3 strangers showed us how they made $8M, $10M, & $40M/year

**Sam Parr** (0:00)
All right, today we're playing Shoot Your Shot, where we let founders come in, sit in the hot seat and pitch us their business. We got founders that have million dollar businesses all the way up to a hundred million dollar businesses. They get 15 minutes, and in it, they start by telling us the one big number. Give us the pitch and shoot their shot. They get to ask us any questions that they want.

**Shaan Puri** (0:17)
We've done this in New York City. This time it's in San Francisco. Whether you're listening on Spotify or YouTube, if you're working out right now, whatever you're doing right now, you need to stop and go to Spotify or go to YouTube. Look us up on My First Million, and let us know in the comments which city you want us to go to next.

**Sam Parr** (0:43)
All right. Sam, what's up? We are doing a new episode, new format. We're calling it Shoot Your Shot.
Basically, we go from city to city. We invite founders from those cities to come and shoot their shot, to come pitch us. We've got business owners that are doing million dollars a year to 100 million dollar businesses that you're going to see in this batch of founders. What should we expect?

**Shaan Puri** (1:05)
Well, the best part about this podcast, the reason why people listen, the reason why we even do it is we talk to unique people. They tell us stuff that we don't normally see. And it's going to range from people who are way established and killing it all the way down to people who are just getting started. And we don't actually know who's coming.

**Sam Parr** (1:20)
We don't know who's coming. This is blind to us. These are all people who listen to the podcast. People who listen to this podcast, it's founders, entrepreneurs, business owners. It's like an audition. It's like American Idol, but for business, I guess.
All right, let's do this. So shoot your shot. Let's get the first founder in here. Who do we got?

**Shaan Puri** (1:37)
What's up, dude?

**Sam Parr** (1:38)
Here he comes.

**Raghav Gupta** (1:39)
What's up?

**Shaan Puri** (1:42)
What's up, dog?

**Sam Parr** (1:43)
All right, have a seat. So you got 15 minutes, but take your time here.

**Raghav Gupta** (1:48)
Excited to be here.

**Sam Parr** (1:48)
What's your name?

**Raghav Gupta** (1:49)
Raghav.

**Sam Parr** (1:50)
Raghav, okay. And your company is Posha?

**Raghav Gupta** (1:54)
That's right.

**Sam Parr** (1:54)
Posha, okay.

**Shaan Puri** (1:55)
Where are you from?

**Raghav Gupta** (1:56)
I live in San Francisco, the Bay Area, to be precise. Grew up in India and have been here for five years now.

**Shaan Puri** (2:03)
How old are you?

**Raghav Gupta** (2:04)
I'm 32

**Shaan Puri** (2:05)
Is this your first company?

**Raghav Gupta** (2:06)
It is my first company.
I did run a project before this where we were trying to build micro wind turbines, but everything that I've learned about Posha has been at Posha. Everything I've learned about building a business has been primarily at Posha.

**Sam Parr** (2:21)
So we have one rule, which is we are shameless numbers guys. And so we ask everybody to give us a big juicy impressive or interesting number. Doesn't have to be that big, but interesting number that would hook us.

**Raghav Gupta** (2:33)
Go ahead. So we're amongst the one percent of robotics companies you have ever met that are actually shipping a real product in real homes, in real kitchens with 1,000 real world deployments.

**Sam Parr** (2:47)
So you're in the one percent of non-bullshitting robotics companies. You ship 1,000 robots. What do your robots do?

**Raghav Gupta** (2:54)
We are putting a private chef in every home, and we're doing that by building cooking robots for homes. We thought that if Waymo and Tesla and Zouks can use computer vision and AI to take you from point A to point B, why can we not use the same technology to cook a fresh meal for you? Takeout is expensive.
Cooking at home takes forever. There's no way for you to eat food that is fresh, that is delicious, that doesn't take 60 minutes of your time in the kitchen, that doesn't cost $25 per serving, and where the alternative is?

**Shaan Puri** (3:27)
Dude, my diet right now is man kibble. You know what man kibble is?

**Raghav Gupta** (3:31)
I know.

**Shaan Puri** (3:32)
It's three pounds of ground beef with rice that will last me for three or four days in soy sauce. So I'm on board with this. Did you raise funding?

**Raghav Gupta** (3:41)