Episode of My First Million with Sam Parr and Shaan Puri.
Topics
- Introduction and the Renting vs. Owning Debate
- Starting a Startup in a Down Economy
- Hiring Strategy: Identifying Diamonds in the Rough
- The Early HubSpot Culture and $5,000 Salaries
- Hiring ‘Animals’, ‘Weirdos’, and ‘Degenerates’
- Dharmesh’s Personal Operating Model: No Direct Reports
- Angel Investing for Bragging Rights
- The $10,000 Per Hour Rule
- Case Study: Wordplay.com and Viral Growth
- Product Brainstorming: Gamification and Crypto Rewards
- Market Psychology and Buying $10M of HubSpot Stock
- The Trillion Dollar Venn Diagram of Skills
- Skill vs. Talent and Functional Decomposition
- The Power of Iteration and the Marshmallow Challenge