My First Million
00:10:20 · Sam Parr, Shaan Puri
[00:10:20] S1: Did you read about... You know how we took the the leader of Venezuela? [00:10:25] S0: I didn't read. How did we do it? What what did they do?
00:10:27 · Sam Parr
[00:10:27] S1: It was basically... Well, so they... Wherever they took them, it was like in the middle of a city. And I'm almost... I'm not positive, but I think either no one died or like close to no one died. And people are like, how did this happen? And they were talking to people on the ground and they're like, we don't know what happened. We saw the helicopter laying on the roof and we were standing there and we couldn't do anything. And they were like, what do mean? They're like, we couldn't move. And people are like, what do you mean you couldn't move? And it turns out they use like this new weapon that's like a, it sounds science fiction. It's like a array of stuff that like, it's like a array that shines down to you and like stuns you and you can't move or think. And people could just go, yeah. Yes. Look look up what happened. Yes. Yes. This is like a thing. Yes. Where, like, they basically... There was a joke. So on Google, reports claim that The US forces used a mysterious sonic or directed energy weapon during the 01/13/2016 raid that captured the the leader. Eyewitnesses that a security guard claimed that it was an intense unknown force described as a powerful sound wave or directed energy, and it made him feel like he was exposing, causing the guards to bleed from the nose, vomit, and collapse to the ground. Donald Trump called it, he used discombobulator when describing the weapon. Yeah. But it was like this new weapon that just like caught, like they couldn't do anything. It didn't kill them, but they couldn't move.
00:11:59 · Shaan Puri, Sam Parr
[00:11:59] S0: That's wild. I bet a guy in San Francisco... You know, if you go to San Francisco, sort of walk around. You'll just meet like random hackers that are doing very interesting things. So I go into this one place that used to be an old auto body shop that my friend had turned into kind of like a hardware coworking space or just like place for his investments to go work. And there was one dude in there. It was 11PM. There's one guy in there, and he goes, oh, you better... You might wanna back up. They're like, what? This guy is... He was like, I'm building lasers that can shoot drones from, like, extremely high distances away. [00:12:32] S1: And I was like, oh, okay. Walk and a run.
00:12:35 · Shaan Puri
[00:12:35] S0: Yeah. I was like, I was gonna record a podcast. Can I do that right now? And then he was like, I don't know. So, yeah, I think there's crazy shit going on in warfare. I think, like, you know, obviously, there's a lot happening here. But, you know, if you think about AI applied to the world of things, this is obviously a space that's gonna happen. Hey. Let's take a quick break. You know that feeling when strategy is done, the brief is written, everyone's aligned, and you realize someone still has to sit down and actually create all the content? That someone is usually you, and it's due tomorrow. Well, the Breeze assistant from HubSpot can help. It works right inside HubSpot. You can draft campaign copy, blog posts, emails, all in your brand voice, all using your actual customer data. So you don't create just content. You create content that converts. Check out hubspot.com, the agentic customer platform for growing businesses. Next one, building homes with AI and robots. And I don't know if you've been following this, but one of the big things that's gonna improve the quality of life of humans is if we can bring the cost of living down. Right? A lot of people's stress stems from the cost of living and just feeling like they're constantly underwater with how expensive it is. And the most expensive part of your life is gonna be, you know, for most people is, you know, their their home, the place they live. I think right now, the mortgage rates are 7.25%. I think, you know, where I live, I think... I don't know what the cost to build per square foot is, but it's something like, you know, for a nice home in this area, it'll be like 6 to $800 a square foot, let's just say, roughly. And there are people who are building homes, like prefab high end homes that could be done at 20 times cheaper. 20 times. And so, like, you know, if you could do something at 20 times cheaper for something that, you know, the construction industry is a gigantic industry. It's one of the biggest industries in the world. And I feel like we are within ten years away from there being a kinda night and day difference of the cost to build a home. If you wanna go see some crazy shit, go look up ZURU Tech. This is our friend Nick Mowbray, who's on the podcast, who... Him and his brother are, like, you know, two of the craziest entrepreneurs in the world.
00:14:44 · Shaan Puri, Sam Parr
They have a factory in China that is literally printing homes. So what they do is they they basically, like, print a home a day. And when I say print, that sounds like some cheap three d printing shit. No. No. No. These guys bought when the when the fires happened in LA and people's homes burned down and those lots were kind of ruined and there there was no... Nope. Like, nobody... The people who didn't wanna rebuild, they had to sell. These guys bought, I think, like, 60 to $80,000,000 worth of lots out there. And they're building, like, $20.30, $40,000,000 homes that are gonna be built in a factory in China. And what they're doing is literally you type [00:15:20] S1: in Three d three d printing is not the right word. It's like It's not the efficient way to... More a more efficient way to, like, pour concrete.
00:15:28 · Shaan Puri
[00:15:28] S0: It's... If you've ever seen how, like, the iPhone factory works, where it's this incredibly automated factory in China, where they're just spitting out these incredible devices that a billion people will use, and it's, like, the highest quality manufacturing you can do. These guys are doing that, but they're making homes instead of iPhones. And so they figured out, you know, each part of the the home, like, how to how to build it, and they're building these, like, luxury homes that are modular, can be assembled on the spot, almost like LEGO block style. If you go look at look at their earthquake simulator, he basically was showing me. He's like, yeah. Like, we made this home. And, you know, just to test the seismic resilience of it, we had to build in the factory a earthquake simulator where we could put this, you know, 5,000 square foot home or whatever, and then we can run it through the five biggest earthquakes that have happened on Earth in the last fifty years. So, hey. Let's push this button, and that's the Chilean earthquake. Let's push this button, and that's the huge one that happened in, you know, Morocco or whatever. And it's basically shaking the home, making sure that it's it's architecturally sound, that it doesn't... You know, what... And they're iterating on these homes daily. And then they take the home, and they put it... Right now, they just put it outside the factory. So outside the factory, there's, like, a 100 homes in a row where the workers just go live. As they're building, they're, like, iterating over their prototypes every single day. It is like one of the most insane projects in the world right now. Most people have no clue it's even happening. It's like Elon level of ambition, technical scope, change the world when it works type of shit. And it's real. This is not like Pipe Dream. It's not Silicon Valley where you're like raising money. These guys raised no money. They put a billion dollars of their own personal capital into funding this thing. Took no external capital, and they're just building it in China. They... And they've... Because they've spent twenty years building highly automated factories in China. They started in the toy business. And I I don't know if you know this, but the toy business is like... If you, like, if you ask Elon who he admires in terms of manufacturing, he'll say Lego.