes a letter to himself

(19:15) Patron View

(27:42) Surge

(35:00) Handshake

(39:47) Waymo vs Robotaxi

(50:30) Elon replies to Shaan's tweet

(53:13) Shaan gets in a fight with his moms doctor

(1:02:50) Sam wears overalls

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Links:

• The Inner Game of Tennis - https://tinyurl.com/mphz9zkr 

• Patron View - https://patronview.com/ 


• Museum Hack - https://museumhack.com/ 


• Surge AI - https://www.surgehq.ai/ 


• Handshake - https://joinhandshake.com/ 


• Gemini - https://gemini.google.com/ 


• Grok - https://grok.com/

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano