# Brainstorming business ideas with a billion-dollar founder Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/my-first-million-438184/brainstorming-business-ideas-with-a-billion-dollar-founder Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/my-first-million-438184/brainstorming-business-ideas-with-a-billion-dollar-founder.md Podcast: [My First Million](https://stenobird.com/podcast/my-first-million-438184) Published: 2026-07-10T10:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/HS5828054991.mp3 Audio file: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/HS5828054991.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/my-first-million-438184/episodes/brainstorming-business-ideas-with-a-billion-dollar-founder Duration seconds: 5244 ## Resource 140+ Business Ideas (Database): https://clickhubspot.com/efdj Episode 840: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Mark Pincus ( https://x.com/markpinc ) about figuring out what projects to spend your life on.  — Show Notes: (0:00) $0- $38M in 7 months (3:00) if you pick the right body of water, you don't have to have the right boat (16:51) pattern matching  (23:17) there's always a new freak (25:00) picking macros (27:48) a case for gold (39:50) How to know what to chase (49:12) create a book of life (59:59) Frameworks vs instincts (1:09:00) being hated and misunderstood (1:11:13) the story of farmville (1:15:00) avoiding the fur coat moment (1:19:49) the nickelback problem (1:22:02) introspection vs rumination — Links: • Life At The Speed of Play - https://www.amazon.com/Life-Speed-Play-Launch-Products/dp/0063352575  — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton (joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com  • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Shaan uses Mercury for banking across all of his companies. you can too: http://mercury.com/  Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC • I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out: beehiiv.com/mfm… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/my-first-million-438184/episodes/brainstorming-business-ideas-with-a-billion-dollar-founder/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/my-first-million-438184/brainstorming-business-ideas-with-a-billion-dollar-founder.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.