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Asking A Private Jet Billionaire How To Make $1,000,000

2025-05-02 Entertainment
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My First Million
My First Million
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From Private Jets to Idea Generation: Unlocking Business Success Through Curiosity

Discover the actionable frameworks for sourcing, filtering, and developing high-potential business ideas by adopting the "play to win" mindset.

Short Summary

  • Adopt an "info diet" focused on in-person conversations with domain experts to find lucrative, niche business clues.
  • Prioritize non-obvious sectors that are "boring and complicated" to secure defensible market positions without massive VC funding.
  • Shift mindset from "playing not to lose" (scarcity) to "playing to win" (optimism and intentional luck engineering).
  • Leverage AI (like digital twins and writing assistance) to refine ideas internally before engaging human teams.

This discussion unpacks the speaker's rigorous, conversation-driven process for generating and vetting numerous successful business concepts, contrasting it with the often-cited Silicon Valley myth that ideas are worthless. The core value lies in learning how to structure your curiosity—through targeted information gathering and leveraging personal strengths—to build wealth and achieve lifestyle goals simultaneously.

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*Steal Jess' Billion-Dollar Startup Playbook [for free]: https://clickhubspot.com/jmh* Episode 702: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) boards the private jet of Jess Mah ( https://x.com/jessicamah ) to brainstorm business ideas and talk about her process for vetting which ideas to jump on. — Show Notes: (0:00) Buying a jet (5:37) Barn full of horses (8:44) Business ideas matrix (11:06) Idea: DOGE as a service (13:30) Idea: Vertical agents (16:52) Idea: Cargo ship coating (21:26) Idea: Holy Health (25:07) Building a team with digital twins (28:46) Jess’s 0 - 1 framework (31:09) Worst advice from Silicon Valley (35:44) Find a starving crowd (37:55) Idea: Divorce.fund (38:36) Failures: Credboost (46:08) Ignorant of past, realistic of present, delulu of the future (49:58) Engineering serendipity (56:12) AI for medicine — Links: • Mahway - https://mahway.com/ • YC’s Request for Startups - https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire global talent (like Shaan does) and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than their US equivalents. — 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

Top Comments (10)

@iamskaars 2025-05-02

Is it just me or Shaan looks younger in every new episode?

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@OtakuWealth 2025-05-02

I love how transparent Jess is about her success and advice, love the free flow of information. This was inspiring!

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@RichEdwards 2025-05-02

Not just private jet money, but running an APU to keep the avionics/AC running for the whole hour money.

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@jedone11 2025-05-02

Shaan looks much younger and slimmer here. Is this an old recording?

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@drcrypto6790 2025-05-02

Just downloaded the playbook... This is an amazing episode, bring jess back.

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@MyFirstMillionPod 2025-05-02

*Steal Jess' Billion-Dollar Startup Playbook [for free]:* https://clickhubspot.com/mhj

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@JacksonWallop 2025-05-02

26:24 that awkward moment when you tell someone to their face you're creating a digital clone of them so you try to do damage control and say you're ALSO cloning a bunch of high profile people so they feel better about being in that cohort even though they feel violated 26:48 "that way i dont need to pay for you... heh 😅" 26:50 shaan trying to "yes, and" while he processes how he feels about that

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@AlanM-xyz 2025-08-26

I don’t understand how you can “build something knowing absolutely nothing”.

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@sutats 2025-05-02

The next show with Jess will be on her megayacht.

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@JonandEva 2025-10-15

I watched Jess's first episode more than once. This one is amazing too. So interesting to hear her thoughts. A big trend I'm seeing with these super wealthy people is that they always ask questions. They don't know all the answers, they just know how to ask the questions.

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