My First Million
My First Million

When everything works, you learn the wrong lessons

January 15, 2026 · 57 min

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Episode 785: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talks to Nick Huber ( https://x.com/sweatystartup ) about the biggest bet he ever made and the mistakes he learned the hard way.

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Show Notes:

() Intro

() Breaking down Nick's portfolio

() The deal structure and terms

() Fail: Buying a domain for $400K, killing out traffic

() Fail Elon bought twitter + I invited competition

() new owner syndrome

() How to hire overseas talent (10-min masterclass)

() Pieter Thiel's Stanford class

() Suli's brutal advice

() Holdcos is overrated

() The tortoise always wins

() one big thing

() Roofing

() Self-storage

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• 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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