#74 - The $72B Chinese startup you’ve never heard of, a mysterious billionaire and the guide to post-corona opportunities

**Sam Parr** (0:00)
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How are you, man?

**Shaan Puri** (0:51)
I'm great.
I upgraded my internet. Hopefully, it looks better. Called Comcast, now paid 60 bucks a month, and just called them, and with a click of a button, I paid them more money, and my internet was supposed to improve. We'll see if it happens.

**Sam Parr** (1:03)
Like magic.

**Shaan Puri** (1:04)
Great, great business to be in.

**Sam Parr** (1:06)
I'm excited to talk to you. I feel like it's been a little while. I got a bunch of random topics to talk about. I don't know, how about you? Do you have anything that was top of mind for you?

**Shaan Puri** (1:15)
Yeah, well, I know about all this stuff that you, or a lot of the stuff that you have in here.

**Sam Parr** (1:21)
Right.

**Shaan Puri** (1:21)
Like I know it to the point of, I wasn't sure if I wrote it or you wrote it.

**Sam Parr** (1:25)
That's the best. Okay, great. Okay, so I'm gonna start with, let's pick one that's interesting. Okay, so how about we start with this one? So somebody tweeted this and I saw it and I was like, this is pretty smart. So a lot of people right now are talking about coronavirus. How does the world gonna change? And lots of speculation. I think everybody sort of agrees.
Okay, handshakes, you know, micro out the window for a bit. Live sports, you know, it's gonna be a little tough.
So there's some things that we know are gonna change and there's some things that you can't really predict. They're sort of second order effects. And so somebody reached out and they had put together this, they had like a group of people had put together this thing called the second order effects of COVID. And I thought it was great. I'm gonna find the PDF and I'm gonna link it in the description here. I know one of the creators was this guy that I've met one time, super, super smart guy. He created, are you a Harry Potter fan?

**Shaan Puri** (2:13)
No, but I know, I mean, I'm not not a fan, but I don't buy the stuff, I've seen the movie.

**Sam Parr** (2:16)
So he created this site back in the day called MuggleNet, which was...

**Shaan Puri** (2:20)
Oh, yeah, I know that guy. He also created Oh My God Pop, or what was it? He's a viral con, yeah, what's his name?

**Sam Parr** (2:27)
Not an OMG Pop, but he's...

**Shaan Puri** (2:29)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know all about him. Tell me his name.

**Sam Parr** (2:33)
I'm trying to find it, I can't believe I forgot it. Him and his wife started... Emerson Sparks, so they started Sparks Media.

**Shaan Puri** (2:38)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know about him well. I think his business, basically, the background of how this guy...

**Sam Parr** (2:43)
OMG Facts is the one you're thinking about.

**Shaan Puri** (2:45)
That's right. So he started a chain of viral websites and they got really popular, but like everything in that era, I bet it just crashed.

**Sam Parr** (2:53)
But if I met this guy once and I was like, oh my God, if I could just bet on this guy's lifetime earnings, I would bet right away, like this guy's really, really sharp.

**Shaan Puri** (3:00)
Yeah, he's kind of like a, almost a little genius-y.

**Sam Parr** (3:04)
Yeah, I like when you say genius-y, because it means like, it's kind of hard to talk to.

**Shaan Puri** (3:10)
Yeah, like he's a little genius-y, but when I read about him, I'm like, dude, why are you doing these viral sites? Like, you could do anything.

**Sam Parr** (3:16)
Yeah, and I bet he will. I bet he's gonna be one of those people that transitions from like, yeah, I first created these, you know, the Harry Potter fan site that became number one.