Episode of My First Million with Sam Parr and Shaan Puri.
Topics
- Turning Down $200 Million at Age 24
- The Philosophy of Acquisitions and Missing Out on Reddit
- The ‘Overnight Success’ of WordPress and Under-Monetization
- Building a True Platform: The WooCommerce Acquisition
- Open Source vs. Proprietary: The Moral and Long-term Choice
- The WP Engine Conflict and Protecting the Trademark
- Hiring via Auditions and Text-Based Communication
- Customer Support as a Product Discovery Tool
- The Impact of DeepSeek and Open Source AI