"Sara's List" Update:  12 Startups Where Stock Grants Will Make You A Millionaire artwork

"Sara's List" Update: 12 Startups Where Stock Grants Will Make You A Millionaire

My First Million

September 22, 2022

Episode 365: Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) give an update on "Sara's List." Sam Parr's wife, Sara, came up with a list of 12 established startups who had the potential to 5-10x over the next 5 years. Find out how much these companies are worth today. And a new Billy of the Week.
Speakers: Sam Parr, Shaan Puri
**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.

**Shaan Puri** (1:02)
So he lives in India and he is a one man company that makes something between $15 and $30 million selling simple plugins for Google Docs.

**Sam Parr** (1:14)
If you have $20 million a year of income, this is a huge unheard of song. All right, we live, what's going on?

**Shaan Puri** (1:28)
All right, I got a couple interesting things for you.
I'm gonna start with this one-man company. So I got a, I saw a tweet, I got tagged in a tweet a bunch of times.

**Sam Parr** (1:37)
Same, the exact same one.

**Shaan Puri** (1:40)
And I think we should talk about this because this was very cool.

**Sam Parr** (1:43)
Is it the Google plugin guy?

**Shaan Puri** (1:45)
Yes.

**Sam Parr** (1:45)
Yes.

**Shaan Puri** (1:46)
So, all right, so this guy, John Davids, tweeted out a great thread, and his handle is real John Davids. So shout out to him for doing this.
And he's basically like, dude, I discovered this guy. And let me just tell you some things about this guy. So-

**Sam Parr** (2:00)
How funny is it that something like this happens, and I know exactly what you're talking about because I got DM'd the same people probably DM'd me.

**Shaan Puri** (2:09)
Well, that's when you know you're doing a good job. When people see something and they think of you.
I tweeted this out, I go, people think you create content like a podcast or a YouTube channel to become well-known, right? Oh, you want fame, you want to become well-known.
And some people want that. And there is some benefits to that. But that's not my goal with this stuff. My goal is to be known well, which means people know you really well. That means when they see something, they'll know to send it to you. They'll show it to you. They'll share it with you. They'll invest it. They'll tell you to come invest in this deal with them.
When you're known well, it's because you've put your brain out there on blast. People know how you think. And so when they see something that they know you'll love, they immediately think of you and they come share it with you. And so I would say even if you create content and you're never famous, it never takes off and you become well-known, you will become known well. And that alone is a big enough benefit to justify creating content. All right, anyway, so we were known well because a bunch of people tagged us in this guy. So this guy, what is his name? So his name's Amit Agarwal. So he lives in India and he is a one-man company that makes something between $15 and $30 million selling simple plugins for Google Docs and Google Drive and the Google, the G Suite of apps.
This is crazy.

**Sam Parr** (3:29)
It's a one-man company. I didn't know it was that high. That is, that is, that is. Dude, making, if you have $20 million a year of income, that's like the equivalent of, I would have to think about this and maybe someone who's thought about this is gonna say I'm an idiot and I'm getting it wrong, but making $20 million a year in income is probably the same as being worth like $500 million.

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