Episode of My First Million with Sam Parr and Shaan Puri.
Topics
- From Coupons to Supersonic Jets: Blake Scholl’s Backstory
- The Bystander Effect and Trillion-Dollar Ideas Hiding in Plain Sight
- Solving Traffic with Dynamic Pricing and AI
- The Economics of Supersonic Flight: Why Concorde Failed
- The Pasta Noodle Metaphor: Extruding Yourself into a CEO
- First Principles Thinking and Avoiding Qualitative Traps
- The ‘Teach Me Something’ Interview Tactic
- The Principal-Agent Problem in Venture Capital
- How Boom Got a $5 Billion LOI from Richard Branson
- The ‘Dark Matter’ Founder and the Pride of Trying
- Lessons from Jeff Bezos and the Future of Boom