Selling Deodorant for $100M and How to Find Your Best Competitive Advantage with Moiz Ali

Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) sits down with entrepreneur and former CEO of Native, Moiz Ali (@MoizAli), to talk about how to find the competitive advantage for your business, three common mistakes DTC brands make, investment tips and more.

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Links:

* Native

* Haldirams

* Manscaped

* Brumate

* Moiz’s sell sheet tweet

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Show Notes:

(04:20) – Starting Native in secret

(13:50) – Figuring out your competitive advantage

(24:00) – Common mistakes in DTC brands

(35:00) – Stock tips on D2C tech companies

(38:10) – Real estate investments

One Question Friday: Hiring Your First Employee

Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) answers one listener’s question. On this episode, a UK-based listener asks how to approach making their first hire at their startup.

To submit your question and hear yourself on My First Million, go to MFMPod.com and click on the circle with the microphone in the lower right hand corner.

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Links:

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The Billion Dollar Community Propelling Women To The Top – Carolyn Childers of Chief.com

Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) sits down with Carolyn Childers, co-founder and CEO of Chief, to talk about her million dollar subscription-based business that drives and supports women in corporate leadership roles.

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Links:

* Chief

* The New Rules of Business

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Show Notes:

(04:10) – What is Chief.com

(07:15) – Their billion $ valuation

(17:15) – Other opportunities with this business model

(20:50) – A vetted community

(25:45) – Why they aren’t on social media

From Blogger To $100 Million Business With Neil Patel

Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) sit down with entrepreneur and online marketing guru Neil Patel to talk about his success starting as a blogger to making 9-figures in revenue.

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Links:

* Neil Patel

* Photopea

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Show Notes:

(03:00) – Neil’s business history

(07:00) – Minority certification

(09:00) – Magic Johnson theory

(24:45) – Monthly burn rate

(38:35) – Neil’s philanthropy

(49:05) – 9-figure revenue

(56:10) – Photopea

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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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Additional episodes you might enjoy:

• #224 Rob Dyrdek – How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits

• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk – Why NFTS Are the Future

• #178 Balaji Srinivasan – Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto

#169 – How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert’s Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett

• ​​​​#218 – Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates

• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, “How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?”, and More

• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

One Question Friday: Someone Stole My NFTs

Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Ben Levy (@Benmlevy) answer one listener’s question. On this episode, Collin asks how to deal with defeat after his NFTs were stolen.

To submit your question and hear yourself on My First Million, go to MFMPod.com and click on the circle with the microphone in the lower right hand corner.

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Links:

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How Content Creators Make Millions

Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) talk about how easy it is for content creators to make millions, the women of Elon Musk, trademark scams, and more.

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Links:

* Naked and Afraid

* How Is Felix Today

* House In Habit

* Justine Musk/Quora

* WhistlinDiesel

* xQcOW/Twitch

* The Mind Pump Podcast

* Jenna Marbles /YouTube

* Trademarks and WTP scam

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Show Notes:

(07:10) – Naked and Afraid

(10:20) – How is Felix Today

(15:30) – Justine Musk on Quora

(18:30) – House In Habit on Johnny Depp trial

(29:40) – Celebrity poker game

(36:55) – How much streamers make

(48:50) – Trademark scam

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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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Additional episodes you might enjoy:

• #224 Rob Dyrdek – How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits

• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk – Why NFTS Are the Future

• #178 Balaji Srinivasan – Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto

#169 – How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert’s Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett

• ​​​​#218 – Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates

• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, “How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?”, and More

• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

Billion Dollar Ad Arbitrage: Opportunities Hidden in Plain Sight

Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) talk about surprising ad arbitrage opportunities, getting vaccinated against cancellation, new media properties, and more.

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Links:

* Outcome Health (acquired by Patient Point)

* Cheddar News

* @jonsteinberg

* Tabs Chocolate

* Tabs Chocolate TikTok ad

* @Oliver_b1

* @SteveBartlettSC

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Show Notes:

(01:26) – Current state of the economy

(06:25) – Outcome Health

(12:10) – Cheddar

(25:20) – Tabs Chocolate

(35:30) – Steve Bartlett

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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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Additional episodes you might enjoy:

• #224 Rob Dyrdek – How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits

• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk – Why NFTS Are the Future

• #178 Balaji Srinivasan – Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto

#169 – How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert’s Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett

• ​​​​#218 – Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates

• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, “How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?”, and More

• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

One Question Friday: How Do You Scale A Ghost Kitchen Business?

Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) answer one listener question. On this episode, Brian asks how he should grow his successful ghost kitchen business.

To submit your question and hear yourself on My First Million, go to MFMPod.com and click on the circle with the microphone in the lower right hand corner.

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Links:

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Elon Musk, Mobile Minorities, and How to Overcome Fear

Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) react to Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter and much more.

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Links:

* Aceable

* Vitalchek

* Relx

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Show Notes:

(01:30) – Combustion engines and Tesla

(08:30) – Human body is a marvel

(09:50) – Vocal minority; mobile minority

(10:20) – Tesla founder controversy

(29:00) – How Elon deals with fear

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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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Additional episodes you might enjoy:

• #224 Rob Dyrdek – How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits

• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk – Why NFTS Are the Future

• #178 Balaji Srinivasan – Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto

#169 – How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert’s Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett

• ​​​​#218 – Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates

• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, “How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?”, and More

• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

My First Million’s Origin Story, How to Find Winners, and More

Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) talk about the roadmap for new start-ups, how the podcast came to be and much, much more.

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Links:

* CyberLeads

* @alexwestco

* Indie Hackers

* DeadEyes podcast

* Losers Exist, Don’t Hire Them – blog post

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Show Notes:

(01:50) – Cyberleads.com

(11:50) – Question: What would you do if you found a brick of cocaine?

(20:35) – DeadEyes podcast

(44:30) – How My First Million podcast came to be

(51:50) – Winners exist, here’s how to attract them

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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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Additional episodes you might enjoy:

• #224 Rob Dyrdek – How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits

• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk – Why NFTS Are the Future

• #178 Balaji Srinivasan – Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto

#169 – How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert’s Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett

• ​​​​#218 – Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates

• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, “How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?”, and More

• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More