My First Million

3 killer businesses hiding in plain sight

Published 12 August 2026Duration: 46m 56s
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140+ real business ideas database: https://clickhubspot.com/pkce Episode 850: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about massive businesses hidden in plain sight.  β€” Show Notes: (0:00) The wild economics of lab testing on monkeys (11:01) Salad oil crisis (15:35) the art of noticing  (24:38) enthusiasm (27:39) know thy 8-year old self (32:32) be shameless (37:08) Sam goes to SF for 7 days β€” Links: β€’ Qoves - https://www.qoves.com/  β€’ Charles River - https://www.criver.com/  β€’ How To Do Great Work - https://www.paulgraham.com/greatwork.html β€” Check Out Sam's Stuff: β€’ Hampton (joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm β€” Check Out Shaan's Stuff: β€’ Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com  β€’ 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. β€’ Mercury - Shaan uses Mercury across all of his companies. you can too: http://mercury.com/  Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., Members FDIC β€’ I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out: beehiiv.com/mfm-challenge My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano /

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