Panel · Global & US
My First Million
with Sam Parr & Shaan Puri
Two operators riffing on business ideas, small acquisitions and ways to make money — much less venture-shaped than the rest of this list, and useful for exactly that reason.
Why an angel should listen
Most of this list assumes the venture model: raise money, grow fast, exit large. This show mostly does not. It is about businesses that make money quickly, small acquisitions, arbitrage and ideas that would never take institutional funding — and that perspective is genuinely useful when you are assessing whether a company should be raising venture at all.
A meaningful number of the companies an angel sees are good businesses that will never be venture-scale. Recognising them early saves everybody time, and it is a distinction this show is unusually good at drawing because it takes the non-venture path seriously.
It is loose and it is discursive and roughly half of each episode is entertainment. That is the trade, and the ideas segments are worth it.
Where to begin
Start with these
- Any idea-generation episode, for the habit of sizing a business in five minutes.
- Episodes on acquiring small businesses, for a completely different model of ownership and return.
- Interviews with founders of profitable, unfunded companies.