#197 with Dharmesh Shah - Frameworks for Becoming a Billionaire (From a Billionaire's Perspective)

**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.

**Dharmesh Shah** (1:05)
I even have a seven figure domain name picked out for you. I will write the $5 million check for you to go do it as far as a seed round or up to 5 million if you want to let other people in. That's amazing.

**Shaan Puri** (1:13)
This just got spicy. Oh my God.

**Sam Parr** (1:16)
What's the domain name that you have?
We just got done like 30 seconds ago talking to the guy who we're going to introduce you to now. That was amazing. Dharmesh is amazing.

**Shaan Puri** (1:40)
He's very cool.

**Sam Parr** (1:41)
So we have Dharmesh. I don't even know his last name. Dharmesh Shah?

**Shaan Puri** (1:45)
I think Shah.

**Sam Parr** (1:46)
I just know him as Dharmesh. He's the co-founder of-

**Shaan Puri** (1:49)
He's like Beyonce. They just go with the one name at a certain point. Ronald O, Beyonce, Dharmesh. That's it.

**Sam Parr** (1:55)
So Dharmesh is the co-founder of HubSpot. He's the largest shareholder. I mean, we got pretty into it right away. We're like, just tell us, what's it like to be a billionaire?

**Shaan Puri** (2:06)
So I just Googled your net worth and it appears you're worth a billion dollars. Yeah.
So how does that feel? And he's like, ah.

**Sam Parr** (2:13)
No, I told him I was going to talk to him about that. So we talked to him about just like wealth, which was-

**Shaan Puri** (2:17)
Let's rattle off some of the dope things he's done. So started HubSpot, HubSpot's like a whatever, $25 billion company or something like that.
But he's done some other cool things. Early investor in-

**Sam Parr** (2:25)
Coinbase, Dropbox and loads of different stuff.

**Shaan Puri** (2:28)
Right. And then also just has kind of like, he's like us. He's got that itch, that entrepreneurial itch. So he like, we talk a little bit about it. He's got like 20 domain names, some domain names that are worth like millions of dollars and others that are just simple ideas. Everybody has an idea.

**Sam Parr** (2:42)
By the way, hundreds of domain names.

**Shaan Puri** (2:43)
Right, but he's got ideas loaded into them like, ah, here's what you might do with this idea. And then here's a good domain name for it.
And so I think he's, you know, he's sort of like, he's one of our people in that sense. Like he's an idea person, he's a frameworks person. So he shared some frameworks. He shared a bunch of ideas, two really big ideas.

**Sam Parr** (2:59)
One idea on air, he goes, Shaan, if you want to start this, I'll fund you right now for $5 million.

**Shaan Puri** (3:05)
Yeah, maybe an offer I pretty much couldn't refuse. I just had to sort of, you know, squeeze my thighs and sit still here.
So, you know, but I thought it was exciting. I thought the actual ideas were really great. So I think people are going to like that. We'll talk a little bit about the wealth. We'll talk a little bit about kind of like early days, you know, HubSpot and the hustle acquisition. And then we talk a bunch about ideas.

**Sam Parr** (3:27)
And then we, some of those ideas are about a new, different type of LinkedIn or remote community. We talked about, oh, he talked about his framework for evaluating if an idea is good or not, if he should pursue it.