Wait, My Intern Became a 21-Year-Old Millionaire??

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**Shaan Puri** (0:41)
I remember at one point you're telling me in Slack, you're like, these people just offered me two million bucks for this. I'm like, holy shit, you didn't do this. We started the podcast, My First Million, you just made your first two million. Congrats, I can't believe this worked out. You're like, I'm not gonna sell though. And I was like, wow, this guy's insane. I was like, that's an insane story.
All right, so I can't tell you how many times I hear this.
People will DM me every single day and they'll say, hey, I'm just calling my shot right now.
Today, I'm a small boy. In three years from now, I'm gonna be on MFM. I'm gonna be on My First Million. I'm gonna make My First Million do an XYZ. Every single day, I get a message like that.
Here's somebody who actually did it. This is Ishan. He was my intern, turn guy who's made millions and millions of dollars, lost millions of dollars and had a crazy journey in between. You were the guy who I created this podcast with. You were the guy who, the cover art of our podcast, he created it. The intro song originally, the original intro song, he created it. I didn't even know how to record audio at the time. This guy did all of it. You went from behind the scenes to now you're on the stage here in my house and we're going to record this episode.

**Ishan Haque** (2:02)
So I've made it.

**Shaan Puri** (2:04)
You've made it.

**Ishan Haque** (2:05)
That's the teaser. All right. Let's tell the story.

**Shaan Puri** (2:08)
All right. What's up, man?
So people don't know this. So you are Ishan. I've known you since you were 18 years old. You still are kind of like 18 years old.

**Ishan Haque** (2:22)
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

**Shaan Puri** (2:23)
You're 23 now?

**Ishan Haque** (2:24)
Yeah.

**Shaan Puri** (2:25)
So I'm thinking this episode is kind of like your title was an intern, but it's going to be good for you too. So we're going to be like, intern, my intern became a millionaire.

**Ishan Haque** (2:35)
I was glorified. My top official title is Cheapest Stuff.

**Shaan Puri** (2:39)
And by the way, I got a good track record with this. I don't know if I'm doing anything, but I'm good at picking people because I worked with you at age 18 Yeah. I think you're probably 19, maybe 20 years old.
There's a guy, another guy named Ishan, who just tweeted out today that he's like, those four months I worked with you were super influential. He went from like guy just working someplace, now he's got an eight figure agency.

**SPEAKER_1** (3:02)
So that was cool.

**Ishan Haque** (3:03)
Yeah.

**Shaan Puri** (3:04)
Danny Miranda worked with me for a little bit.

**SPEAKER_1** (3:05)
People know him in the podcast game now.

**Shaan Puri** (3:07)
He was with us for a couple months before he started creating content.

**Ishan Haque** (3:09)
So I feel like those two Ishans are maybe getting people that like sound similar to your name. Yeah, the closer, the better actually.

**Shaan Puri** (3:18)
All right. So you've had a crazy run, but let's do the history. So how did we meet?

**Ishan Haque** (3:26)
Well, I followed you on Twitter when I was like 12,000 years old. I was tweeting. My whole strategy was let me get my like profile picture.

**Shaan Puri** (3:34)
I'm going to re-intro the one part, which is, one thing that people don't know is this podcast was started actually, not with me and Sam, me and you.
I hit you up on Twitter DMs. And I saw that you were podcast editor for somebody else I knew. I think Corey or Angel List or something like that.

**Ishan Haque** (3:56)