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Jun 2024
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Business Tricks We've Learned From Gambl...

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Episode 601: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk about how to 10x your odds of success. 


Show Notes:

(0:00) Ed Thorp and the mathematics of gambling

(7:51) World's first hedge fund

(12:12) Sam and Shaan revisit “The Game”

(16:06) The Feynman technique for learning

(21:14) Shaan's one criteria for action

(24:58) Why you don't need privilege to start

(29:06) Playing "the game" of business

(33:37) Switching to better games

(36:15) How the Roger Bannister Effect crushes limiting beliefs

(40:13) Step 0: Believe it can be done



Links:

• [Steal This] Get our proven writing frameworks that have made us millions https://clickhubspot.com/copy

• Ed Thorp biography - https://tinyurl.com/yjcp4645

• Beat The Dealer - https://tinyurl.com/yc426fc5

• Ed Thorp website - https://www.edwardothorp.com/

• The Game - https://tinyurl.com/3kh3xfhn

• Jack Smith’s episode - https://tinyurl.com/yc4zdnem

• Kaggle - https://www.kaggle.com/

• Bringing Down The House - https://tinyurl.com/4txm492n

• Grab HubSpot's free AI-Powered Customer Platform and watch your business grow https://clickhubspot.com/fmf


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/


Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd





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


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