Shaan Goes to LA, The Number 2 Guy Network and Getting Bucked Up

Episode 482: Shaan leaves his house! In this episode, Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) tells Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) about his wild trip to LA. You’ll hear about an NBA players “cheating agreement” with his wife, the difference between LA obnoxious vs. SF obnoxious, why the Number 2 Guy network is widely underrated, how Bucked Up scaled to $250M / yr, and much more.

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Try Shepherd

• Shaan's Personal Assistant System

• Power Writing Course

• Daily Newsletter

• Small Boy Newsletter

Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton

• Ideation Bootcamp

• Copy That

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(2:30) Sam & Shaan’s Cadence 

(5:00) Shaan’s LA trip

(9:30) CEO perplexed by sweaty startups

(14:45) How CEO turned failing company around

(24:05) NBA player’s agreement with his wife

(26:10) LA obnoxious vs. SF obnoxious 

(33:35) Rich person who donated +$10M to a high school 

(37:00) Shaan's VC friend who only goes all-in

(42:30) Neighborhoods, not cities

(46:00) The best networker Shaan’s ever met

(49:15) The Number 2 Guy Network

(52:10) Bucked Up: $250m / yr supplement company

(1:00:25) The Enhanced Games

(1:06:00) Shaan’s Youtube channel idea

(1:10:00) Shaan’s Erewhon experience

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Links:

• Little Big Details - http://littlebigdetails.com/

• Bucked Up - http://buckedup.com/

• Aron D’Souza - https://uk.linkedin.com/in/arondsouza 

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Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more.

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