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