My First Million
53 book mentions · 29 episodes — press play, book moments are marked along the timeline.
Brainstorming business ideas with a billion-dollar founder
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LA
Life at the Speed of Play
Mark Pincus
Life at the speed of Life at the Speed of Play ▶ tap to play from here
The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin
I love what's the name of the guy, um the music guy who wrote the creation, the create creativity book from Hollywood. Rick Rubin? ▶ tap to play from here
The Courage to Be Disliked
Ichirō Kishimi
that I love by this guy yesterday. He he has some company called like Tiny Co. or something. Yeah, Andrew Wilkinson. That's our that's our good friend. I loved ▶ tap to play from here
How to manufacture a billionaire childhood
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The Bible
Various Authors - Compiled by Mark T
I'm not religious, but I grew up going to Catholic school and you got to read the Bible a lot. ▶ tap to play from here
Angels & Demons
Dan Brown
He channeled this into Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons and other thrillers that have sold more than 200 million copies, ▶ tap to play from here
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown
author? He wrote the Da Vinci Code and like a bunch of other like thriller adventure books. Yeah. ▶ tap to play from here
This guy cured his dog’s cancer with ChatGPT + 4 other crazy AI stories
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The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists
Neil Strauss
I referenced the book The Game and they were like, What's the game? ▶ tap to play from here
How I went from $0 to $1M in 12 months
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Steal Like an Artist
Austin Kleon
I have this book that's on my bookshelf called Steal Like an Artist. ▶ tap to play from here
Billionaire Lawyer spills his $250M side hustles (pick one)
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YC
You Can't Teach Hungry
Morgan, John
I've written two books. One called You Can't Teach Hungry, one called You Can't Teach Vision. ▶ tap to play from here
$500M Founder: “This is the biggest opportunity in the US today”
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Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth
Gabriel Weinberg
this, but Sean, did you know that Justin was like a co-author on the book Traction with the Duck DuckGo founder? ▶ tap to play from here
3 Killer Businesses Hidden in Plain Sight
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Propaganda
Edward L. Bernays
side note a lot of these stories are documented in this amazing book called Propaganda. ▶ tap to play from here
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Seven Human Hijacks: Confessions of a Billion Dollar Marketer
Craig Clemens
All right, it's called Hijacks or Seven Human Hijacks, Confessions of a Billion Dollar Marketer. Okay. So uh that's Craig. ▶ tap to play from here
From Nonprofit Founder To Building A $300M Pilates Business
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Die with Zero
Bill Perkins
but you've read the book Die With Zero. Yeah, I think we talked about that. Right. ▶ tap to play from here
Never Split the Difference
Chris Voss
Chris Voss never split the difference. I love that book. I read that book during COVID because I really had to get good at negotiation. ▶ tap to play from here
CEOs Pay Him $10,000 Per Appointment?!
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The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
Eric Reese from the book, uh, The Lean Startup, one of the most famous startup books of all time. ▶ tap to play from here
How We Got Our First 100 Customers (No Bulls**t, Specific Details)
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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Chip Heath
one of the books that we read at my book club was called Made to Stick. It was by Dan and Ch Heath, ▶ tap to play from here
Business Brainstorm: AG1 For Dogs, Sexy Sweaty Startups & Luxury Newsletters
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Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business
Gino Wickman
so what EOS did was this guy wrote this book. I don't know the full backstory, but this guy wrote a book called Traction. ▶ tap to play from here
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
These are sound just like you know, How to Win Friends and Influence People but it's real. ▶ tap to play from here
How Blockworks Bootstrapped To A +$20M/yr Crypto Empire
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The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy
William Strauss
there's like the the fourth turning, which is like these four big periods, and you can explain it like that. ▶ tap to play from here
The Secret Founders Of +$1,000,000,000 Brands
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Think and Grow Rich
Napoleon Hill
They're like, Well, we could try the real estate thing, but neither of us know anything about real estate, nor do we like have a passion for that. Let's at least for this first one. Start with something we both the what's the common ground that we both think is like awesome. Like the thing we became friends on was this kind of self self-help, self-development, personal development category. So this is like that uh sign that Cartman has when he's like coming up with a startup idea. He's like, look, step one, we're gonna start up. Step two, we're gonna scale up. Step three, we're gonna bro down. Or like when they're talking about stealing the underwear, they're like, steal underwear, then profit. And they're like, Well, what comes in? What comes in the middle? Exactly. And it worked. Uh it actually that actually is uh that actually is how most startups work, by the way. I think that's you know, it seems like you're making fun of them, but honestly, that's that's actually more true than the other way. So um, so they go, they're like, okay, we can uh they realize they could buy the rights to the book, Think and Grow Rich, one of their favorite books, uh, because it's like it's such an old book that like the like the copyrighter, whatever had laps or some shit like that. ▶ tap to play from here
Doug DeMuro: How A YouTube Car Reviewer Sold His Company For $40M
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The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists
Neil Strauss
I'm trying to try to meet these girls. I'm I'm I read the book The Game, I'm doing all myself, I'm trying to, I'm trying hard. ▶ tap to play from here
A Masterclass On Flipping DTC Brands For Millions With Mehtab Bhogal
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The Secret
Rhonda Byrne
you guys remember that book, The Secret, where it's just like it's like if you think about it enough and like put it in place in your brain, the universe will grant you this. ▶ tap to play from here
The Messy Middle
Scott Belsky
There's this really cool book um called Messy Middle. Have you guys read The Messy Middle It's by uh what's the uh Scott Belski? Belowski. Yeah. The most dreamy guy of all dreamy guys. Scott ▶ tap to play from here
Bringing Down the House
Ben Mezrich
This was before the movie came out, 21, but oh my god. The book Bringing Down the House was out. And um and we were like, oh, not only are we gonna count cards, we decided to create an underground blackjack club on campus. ▶ tap to play from here
Part 2: Pomp On His Businesses, Young Rock Star Employees, And The Internet Entrepreneur Hero
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Robert B. Cialdini
Well, in that book Influence, they say they say if you if you if you give someone a reason for why you're doing something, they're more likely to do it. ▶ tap to play from here
Producer Ben Had A 90-Minute Phone Call With Mr. Beast, Hypnosis and More
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Zero to One
Peter A. Thiel
Listen, in that book, what's Peter Thiel's book, Zero to One? He talks about like he's like, there's like basically like these, I I don't remember the words he used, but he said like there's like ▶ tap to play from here
The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger
Like, you know, like the like he's like from the crew that wrote like The Catcher in the Rye that type of crap. ▶ tap to play from here
One Question Friday: Hiring Your First Employee
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Principles: Life and Work
Ray Dalio
in Ray Dalio's book, Principles, he talks about this. So he says, you know, imagine a company as like a big box with a little box sitting on top. ▶ tap to play from here
Hire 1 to Hire 10, Sam Gets Hacked, Shaan Buys a $200K NFT, and More with Andrew Wilkinson
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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Chip Heath
i I think everyone needs to read the book Made to Stick. That was the book that like really clicked for me. I don't know if you guys have read. They talk about this totally. ▶ tap to play from here
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
Malcolm Gladwell
have you heard a story about David and Goliath? It's wonderful. And he like said he turned he's like, actually, David and Goliath wasn't that hard of a contest ▶ tap to play from here
Wordle Copycat Loses It All, Introducing Milk Road, and Guru Shaan on Finding Your Next Project
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Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
Luke Burgis
The first is called Wanting, um, which is uh Andrew suggested it. That's why I bought it. He suggested ▶ tap to play from here
The TB12 Method
Tom Brady
The guy started like The TB12 Method whatever his thing is called, the T-body or whatever his thing is called wanted to come on the pod. Oh, really? His his trainer? Yeah. The guy Alex? I don't know if it's his trainer or business partner, but like he branded ▶ tap to play from here
The 48 Laws of Power
Robert Greene
Um and the second one is the daily laws and this it's this daily it's about uh the forty The 48 Laws of Power and mastery and all these great books by this guy named Robert ▶ tap to play from here
Mastery
Robert Greene
and the second one is the daily laws and this it's this daily it's about uh the forty eight laws of power and mastery and all these great books by this guy named Robert ▶ tap to play from here
The Daily Laws
Robert Greene
and the second one is the daily laws and this it's this daily it's about uh the forty eight laws of power and mastery and all these great books by this guy named Robert ▶ tap to play from here
The Story of Black Market Kingpin Ross Ulbricht + Sam Does an AMA
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The Princess Bride
William Goldman
It's from the Princess Bride. Uh so it's uh the the kind of the main character Wesley um goes and and gets kidnapped by the Dread Pirate Roberts, and then later it turns out he is the Dre Pirate Roberts, and that Dread Pirate Roberts ▶ tap to play from here
American Kingpin
Nick Bilton
there's a book called American Kingpin There's so much stuff in this story, though, that is like it's hard to believe is true, but it is in fact ▶ tap to play from here
MFM Goes to Jail - Plus Startup Cities, Prospera, Julian Shapiro Building a Ranch, Testing Out Big Purchases, and More
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The Rough Riders
Theodore Roosevelt
before he was even in politics, when he was 21, he wrote a book on the Spanish-American War, and it was considered a textbook for decades. ▶ tap to play from here
The Strenuous Life
Theodore Roosevelt
He also has this book that I'm thinking about reading. This title is beautiful. It's called The Strenuous Life And so he had this phrase where he was like, so Roosevelt would like even when he was president, ▶ tap to play from here
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Edmund Morris
read about uh Teddy Roosevelt. Very intriguing. What book are you reading? The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt I think there's like three ▶ tap to play from here
#209 with Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future
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Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion
Gary Vaynerchuk
Travis is the only person I thank in Crush It, my first book, besides my family. ▶ tap to play from here
#193 - How a $25 Million a Year Sweepstakes Business Works and Shaan Predicts the Future
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Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
SEBASTIAN JUNGER
read this book called Tribe and it's all up because I was curious about what type of neighborhood would be best to live in ▶ tap to play from here
#150 - Jason Calacanis Joins The Brainstorm To Talk Robinhood, Gambling and the Opportunities He's Investing In
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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Chip Heath
there's this great book called Made to Stick, which I love. Dan and Chip, professors at Stanford. ▶ tap to play from here
How to Get Rich
Felix Dennis
There's a great book that me and Sam like to read. What it was about, How I Gitch or How to Gitch. How to Get Rich. It's so embarrassing to say it. You know the author, Jason. It's uh Felix Dennis. ▶ tap to play from here
#129 - Why Elon Musk Is the Greatest Dropshipper and A Low Key Company Making Millions From Politics
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The 4-Hour Workweek
Timothy Ferriss
2014, he basically found four The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferris and was like, Oh, okay, I need to like systematize this and like this can be my muse, ▶ tap to play from here
The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
Gregory Zuckerman
James Simmons, the one who the book uh you know, he just had the book famous book come out, um, The Man Who Beat the Market or something. Right. About uh it's about the the Renaissance ▶ tap to play from here
#101 with Ryan Begelman - How to Succeed Applying Private Equity Structure to Startups
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Delivering Happiness
Tony Hsieh
he became famous for company culture at his company. And then he created a separate, I don't know how many people realize this, but he actually created a company that teaches other companies how to build happy cultures. And he did that by spinning up a book and going on a book tour. ▶ tap to play from here
Rework
Jason Fried
they made a company that made Basecamp and then they worked a certain way, and then they started selling books just explaining how they worked to the basically their business ▶ tap to play from here
#47 - Robot Lawyers, Pay to Lose Weight & Prudent vs. Wild Card Managers
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Life Behind the Lobby: Indian American Motel Owners and the American Dream
Pawan Dhingra
There's a book about this. I know. ▶ tap to play from here
#44 - New e-mail clients, Sharing the craigslist office & How to keep your star players
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Rework
Jason Fried
Rework is a phenomenal book. I fucking love that book. Um and so Rework is one of their books that they launched, and that's made a lot of money and got grown awareness of their brand. ▶ tap to play from here
High Output Management
Andrew S. Grove
And that book, High Output Management, it discussing subs discusses something similar, which is there's when you meet with people, employees, ▶ tap to play from here
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The 36 Questions That Lead to Love
Arthur Aron
New York Times covered it. The thirty-six, what is it? What's it called? The 36 Questions That Lead to Love Can you give me some examples of questions? It starts easy and gets harder. So we did that ▶ tap to play from here