{"podcast":{"title":"My First Million","slug":"my-first-million-438184","podcast_index_feed_id":438184,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/HS2300184645","website_url":"https://www.mfmpod.com/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/39846662-79ea-11eb-9b06-a75ddc4bddcc/image/39f8195a6d8978d0a7bd9c7d7b3fba2d.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Hubspot","episode_count":881,"summary":"Sam Parr and Shaan Puri brainstorm new business ideas based on trends & opportunities they see in the market. Sometimes they bring on famous guests to brainstorm with them.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-15T18:20:17.739123+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/my-first-million-438184"},"episode":{"title":"The insane true story behind MTV","slug":"the-insane-true-story-behind-mtv","published_at":"2026-05-29T11:57:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/my-first-million-438184/the-insane-true-story-behind-mtv","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/my-first-million-438184","url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/HS8333268290.mp3","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/HS8333268290.mp3","summary":"Sam & Shaan's hard-won CEO lessons in one guide: https://clickhubspot.com/eokb Episode 829: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) sits down with Tom Freston to talk about the insane story of starting MTV and shaping America in the 80s and 90s. — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (4:04) Millionaire by 26, broke by 33 (8:49) The first days of MTV (no frontal nudity) (14:14) Music Videos (19:03) How to spot culture-changing talent (27:12) Making your employees party together (31:56) Nickelodeon, SpongeBob, and Building Legacy IP (35:21) Programming for a Specific Audience (37:33) The Facebook Acquisition That Almost Happened (41:25) Founders Who Refuse to Sell (43:29) Rupert Murdoch vs. Sumner Redstone (45:23) MySpace, Big Bets, and Getting Fired (47:55) Inside the writers room (51:33) Oprah Calling (54:00) The End of Monoculture and the Creator Economy — Links: Unplugged - https://a.co/d/0ef6YVu2 — 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…","meta_description":"Sam & Shaan's hard-won CEO lessons in one guide: https://clickhubspot.com/eokb Episode 829: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) sits down with Tom Frest…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3770,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/my-first-million-438184/episodes/the-insane-true-story-behind-mtv/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/my-first-million-438184/the-insane-true-story-behind-mtv.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}