From Coder to Cartel Boss - The Jeff Bezos of Organized Crime

**Shaan Puri** (0:00)
All right, there's this amazing book called Getting Everything You Can Out Of All You've Got. I read it a few years ago and it changed my life.
And the reason I loved it was because it basically talks about how to get and make more money using things that you already have.
Coincidentally, today's podcast is brought to you by Business Made Simple. It's a podcast by Donald Miller, who I'm gonna tell you about in a second, but he has this amazing episode that's all related to this book and the things that I learned in this book. It's called How To Make Money With What You Already Have. It's an incredible episode. It talks about all the stuff that I learned in this book. The host is Donald Miller. I didn't know who Donald Miller was up until recently, but over the last 12 months, this is totally by coincidence. It was all separate people. They said, you have to check out Donald Miller. He's amazing. So I'm happy that he's part of HubSpot's podcast network. You can check it out, Business Made Simple Podcast. It's where he coaches you on how to build your business like an airplane, where the cockpit is your leadership, the body is your overhead, the right engine is your marketing, the left engine is your sales.
You have to check it out. This guy's amazing. It's called Business Made Simple with Donald Miller.

**Sam Parr** (1:09)
All right, let's do some topics. What do you got? I got a couple. What do you want?

**Shaan Puri** (1:12)
Dude, I got a bunch of good stuff.

**Sam Parr** (1:13)
All right, let's pick one of yours.

**Shaan Puri** (1:15)
Let's do the Satoshi and the Paul Le Roux thing, because they're both really interesting. Do you know, let's do, which one do you want to do first?

**Sam Parr** (1:24)
I don't know who Paul Le Roux is.

**Shaan Puri** (1:25)
You don't know who Paul Le Roux is? Okay.

**Sam Parr** (1:27)
Fucking great name though.

**Shaan Puri** (1:29)
Dude, listen to this.

**Sam Parr** (1:30)
How much more would I be worth if I was Shaan Le Roux? And how much more respect would I get?

**Shaan Puri** (1:37)
He's also African. He's from South Africa, I think.
So Ben, you're nodding a little bit like you know who this is. Is that true?

**Ben Wilson** (1:46)
Yeah, I know who Paul Le Roux is. He's kind of like, who's the guy we were talking about that you knew?

**Shaan Puri** (1:52)
Ross Ulbrich.

**Ben Wilson** (1:53)
He's kind of like, if Ross had been as crazy as everyone thought, but actually like 10 times crazier, that's Paul Le Roux. Paul.

**Shaan Puri** (2:03)
Whoa.

**Ben Wilson** (2:04)
Yeah, yeah.

**Sam Parr** (2:06)
All right, let me. Who's the man, who's this guy?

**Shaan Puri** (2:07)
All right, so he's basically, all right, so Paul Le Roux, he's this big old fat disgusting guy. He's like, imagine.
Yeah, imagine like, have you seen South Park where they're like playing video games and there's that fat guy on the computer who's like eating Cheetos and like. He kind of looks like that. He's just a total slob, but he's this computer whiz. Yeah, Google him.
He's like disgusting.
And that kind of fits the personality of the whole story. And there's this great book that I'm reading. It's called Mastermind. It's about him. And basically this guy always like kind of wanted to take over the world. And in around like 2002, 2003, 2004, he started this company called RX Limited, which basically sold Viagra and a couple other like schedule two drugs. So like no, like he was able to sell some opioids, but not like the famous ones. Things that are considered schedule two, which is just one below between schedule one. And he created this company called RX Limited. And in like three or four years, it netted him hundreds of millions of dollars in profit. And do you remember years ago when you would get an email and it said like, hey, we sell prescriptions, click here. Do you remember that like years and years ago when you were in high school and grade school?

**Sam Parr** (3:17)
Not really, but go on. Let's say, let me say yes, go ahead.

**Shaan Puri** (3:20)
Well, basically, and then like, maybe you remember like going to like these websites where it like just showed tons of drugs and like you'd get texts that says like buy drugs online. Well, basically he created this website, RX Limited. And then eventually he started like creating so many domain names that he created his own domain registration system. And then eventually his network got so big, he created his own email system because he didn't want anyone to hack into his stuff. And at one point he had like two or 3000 employees working at this place, mostly Filipinos, mostly working call centers. And he had in Philippines and in Israel because he said the Israeli guys were the hardest working, were the cheapest, you know, the cheap, the cheap rate.