My First Million

  • #13 – He Made Millions From… Blankets, Bean Bags & Candles?

    John Fiorentino (@johnhfio) wants you to relax. And so far, its’ working. He sold over $15 million worth of his product Gravity Blanket and Moon Pod. He talks to us about being broke, crashing on…


  • #12 – The 1-800-GOT-JUNK Story

    Brian Scudamore (@BrianScudamore) is North America’s Junk Man. He turned a $700 pickup truck into one of the world’s most successful franchises. Hear how he got started, got on Oprah, stumbled and almost killed his…


  • #11 – Clawing Back From $250K Debt at 20

    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…


  • #10 – Using $1k to Build $100M Deodorant Business

    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…


  • #9 – Bonus episode! Answering listener questions

    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,…


  • #8 – Real Estate: How The Wassermans Do What They Do

    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…


  • #7 – The Hippie With A Billion Dollars

    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…


  • #5 – The First Viral Website: “Hot or Not”

    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…


  • #4 – How Product Hunt’s Ryan Hoover Built A $20M Community From Scratch

    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…


  • #3 – Making Millions off an Email Newsletter?! Sam Parr from The Hustle Tells All

    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…