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Startup Ideas For Developers, Rebranding Elizabeth Holmes & Billy Of The Week

My First Million

May 9, 2023

Episode 453: Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) talk about the rebranding of disgraced Theranos co-Founder Elizabeth Holmes, startup ideas for developers, the essential elements of leadership, and Billy of the Week. Want to see more MFM? Subscribe to the MFM YouTube channel here.
Speakers: Shaan Puri, Sam Parr
**Shaan Puri** (0:00)
There's dudes in prison for like two decades for selling a little bit of weed, and she's just walking out of here with two... She basically took maternity leave from prison. Like, what's happening?
All right, what up?

**Sam Parr** (0:23)
We're here.

**Shaan Puri** (0:25)
Sam, incredible shirt.

**Sam Parr** (0:27)
I mean... Enough said.

**Shaan Puri** (0:33)
Just one man to another. I'd like to issue a quick compliment and I'd like to move on.

**Sam Parr** (0:40)
Someone in the comments said, oh, wow, Sam's dressed like a grown up. All I was wearing was a coat and so I'm wearing a jacket.

**Shaan Puri** (0:49)
What's the thing on top of his shirt?

**Sam Parr** (0:51)
I had to bring it back down. I had to let people know I can play both sides here.
Austin 316, baby.

**Shaan Puri** (1:02)
I still got that dog in you, which I think is going to be the next shirt we make. I still got that dog in him.
Where do you want to start? First of all, did you do anything crazy this weekend? Because I feel like your weekends are a lot more interesting than mine.

**Sam Parr** (1:15)
This weekend, I watch Cops on Sunday because that's what I do.
I did this combine thing. I set a new fitness goal every quarter. This year, this quarter, I wanted to score average for a wide receiver in the NFL combine. If you Google NFL combine averages, you could find them. This Sunday, I had to do my bench press test, which is 225 pounds and I had to do it about 15 times. I just about hit 15 and so my results for my combine test, I almost scored average. I just missed it a little bit, but mostly I was there.

**Shaan Puri** (1:57)
Wow.

**Sam Parr** (1:58)
Yeah, but the big discrepancy is when they do the combine, they use an electrical timer for the 40 and I did it by hand. So my hand time was the same as the electric time. Typically electric is slower, meaning you have to add a little bit on the hand time. But I kind of did it, I kind of did it.

**Shaan Puri** (2:18)
This was one of my favorite business ideas that still I'm not aware of anyone has done. It's not my favorite in that I don't think this is going to be the best business. I just it's a product I wish existed, which is a traveling combine for your town. So basically, the way I was thinking about it was for youth sports. So the market of 33-year-old guys who really want to test themselves before they leave their athletic prime, that's you and that's a small market. But a big market is parents who really think their kid is a special snowflake.
And so I was like, why don't they have a version of the combine where you get measured, height, weight, wingspan, speed, agility, strength, vertical leap, all that, and just do it for all kids who are in competitive sports? Because you've seen that for travel soccer or travel baseball, parents spend thousands of dollars and uproot their whole life just to pursue the kid's athletic dream, which is maybe actually the parent's athletic dream, and just be able to say that, yeah, oh, he's really good. Yeah, he's playing with kids two years older than him right now. They love that. They love saying that their kid's playing with kids.
Yeah, there's 14-year-olds in that league.
I think that that product is great because it's basically the Tough Mudder for little kids, so you would be able to charge, I don't know, $150 per kid to get tested plus another $20 a year to keep it all on file, another $20 to get the photo or the video montage that you're going to get to post to social media, and then every year you'll come back and get retested to see how did you do? Are you getting better or are you getting worse? What are your gains? So I think this could be a viable business and I would love if this existed because I would love to go, I'd love to get my kids tested or my niece tested and even myself would love to enroll.

**Sam Parr** (4:18)
So I'm taking this a step further. First of all, I knew I was going to marry my wife because when I met her father, he had the ideal calves. So he had the ball in the calf.

**Shaan Puri** (4:28)
I think I got a ball calf.

**Sam Parr** (4:31)
Well, usually people who are explosive, they have like a ball, like a tennis ball in their calf. I saw his like skinny ankle with the ball in the calf and I was like, all right.

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