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Jul 2022
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Billion Dollar Business Philosophies Wit...

Hubspot Media
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Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) talk to Co-Founder & CTO of HubSpot, Dharmesh Shah (@dharmesh), about why a bad economy is a good time to start a business, creating an alternative to Wordle, and the trillion dollar Venn diagram of success.

Also, want $5,000? Check out the My First Million Clips contest.

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Links:

* HubSpot

* Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy article

* WordPlay

* Maven writing course

* Shaan tweet about starting the next Pixar

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Show Notes:

(02:10) - Why renting is better than owning

(25:20) - Framework for three types of employees

(35:05) - Why Dharmesh built WordPlay

(01:07:55) - Driving value through an intersection of skills (Trillion dollar Venn diagram)

(01:12:10) - Why Shaan is starting the next Pixar

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Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more.

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