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My First MillionWait, My Intern Became a 21-Year-Old Millionaire?? (#510)
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WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
Shaan Puri's Former Intern Ishan Haque Turned Bets Into Millions
- Ishan Haque went from engaging with Shaan Puri on Twitter at 13 to producing the My First Million podcast and running early business experiments together, including a crystal store.
- Haque made about $40,000 in one minute buying Bitcoin during a crash, then built a roughly $100,000 stake in a delisted company, Animoca, bought at 80 to 90 percent discounts, which later was offered $2 million for.
- He co-founded Shuffle, a crypto casino launched in February that reportedly processes about half a billion in volume a month and has a roughly $50 million run rate, with regulatory risk as the main danger.
- The two discuss marketing lessons such as streamer-driven promotion, small high-engagement audiences beating big follower counts, and localization over translation for markets like Japan and Brazil.
- They close with startup ideas, including an incubator for gamer kids, niche CRMs and VIP software, and reflect on intensity, avoiding self-imposed limits, and being someone you would have admired at 21.
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideasOnline presence compounds into opportunity
Haque says every opportunity he has had came through Twitter, LinkedIn or emails he sent. Shaan Puri framed it as investors backing lines of interactions, not single dots.
Define your win condition before running an experiment
Shaan Puri says he shut down the crystal store at a 1.7 to 2x return on ad spend because he wrongly thought 3 to 4x was the benchmark. Without a clear success metric, he could not tell a working experiment from a failing one.
Big gains come from a few decisive moments
Haque concluded that most money is made in a handful of key decisions every so often, like buying Bitcoin during a crash. Puri tied this to luck favoring the prepared mind.
Buying where others are disgruntled can create outsized returns
Haque found sellers of delisted Animoca shares through Facebook groups and the public shareholder list, buying at 80 to 90 percent discounts. Having little to lose at his age made the bet easier to take.
Small engaged audiences beat large passive ones
Haque said casino affiliates with active Discord communities earned the most, and Puri found influencers with active broadcast channels converted better than those with huge follower counts.
WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotesYou can't win without the stick-to-it-ness. But one of the things that makes you stick to it is not just willpower. It's, like, knowing your win condition.
— Shaan Puri
I think all the money is made when there's like a few key decisions that happen maybe once a year or once every few years, once every few months, whatever it is, and you just have to act on it.
— Ishan Haque
Their perspective was, "Let me give dirt to this person," and I thought I was buying a goldmine.
— Ishan Haque
I want to be somebody that if I was 21, I would look up to this person. Like, I'd be like, "That is what I wanna be. That guy's awesome."
— Shaan Puri
10 isn't more hours, it's just, like, more focus and it's more intensity at the main issue and not self-limiting himse- by, by fake imaginary walls that don't exist.
— Shaan Puri
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