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My First MillionHow To Make $10 Million in 12 Months By Building Apps (#349)
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WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
Brooklyn Living Costs, Fast App Fortunes, Serial Founders, and B2B Media
- Sam Parr maps out a roughly $600-700K annual cost of living in a Brooklyn brownstone, requiring about $1.2M in pre-tax income, and the pair conclude many owners likely had inheritance, family help, or early purchases.
- Shaan Puri argues that most people react to others' wealth with bitterness rather than inspiration, and that collecting examples of fast wealth makes ambitious goals like making $10M in a year feel achievable.
- The hosts cite a friend aiming for $10M quickly with an app and Alan Wong, who reportedly built over $100M through police scanner apps with almost no employees.
- Shaan profiles serial founder Scott Painter and debates Adam Neumann and Elon Musk, concluding that optimism toward crazy, overconfident founders is worth it even though most fail.
- Sam highlights TechTarget, a publicly traded B2B media firm making hundreds of millions by selling lead data from dull websites, and both mock a CEO's tearful LinkedIn layoff post.
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideasBehind most visible wealth is a hidden story.
Sam cited a Hustle colleague's research suggesting about 7 of 10 owners of $5M brownstones were teachers, artists, or professors, implying family help; Shaan added that early purchase prices cut their costs.
Wealth is a black box unless you collect examples.
Shaan says most people respond to extravagant wealth with bitterness, while those who treat it as inspiration gather data points that reveal many paths to winning.
Asking a bold question reshapes what seems possible.
Shaan says hearing a friend ask how to make $10M in three months, backed by about a dozen app examples, forced his brain to generate answers and made the goal seem plausible.
Apps can generate outsized income with tiny teams.
Alan Wong claimed his police scanner apps reached 20 million downloads, and Sam says a moderator-verified flair on FatFire indicates over $100M, mostly from two or three apps with few employees.
Serial founders keep swinging despite spectacular setbacks.
Scott Painter went from TrueCar through a margin call, divorce, a house fire, and Fair's collapse to a new startup, Autonomy; he says he tried about 25 things and 3 worked.
WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotesYou either react to this type of information with one of two reactions: bitterness or inspiration. For most people, it's bitterness.
— Shaan Puri
If you take inspiration, you start to collect each of these anecdotes. You start to collect each of these data points and you say, "Oh, I'm taking this foggy map that I have, this cloudy map where I couldn't really see, and I'm just pushing away the fog."
— Shaan Puri
I believe that there's great power in questions, and I'd never really heard somebody ask the question, "How do I make $10 million in the next three months?" And once that question was asked, now my brain has to start coming up with answers.
— Shaan Puri
When you paint the picture of the future and you end up being way wrong, you're not a liar, you're just wrong.
— Sam Parr
Nine out of 10 don't, but the one out of 10 who do, you know, like change the game.
— Shaan Puri
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