the 6 traits of people who can’t stop making money

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Episode 872: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) and Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talk about the different types of founders.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Natural Money-Makers

(1:52) Attributes of Natural Money-Makers

(3:10) The Story of Nick Kokonas

(8:12) The Story of Jay Gould

(10:00) Can It Be Learned?

(13:04) The Story of Syed Balkhi

(17:58) Only Spend the Second Derivative

(22:27) Trading Valuable Hours for Useless Dollars

(26:50) Other Play Styles That Win

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Links:

• Syed Balkhi episode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzHdrQ5pDFo

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton (joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm 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 - Shaan uses Mercury across all of his companies. you can too: http://mercury.com/

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