How Celebrities Have Made Billions off Their Names | My First Million #210

No more small boy spreadsheets, build your business on the free HubSpot CRM: https://mfmpod.link/hrd - In this episode Shaan (@ShaanVP) and Sam (@theSamParr) dive into a few industries and talk about the players behind them. They start off talking about car dealerships and the handful of politicians who make major coin through them. They then transition to celebrities and how some have leveraged their name to make even more money. They finish the episode with a few anecdotes on how some people started to accumulate wealth and a snippet on anti-aging and scientific discovery. --------- * Want to be featured in a future episode? Drop your question/comment/criticism/love here: https://www.mfmpod.com/p/hotline/ * Support the pod by spreading the word, become a referrer here: https://refer.fm/million * Have you joined our private Facebook group yet? Go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/ourfirstmillion and join thousands of other entrepreneurs and founders scheming up ideas. — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire global talent (like Shaan does) and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than their US equivalents. — 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 💰 Pitch your startup for a shot at a $1M investment with Sam Parr as the MC https://clickhubspot.com/pitch --------- Show notes: * (0:00) Intro * (2:09) The Skip Barber racing school * (6:10) Digitizing the gun range * (10:18) The politicians making money with car dealerships * (22:26) The cool growth hack used by Spoonflower * (27:17) Celebrities making bank of their celebrity * (33:54) George Clooney hooking up his friends with $1M cash * (38:20) A feel good story about Shaan's trainer * (40:26) The Bar & Bat Mitzvah hack to wealth * (43:26) A unique twist on Universal Basic Income - the birth dividend * (46:00) Aubrey de Grey and how scientific breakthroughs work ----- Check out our website for more business ideas: https://mfmpod.link/i1z Subscribe to the podcast if you’d like to listen instead: https://mfmpod.link/1tv