MFM Demo Day: 5 Startups Pitch Sam & Shaan and Raise $1.7M

**Sam Parr** (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.
So here's the situation. So this is recording, so this is gonna go live on our podcast feed. So the people listening on the podcast, there's you, and then there's people who are live right now, I think over a thousand people live. So we're on this thing called stonks.com. I guess I gotta do a disclosure. I'm an investor, Sean, are you an investor?

**Shaan Puri** (1:27)
No, but a fan.

**Sam Parr** (1:29)
Fan, so stonks.com, we were friends with them. They asked us to do this, and it was actually, we say no to everything, but this was a cool idea. So basically, five startups are gonna pitch us, and we're gonna maybe invest, but very likely, tear them apart and also compliment them. We're gonna make some good content out of this, right?

**Shaan Puri** (1:50)
Yeah, okay, great, I'm down. And we don't know much about these startups ahead of time, so it's all gonna be kind of fresh.

**Sam Parr** (1:58)
And there's a comment section. Do you see the comment section, Sean?

**Shaan Puri** (2:01)
Like where people are chatting?

**Sam Parr** (2:02)
Yeah, so if there's any good questions. And also on the stonks.

**Shaan Puri** (2:05)
And they can invest, right? Like they can just put in money.

**Sam Parr** (2:08)
Yeah, so like if they see something, I don't think they can like, they're not literally gonna fund the company right there, but they're gonna say like, I'm interested, let's talk.
And honestly, that's probably what I'm gonna do. I'd never like, on these things, I cannot, like I've seen these things and someone's like, I'm in for $100,000. And they say they're like right on the spot. I'm not that impulsive, are you?

**Shaan Puri** (2:26)
Yeah, I'm that impulsive.
And it's also more dramatic. So I'm a sucker for the drama, I'll do it.

**Sam Parr** (2:31)
All right, well, at least one of us will.
And then if you go to the chat of this video thing, you'll see the order of people that they're gonna go. And we're gonna talk to one person. I think they get two minutes and then we get eight minutes to talk to them. And then it's gonna say like times up, move to the next one. Does that make sense?

**Shaan Puri** (2:50)
This is pretty sick, let's do this.

**Sam Parr** (2:53)
All right, we have John Hancock from Stonks is like our assistant here. He's gonna be feeding us startup. So John, do you wanna bring the first one up?

**Shaan Puri** (3:01)
John, is that a real name?

**Sam Parr** (3:03)
I don't think so.

**Shaan Puri** (3:06)
What's up Tarush?

**Tarush Aggarwal** (3:07)
How's it going? Thank you so much for the time.

**Shaan Puri** (3:09)
Okay, take it away.

**Tarush Aggarwal** (3:12)
Awesome. My name is Tarush, I'm the founder and CEO of 5X. Been fortunate enough to spend my career in the data space from being the first data engineer at Salesforce to most recently running data for WeWork, supporting thousands of employees.
Over the last few years, been super interested in the modern data stack. It's estimated that over 77% of companies in the next 10 years in some way, shape or form are going to use the modern data stack.