The Inside Story Of The Fake Twitter Employees Who Trolled The M…
About This Episode
Shaan and Sam discuss the viral prank involving fake fired Twitter employees and delve into the economics of the 10 billion dollar Halloween industry, including pop-up real estate and costume licensing. They also explore new seasonal business opportunities and debate the merits of opting out of the corporate rat race through niche software acquisition.
Episode Description
Show Notes
- 01:30- Troll of the year: Rahul Ligma & Daniel Johnson
- 08:25- Elon Taking Over Twitter and Elon's War Room
- 19:00- Halloween Research - How much people spend
- 29:25- Zombie Pumpkins
- 30:15- Halloween Ideas
- 37:35- VR Haunted House
- 43:30- Pet costumes
- 44:20- Hu.ma.ne
- 54:15- Suleman Ali's Twitter thread
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- Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more.
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- Additional episodes you might enjoy:
- #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits
- #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future
- #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto
- * #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett
- #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates
- Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More
- How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More
Links
- * Spirit Halloween
- * Rubies
- * Zombie Pumpkins
- * Pumpkinsteins
- * Hu.ma.ne
- * Suleman Ali
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Key Takeaways
Leverage seasonal real estate by negotiating short-term kickout clauses for vacant properties to build high-margin pop-up stores like Spirit Halloween.
Capitalize on Zuckerbergs Law by creating products that help users capture and share the increasingly large percentage of their lives they are willing to make public.
Identify boring digital assets with high cash flow that can be maintained with minimal effort to achieve financial independence and exit the rat race.
Business Ideas Mentioned
VR Haunted House App
Content & Media
Spirit Store for Christmas
Boring Business
Neighborhood Holiday Light Service
Boring Business
Niche Pet Costume E-commerce
E-commerce