My First Million
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Episode 761: Shaan Puri (https://x.com/ShaanVP ) sits down with Ryan Smith ( https://x.com/ryanqualtrics ) – the high school dropout who built an $8B company and bought an NBA team.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) 1.9 GPA to $2B
(9:47) Starting Qualtrics
(14:02) Focus
(24:00) How to be top 1% at sales
(26:17) Turning down $500M
(31:37) Working backwards
(3814) Buying an NBA team
(43:51) The 9 most important minutes of the day
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Links:
• Qualtrics – https://www.qualtrics.com/
• Utah Jazz – https://www.nba.com/jazz/
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• Shaan’s weekly email – https://www.shaanpuri.com
• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.
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Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC
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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/
My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano
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