The Wild Story of Mike Lynch’s Rise From Janitor to Tech Billionaire

My First Million

Episode 636: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the rise and fall of Mike Lynch aka The British Bill Gates and his mysterious death onboard his $30M dollar yacht.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) The British Bill Gates Dies in Freak Yacht accident

(14:51) The Kennedy Curse, conspiracies and coincidences

(20:49) Sam bombs his meeting with the mayor

(33:50) Branding to attract equals

(44:36) Work backwards from the customers

(48:00) Knowing something in your head vs your hands

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Links:

• Philosophize This! - https://www.philosophizethis.org/

• Wait But Why - https://waitbutwhy.com/

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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

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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