#173 - How Beachbody Makes Money, 75 Hard Explained, & Brainstorming "HackerNews for X"

**Shaan Puri** (0:00)
All right, there's this amazing book called Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got. I read it a few years ago and it changed my life.
And the reason I loved it was because it basically talks about how to get and make more money using things that you already have.
Coincidentally, today's podcast is brought to you by Business Made Simple. It's a podcast by Donald Miller, who I'm gonna tell you about in a second, but he has this amazing episode that's all related to this book and the things that I learned in this book. It's called How To Make Money With What You Already Have. It's an incredible episode. Talks about all the stuff that I learned in this book. The host is Donald Miller. I didn't know who Donald Miller was up until recently, but over the last 12 months, this is totally by coincidence. It was all separate people. They said, you have to check out Donald Miller. He's amazing. So I'm happy that he's part of HubSpot's Podcast Network. You can check it out, Business Made Simple Podcast. It's where he coaches you on how to build your business like an airplane, where the cockpit is your leadership, the body is your overhead, the right engine is your marketing, the left engine is your sales.
You have to check it out. This guy's amazing. It's called Business Made Simple with Donald Miller.

**Sam Parr** (1:02)
In this class, there was one guy who was always talking. He would raise his hand. First thing, for every single question, he had a big opinion on all these topics. I'm like, dude, how does this guy know about all this stuff? And he was just super into the internet. And at the time, my head labeled this guy as a loser. I was like, wow, this guy's like this over eager student who's like kind of a know it all and like kind of sucking up to the teacher and like, why is he so into this?
Wow, what a loser. He spends his nights researching the pros and cons of net neutrality. Okay, now fast forward. Now, that's me. I'm that loser. I was just late to the game.
And that guy, Dan, ended up joining Coinbase as one of the early employees.

**Shaan Puri** (1:52)
Abreu, what is your rating of today's episode?

**Abreu** (1:56)
I'd go A minus.
We rambled a lot, but I kind of like that, that we go into different topics. I mean, we're everywhere. Pod grow, HackerNews stuff, Crypto for HackerNews, the origin stories of Product Hunt, 75 Hard, Tony Horton, Shaan pouring his heart out at the end. We got everything in there.

**Shaan Puri** (2:13)
What was your top two favorite things?

**Abreu** (2:16)
I like talking about the origin stories. So, Product Hunt, how Ryan kind of hacked his way to growing that, that was kind of cool.
The P90X origin story as well. That was kind of cool. I have to look up that YouTube video that Shaan mentioned because that was definitely interesting.

**Shaan Puri** (2:30)
Listeners, let us know if you like having this upfront.
Let's get to today's podcast. All right. What's up?

**Sam Parr** (2:38)
What's up?

**Shaan Puri** (2:38)
Sorry, I was late. I was sitting here working.

**Sam Parr** (2:42)
It's a podcast, bro. Nobody knows you were late.

**Shaan Puri** (2:45)
I'm never the late one. I take pride in that.
And I was just literally sitting here working and I had no idea. I didn't even look at the...

**Sam Parr** (2:53)
The funny thing is I was also two minutes late. But when I saw your message that was like, Hey, sorry, I'm running. I'll be there in a minute. I was like, boom, hop it. I need to hop in there now. So I'm there first.

**Shaan Puri** (3:05)
I'm not typically the late one, but I was. But I will tell you a few things that I was working on. So just a quick recap. I'm working on some growth stuff. So I want to run just a few quick ideas by you. This will only take a second. But first... So in the last...
Whenever we launched, however long that's been, not including month one to month two, because it was like a 500% growth rate. So not including that.
We have grown on average 10% a month.
This month, April is not over. But if you take the average of the trailing three weeks and give it a fourth week, it's going to be about 400... a little bit over 400,000 downloads, which... So if you take that, multiply it by... to January. So we're going to hit a million downloads a month by around January at 10% growth rate.