Podcast Episode

3 businesses we think are about to blow up

Who’s talking

6 speakers
Shaan Puri28 min · 59%
Sam Parr18 min · 38%
Palmer Luckey43 sec · 2%
Speaker 421 sec · 1%
Speaker 219 sec · 1%
Speaker 61 sec · 0%

Transcript

244 turns · 49 min
SP
Sam Parr0:00

We're going back to the roots a little bit with, uh, MFM. Everyone says they want more ideas. I've got two of them.

Speaker 20:04

I feel like I could rule the world. I know I could be what I want to. Uh, I put my all in it like no days off. On the road less traveled, never looking back.

SP
Sam Parr0:13

Okay. Uh, so everyone's lonely. We know this. I wanna talk to you about two different radical ideas. [laughs]

SP
Shaan Puri0:19

If you're listening to this podcast-

SP
Sam Parr0:21

Yeah

SP
Shaan Puri0:21

... we know. [laughs]

SP
Sam Parr0:22

[laughs] Yeah.

SP
Shaan Puri0:23

You know, we know. [laughs]

SP
Sam Parr0:26

Well, I... These two ideas I've already been interested in, and I was just fi- trying to find an excuse to tie them together. I'm trying to make this cohesive. But they're two great ideas, and we have a precedent of getting this first one somewhat-ish right. We have predicted a couple, like, biohacking things. Not predicted, that takes too much credit, but, like, we talked about it fairly early in the adoption cycle. Would you agree?

SP
Shaan Puri0:47

We're, we're basically big pharma.

SP
Sam Parr0:49

Yeah. [laughs]

SP
Shaan Puri0:51

We have d- predicted and developed several, several pharmaceutical drugs [laughs] on this podcast. Would you like to go down memory lane of a couple of them?

SP
Sam Parr0:59

I don't actually know all the ones that we did. Obviously, uh, GLP-1-

SP
Shaan Puri1:03

Well

SP
Sam Parr1:03

... testosterone. What else were we talking about for a long time?

SP
Shaan Puri1:06

You, you've brought up GLP-1s kind of before they even got to market, before Ozempic ever got to market. Uh, TRT businesses, and you were toying around with the idea of like, "Hey, I really believe there's a big business to be built here." We didn't end up building one, but we both invested in one.

SP
Sam Parr1:23

What a miss. [laughs]

SP
Shaan Puri1:24

We inv- well, we invested in one. That, that worked. You also talked about sperm freezing, not just egg freezing, and I think that's also become quite a big deal. Uh, we've talked about IVF, you know, fairly early on and the different business opportunities that exist in IVF. I don't think anyone's actually done those yet. The idea there is to build a, a trusted brand in the IVF world, a chain. Um, the Ch- the Chick-fil-A of IVF, as I like to say.

SP
Sam Parr1:48

[laughs]

SP
Shaan Puri1:51

[laughs] A place you trust. Okay, but go on. What do you got now?

SP
Sam Parr1:55

Okay. So I was scrolling on Instagram the other day, and I saw two things. One, a new version, or rather another health trend that I think is gonna be popular, and two, probably the best way to position this new trend I've ever seen.

SP
Shaan Puri2:09

Okay.

SP
Sam Parr2:09

So P- Palmer Luckey, CEO, founder of Androl, also started Oculus. He, uh, was at this conference, and someone said something to him, a question that I tend to hate, and he's one of the few people I've ever seen to answer this question in a great way. The question was basically, "Palmer, if you were starting from zero, and you had nothing, no connections, what would you do? What would you work on?" And he had the best answer.

Speaker 42:34

If you were starting with zero today, some bet you made wiped you out, you gotta start again, you didn't have your network, you didn't have your wealth, what would you do today? Palmer?

PL
Palmer Luckey2:47

I would try to end the tragedy of divorce with oxytocin doping for marriage counseling.

Speaker 62:53

[laughs]

PL
Palmer Luckey2:53

We understand mammal pair bonding pretty well. There's a lot of people who wanna stay together. Most of the people who don't wanna stay together

Episode notes

Database of 140+ business ideas: https://clickhubspot.com/slkm

Episode 868: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) and Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talk about 3 business ideas.  

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Show Notes:

(3:08) Idea: Oxytocin dosing

(20:17) Idea: Loneliness solutions

(27:30) Idea: Faith-based businesses

(27:33) Angel Studios

(34:36) What’s the reaction to the action?

(42:03) The brutal business of making hit movies

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