Rapid Fire Business Ideas, How to Buy a Public Company, and Mastering Your LinkedIn Profile

**SPEAKER_1** (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.

**Shaan Puri** (1:02)
Every time I've had a company sale, when we sold Bebo to Twitch, when we just sold the Milk Road, you've been our, we would call the deal doula. You help us go through that labor process and come out the other side with the happy ending. I guess.
Suli, welcome to My First Million. You're subbing in for Sam Parr today, and like every substitute teacher, it's always the best when they're there.
We're gonna talk about some of the companies you started, the companies you've invested in, things or some ideas you have. You were the first ever episode of the podcast. If people wanna hear your life story, that's the place to go, episode number one. We've come a long way from there. Did you think this is what would happen?

**Suleman Ali** (1:55)
I always knew the podcast was gonna be big. And I think from the very beginning, you were like, let's do Barstool except for business.
And that's what it's become and it's huge. And I actually think it's gonna be way bigger in a year than it is today, like three times the size a year from now than it is today.

**Shaan Puri** (2:13)
Yeah, I hope so. That's the goal.
We did the kind of Barstool thing except for without hiring anybody. It was like, okay, we will just be the jackasses and then like let it go from there. All right, so I got, you sent me this doc, which is great, because there's a bunch of topics on here that I kind of want to jump into. You, I guess we should set the like groundwork here. So I'll give you a very short life story so people understand who you are.
You worked at a job for like a couple of years. You did like the traditional path. You worked at Microsoft, you quit, you decide to start your own company. This is right when the Facebook app platform comes out. So you start building like silly Facebook apps that go viral. So I think things like Superlatives, which was like which of your friends most likely to do X. And it would invite those friends to like do it too. And it grew like crazy, but it was like a silly Facebook app. So you didn't have to do with it, but you ended up selling it. So you got, that was your kind of My First Million moment. So you sell it.
You're how old at that time? Like 24, 25 ish, 26 maybe?

**Suleman Ali** (3:18)
Yeah, 26

**Shaan Puri** (3:19)
26 Take that and you go on the next big wave, which is mobile apps are gonna be a thing. You are creating games, I think maybe first on Facebook and then on the iPhone, when the iPhone app store comes out, you're like, oh, this is gonna be big. You create a company called Tiny or TinyCo and end up somehow, you raise money from Andreessen Horowitz, you're living the dream.
Things go south as the economics of that business change. And then you go all in in this Hail Mary strategy, which again, episode one for the whole story, you go all in on this Hail Mary strategy of like, we're gonna get the rights to Family Guy. And you end up somehow as a startup that nobody's ever heard of, getting the license to make the Family Guy mobile game. You did it for Harry Potter and a couple other big IP things, sell that company.