Episode of My First Million with Sam Parr and Shaan Puri.
Topics
- Alfred Nobel and the Origin of the Nobel Peace Prize
- The Power of Prizes to Drive Innovation
- Modern Bounties: The Vesuvius Challenge and Kaggle
- Sponsor: HubSpot Trends Playbook
- The Milk Money Grant and Corporate X Prizes
- Business Idea: The ‘Onion’ for College Campuses
- Peter Thiel, the College Bubble, and the Thiel Fellowship
- Elon Musk’s Foundation and ‘Sexy Indifference’
- Hiring Tactics: The ‘Lucky’ and ‘Toughest Problem’ Questions
- The Cost of ‘Maybe’ Hires and Harsh Filtering
- Personal: Parenting, Nannies, and Legacy