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