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Our buddy sold his app for $200M in just 6 weeks?!

📈 Steal the playbook on how to spot business trends: https://clickhubspot.com/mln Episode 607: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Dan Porter ( https://x.com/tfadp ) about selling his app for $200M after just 6 weeks plus stories about Richard Branson, Ari Emmanuel & building cult brands. — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (1:29) Story behind OMGPop gaming company (5:23)Creating viral mobile game Draw My Thing (now Draw Something) (12:02) 25 million users a day, 1 million drawings every 5 seconds (24:10) Zynga bought the game for $200M 6 weeks after launch (32:30) The real power of money (38:32) Working with Richard Branson and Ari Emmanuel (47:44) Building Overtime (creating a brand that is part of culture) (52:28) The Travis Scott effect (1:06:45) Dan's life advice — Links: • Overtime - https://overtimeelite.com/ — 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 The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

Shaan PurihostDan PorterguestSam Parrhost

Jul 10, 20241h 14mWatch on YouTube ↗

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EPISODE INFO

Released: July 10, 2024
Duration: 1h 14m
Channel: My First Million
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

📈 Steal the playbook on how to spot business trends: https://clickhubspot.com/mln Episode 607: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Dan Porter ( https://x.com/tfadp ) about selling his app for $200M after just 6 weeks plus stories about Richard Branson, Ari Emmanuel & building cult brands. — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (1:29) Story behind OMGPop gaming company (5:23)Creating viral mobile game Draw My Thing (now Draw Something) (12:02) 25 million users a day, 1 million drawings every 5 seconds (24:10) Zynga bought the game for $200M 6 weeks after launch (32:30) The real power of money (38:32) Working with Richard Branson and Ari Emmanuel (47:44) Building Overtime (creating a brand that is part of culture) (52:28) The Travis Scott effect (1:06:45) Dan's life advice — Links:
• Overtime - https://overtimeelite.com/ — 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 The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

SPEAKERS

Shaan Puri
host
Co-host of My First Million and entrepreneur/investor.
Dan Porter
guest
Entrepreneur behind OMGPop/Draw Something (sold to Zynga) and founder/CEO of Overtime.
Sam Parr
host
Co-host of My First Million and founder of The Hustle (and Trends).

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of My First Million, featuring Shaan Puri and Dan Porter, Our buddy sold his app for $200M in just 6 weeks?! explores dan Porter on Draw Something, Overtime, Branding and Living Curiously Dan Porter says OMGPop was running out of money with four to five months left when he built Draw Something in a corner of the company, and it exploded to 25 million daily players.

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