#46 - Corporate Universities, Hotel Experiences & New Credit Cards with Lance Armstrong

**Sam Parr** (0:12)
Is that what they do?

**Shaan Puri** (0:12)
That's what they do.

**Sam Parr** (0:13)
All right, we're back. Before we get in, so you know how I said, leave reviews?
I think we got two or three or a hundred reviews off of that.

**Shaan Puri** (0:21)
Yeah, it was crazy.
And we promised people cool shit. We got to fulfill it because people are like, here's my receipt, I left you guys a good review.

**Sam Parr** (0:30)
I got about a hundred messages of people with the reviews.
I replied to all of them. Last night, I was sitting on my couch.

**Shaan Puri** (0:36)
I'm just the asshole who didn't.

**Sam Parr** (0:37)
Well, I see CD on a few. I replied to all of them with the special gift.
I just called them basically. They left a video voicemail.

**Shaan Puri** (0:46)
You know, at YC, they have this thing, which is like you'd rather have a thousand people love you than a million people just kind of like you. And I think that's the one thing that is now abundantly clear about this podcast, is like we have these goals of like, we're gonna grow this thing big, but we already did the hard part, which is you get a small number of people to love you, where they're like, this is my routine.
This is my favorite podcast. And I've been listening to the podcast for five years. And so that's very, I don't know, it feels good. It feels great.

**Sam Parr** (1:15)
Yeah, I was showing Adam last night. I got, I don't know, I mean, at least a couple of hundred DMs on my Twitter, people with the review, and I sent them all a video. So review us, and leave a video.
Or review us and let me know, because Sean hasn't been doing it, but at least if you let me know, you'll get something back.

**Shaan Puri** (1:34)
All right, you know what's my fear in all this though? So I have a fear that's crept up now. The fear is I never wanna be the smart person in the room. And so there's part of me, I'm sitting in this red fucking throne, and throwing out ideas that I'm admittedly saying are half-baked, you know, probably bad ideas, but they're interesting to me.
I wanna make sure that we're learning doing this. Like I wanna be learning stuff and sharing it. I don't wanna just be sitting here saying, hey, I got answers, I'm gonna give them to you. And so my commitment to myself really, more than anybody else, but I wanna say it out loud, cause that commits me, is, you know, as we do this, it's not about, oh, I have great ideas, let me say them, or we're brainstorming great ideas. It's we're gonna learn interesting stuff by talking to interesting people and doing research on things, and then we're gonna share what we like. We're gonna share what's interesting to us. So that's my fear is you never wanna be the guru, you wanna be the student.
And so that's kind of my little mini rant.

**Sam Parr** (2:28)
I agree, I'm not trying to be a guru, and I'm certainly not.

**Shaan Puri** (2:32)
Cause some of the DMs we get, people are like, Help me. Yeah, help me, you know. I'm like, no, no, no, I don't know anything.
And me attaching my name to your thing does nothing. Like we've gotta do the work. And like, you know, I'll help you, but I'm not the answer.

**Sam Parr** (2:47)
I don't know.

**Shaan Puri** (2:47)
Yeah, I'm not the answer.

**Sam Parr** (2:49)
And we could preface this by saying, most of the ideas we get, I just steal from other people.

**Shaan Puri** (2:54)
Yeah, for sure, of course.

**Sam Parr** (2:56)
All right, you wanna get in, what do we wanna talk about? You wanna talk about, can I talk about something that's happening recently?

**Shaan Puri** (3:04)
Yeah, Brandless.

**Sam Parr** (3:06)
I wanna talk about Brandless, and I wanna talk about these new credit cards that are popping up.

**Shaan Puri** (3:11)
Yep, all right, pick one, let's do it.

**Sam Parr** (3:12)
You go ahead, Brandless.

**Shaan Puri** (3:14)
All right, so Brandless, people don't know, they went out of business, what they were trying to do was, they were like, look, don't pay for the name brand, you should just have high quality products, and they should just be Brandless.
And because we take away the name brand, we can lower the price. That was like the initial promise or the premise of the business.

**Sam Parr** (3:30)
Awesome idea.