Want to scale your side hustle with AI? Get 700 prompts here: https://clickhubspot.com/wbc
Episode 725: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talks to the founder of Airtable, Howie Liu ( https://x.com/howietl ), about 7 AI business ideas he would start if he was in his 20s.
—
Show Notes:
(0:00) IDEA: Live Shopping w/ AI avatars
(5:34) IDEA: AI personalized news
(10:36) IDEA: AI Personal Finance Advisor
(18:27) IDEA: AI PE model of buy an existing business
(24:20) IDEA: Cursor for email
(36:53) IDEA: AI-native social apps
(38:42) IDEA: Uncensored AI search
—
Links:
• Sesame – https://www.sesame.com/
• Whatnot – https://www.whatnot.com/
• HeyGen – https://www.heygen.com/
• Superhuman – https://superhuman.com/
• Kubera – https://www.kubera.com/
• Addepar – https://addepar.com/
• Airtable – https://www.airtable.com/
• Chief.so – http://chief.so/
—
Check Out Shaan’s Stuff:
• 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.
• Mercury – Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!
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
—
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

#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…
#2 with Ramon Van Meer – Blogging His Way To $9M in Cash
Ramon Van Meer (@ramonvanmeer) has never seen a soap opera. Yet somehow, he built the most popular soap opera blog on the planet – and was raking in millions per year! Today’s conversation is about…
#1 – From making $76k at Microsoft to selling TinyCo for $100M+
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…