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On today’s episode, Kyle talks to Hamilton Helmer about the power of being an educator and how it’s helped him improve at strategy and investing, the differences between power and operational excellence, how he formulated his 7 powers, a deep dive into all 7 powers, updated case studies of some of the powers, why barriers are so important when benefits are much easier to find. IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN: 00:00 - Intro 01:41 - How Hamilton uses his knowledge of strategic consulting to invest in companies with durable competitive advantages. 01:52 - How Joseph Schumpeter has helped shape Hamilton’s strategy on entrepreneurship. 14:00 - Traits of earlier stage businesses with potential for power. 20:25 - How to observe the power of a brand to ensure its advantage isn’t being eaten away. 24:02 - How businesses with switching costs power can keep customers happy while increasing prices. 24:12 - Hamilton’s personal story of the power of Apple’s brand and switching costs. 29:12 - The distinction between power and strategy. 30:46 - The power of cornered resources. 32:50 - Why algorithms are not a cornered resource. 38:01 - Changes in capital availability for private businesses. And so much more! Disclaimer: Slight discrepancies in the timestamps may occur due to podcast platform differences. BOOKS AND RESOURCES Join the exclusive TIP Mastermind Community to engage in meaningful stock investing discussions with Stig, Clay, Kyle, and the other community members. Check out Hamilton’s book, 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy. Learn more about Strategy Capital. Learn more about the Berkshire Summit by clicking here or emailing Clay at clay@theinvestorspodcast.com. Follow Kyle on Twitter and LinkedIn. Check out the books mentioned in the podcast here. NEW TO THE SHOW? Follow our official social media accounts: X (Twitter) | LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | TikTok. Check out our We Study Billionaires Starter Packs. Browse through all our episodes (complete with transcripts) here. Try our tool for picking stock winners and managing our portfolios: TIP Finance Tool. Enjoy exclusive perks from our favorite Apps and Services. Stay up-to-date on financial markets and investing strategies through our daily newsletter, We Study Markets. Learn how to better start, manage, and grow your business with the best business podcasts. SPONSORS Support our free podcast by supporting our sponsors: River Toyota Linkedin Marketing Solutions Fidelity Efani Shopify NDTCO Fundrise Wise NetSuite TurboTax Vacasa NerdWallet Babbel HELP US OUT! Help us reach new listeners by leaving us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! It takes less than 30 seconds, and really helps our show grow, which allows us to bring on even better guests for you all! Thank you – we really appreciate it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Episode 434 Part 2: Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) are joined by entrepreneur and Bitcoin investor Anthony Pompliano (@APompliano) to explain his businesses, how he gets rock stars on his side, and what internet entrepreneurs that stand out right now. Want to see more MFM? Subscribe to the MFM YouTube channel here. SHAAN'S NEW DAILY NEWSLETTER --> shaanpuri.com ----- Links: * Mark Jenney * Daniel Gross * Pomp Crypto Jobs * The Crypto Academy * Pomp Investments * @pompglobal (Instagram) * @pompofficial (TikTok) * The Pomp Podcast * Anthony Pompliano * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. ------ Show Notes: (02:35) - How Pomp makes money (30:05) - How to get young rockstars on your side (50:20) - Who's the one internet entrepreneur you think has figured it out? ----- Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. ----- Additional episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto * #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

In this episode of the Personal Finance Podcast, we're gonna talk about the 20 plus investing lessons from one of the greatest investors of all time. Join Our Newsletter here! Learn to Invest with Index Fund Pro! Our complete step-by-step guide to investing! https://mastermoney.co/index-fund-pro/ Thanks to Our Amazing Sponsors!:  Chime: Start your credit journey with Chime. Sign-up takes only two minutes and doesn’t affect your credit score. Get started at chime.com/ Thanks to Ka’Chava For Sponsoring the show! Go to kachava.com/pfp and get 10% off on your first order.  Shopify: Shopify makes it so easy to sell. Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at shopify.com/pfp Policygenius: This is where I got my term life insurance. Policygenius is made so easy. To get your term policy go to policygenius.com and make sure your loved ones are safe. Healthy Cell: The best way to get your vitamins and nutrients based on your goals. I take one pouch every day to perform my best mentally and feel better physically. Go to Healthycell.com and use promo code PFP for 20% off your first order! Get all the nutrients your body needs today! 22+ INVESTING LESSONS FROM PETER LYNCH One Up On Wall Street Checklist of relevant episodes:  From Police Officer to Multimillionaire investing in ATM’s (With Paul Alex) Why Live-In-Flips May Be the Best Way to Invest in Real Estate with Carl and Mindy Jensen The Easiest Way To Invest: Target Date Retirement Funds How Much Should You Have Saved and Invested (By Age!) Personal Finance Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@thepersonalfinancepodcast  FREE GUIDES: ============== - Free Ebooks here: https://mastermoney.co/resources/  -Check out the free guide on where to put your money in what order!  https://www.mastermoney.co/stairway-to-wealth   -Here is the free How to Ask for A Raise ebook! https://www.mastermoney.co/get-a-raise-ebook   -Get Access to the 75-Day Challenge: https://www.mastermoney.co/75daychallenge    =============   We have a YOUTUBE channel! Check it out here!    Our Latest Videos:  How To Grow A Podcast Organically What Would Happen If You Maxed Out Your Roth IRA By Age?! (These Results Will Amaze You!) How to Become a Millionaire With a Small Amount of Money (Is it Really This Easy!?) Pre-tax moves for high earners   Got questions? Ask me on Instagram Here. @mastermoneyco This is the fastest way to get in touch with me.  ============   Want to Support the Show? Follow on Spotify or Follow and Leave a 5-Star Review on Apple Podcasts!   ============   Check out all the Stuff I Recommend!  Check out all my favorite Credit Cards https://milevalue.com/top-offers-mastermoney/    USEFUL RESOURCES: The Year-End Money Checklist https://mastermoney.co/year-end-money-checklist/   The 75 Day Money Challenge https://mastermoney.co/75-day-challenge/  Finally, Get That Raise https://mastermoney.co/resources/  ============     DISCLAIMER: I am not a financial adviser. This Podcast is for educational purposes only. Investing of any kind involves risk. While it is possible to minimize risk, your investments are solely your responsibility. It is imperative that you conduct your own research. I am sharing my opinion.    AFFILIATE DISCLOSURE: Some of the links on this channel are affiliate links, meaning, at NO additional cost to you, I may earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase and/or subscribe. However, this does not impact my opinion.   ============     Check us out on social fam!    Twitter   Tiktok   www.thepersonalfinancepodcast.com   www.mastermoney.co Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's show, we talk to Harvard professor, Laura Huang, about her new book, Edge. Her book talks about turning your adversities into advantages.   IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN: Why hard work is not enough to be successful, and what you can do about it. Know how others see you, so you can redirect them how they should see you. How to turn your weaknesses into assets. What you can learn from starting with $5 in capital. BOOKS AND RESOURCES Join the exclusive TIP Mastermind Community to engage in meaningful stock investing discussions with Stig, Clay, and the other community members. Laura Huang’s book, Edge – Read reviews of the book  NEW TO THE SHOW? Check out our We Study Billionaires Starter Packs. Browse through all our episodes (complete with transcripts) here. Try our tool for picking stock winners and managing our portfolios: TIP Finance Tool. Enjoy exclusive perks from our favorite Apps and Services. Stay up-to-date on financial markets and investing strategies through our daily newsletter, We Study Markets. Learn how to better start, manage, and grow your business with the best business podcasts.  SPONSORS Support our free podcast by supporting our sponsors: River Toyota Linkedin Marketing Solutions Fidelity Efani Shopify NDTCO Fundrise Wise NetSuite TurboTax Vacasa NerdWallet Babbel HELP US OUT! Help us reach new listeners by leaving us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! It takes less than 30 seconds, and really helps our show grow, which allows us to bring on even better guests for you all! Thank you – we really appreciate it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's episode is a deep look into our 4Ds program from a recent session held out of our LA office. A bunch of moments here where right away we knew it'd be valuable for many so keep an eye out for more content stemming from this podcast.

If you’ve been to 4Ds and have any feedback for this community tweet me @Garyvee and for more info on the program email nick@thesashagroup.com with the month you’d like to attend.

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Most people’s pitch, offer or sales process is boring and vanilla and the same as everyone else’s. So what are you doing to stand out? In today’s episode, Rob brings you 4-simple ways for you to sex the heck out of your marketing and sales process and super-charge your brand and influence. Learn how to use scarcity and urgency in your sales, marketing and advertising to drive more sales and grow your business.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

1. First - How can you make your course or your product the first! Is the first in the market or too the market? If you think carefully about your product or service you can implement an element of first to your audience.
2. Last - People either want to be the first to get something the last. You can tap into the FOMO (fear of missing out) to market this. Marketing around this creates a sense of urgency and scarcity.
3. Only - Can you be the only provider of your product or service in your market or area?
4. New - When something is brand new they want it more. It’s fresh, exciting and could fix their pains and problems. Ask yourself: what can you offer that’s new that serves your clients?

BEST MOMENTS

“Don’t claim to be the first when you’re not”

“People want to be either the first to something or the last to receive something”

“You can re-package the new”

“These will work if you’re honest and don’t use them for manipulation”

[Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

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Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “Disruptors”

“If you don't risk anything, you risk everything”

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My guest this week is a bundle of curiosity, and that is one of the nicest things I could say about someone. For several years, Tren Griffin has been writing a weekly blog post that highlights things he has learned from various investors, businesspeople, musicians, comedians, and more. Lately, he has also been tackling individual businesses, and broad topics like scaling, competitive forces, and product market fit. Tren’s full time job is serving as a director at Microsoft. He’s also worked with or for several well know businesspeople and investors like Craig McCaw, and written several books including one on lessons for entrepreneurs, one on Charlie Munger, and another on negotiation.   We discuss value creation vs. value capture, alpha in investing, sales, hip hop, and why he’d teach high school students about convexity through a drunk driving analogy. I could have talked to Tren for much longer than I did, but sadly, we both had flights to catch.  If you take anything away from this, I hope its just how much fun it is to just be curious about business, and how you can learn a tremendous amount if you just keep reading about the things that interest you and talking to others. Please enjoy my conversation with Tren Griffin. For more episodes go to InvestorFieldGuide.com/podcast. Sign up for the book club, where you’ll get a full investor curriculum and then 3-4 suggestions every month at InvestorFieldGuide.com/bookclub. Follow Patrick on Twitter at @patrick_oshag   Show Notes 2:26 – (First question) – key levers of the universal business model 4:26 – How do you know when you’ve achieved real value creation 6:24 – Importance of value capture and how they enhance value creation  6:31 – Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future 9:08 – Price power 10:28 – Are discussions of moats more useful to businesses than to investors 13:12 - What Tren learned during his early years working with Craig McCaw 16:28 – The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success 16:36 – The skill of capital allocation 18:37 – How would Buffett and Munger bet on tech if they were starting out today and their philosophy of betting against change 21:57 – How Tren became so fascinated with Charlie and what he’s learned from him 22:32 – The Alchemy of Finance 23:17 – Damn Right: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger 23:19 – Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger 25:21 – Most memorable moment or lesson from Charlie 19:20 – How he thinks about factor investing 31:25 – What are the scalability features that make a business attractive 31:28 – A Dozen Attributes of a Scalable Business 35:37 – Exploring some of the other important levers of businesses, such as subscriptions, customer acquisition cost, and more. 36:20 – Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In 37:11 – Wholesale transfer pricing 39:18 – Pros and cons of subscription business models 43:14 – Magic of getting products distributed 44:58 – Best sale Tren’s ever made 46:46 – Most important lesson for young people 50:16 – Tren’s interest in hip-hop and how it helps him reach more people 53:49 – A look at some interesting quotes from Jim Barksdale 58:22 – Learning by doing 1:00:48 – Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed 1:01:06 – Period of his career that he felt most alive 1:03:03 – Advice for young people thinking about business and entrepreneurship 1:04:56 – Why are so few people passionate about what they do for a living 1:10:44 – Kindest thing anyone has done for Tren   Learn More For more episodes go to InvestorFieldGuide.com/podcast.  Sign up for the book club, where you’ll get a full investor curriculum and then 3-4 suggestions every month at InvestorFieldGuide.com/bookclub Follow Patrick on twitter at @patrick_oshag

Could you get duped into sending a fraudster thousands of pounds?

Many people think of course they wouldn’t, but then it happens to them.

In this week’s podcast Simon Lambert, Lee Boyce and Georgie Frost look into the disturbing rise in fraudsters targeting ordinary people’s finances and how you can protect yourself – we also ask if the banks do enough to help.

On the other side of the table from those looking to take your money, are the people who promise to make it for you – fund managers.

And there has been one name that keeps cropping up in This is Money’s reader comments as someone who doesn’t get his fair dues, Terry Smith.

We dive into his Fundsmith fund, why it has been so successful and having had it explained to him first hand by Mr Smith himself, Simon outlines the Fundsmith investing philosophy.

He looks at whether investors need to be wary of putting too much faith in an approach that has done well if conditions change, or whether the top global funds run by managers such as Smith, Nick Train and the Baillie Gifford team are worth sticking with come what may.

Also up on this week’s podcast is the best car of the year as named by What Car? – and it’s a diesel – and Lee’s once in a lifetime trip to the home of Ikea in Sweden, where he learnt some very interest facts about the flatpack furniture store you either love or hate.

My guest this week is Andy Rachleff, who is the CEO of the automated investing platform Wealthfront. Andy was also a co-founder and long-time partner at Benchmark capital--one of the most interesting and successful venture capital firms in the world. We spend most of our conversation discussing venture capital investing and entrepreneurship. Andy coined the now ubiquitous term “product/market fit,” and has great insight into how investors and entrepreneurs should think about business. In that vein, we discuss both what we refer to as the value hypothesis: building a product or service that customers love, and the growth hypothesis: scaling that product or service to a large market. We finish our conversation by talking about Andy and his teams mission at Wealthfront, and this conversation is perfectly timed, as Wealthfront just released a new feature that allows investors to buy factor portfolios, similar to Smart Beta ETFs. Above all, I’ll remember Andy’s advice to “put the gun in the other person’s hand,” a strategy that we explore in the middle of our talk.   For comprehensive show notes on this episode go to http://investorfieldguide.com/andy For more episodes go to InvestorFieldGuide.com/podcast. Sign up for the book club, where you’ll get a full investor curriculum and then 3-4 suggestions every month at InvestorFieldGuide.com/bookclub. Follow Patrick on Twitter at @patrick_oshag   Books Referenced The Four Steps to the Epiphany The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses Millennial Money: How Young Investors Can Build a Fortune Diffusion of Innovations Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers   Show Notes 2:36 – (First question) – The partnership setup and how they came to be 5 equal partners 7:57 – Why benchmark would not take on the chairman role in companies they invested in 9:28 – What made John Doerr the greatest capitalist investor ever 11:59 – Looking at the venture process and what made it an attractive investment for Benchmark, using eBay as an example. 18:06 – If you are willing to help other people, without an expectation of return, it can create other opportunities 20:08 – Andy is asked to explain the idea of Product Market Fit, a term that he coined 22:18 – How does one go about finding a Product Market Fit             23:05 – The Four Steps to the Epiphany             23:19 – The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses 25:55 – What are the components of the Growth hypothesis 26:51 – Why you can learn more professionally from success vs failure 28:13 – What it’s like to shift from venture capitalist to operator/CEO 30:24 – The rate at which technology gets adopted and what will help Wealthfront             30:53 – Millennial Money: How Young Investors Can Build a Fortune             31:26 – Diffusion of Innovations             31:38 – Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers 32:38 – What does it look like to innovate on top of current platforms 41:07 – Will platforms like Wealthfront help to democratize access to private markets 44:23 – Kindest thing anyone has done for Andy     Learn More For more episodes go to InvestorFieldGuide.com/podcast.  Sign up for the book club, where you’ll get a full investor curriculum and then 3-4 suggestions every month at InvestorFieldGuide.com/bookclub Follow Patrick on twitter at @patrick_oshag

#QOTD: Who is the biggest influence in your life right now?

As an entrepreneur, I default into assuming it's always going to be competitive. It doesn't matter if "nobody is in your space" because if you're any good, and you've figured something new out, EVERYBODY is going to be in your space eventually. 

To me, competition between startups is the same old game: Better product, better service, better execution. Those are the things that will drive your business. 

When you're David, you shouldn't play Goliath's game. When you're Goliath, you should CRUSH David.

Here's an example: Did anybody think it was weird that, for three years, I NEVER mentioned VaynerMedia. The truth there was that my size (or my lack thereof) was my advantage, and I couldn't let these other big guys know how huge we were getting! I was learning the landscape. Now that we've got the money and the scale to compete, you'll see that I'm talking about it more. 

The important thing is to NEVER PLAY THE OTHER PERSON'S GAME.

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