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My First Million

Sam Parr and Shaan Puri brainstorm new business ideas based on trends & opportunities they see in the market. Sometimes they bring on famous guests to brainstorm with them.

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Robert Greene almost died. Here’s what it taught him about living
Nov 2026 · 9 books
Cover of The 48 Laws of Power
The 48 Laws of Power
Robert Greene
“I forget which book it was, but you uh there was one story that I might be butchering But I think you said that um Like some of the first bits of writing ever discovered. was about one generation complaining about the next generation ... I think it was Forty Eight Laws of Power”
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The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
Jonathan Freedland
“Like there's this one called um the escape artists, and it's one of the only guys to escape from uh Auschwitz, uh one of the only Jews”
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Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl
“Well there was a man, uh, Victor Frankel who wrote a book, Man's Search for Meaning, very famous book”
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Mastery
Robert Greene
“I have felt that with four eight laws of power, mastery, art of seduction, auto uh maybe maybe out of war, but for sure, um It sounds like Sublime and Forty Laws of Power as well”
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The Art of Seduction
Robert Greene
“I have felt that with four eight laws of power, mastery, art of seduction, auto uh maybe maybe out of war”
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The Art of War
Sun Tzu
“I have felt that with four eight laws of power, mastery, art of seduction, auto uh maybe maybe out of war”
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The Laws of Human Nature
Robert Greene
“I wrote a whole book. Laws of human nature about how humans have a dark side”
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Dying to Live: Near-Death Experiences
Susan Blackmore
“a very great book I enjoyed a lot, but by a skeptic. And I'm not a skeptic, but I like reading all the different aspects. This book called Dying to Live. By this woman, I think it's Susan Blackmore is their name”
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The 50th Law
Robert Greene and 50 Cent
“I spent um Six, seven months. Uh with fifty cent writing the fiftieth law, my fourth book”
What I’d build if I wanted to get rich with AI
Nov 2026
The 2 businesses AI can never make obsolete
Nov 2026
$100M hedge fund manager: Do not make the mistake of dying rich
Nov 2026 · 4 books
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Your Money or Your Life
Joe Dominguez and Vicky Robin
“I read a book called Your Money or Your Life”
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Die with Zero
Bill Perkins
“the book is called Die With Zero”
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The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
“Like the sun also rises, Hemingway type life, you know what I mean”
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Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
“I know that um there's design your life, which was that Stanford course. They had like a handbook”
Ex-Amazon VP tells us what it’s really like working with Jeff Bezos
Oct 2026 · 1 book
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The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Brad Stone
“I've read the Everything store, I've read uh some books about him now we're talking to you”
How to find your arbitrage (from the guy who’s done it 3x) ft. Nick Kokonas
Oct 2026 · 3 books
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Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
David Bayles and Ted Orland
“Have you ever read that book, Art and Fear? They I think they have to use this uh The pottery class example, do you know the story”
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Flash Boys
Michael Lewis
“Flashboys is all bullshit. Because if you show up and start askers Hey, how did you do that? And you engender their trust in order to betray it,'cause they know you're gonna write a book”
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Market Wizards
Jack D. Schwager
“a tautological stupidity. That is in a book called Market Wizards. So this this book called Market Wizards. It's one of the rare trading books that's great”
We spent 8 hours finding the best stuff on X. Here it is.
Oct 2026 · 6 books
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If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer
O.J. Simpson
“he has to come out and write a book called Well If I Did It, here's exactly how I did it”
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East of Eden
John Steinbeck
“she just started east of Eden”
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Mistborn
Brandon Sanderson
“I'm reading the Mistborn series”
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Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
“Hail Project Hail Mary. Things like that”
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Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
“have you read like Anders Game or Ready Player One or anything”
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Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
“have you read like Anders Game or Ready Player One or anything”
This 3-hour Elizabeth Holmes doc broke our brains
Oct 2026 · 1 book
Cover of Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
John Carreyrou
“If you've watched the T V show and other things like that and you've read the book Bad Blood. Yeah, basically what happened was the Edmund Edison machine pretty much didn't work”
We put a multimillionaire’s portfolio into Claude (the results shocked us)
Oct 2026 · 1 book
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Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks
Barry McDonagh
“I read this book about a month ago. It's called Dare. D A R E And the drug the drug programmer? It's the same name, but it stands for um it's a book on how to deal with panic attacks”
the 6 traits of people who can’t stop making money
Oct 2026
3 embarrassing moments that changed my life
Oct 2026
The creative genius behind Squatty Potty & Poo-Pourri reveals his marketing playbook
Oct 2026 · 5 books
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Poop to Gold
Jeff Harman
“I read your book. Back in the day. Yeah, poop to gold”
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Nail It Then Scale It
Paul Ahlstrom
“one entrepreneur, Paul Alstrom, who wrote the book Nail and Skelet, he calls it your beak head”
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The User Method
Jeff Schwarting
“There's a book called The User Method. By Jeff Schwarting”
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The YouTube Formula
Darryl Eves
“He runs Vid Summit and he does the YouTube formula, that book”
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Bible
Various
“And Neil had been in the Bible. He flipped it open”
3 businesses we think are about to blow up
Oct 2026
We tested Instinct, MUSE and Grokbot. They’re ridiculous.
Sep 2026
MIT scientist: Elon Musk was right, we are almost certainly in a simulation
Sep 2026 · 6 books
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Simulacron-3
Daniel F. Galouye
“But uh the thirteenth floor was actually based on a novel Called Similacron III, which was from the 1960s”
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2010: Odyssey Two
Arthur C. Clarke
“Now later, if you read the f the follow-on book, 2010, you see the reason was he was given conflicting directives”
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Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda
“He wrote a book called Autobiography of a Yogi, which was Steve Jobs. You know, favorite book”
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Zen Entrepreneurship
Riz Virk
“And when I wrote my first book, Zen Entrepreneurship, it was kind of about all of these things”
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The Zen Entrepreneur and the Dream
Riz Virk
“in fact, I'm just coming out with a new book, which is a sequel to that first one called The Zen Entrepreneur and the Dream, where I get into even weirder stuff that I was afraid to put”
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The Simulation Hypothesis
Riz Virk
“right after I wrote my book, The Simulation Hypothesis. People who had been on DMTs told me, oh hey, I know we're in a simulation”
There’s 98 days until 2027...Do this and you’ll thank yourself on Jan 1st
Sep 2026 · 2 books
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The Untethered Soul
Michael A. Singer
“I went and started reading this book called Untethered Soul, which is kind of a fine book”
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Six Thinking Hats
Edward de Bono
“well, there's this great book called The Six Thinking Hats”
Whatnot founder: This is the future of e-commerce
Sep 2026
Coach for SpaceX & OpenAI destroys your limiting beliefs for 88 minutes straight
Sep 2026 · 6 books
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How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
“So that's one of these things where you read a book like How to Win Friends and Influence People and you're like, duh, that's obvious. And it almost becomes a reminder”
Cover of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
Sogyal Rinpoche
“many traditions use this, which is visualizing their own death. And the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying samurai”
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The Inner Game of Tennis
W. Timothy Gallwey
“The inner game of tennis talks a lot about that. Great book. And I actually just listened to um uh a talk by the coach of George Saint Pierre”
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Descartes' Error
Antonio Damasio
“So, and you can read a book about this. It's called Descartes' error. It was written by a neuroscientist in like 2012 or something”
Cover of The Body Keeps the Score
The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk
“I've read The Body Keeps the Score and I like intuitively know that like trauma is a physical thing, but like to put it on a real”
Cover of Listen: Five Simple Tools to Meet Your Everyday Parenting Challenges
Listen: Five Simple Tools to Meet Your Everyday Parenting Challenges
Patty Wipfler and Tosha Schore
“there was this thing called hand-in-hand parenting, which I highly recommend, a book called Listen, which is like one of the most profound practices of my life”
i got internet famous... if i started again from scratch, here's what I'd do this time
Sep 2026 · 1 book
Cover of Atomic Habits
Atomic Habits
James Clear
“James Clear, the author of Atomic Habits, sells the feeling of self-control, a feeling that you can take control of your life”
David Rubenstein: We took $5M and turned it into $500B
Sep 2026 · 4 books
Cover of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
“Kai Bird, who previously wrote a book on Robert Oppenheimer that won the Pulitzer Prize”
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The Power Broker
Robert Caro
“I just started reading finally reading The Power Broker. Power Broker is a historic book considered one of the 50 best books of the”
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The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Robert Caro
“everybody's waiting for him to finish the fifth volume of his series on Lyndon Johnson”
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Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
James L. Swanson
“Have you read Manhunt about Lincoln's assassination”
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