Shaan's Apology To MrBeast, The Answer to 'What Startup Should I Start?', and Steven Bartlett Explained

**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)
I have to formally and humbly apologize to MrBeast. So here's the situation.
All right, let's jump in, I have a bunch of topics here.
I gotta start with an apology.
I have to formally and humbly apologize to MrBeast. So here's the situation. We've talked about it a little bit before. Back when we did Camp MFM, we invited MrBeast, and I should say invited, meaning we invited ourselves to his house, basically, in order to do it. We were like, oh yeah, we're gonna do this. He's like, yeah, that'd be cool, but schedule's a little bit crazy. I'm interested, but not in LA, because I'm in North Carolina. We're like, oh, coincidence. What town do you live in? That's where we're doing it. And so we went out there, had a good time. One of the things that happened was I made him, we were touring Duke's campus, and we were on their basketball court, and I made him a bet that I could make a half court shot before he did for $10,000.

**Sam Parr** (2:11)
Very stupid bet. He stood to gain nothing and you stood to gain everything.

**Shaan Puri** (2:15)
Well, he could get $10,000 also.

**Sam Parr** (2:17)
Oh, I didn't know that you had to pay him $10,000.

**Shaan Puri** (2:20)
Yeah, yeah, it was whoever made it first.
So put 10 grand up. I had learned this over the course of a few days. He's like me, he's a bit of a degenerate gambler. Like I think his company, they have like a separate bank account, where it's like, Beast, you could gamble this, but don't touch the main stuff. And that's all money he already won from gambling. So they're like, look, that's your house money to play with.

**Sam Parr** (2:42)
Petty cash, petty cash.

**Shaan Puri** (2:45)
Although I think the petty cash was like seven figures, if I was getting them correct. So anyways, bet him this amount, hit the shot, glorious moment. And then it's like, we're so busy there, we just go back to doing the camp, and it's like, yeah, cool, you know, I'll pay you.
And I was like, great, you'll pay me, that's what he does. And so he didn't right away. And so I was like, and everybody, all the other people on the trip were like, yeah, that was awesome, awesome moment.
Did he pay you? And I had to just be like, no, no, not yet, but he's good for it for sure, right? He's good for it. And so that became the running joke was like, no, no, he didn't pay yet, but he will. And I brought it up on the podcast because I talked about this on the end of your awards as like a highlight moment was saying, dude, I bet you I can make the shot in half court of Cameron indoor stadium, this hallowed college basketball stadium, and just having the balls to make that bet and then having the luck of hitting it.
Was a high moment and I said the low moment was following up like three weeks later and be like, hey, man, hey, hey, get that, but no, no rush, but you got that money. This wasn't a fake bet. This was a real bet, bro. Like, you know, first set it in a joking way, like, ah, bitch, better pay my money. Then three weeks later, like, hey, did you pay? And so then I was like, oh man, low moment was being the like having to follow up and being like basically begging for the cash. So did he pay? He was cool the whole time. He was just like, oh yeah, my bad. I'll have my assistant pay.