The 12 Awards Of 2023: No.1 Unsexy Business, Wildest Predictions & More

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Episode 532: Shaan Puri ( / shaanvp ) and Sam Parr ( / thesamparr ) bring you…..Part 2 of The 2023 Milly Awards. Christmas has come early for business junkies.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro
(0:30) Most Delusional Person of the Year
(12:30) Best/Worst Investments
(41:30) Unsexy Business of the Year
(45:00) Content of the Year
(53:30) Wildest Predictions
(57:00) Coolest Moment of the Year
(1:03:00) Breakout of the Year
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Links:
• Letterboxd - letterboxd.com/
• Whatnot - www.whatnot.com/
• Shuffle - shuffle.com/
• Pantone - www.pantone.com/
• WGSN - mlp.wgsn.com/
• Unreasonable Hospitality - tinyurl.com/5n6uh93j
• Speak Like Churchill; Stand Like Lincoln - tinyurl.com/3r2ud8hd
• The Wager - tinyurl.com/484j52ya
• World World II: From the Frontlines - tinyurl.com/mpc6hwum
• The Coming Wave - www.the-coming-wave.com/
• Same as Ever - tinyurl.com/ywmvtame
• Snipd - www.snipd.com/
• Cyber Health - cyberhealth.co/
• The Shadow Work Journal - tinyurl.com/mrxc4v3y
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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
• Try Shepherd Out - www.supportshepherd.com/
• Shaan's Personal Assistant System - shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant
• Power Writing Course - maven.com/generalist/writing
• Small Boy Newsletter - smallboy.co/
• Daily Newsletter - www.shaanpuri.com/
Check Out Sam's Stuff:
• Hampton - www.joinhampton.com/
• Ideation Bootcamp - www.ideationbootcamp.co/
• Copy That - copythat.com/
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[@Harpreet06]

The Val thing didn't make sense. He wakes up at 4am, starts working at 3pm then works until 4am? So when does he sleep?

[@ButHowardIsACoolName]

Around 40:30 Guys, I would LOVE an episode or 5, or regular segment, on managing people. Operators, CEOs, employees, eachother, whatever. Just your experiences, wins, and lessons learned. Not enough people have transparent conversations about this!

[@michael_essien]

Best part for me is 18:58 to 20:54 where Sam talks about his worst investment being angel investing where he has invested north of a million dollars and haven't gotten a single dollar in return. And then Andrew responds about a friend who did angel investing and got returns in two years and in Andrew's words "probably learnt the wrong lesson" cause when you start something for the first tome and it's works quickly, it could mess with you a bit This was a takeaway for me cause in a first-time founder and i haven't gotten a client yet despite all my cold outreach attempts Just makes know i should push harder and that big things take time

[@DADNation_]

Some founders are not meant to be their own sales people and are better off partnering with a sales person and giving them equity in exchange. If you have a great offering and can’t land a client, you might just not be selling it in a way that encourages action.

[@alfredmanzano680]

Part 1 and 2 this was great guys, thank you lol

[@otim]

Listened to these back to back. Great episode(s?)

[@rbjk]

30:53 hey that’s also my gambling philosophy, “it’s not about the bets you lose, it’s about the bets you didn’t make”

[@memyselfid]

please don't make me pay. That Vancouver event was awesome, i got free socks and buncha bags of fruit chips. Quality socks

[@mistrygamer]

Read the Wager because Sam mentioned it on X. That book was great! The in-fighting, mutiny, ship politics and disasters absolutely gave me another perspective of that age.

[@cccc7006]

I'm a new viewer of this channel and I have to say I like your group's vibe. It's so chill, you're not trying to be anything, just a bunch of guys hanging out and talking about a subject matter that's interesting to you. so kudos to you guys

[@Monas99]

I really enjoyed these 2 episodes and your humor- you guys are great! Also, Sam, you look incredibly sharp and sophisticated in that tuxedo! It's clear to me that elegance comes naturally to you. It really suits you.👌

[@tristanworkman3958]

Dude- Sam, Shaan, and Andrew are my best friends. I've been hanging with them all day for the last month. No new friends !!

[@isabelpalphramand1410]

I know how you feel my guy..! 😅

[@sasmills]

Lovd this one!

[@Monas99]

I really enjoyed these 2 episodes and your humor- you guys are great! Also, Sam, you look incredibly sharp and sophisticated in that tuxedo! It seems to me that elegance comes naturally to you. It really suits you.👌

[@BenLeonard]

I was wondering when the power writing course was coming back Please teach us this on the Pod 🙏🏾

[@ricomcclinton2982]

Get ripped man, you got this! Great pod cast!

[@geepytee]

Who is the person they talk about at 8:00?

[@ssamuel408]

Great video.

[@tomascardenasg]

WWII on the front lines is amazing

[@CryptoGrit]

First time i heard for GRP 1 that sounds insane!

[@ray-mc-l]

sam please provide us with a full list of the hardship books, that's so interesting

[@aebatirel]

Who is the Turkish Entrepreneur?

[@jesseckowalcic]

Yes, please. I wanted to look into those fruits and what I assume is vertical farming.

[@Chandrell_S]

Same!

[@justmikejames]

Anyone in Queensland Australia want to do a Mini MFM meet up in the new year? Bunch of business minds getting together and shooting ideas. Previously I have owned 10 service stations, 4 furniture stores, 2 cafes, and currently 2 Tyre and Auto stores and a car rental fleet. My biggest revenue year was just shy of 98mill. I’m 43.

[@herogebrial]

How did you manage that? Amazing

[@justmikejames]

@@herogebrial Quickly realised in my 20s by talking to business owners that they aren’t gifted or special or smarter nor do they work any harder than me they simply had a belief that they could buy a business and made it happen. Once you realise that owing a business isn’t a gift it’s just a desire then the equation becomes easier. I had no handouts, parents passed away early. 1st business was a cafe I vendor financed in and the rest is history I guess.

[@CoreyHinde]

I might be moving to Brissy in 2025, lots of fam there, but currently in NZ. Would love to connect when I get over there! @@justmikejames

[@mickstrickland4933]

I may have missed it and if I did could someone point it to me, but Shaan didn't mention his choice for "Unsexy Business of the Year"

[@user-rs9bv5de1v]

What is the berry company ?

[@LevelofClarity]

6:40 Sam is on the money with this. You cannot be the "nicest guy ever" while swooping on large amounts of assets from somebody defaulting on a loan that is worth a fraction of the assets. This type of thing doesn't make someone a bad person, of course, but you'd be hard-pressed to believe they are 'the nicest ever'.

[@lorentzodj]

Each entrepreneur story is different, this is great! Don't follow what other people are doing just because it works for them.

[@MohAnghabo]

Guys, we need Michel Dell in that episode to get the bottom of this "butter of billionaire" thing

[@Chandrell_S]

Shaan, im interested in the mineral rich fruit? Whose the guy? Whats his company?

[@MrOcean419]

C'mon guys! You need to have Steph on as one of the MCs for Milly awards.

[@HighResGlassPics]

Sam: Sydney to Hobart sailboat race a great "shipwreck" book.

[@parox1139]

Love this show.. great work guys ❤ need more guys like this in 🇬🇧

[@tompuijpeNL]

29:44 this is a funny dilemma. While studying finance I bought 2 stocks with 2 hypotheses after a big drop. I bought Tesla after the Elon Twitter stuff and Tesla dropped. Now +100% since everybody saw strong to strong production & sales numbers. But I also bought PayPal thinking the huge drop was due to the economic downturn after COVID consequences. However PayPal went -50% because payment traffic online actually dropped significantly after COVID. So you see this falling knive dilemma can catch you on both sides.

[@tompuijpeNL]

I did buy 2x more Tesla than PayPal so overall these bets won.

[@michael_essien]

7 is a nunber of perfection, well, that's my comment

[@CoreyHinde]

Doing a Derek Sivers and coming to NZ? Welcome!!

[@ambana86]

The book is UNREASONABLE HOSPITALITY and not Unbelievable HOSPITALITY?

[@fryderykchopin1381]

Have you requested Laurence escalante for a pod? I saw Sam following him on insta, this guy is a killer so would be the episode

[@sasmills]

Let's get Val and the turkish guy on the pod!!

[@LeePenkman]

I think even the things never change e.g. Snickers bars thing is a trap, people are going to eat healthier snacks in future. They will still taste like Snickers bars but the food industry will need to adapt. Can already see a huge pivot to sugar alcohols like ethyritol.

[@LeePenkman]

Basically just because something hasn't changed for the past 100 years doesn't mean it's going to stay the same for the next five

[@timtim2500]

Funny they talk about Ozempic as breakthrough!! Wait till you try Mounjaro!!

[@loumulet]

if you're not fourth you're last

[@robsobi]

Is Elon really slowly getting canceled or is he about to take over Disney?

[@nathierdollie768]

Anyone from South Africa?

[@UppiliVentures]

Wow first!

[@int_pro]

I cant speak for Michael Dell... but I can say his brother is a...... I won't say. Let's hope Michael and his brother are somehow polar opposites... That's as far as I'll go.

[@WokenEdge]

second here lol

[@faisalislam9840]

1st here