#193 - How a $25 Million a Year Sweepstakes Business Works and Shaan Predicts the Future

**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. It 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 Patel** (1:02)
And you're like, dude, I believe in you. If you were just going to start a new startup, I'm in for 25K. Like no questions asked.

**Sam Parr** (1:20)
All right, everyone, we have a new episode. This one is pretty good. So we talked about a couple of things. The first thing we talked about was Oasis, which is this interesting new product that kind of... It's like a deep fake, but for Zoom, that's not the best description, but check it out. Shaan says it's one of the biggest ideas that he's ever heard of. Second, we break down the sweepstake business. If you want to make a company that makes half a million dollars a month in profit, and you want to have it start and launch inside the next probably two years, or sorry, two months, and then grow in the next one, two, three years to half a million dollars a month in profit, I think this is an interesting idea. We break it down. Then we talk about Sean's prediction. So he predicts what's going to be the next Apple, Facebook, Amazon, 7-Eleven, Netflix, Pornhub, Dominoes. Those are all separate predictions. Not one company can do all of them, but that would be cool.
It's a great episode. Give it a listen. By the way, have you clicked Subscribe yet on YouTube? Have you clicked Subscribe on iTunes? A lot of people say like, Hey, you guys are awesome. Thank you for doing all that work. Then pay me back.
I don't want money though.
All I want is for you to hit Subscribe on iTunes, hit Follow on Spotify, hit Subscribe on our YouTube page. That's all I want and we're going to keep doing for free. All right, let's get to the episode.
What's going on?

**Shaan Patel** (2:36)
I am, look at me now. I'm in a chick palace here.

**Sam Parr** (2:40)
What's a chick palace?

**Shaan Patel** (2:42)
I went from a manly industrial look to everything is glitter and gold now.

**Sam Parr** (2:47)
Yeah, that doesn't look like your style. That doesn't even look like it's your wife's style.

**Shaan Patel** (2:51)
Yeah, I don't know whose style this is, but that's the style we got today.

**Sam Parr** (2:54)
Have you ever thought about creating a brick and mortar business, by the way? Oh, wait, actually first, two things.
Two things before we get anything.

**Shaan Patel** (3:03)
Everybody like and subscribe and tell a friend, tell five friends.

**Sam Parr** (3:07)
Yes, but Wednesday, do we have a guest on Wednesday?

**Shaan Patel** (3:11)
I don't think so.

**Sam Parr** (3:12)
Okay.

**Shaan Patel** (3:13)
Yes, we do.

**Sam Parr** (3:14)
Okay, damn it. Okay, not this Wednesday. On Monday after that, let's do the investor episode.

**Shaan Patel** (3:19)
We have another guest.

**Sam Parr** (3:21)
We have a guest on Monday too?

**Shaan Patel** (3:22)
Yeah, Dan Held is coming out on Monday. All right, we have two guests.

**Sam Parr** (3:25)
Okay, then we're gonna do it. Fine, didn't forget that. Second thing, I have this episode coming out. You know how I've been doing these Monday things?

**Shaan Patel** (3:32)
Yeah.

**Sam Parr** (3:33)
So what I'm doing is I'm splicing together clips. I'm gonna splice together like five to 10, and I'm gonna talk in between each one. And each clip is gonna be from a YouTube video or from a podcast.