5 Dead Simple Business Ideas You Can Start With A FB Ad | ft. George Mack

**Sam Parr** (0:00)
By the way, you know how I know this is a great episode? Because I feel like I need to get off this and go do these ideas right now. Like, I don't even want to finish this episode. I want to go do one of these things right now. That's how I know this is a banger.

**Shaan Puri** (0:19)
Have you guys ever heard this idea that the Australian accent is just drunk English accent? Because Australia was populated by all the criminals or the drunkards from Eglid and that the accent in Australia is just a drunk London guy.

**George Mack** (0:37)
So far off.

**Sam Parr** (0:39)
There's a great Paul Graham blog post that I don't know if you guys have read called cities. I think it's called cities and Ambition. He has this concept in it. He says that every city whispers something to you. Every city is whispering something. So he's like, maybe it's in LA.
The whisper that's there for you is become somebody. Become like sort of known, become a power player, a famous person, basically. You're not famous enough. And in Silicon Valley, he says the whisper is, you're not ambitious enough because the status symbol here is not who's the most beautiful or the most famous or even the most rich, to be honest. The status symbol is like who's doing the big mission here. Who's like the AI guys now, they're the highest status. Even if you have a really amazing, if you're the CEO of Workday and you're like, dude, I got an $80 billion company over here, you're low status compared to the guy who's trying to make the next version of an LLM. And so he says, New York whisper something. He basically is like, you should think about which cities you want to live in because that's what's going to get whispered to you all the time. I don't know what it would be for Austin. I'm curious. Sam, you've lived there. What's the Austin whisper?

**Shaan Puri** (1:47)
The Austin whisper is, how do you live a fit life on your own terms, which means like being very balanced? So Austin is very much a balance. So how do you work six hours a week, go for walks, be with your family, wake up early, be healthy. Austin is a place of balance, I think.

**Sam Parr** (2:06)
George, what's the Dubai whisper right now?

**Shaan Puri** (2:08)
Is it like, you're poor?

**George Mack** (2:14)
Like, there's definitely a little bit of that. I never thought I would have ended up being in Dubai for a little bit of time, but it was during COVID and the second lockdown came along. I wanted to go to the mountains by myself and Chris, my friend from Modern Wisdom said, come to Dubai. I grew up reading like Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens. I'm scared of going to like an Islamic country. Chris gave me the ultimate reply of don't be a virgin, come. I went for two weeks, stayed for three years. But it's a very unique, weird, bizarre, fascinating place.

**Sam Parr** (2:48)
That's great. All right, let's jump in.
You knew that we love business ideas, and I'll give you two things. You wrote an intro for yourself. I'm going to read it, but I think you didn't do it yourself, jessa. You said, I'm excited to come on. You said, I don't have crazy high stakes, huge exits of my business. I'm more of a mom's basement writing ideas online, coming up with weird ideas and essays kind of guy. So I have some ideas, some business ideas and opportunities, but I have a lot of philosophies and frameworks. I think that's great. You also didn't do yourself full justice. You have a great marketing agency, so you have a successful business there. Also, you're not just a kid in a basement writing essays. You're a kid in a basement writing essays. They get read by everybody from Joe Schmo to Elon Musk. Elon's been retweeting you a lot lately, and I think that's a good sign, bro. You've made it.

**George Mack** (3:36)
I appreciate that. You're killing the British syndrome out of me, so I do appreciate that.

**Shaan Puri** (3:40)
What happens when Elon retweets you, by the way? Do you get a lot of traffic?

**George Mack** (3:44)
Yeah, I get quite a lot of traffic. I mean, the one thing I did notice of, I've reached hundreds of millions of people on Twitter, and I've never had one DM from a girl, and then Chris Williamson started sharing my videos on Instagram, and it changed a little bit. It's all men, tech, things on Twitter, like that, but yeah, you do get quite a lot of traffic. The notifications about us start to break a little bit.