MrBeast of Gardening!? How The Plant Daddy Built A $27M+ Garden

**Shaan Puri** (0:00)
He quit his job, and in the first year, he does it. He hits actually five grand a month, so he even surpasses his one-year goal, and he just keeps going. So, first year, $60K, second year, like $100 something K, third year, $250K, fourth year, $7 million, fifth year, it just keeps growing. Today, this business does over $30 million a year.

**Sam Parr** (0:18)
No way. Are you kidding me?

**Shaan Puri** (0:30)
Do you want to start with Updog?
I thought I might catch a sleep in there. You should have just gave it to me.

**Sam Parr** (0:44)
That's way below you. You should have just gave it to me. Before we start, I want to dedicate this podcast, Shaan, to two groups of people.
Because I've had run-ins with these two groups of people, and I've taken for granted how special these two groups of people are. The first one, people who start businesses and are not native English speakers, it's insane.
I have hung out recently with a few friends that are entrepreneurs and they don't speak English natively. That's so impressive. I take it for granted so much until I've got to communicate with someone of a different language. That's amazing.
I want to dedicate this pod to that. The second group of people, people who start businesses and they're not wealthy and they're just starting their businesses, trying to make their dreams come true while they have newborns or little kids. How impressive is that? I kind of took that for granted. My parents did that when I was younger. I don't realize, now that I'm a kid, I realize how scary that is. I want to dedicate this podcast to those two groups of people.

**Shaan Puri** (1:45)
Good guy points. I like it. Dedication accepted.
Shout out to all those groups.

**Sam Parr** (1:53)
I have a few interesting things to share with you today. Do you have a few interesting things or what?

**Shaan Puri** (1:58)
I have two things you're going to like.

**Sam Parr** (2:00)
What do you got? All right.

**Shaan Puri** (2:01)
So we're talking about AI, talking about fancy shit, right?
Well, I'm going to take you on a journey. So Sam, buckle up because I got a little something for you. I'm going to tell you about a journey I went down. And the journey starts with a tweet I saw that was very interesting.
And it was a tweet about Bitcoin hit an all-time high price, AI is taking off. I wasn't interested. What I was interested in is a picture of a guy holding a giant avocado.
And I was like, what is this? And he says, he goes, these are the best avocados I've ever had. They were grown by my 93 year old Japanese neighbor. I have had to use Google Translate to talk to her about the variety. And she thinks it might be one that just grew from this specific seed. If that's true, this could be a new landmark variety. The Hass avocado was discovered in similar fashion and is now the most popular avocado in the world. This avocado that I found cannot be propagated with normal methods. It doesn't take well to air layering. I don't know what this means. He says, so I'm gonna have to start with the seed. I'm gonna have to grow it out the tree. I'm gonna have to cut it from the mature tree, graft it onto its own seed. I don't even know what any of this means. But then he's like, and then I'm gonna try to recreate this avocado. It will probably be a three year experiment. Wish me luck.
And so I saw this and I, what a noble quest.

**Sam Parr** (3:16)
I said, like, what does this avocado teach me about life?

**Shaan Puri** (3:20)
No, what has life led me to to make my life about this avocado? Because I am so fully invested in this three year journey about this guy who's gonna try to grow a better avocado. And it led me down a rabbit hole about him and about the avocado. So the guy is this guy named Kevin Espiritu. Do you know this guy?
He calls himself the Plant Daddy on Twitter.

**Sam Parr** (3:38)
No, but I've been.

**Shaan Puri** (3:41)
I think you do. When I just started describing me. Well, so he's got a pretty amazing story.
And I'm gonna first tell you his story that I'm gonna come back to the avocado. We're gonna Tarantino this a little bit.

**Sam Parr** (3:49)
All right.

**Shaan Puri** (3:50)
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