#220 - 12 Startups That Can Make You a Millionaire (Sara's List)

**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.
Can non-technical people apply there, you think?
Of course.

**Shaan Puri** (1:05)
Every technical company definitely needs people that are in non-technical roles, whether it's again, marketing, community, sales, whatever the rules will end up being.

**Sam Parr** (1:28)
This episode is going to be awesome. And then there's a story behind this. I don't know if I told you this story, Sean, but basically my wife, Sara, she about four or five years ago, so my wife is like pretty type A, went to an Ivy League school, isn't particularly risk, doesn't like taking risks. She's someone who's going to rise up in a big company and be an executive one day.
And she was like, I want to join a new company and I want to make a lot of money. And Sara's going to be 29 next week. So she was 25 And she said, I want to join a company where I can make some money. So we made a list of a bunch of companies where we thought if she was given, let's say, $250,000 of stock that would invest over four years, we made lists of places where that stock could like 10x.
And that's how she eventually she applied and got a job at Airbnb. That was like five years ago. And now I think when she joined, what was her last valuation before they went public? Like 18 or 20 billion, I think. And now their valuation is like 100, I think. So what's that? 5x maybe. So it did okay.
And you and I were talking and I think you're underplaying it.

**Shaan Puri** (2:39)
It did better than okay. Let's just frame this fully, right? So joined a multi-billion dollar company that already had 3,000 something employees.

**Sam Parr** (2:47)
No, it wasn't that big. I think it had 1,200, but yes, it was big.

**Shaan Puri** (2:50)
So over 1,000 employees. So, you know, not joining a risky startup, not buying a lottery ticket.
And so she knew this was going to have some gain. It's just a question of like some value. It's just a question of how much.
Got a job and she wasn't like an exec. So it was kind of like an achievable thing. Like she came in as like, I don't know, like a mid-level manager. Is that fair to say?

**Sam Parr** (3:13)
Mid-level. Yeah, I would say. Yeah, lower, lower to mid.

**Shaan Puri** (3:17)
Right. Lower to mid. So didn't even come in as a hotshot.
And before the age of 30 was worth, it was a multimillionaire because of the stock that appreciated from this thing, right? From joining Airbnb, right? So self-made multimillionaire, self-made multimillionaire without eating shit as a startup founder, right? Where you're stressed and you're making no money and you might fail all the time and all that stuff. And you have to make payroll and all that good stuff.
And so had to kind of like cushy, every day got to go in and pick which flavor of soy milk she liked from the company fridge and like had health benefits and had all the things that you get, the good things you get at a company plus got to see it grow. Right? So I thought...

**Sam Parr** (4:00)