The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of
My First Million
•January 19th, 2026
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Episode 786: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) tell the story Demis Hassabis ( https://x.com/demishassabis ) and the creation of Deepmind.
Show Notes:
(00:00) Demis the Menace
(22:05) The only resource you need is resourcefulness
(24:57) Move 37
(29:38) The olympics of protein folding
(46:39) We are the gorillas
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Links:
• The Thinking Game - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d95J8yzvjbQ
• Why We Do What We Do - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwFOwyoH-3g
• Fierce Nerds - https://paulgraham.com/fn.html
• Isomorphic Labs - https://www.isomorphiclabs.com/
• If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies - https://ifanyonebuildsit.com/
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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.
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