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3 killer businesses hiding in plain sight

My First Million

August 12, 2026

140+ real business ideas database: https://clickhubspot.com/pkce Episode 850: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about massive businesses hidden in plain sight.
Speakers: Sam Parr, Shaan Puri

Topics: Entrepreneurship, Business, Investing

**Sam Parr** (0:00)
Guess how much a monkey costs?

**Shaan Puri** (0:01)
I don't know, $1,000?

**Sam Parr** (0:03)
Almost $20,000. One monkey is $20,000?
Before we start, can I get a wellness check on my hair, dude? I just feel like I might have hit the point where I got to start taking something. You know when I'm getting the hat on every day, I feel like that's, I'm literally waving the white flag. I feel like I'm wearing this hat that like maybe we're getting a little thin on top.

**Shaan Puri** (0:33)
What's the thing that you would take? It starts with an R, like it's the R word.

**Sam Parr** (0:39)
Nutri-ful, oh yeah, well there's like a generic name for them and then there's all the branded ones, but like Medoxafil something, does that sound right? That sounds like something.

**Shaan Puri** (0:47)
One of the downsides on one of them, I think, is limp wiener.

**Sam Parr** (0:52)
Right, well that might be two for one. I'm done having kids, so you know.
I was thinking about the vasectomy, maybe we don't need to do that.
It's so funny, Ben, as you know, you'll never catch Ben without a hat for similar reasons. And he met a guy and he was like, I'm on a hair protocol from this guy. And I'm like, what? What you got, a Turkish guy? Who you got? He's like, no, no, no, it's my friend. He's got me on this protocol. And protocol has just become the fancy thing since Huberman and Brian Johnson. It's like, what do you mean? He gave you a pill? Is that a protocol? And he was like, no, no, no, I got a red light therapy, do this, put this serum, blah, blah, blah. Okay. So I was like, how's it going? And he's like, he's like, I don't know, man, you tell me when you see me. So I just saw him yesterday. He's got a beard now.

**Shaan Puri** (1:35)
Oh, thick beard.

**Sam Parr** (1:36)
He's got a beard, but his hair looks the same.
So something's kind of working. It's hilarious. Beard looks great. I got to give him that.

**Shaan Puri** (1:43)
Have you seen, there's this app out, and I've been targeted by it like crazy. It's coves.com. So it's qoves.com.
I've been getting targeted like crazy by this app, and I bought it. It's $150. The ad worked.

**Sam Parr** (2:02)
Improve your looks without surgery. Then there's a woman posing. Life-changing transformations.
We're look maxing? Is that what's going on here?

**Shaan Puri** (2:12)
It's not even an app really.
I don't even know if it's AI or if it's some Filipino who's got to criticize me because when you sign up, it takes three weeks for me to get my results. So I feel like there's going to be a bunch of guys in the background making fun of me.

**Sam Parr** (2:29)
Did you get them?

**Shaan Puri** (2:30)
No, I just signed up for it. I got the ad while I was in San Francisco.

**Sam Parr** (2:33)
Instant conversion. Did you just stop on the middle of the street, sit down and download this?

**Shaan Puri** (2:38)
Well, they had an Instagram that has a million followers and it basically tells you what people can do to improve their looks. It was a beautiful Instagram and a lot of my hot friends also follow them. So, I figured, let's give it a shot. But I don't know if you ever heard of this.

**Sam Parr** (2:53)
Who are your hot friends? All right. I think we need to let the comments predict before your results come in, where you're going to score. So, here's some of the things. Cheek activation, zero to 100
Facial femininity, that's going to be a tough one.

**Shaan Puri** (3:07)
Yeah.

**Sam Parr** (3:08)
Homogeneity, averageness. Is that good or bad? That's good, right? Categories themselves are cutting.

**Shaan Puri** (3:16)
Wait, do I want to be more homogenous?

**Sam Parr** (3:19)
I think you want to be more homogenous.

**Shaan Puri** (3:22)
Okay, well.

**Sam Parr** (3:23)
Dude, I got called ugly when I was in the second grade by this girl I liked. I liked this girl and she was sitting in the front of the class and my friend, who I think really knew what he was doing, he was stirring the pot here, he's like, dude, let me go tell her you like her and then maybe she'll, and then he goes up to her, he tells her you like her and I see them both smile and then he comes back to me and I'm like, and? And he goes, she thinks you're ugly. And I was like, oh.

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