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$30B Founder: How To Rank #1 In ChatGPT
1:11:23
#798Sep 15, 2025

$30B Founder: How To Rank #1 In ChatGPT

Want to rank #1 in ChatGPT? Get the Prompt Library: https://clickhubspot.com/dpm Get HubSpot's new Loop playbook here: https://clickhubspot.com/cd63b7 Episode 745: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Dharmesh Shah about the early days of SEO and how to jack the algorithm today to show up in ChatGPT responses. — Show Notes: (0:00) The origin of inbound (15:55) Algorithm jacking (22:43) Old Way: SEO (32:45) New Way: AEO (36:21) Step 1: Enable chatbot crawlers (37:55) Step 2: Restructure your content as Q&A (39:05) Step 3: White hat linking (43:44) Step 4: Structured product catalogues (44:27)Step 5: Human generated answered (46:57) How Dharmesh goes from 0 to 1 (52:26) How Dharmesh uses ChatGPT (59:30) The sport of business — Links: • Inbound - http://inbound.com/ • On Startups - https://www.onstartups.com/ • ClickFunnels - https://www.clickfunnels.com/ • Loop Marketing - https://www.hubspot.com/loop-marketing • ImageGen.ai - https://imagegen.ai/imagegen • DadJoke.ai - https://agent.ai/agent/dadjoke • Agent.ai - https://agent.ai/ — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

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Talking to a billionaire about how he uses ChatGPT
56:15
#779Jul 16, 2025

Talking to a billionaire about how he uses ChatGPT

Want Sam's playbook to turn ChatGPT into your executive coach? Get it here: https://clickhubspot.com/sfb Episode 726: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Dharmesh Shah ( https://x.com/dharmesh ) about how he’s using ChatGPT. — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (2:00) Context windows (5:26) Vector embeddings (17:20) Automation and orchestration (21:03) Tool calling (28:14) Dharmesh's hot takes on AI (33:06) Agentic managers (39:41) Zuck poaches OpenAI talent w/ 9-figures (49:33) Shaan makes a video game — Links: • Agent.ai - https://agent.ai/ • Andrej Karpathy - https://www.youtube.com/andrejkarpathy — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

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A Billionaire Guide To Going From $4/hour to $1 Billion Net Wort…
1:17:14
#708Dec 3, 2024

A Billionaire Guide To Going From $4/hour to $1 Billion Net Wort…

Get our Business Monetization Playbook: https://clickhubspot.com/monetization Episode 655: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Dharmesh Shah ( https://x.com/dharmesh ) about how to increase the odds of hitting your first million and your next million.  — Show Notes:  (0:00) Intro (3:33) Lesson 1: Get leverage (9:26) Lesson 2: Be an asset, not a liability (13:40) Lesson 3: Get even closer to the value creation (19:42) Mini Masterclass on Power Negotiating (24:35) Dharmesh's little-known $2M failure (29:35) Lesson: Insight compression (34:08) Dharmesh sells Chat.com (41:06) Agents are the new apps (44:51) The future is hybrid teams (49:23) Agents Dharmesh uses today (53:20) Dharmesh's next big thing (1:02:58) Uncomfortable company values (1:05:33) Local maximum vs global maximum (1:06:57) RaaS: Results-as-a-Service (1:09:59) Being a first time billionaire — Links: • Agent AI - https://agent.ai/  • Harvey MacKay books - https://harveymackay.com/books/  • Getting To Yes - https://tinyurl.com/43ne6v97  • Connecting Dots - https://connectingdots.com/  • MFM Vault - https://frontend-production-f8b7.up.railway.app/  — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

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Brainstorming ChatGPT Business Ideas With Billionaire Dharmesh S…
1:19:29
#486Mar 30, 2023

Brainstorming ChatGPT Business Ideas With Billionaire Dharmesh S…

Episode 438: Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) talk to Hubspot Co-founder and CTO, Dharmesh Shah (@dharmesh), about all things artificial intelligence (AI), the countless business opportunities from AI, and why Dharmesh is saying AI is - and will be - bigger than the internet. Want to see more MFM? Subscribe to the MFM YouTube channel here. SHAAN'S NEW DAILY NEWSLETTER --> shaanpuri.com ----- Links: * OpenAI * LangChain * Chat * ChatSpot * Gates Notes AI article * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. ------ Show Notes: (00:50) - Open AI (10:15) - The Chat to Code Revolution (17:45) - How does AI work? (19:03) - Is AI scary? (23:40) - Sequoia's AI Event (29:05) - Vector embeddings (43:15) - Why Dharmesh Bought Chat.com (50:45) - Dharmesh's 17 Year Chatbot Journey (01:00:10) - Tactical Advice on Hampton ----- 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. ----- 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

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Billion Dollar Business Philosophies With Hubspot Co-Founder Dha…
1:30:39
#378Jul 12, 2022

Billion Dollar Business Philosophies With Hubspot Co-Founder Dha…

Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) talk to Co-Founder & CTO of HubSpot, Dharmesh Shah (@dharmesh), about why a bad economy is a good time to start a business, creating an alternative to Wordle, and the trillion dollar Venn diagram of success. Also, want $5,000? Check out the My First Million Clips contest. ----- Links: * HubSpot * Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy article * WordPlay * Maven writing course * Shaan tweet about starting the next Pixar * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan's newsletter. ----- Show Notes: (02:10) - Why renting is better than owning (25:20) - Framework for three types of employees (35:05) - Why Dharmesh built WordPlay (01:07:55) - Driving value through an intersection of skills (Trillion dollar Venn diagram) (01:12:10) - Why Shaan is starting the next Pixar ----- 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. ----- 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

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#197 with Dharmesh Shah - What It Feels Like to be a Billionaire
1:23:13
#227Jul 7, 2021

#197 with Dharmesh Shah - What It Feels Like to be a Billionaire

Sam (@TheSamParr) and Shaan (@ShaanVP) are joined by HubSpot co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah (@Dharmesh). Dharmesh shares his thought process behind buying the Hustle, how he thinks about time & money, and how HubSpot came to be. They close the episode talking about ideas around a better version of LinkedIn and the future of software. --------- * Want to be featured in a future episode? Drop your question/comment/criticism/love here: https://www.mfmpod.com/p/hotline/ * Support the pod by spreading the word, become a referrer here: https://refer.fm/million * Have you joined our private Facebook group yet? Go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/ourfirstmillion and join thousands of other entrepreneurs and founders scheming up ideas. --------- Show notes: * (0:57) Intro * (9:10) The inside scoop on why HubSpot bought The Hustle * (14:00) What it's like to be a billionaire * (18:54) A framework on the relationship between time & money * (24:50) Rich guy questions * (28:24) Dharmesh on the beginnings of HubSpot * (37:10) Idea: A blockchain version of LinkedIn * (45:35) Dharmesh on BitClout * (50:22) Idea: NLP, the future of software * (53:20) Growth Bot & website graders * (59:25) Dharmesh on GPT-3 * (1:02:55) Idea: A community for remote work * (1:04:41) Deal trophies * (1:06:56) A framework to evaluate startup ideas * (1:13:55) Constructive podcast criticism * (1:18:36) Outro

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