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Mar 2025
59m 50s

7 Business Ideas from a Unicorn Founder

Hubspot Media
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💰 Get the [free] Episode 691: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talks to Immad Akhund ( https://x.com/immad )  about the businesses he would start if he wasn’t running a unicorn. — Show Notes:  (0:00) Intro (2:17) IDEA: Lunar nuclear power plant (5:04) IDEA: Defense tech (10:09) The Peter Thiel test (13:52) IDEA: Selling stars (15:54) IDEA: E ... Show More
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