Level Up Your Life In 2026 | Shaan Puri
My First Million episode 783 in which Shaan Puri is the guest, interviewed by his former intern Walter about quitting a 120K a year job in his 20s to become, in his words, strategically broke. Shaan says he left a boring job after a month and a half to work on a sushi restaurant idea with two friends who split a 25,000 dollar prize, chose to be rich in time, adventure and learning instead of money, and says he is quick to reverse bad decisions. He says fear underlies most of what holds people back, and tells a Tony Robbins event story about a Simon Says game to argue that most people are not serious. Chapters in the description also cover how to get what you actually want, the most important voice in your life, selling his company to Twitch and Amazon, and the idea that you cannot run an A/B test on life. Sponsors named in the description: HubSpot, Somewhere, Mercury and Beehiiv. PARTIAL COVERAGE: the captions cover the early chapters through the not serious segment in detail, while later chapters are named by title only. All views are Shaan's own and are not independently checked. Nothing here is financial, career, legal or medical advice.
Executive Summary (TL;DR)
My First Million episode 783 in which Shaan Puri is the guest, interviewed by his former intern Walter about quitting a 120K a year job in his 20s to become, in his words, strategically broke. Shaan says he left a boring job after a month and a half to work on a sushi restaurant idea with two friends who split a 25,000 dollar prize, chose to be rich in time, adventure and learning instead of money, and says he is quick to reverse bad decisions. He says fear underlies most of what holds people back, and tells a Tony Robbins event story about a Simon Says game to argue that most people are not serious. Chapters in the description also cover how to get what you actually want, the most important voice in your life, selling his company to Twitch and Amazon, and the idea that you cannot run an A/B test on life. Sponsors named in the description: HubSpot, Somewhere, Mercury and Beehiiv. PARTIAL COVERAGE: the captions cover the early chapters through the not serious segment in detail, while later chapters are named by title only. All views are Shaan's own and are not independently checked. Nothing here is financial, career, legal or medical advice.