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My First Million6 Retro Business Ideas That Could Be As Big As LEGO ($11.8B)
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EPISODE INFO
- Released
- January 31, 2024
- Duration
- 1h 8m
- Channel
- My First Million
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
Use Sam's secret growth sauce: generate more traffic with HubSpot's Free Landing Page Builder 🔥 https://clickhubspot.com/2a2 Episode 545: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) brainstorm $100M retro business ideas: LEGO for adults, Tamagotchis for millennials & MORE. — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (2:30) Sam auditions a 7,500 sf house (6:00) LEGO for adults (14:00) Kidult market trends (21:00) Tamigachi babies for millennials (22:30) K'nex 2.0 (24:30) Easier Rubik’s cube (26:30) Candle pouring kits (30:00) The rabid community behind Rebrickable (36:30) The fascinating legacy of BrickLink (47:00) Grow like Fanfiction (52:00) Build the reverse funnel (59:00) Palworld's $200M week (1:04:00) Midwit strikes again — Links:
- Calm - http://calm.com/
- Rebrickable - http://tinyurl.com/4tt7974b
- BrickLink - http://tinyurl.com/yjzhja28
- Kim Jung-ju - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jung-ju
- Wattpad - https://www.wattpad.com/
- Palworld on Steam - http://tinyurl.com/2tus5wfz
— 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
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SPEAKERS
Shaan Puri
hostEntrepreneur and co-host of the My First Million podcast.
Sam Parr
hostEntrepreneur and co-host of the My First Million podcast, based in Austin and founder of Hampton.
EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of My First Million, featuring Shaan Puri and Sam Parr, 6 Retro Business Ideas That Could Be As Big As LEGO ($11.8B) explores How LEGO ‘kidults’ reveal niche communities’ billion-dollar business potential Shaan and Sam explore the rise of “kidults,” arguing that adults buying toys like LEGO is a major and growing segment driven by nostalgia, bonding, and screen/anxiety detox.
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