My First Million

Aleks Svetski (@AleksSvetski) wanted to be a millionaire by 20… and he was on that path. He turned his $5K textbook money into more than $50,000 in the stock market! Until the 2008 global financial crisis hit… he didn’t just lose all his money, he was negative quarter of a million. This setback ignited his … Read more

Season 2 of The Hustle’s podcast is here – and we’re talking to Moiz Ali (@moizali). Have you ever looked at the back of your deodorant stick and read the ingredients? Aluminum zirconium trichlorohydrex? PPG-14 Butyl Ether? Well, Moiz saw that and created Native, a natural deodorant without all the chemical junk. He built the company … Read more

There’s a lot of you out there and we (showrunners Shaan Puri – @ShaanVP & Ishan Haque – @IshanHaq) wanna spend some time chatting to you and answer some of your questions about the pod, your hustle and any other random Q’s your dying to ask. Should we make this a weekly thing? Let us … Read more

We have on Gelena (@gelenasays) & Keith Wasserman (@Keith_Wasserman), a husband and wife Real Estate duo who borrowed $5k during the end of the 2008 recession and have turned it into a $1.3 billion dollar portfolio. Learn how they create monthly income streams and sometimes double, triple or quadruple their equity from multi-family real estate.  … Read more

Michael Birch sold his social networking site to AOL for $850M….and then bought it back for $1M years later. (buy low, sell high. boys and girls). His business portfolio is impressive. He’s an early investor in companies like Calm and Pinterest, owns two giant hotels, and bought a private island off of Richard Branson. Despite all that … Read more

James Hong (@jhong) is the creator of Hot or Not? He sits down to tell us how the silly website went from 42 friends, to 2 million page views per day within a week. I love his philosophy of running it like an “internet laundromat” – collecting nickels & quarters from the machine (up to … Read more

Who knew a product about other products could be worth tens of millions… Ryan Hoover (@rrhoover) tells us the struggle of trying to find a place in the startup world and how to tackle job rejection the right way – becoming his own boss! Truly starting from scratch, he runs us through the scrappy early … Read more

Sam Parr (@theSamParr) is the founder of The Hustle – a simple email newsletter that has surpassed 1M daily subscribers and will be north of 8 figures this year. Sam walks us through how he built The Hustle from scratch as well as his adventures starting a hot dog stand (7min), selling booze on the … Read more

We talk with tech founder & investor Suleman “Suli” Ali (@sulemanali) about his journey from making $76k a year at Microsoft to selling multiple companies for $100,000,000+. Highlights: Meeting Naval (19:00) getting grilled by Keith Rabois (22:00), & risking his life savings on TinyCo (57:00)   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.