Episode of My First Million with Sam Parr and Shaan Puri.

Topics

  • The Intensity Trap: Why Strategy Isn’t Your Problem
  • Peter Thiel’s Singular Focus Philosophy
  • Defining Intensity: Focus, Common Sense, and Insanity
  • Case Study: Mark Zuckerberg’s Weekend Acquisition of Instagram
  • WhatsApp’s Radical Focus and the ‘Chick-fil-A’ Strategy
  • The Collison Installation: How Stripe Brute-Forced Early Growth
  • Lead Bullets vs. Silver Bullets: The Reality of Hard Problems
  • Sylvester Stallone and the ‘Black Windows’ Sprint
  • Three Actions to Achieve Level 12 Intensity