#192 - Making Billions with Greeting Cards, How the FBI Took Down Thousands of Criminals, & Rich People (not) Paying Taxes

**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.
I think that you've said a lot of amazing stuff for the past two years. I think what you just said right there actually might be one of the most valuable rants in terms of just money that you've ever said.
What's up?

**Shaan Puri** (1:25)
It's me, Shaan and Sam, the Vanilla Gorilla.

**Sam Parr** (1:29)
We have a good episode today. Shaan just said he thought this was an amazing episode. We talked about a lot of different stuff. You have a list. What did we talk about?

**Shaan Puri** (1:36)
We talked about the surprisingly big business of greeting cards and e-cards. We talked about the crazy Chick-fil-a tech stack and some ideas around that and creating a consulting company around that. We talked about this crazy FBI takedown where the FBI basically tricked thousands and thousands of criminals with a pretty genius or genius app.
What else? You did a good bump boxes breakdown and-

**Sam Parr** (2:00)
A bump box of a guy who's built a business that sells subscription boxes to pregnant women and their babies and it's like $40 million a year. The babies don't buy it. They might, but it's meant for the babies.
That's just $40 million a year in sales. And we talked about how this article that came out about rich people not paying taxes, well, we talked about how they actually get money to live, which was kind of mind blowing to me.

**Shaan Puri** (2:24)
And then we talked about one of my favorite childhood actors and childhood movies, how that young child actor has become a crypto billionaire.
And then I got excited saying he's the Billy of the week. But that's all to come in this episode.

**Sam Parr** (2:37)
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**Shaan Puri** (2:55)
Well, first, happy birthday. You are, you're what, 31?

**Sam Parr** (3:00)
32

**Shaan Puri** (3:01)
32 now, okay, great. Good, I was feeling bad. I'm 33 and you're always like, yeah, we're basically the same age, we're both 30, 31

**Sam Parr** (3:07)
I do it to slight you, I do it as a joke, because you're only a year older than me, but I want to make it clear that you're older than me still.

**Shaan Puri** (3:14)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and in my head, I immediately stop listening to everything else you say and I just start thinking in my head, fuck, I'm older than Sam.
And then I have to be like, what does that matter? Who cares? And then I get back and I don't even know what's going on.

**Sam Parr** (3:26)
Yeah, I do it.

**Shaan Puri** (3:26)
Dan, you're 35, okay, great.

**Sam Parr** (3:28)
I do it as well.

**Shaan Puri** (3:28)
Dan will feel even worse now.
My trainer, by the way, he's at 40, 41, something like that, and he looks great, looks like he's 25 And anytime someone's like, oh wow, I didn't know that. You know, once they find out his age or whatever, he's just like, he's like, I'm living to 105, and he's constantly watching videos of people who are like 105, but healthy, or like 100, and they have like, you know, they're still like madly in love with their husband or wife, and he's just constantly watching these videos, these outlier examples to be like, that's me, I'm gonna have that life. Do you care about living till you're like really old?