I dropped out of high school…Now I’m building a $1T dollar company

Episode 704: Sam Parr ( x.com ) and Shaan Puri ( x.com ) talk to Blake Scholl ( x.com ) about he went from high school dropout to Groupon to the founder of a supersonic jet startup. 

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Find your red line

(4:29) Problems hidden in plain sight

(13:00) The making of Boom Supersonic

(23:00) No rules of thumb

(29:13) Blake's favorite interview question

(34:22) Demo Day at YC

(38:13) Selling Richard Branson

(47:46) Being a dark matter founder

(52:14) What does the most ambition of yourself look like?

(55:51) Progressively overturning of the skeptics

(1:01:06) Working with Jeff Bezos at Amazon

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Links:

• Steal Shaan's $20M Pitch Deck: clickhubspot.com

• Boom - boomsupersonic.com 

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - www.shaanpuri.com 

• Visit www.somewhere.com 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

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - www.joinhampton.com

• Ideation Bootcamp - www.ideationbootcamp.co

• Copy That - copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - joinhampton.com

• Sam’s List - samslist.co

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