# This guy built a $1B+ brand in 3 years. The product? You'd never guess

Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/my-first-million-438184/this-guy-built-a-1b-brand-in-3-years-the-product-you-d-never-guess
Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/my-first-million-438184/this-guy-built-a-1b-brand-in-3-years-the-product-you-d-never-guess.md
Podcast: [My First Million](https://stenobird.com/podcast/my-first-million-438184)
Published: 2026-04-24T15:36:00+00:00
Episode link: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/HS8435411252.mp3
Audio file: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/HS8435411252.mp3
Processing state: not_requested
JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/my-first-million-438184/episodes/this-guy-built-a-1b-brand-in-3-years-the-product-you-d-never-guess
Duration seconds: 3945

## Resource

Get Shaan's guide to go from $0 to $1M: https://clickhubspot.com/etpc Episode 817: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Chad Janis ( https://x.com/chadjanis ) who just sold his gummies business for $1b+ in less than 3 years. — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (1:28) origin story (8:11) $30K to $230K in 1 month (10:33) Naming Gruns (13:14) remixing formats (20:28) only looking for $10b ideas (29:25) 10-minute ecom Marketing Masterclass (41:26) $1b Idea: ACH distribution layer (48:17) Access is everything (57:16) Where Chad is going to spend his money — Links: • Gruns - https://gruns.co/ • Replo - https://www.replo.app/ • Monarch - https://www.monarch.com/ — 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 - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology 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-challenge My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano /

## Actions

- request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/my-first-million-438184/episodes/this-guy-built-a-1b-brand-in-3-years-the-product-you-d-never-guess/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
- read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/my-first-million-438184/this-guy-built-a-1b-brand-in-3-years-the-product-you-d-never-guess.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.