#178 with Balaji - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Communities & Crypto

**Sam Parr** (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.

**Shaan Puri** (1:02)
Are you aware of what it's like to talk to you?

**Sam Parr** (1:06)
No.

**Shaan Puri** (1:20)
We got a good pod and we got a good guest here.
This is probably, all right, before I introduce our guest, I'm gonna butter him up a little bit. I'm gonna butter him up because I'm genuinely excited for this. There's probably like three or four podcasts so far that I'm like, oh yeah, this is one that I wake up in the morning, I'm excited to do. I know that if we do a good job, this is gonna be one people's favorite podcast. Why is that? Well, this is the podcast.

**Sam Parr** (1:45)
Well, it's not morning for us, Shaan. It's 10, it's almost 7.30, right? It's almost, it's gonna be midnight soon where Abreu is, yeah, we got up late or we stayed up late.

**Shaan Puri** (1:56)
Yeah, but that's all right. It's my birthday, by the way, today. So this is how I'm spending my birthday evening. Oh, I forgot to tell you, happy birthday. My wife was like, what do you wanna do for your birthday? I was like, don't worry, it's already planned. I'm doing a podcast, I love it.
So anyways, the reason I think this podcast is gonna be good, this episode is gonna be good, is because our podcast is all about ideas. People listen to this pod, they wake up and they listen to this pod because we get the wheels turning. We present new and interesting ideas or we talk about spaces or we talk about spaces in ways that you haven't heard too much before.
Now, one of the ways that I get a bunch of my ideas is from our guest Balaji who is here and he has been, I don't know what the exact quote was, but I think Mark Andreessen at one point called you the highest ideas per minute of anybody he's met. Do you know that quote that I'm talking about? He sort of gave you this title.

**Balaji** (2:44)
Yeah, it was a pretty kind remark. He said they were useful ideas too, which is good.

**Shaan Puri** (2:50)
Yeah, we don't get that same credit for our ideas. People don't usually call them useful, but that's okay. Entertaining is okay.

**Sam Parr** (2:58)
We teach people how to launch a porn app. You teach people how to, you warn the world of a pandemic.

**Balaji** (3:07)
Your podcast is actually very popular and I've heard a lot of people say good things about it, so don't be too hard on yourself.

**Shaan Puri** (3:13)
Thank you, thank you. And I think that one of the, like a lot of people ask us like, oh, who do you guys follow? Who do you guys read?
You're one of my answers to, if I started a new Twitter account and I had to follow five people to like get that information flowing again, who are the five kind of must follows? I think you would definitely be in there for me.
And Sam, I know you've been following as well. So we'll give kind of like a very quick rundown, but then we have a bunch of topics that I think are exciting. We're gonna talk about a bunch of crypto things because I think you're very forward thinking in the crypto world. We're gonna talk about some non-crypto things as well.