Episode of My First Million with Sam Parr and Shaan Puri.
Topics
- The ‘Learn to Cook’ Meme and Paul Graham’s Lifestyle
- The Mechanics and Institutional Power of Y Combinator
- The 10-Minute Interview and Picking Winners
- The Profile of Extreme Winners: Brian Armstrong and Technical Founders
- Gary Tan’s Origin Story: Cold Calling from the Yellow Pages
- Turning Down Peter Thiel and the Palantir Opportunity
- The Rise and Fall of Posterous: Lessons in Competition
- The Future of AI: 20-Person Billion Dollar Companies
- Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Bureaucracy of Big Tech
- The Spoon Bending Allegory: Bias Toward Action