I spent 48 Hours With 10 Billionaires. Here’s What I Learned.

**Sam Parr** (0:00)
All right, you just got done hanging out with some big ballers. We're off on you to where you think you have the audacity to wear a varsity jacket.

**Shaan Puri** (0:08)
I have a stylist now.

**Sam Parr** (0:09)
Is it Marty McFly from Back to the Future? Is that your stylist?

**Shaan Puri** (0:14)
It's AC. Slater from Save the Bill.
We just threw one of our annual events. It's our basketball camp for founders. What Forbes calls the Billionaire's Basketball Camp. They never covered it, but I did pitch that to them in an email that they didn't reply to. So we did this thing. It was amazing. And I guess, what? You want to debrief? What do you want to know?

**Sam Parr** (0:45)
Yeah, I want to know everything. So I've gone two out of the four years. And it seems like each time the average net worth has gone up, like you've added a zero to it. Because I think I heard you did this event this year in Greenville, North Carolina, I think, which is a very small town. And there were 17 private jets in town that weekend.

**Shaan Puri** (1:05)
Yeah, out of like 25 guests. Yeah, it's pretty crazy. So, okay, so I wrote down some learnings because I don't want to tell you too much about the event.

**Sam Parr** (1:13)
Well, can you give some background to it?

**Shaan Puri** (1:14)
The 30 second description is, I hate conferences because networking, suits and ties, icebreakers, awkward, forced social interactions don't like that part. But I also do love meeting new interesting people. So the idea was like, can you have the good without the bad? Can you have your cake and eat it too? And I've learned in the past that basically every time you complain, you've planted a seed of an opportunity. So like my complaint about conferences signaled to me that maybe there's an opportunity to reinvent this, right? Innovation comes from irritation. So my irritation at conferences led me to ask a different question. What would be the type of conference that I would love to go to? And so we kind of architected this thing that's basically just the three things we like the most put together. So it was, well, what if we got together and instead of being in like a ballroom C of the hotel and we're all just standing around awkwardly, what if we got together and we played sports? So what if you played basketball? So the icebreaker is when you get to the event, you get put on teams and within an hour, we go pick up basketball together and you get to know each other that way before you do small talk and all this other stuff. The second part is, so you play basketball and sort of sweat all day and then at night, we all hang out in a house and we do like impromptu versions of Ted Talks. So the idea is everybody in the room is world class at something. It's like that guy knows more about how to sell on TV infomercials than anyone else. And this guy could build the largest company in X category. This guy built the largest company in X category. And so you pop them up and you say, hey, tell us something, teach us about that. And they have little like rough slides that they take a 10 minute talk about. That's the idea of the event is two days with 25 of the most interesting people in the world. You play sports and it feels, you have a summer camp vibe, but then you get the sort of lessons learned of a Ted Talk event.

**Sam Parr** (3:11)
And you're hosting it, co-hosting it, I don't know how you describe it, with Jimmy, AKA MrBeast, at his campus. And last year, and I think every year, you get like a tour, one of the activities was like a tour of his movie studio, if that's what he calls it. And it's pretty spectacular.

**Shaan Puri** (3:26)
This year is cool, we actually played a MrBeast game. So like they thought they were going for the tour, but we set it up so that he's like, well, I could show you this, or you want to do it? And he had the cameras and the microphones set up and so everybody got to play this game. And they made a video that's like private just for like, it won't go out on YouTube, but it's like just for the group.

**Sam Parr** (3:44)
It's like the rich man version of like going on like a Six Flags ride and they take a photo of you on the ride.