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My First Million3 Profitable Business Ideas From A Private Equity Guy | Sahil Bloom (#384)
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WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
Sahil Bloom Shares Three Business Ideas From Agencies to Vans
- Sahil Bloom describes leaving a stressful, high-paying private equity path after the pandemic and building a $10M venture fund, a 125K-subscriber newsletter, an agency, and a book deal off his Twitter audience.
- He breaks down private equity economics, saying senior GPs likely have net worths above $50 million through management fees and carry, but that the work is high-stress and low in time leverage.
- His three ideas are a LinkedIn growth agency that repurposes proven tweets into carousels, a full-service newsletter growth agency, and rented mobile podcast and video studios in vans.
- The hosts and Sahil debate whether the creator and thread playbook is now saturated and cringe, with Shaan Puri calling the window mostly closed and Sahil arguing it is worth it if you use it to vault into something bigger.
- The conversation also covers Shaan's investing losses in 2022, including Luna and crypto, his tourist-versus-local framework, and Sahil's long-term interest in running for public office.
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideasTime-adjusted profit matters more than raw profit.
Sahil says PE can make someone $50M but demands work into your 60s, whereas an information business like a course can earn a lot in a week and free up months of time.
A good reframe can break a safe-but-draining default.
Shaan pointed out that Sahil was choosing a path that sounded like it sucked over one that gave him energy. Sahil says that conversation had a big impact on his decision.
Agencies work through price arbitrage and a connector role.
Sahil charged startups about $5K a month and used freelance writers from his 400-person course cohort who cost roughly $1,000 to $2,500 a month.
The LinkedIn agency idea relies on repurposing existing content.
Sahil would turn a client's proven tweets or blog posts into LinkedIn carousels and short posts, run the account for them, and charge about $2.5K to $5K a month for roughly an hour a week of work per client.
Newsletter growth is an underserved service gap.
Sahil says monetization is easy to outsource but he can't find a full-suite growth service, and he would pay $10K a month for one. He thinks successful founders who want an owned audience would pay too.
WORDS WORTH SAVING
4 quotesI never got my happiness from when it was going up, so why would I get my sadness from when it's going down?
— Shaan Puri
This was awesome to do when it wasn't figured out. Now that it's figured out, this is a certified official small boy stuff, and I do not recommend this to anybody else.
— Shaan Puri
it's like eat or be eaten, man. If you're, if you're not like figuring out the new way to d- to, uh, you know, be on the front of something and be building in these other areas, um, you're in for a tough time no matter what.
— Sahil Bloom
it's pretty safe to assume that you've got a net worth north of $50 million.
— Sahil Bloom
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SPEAKERS
Sahil Bloom
guestInvestor and content creator (ex–private equity), known for the Sahil Bloom newsletter and @SahilBloom online.
Sam Parr
hostEntrepreneur and podcast host of My First Million.
Shaan Puri
hostEntrepreneur and co-host of My First Million.
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