These Executive Doctors Charge $10k Per Appointment?!
About This Episode
Sam and Shaan explore high-margin business models including executive health clinics and stock exchanges, emphasizing the importance of 'remarkable' products to reduce marketing costs. They also discuss the 'Pizza Meter' and other quirky economic indexes used to predict global events while sharing startup pivot wisdom from Eric Ries.
Episode Description
Show Notes
- 0:00Shaan's billion-dollar idea: Executive Check-ups
- 2:12Mayo Clinic’s $100M proof of concept
- 12:58$15K/mo lead gen arbitrage
- 17:25Pizza intelligence
- 19:41Shaan's Mount Rushmore of indexes
- 24:54The most profitable companies in the world
- 26:32Why stock exchanges have the best business model
- 33:20"Shoot your old idea in the head" - Eric Ries
- 41:20Hustler of the week: The Female Pieter Levels
- 43:30"Marketing is the tax you pay for an unremarkable product"
Links
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Key Takeaways
Perform a 'public execution' of old startup assumptions during a pivot to ensure the entire team is aligned on the new direction and abandons dead-end ideas.
Focus on creating 'remarkable' products that generate word-of-mouth, as traditional marketing is essentially a tax paid for having an unremarkable product.
Monitor 'alternative intelligence' signals like the Pizza Meter (spikes in late-night delivery at government buildings) to identify major events before they hit mainstream news.
Business Ideas Mentioned
Soho House for Medicine
Boring Business
Manual Lead Generation Agency
Agency
Branded Fruit for Corporate Events
E-commerce