#121 - So You Made $100m...Now What?

**Shaan Puri** (0:20)
Okay, we're live. Before we get into this, do me a favor, everyone.
Google My First Million iTunes, leave a review, and then me and Shaan will read the reviews tomorrow, and tell us what you want us to talk about, so you guys can give us some ideas. I've been reading the reviews a lot.

**Sam Parr** (0:34)
Yeah, you just tweeted out a great review.

**Shaan Puri** (0:39)
Yeah, so someone tried to insult Shaan and I, and they said, I don't have it up.

**Sam Parr** (0:44)
I got it right here. Two-star review from Gliding Over.
It says, these two hosts are an amazing example. That's the bold part because it bolds like the headline. And I was like, oh, this is great. What can go wrong? So it says, these two hosts are an amazing example of how someone could be totally mediocre, below average in everything, and still achieve unreasonable success if they are free of self-doubt and shameless enough.

**Shaan Puri** (1:09)
Yeah, so this review person clearly trying to insult us as being confident when we shouldn't be confident.

**Sam Parr** (1:15)
I gotta say, pretty well-done insult too, right? A little, you know, a little no-look insult, a little no-look pass.

**Shaan Puri** (1:21)
I thought it was great. And I tweeted it out as like a smug way to be like, you know, F you, we don't care. And it's been retweeted and clicked on like five or, I don't know how many, 500 times maybe.
And people thought I was like serious and it was like an inspirational, like, just do it, which that's not what I was going for.

**Sam Parr** (1:40)
You tweeted out, you go, yeah, a hundred percent. This guy's review of my podcast just summarized a lot of what I believe. You can suck at so many things and still crush it if you're confident. I don't get why this is a two-star review. That's okay, though. Thank you, listener.
And I think people were like, you know, like kind of like defending slash like, like sort of like taking it as an inspirational moment. Although you were just trying to be a smart ass, which is great.

**Shaan Puri** (2:03)
Yes, it was a smart ass comment. That's okay. I read our reviews constantly. And that's like been the easiest way to understand what we should make each week. Right.
By the way, do you want to recap anything that we did in the last 10 days? I feel like we've had a pretty strong or interesting 10 days.

**Sam Parr** (2:21)
Yeah, fucking guest game strong, man, we had the president of Shopify. We had CEO of a Lambda school. We had Josh Elman, who's like kind of like a growth god in Silicon Valley.
Do we have anyone else?

**Shaan Puri** (2:33)
The Trump tax lady.

**Sam Parr** (2:34)
We had the Trump tax, we had tax girl. Come on, who else do we have? We had one more, I think. I'm forgetting somebody, but.
Yeah, we went hard on guests, which is always like, you know, fun, but bad at the same time. Like, I love having different people on. Then at the same time, I feel like it doesn't have that same tempo that we usually get with the ideas kind of riffing.

**Shaan Puri** (2:54)
Because we're we're self-sufficient, which is important when we have these guests. We're definitely reliant on their goal. But a few head highlights were what's the Lambda school guys name? Austin.

**Sam Parr** (3:06)
Yeah.

**Shaan Puri** (3:07)
Great dude. Really like him. He's a smart ass online, but he's a great guy in person. Yeah.

**Sam Parr** (3:14)
Highlights were one of the things you remember from that. I know one where you were like, what are the odds that this fails?
And they've raised their Series C. They've raised hundreds of million, 150 million bucks or more. And he was like, probably like 50%. Which I think was an honest and probably surprising answer for a lot of people of like, look, there's still a 50% chance this just flops. This fizzles or more likely not fizzle, like crash and burn.
But you know, some probability of success.

**Shaan Puri** (3:45)
In this podcast, I said, with this business, if it doesn't do well, it's just gonna make pretty good revenue and pretty good profit forever. If it does well, it's gonna maybe gonna be huge.

**Sam Parr** (3:55)
What about you? With your business, you mean? Yeah.

**Shaan Puri** (3:56)
Yeah. I was like, what about you?
What's the low end, high end, mid end outcome? And he goes, well, it's probably like, it's maybe gonna be massive or it's gonna just completely bankrupt. And I was like, oh, okay, awesome. At least you know the game you're in. Yeah, I like that. I also liked how he told me about the ACT and SAT business. I actually did research on this. There's a company launched by this young woman who used to work at GLG, that consulting thing. And I forget the name of it, but they've raised a lot of money and they're trying to build a new standardized test. So I think that's bold and I love that. So that was my highlight.