My First Million
00:08:55 · Sam Parr, Shaan Puri
[00:08:55] S1: Alright. What's the next one? Well... War of... [00:08:57] S0: Yeah. Next one. Warfare. So, you know, there's the idea... Like, if I picture in my mind, like, the military machine of America. You know, I think about tanks and soldiers and boats and maybe some, like, fighter jets. And I think... You know, okay. I'm speaking a little out of turn here. I don't know actually what's going on with the war fronts here, but I suspect that that is a bit of a fantasy. It's like, you know, my wife growing up dreaming about her wedding. She just, like, had this vision in her mind that didn't meet reality for a very long time. You know, the little girl when she was, you know, eight versus, like, when she was 30, getting married, like, a lot had changed. And I think what's the same thing is is similar with what war probably will look like at this point, which is drones fighting drones. It's, you know, unmanned tiny aircrafts that are super cheap to build. I think this is what's going on in Ukraine and other places where you can spend you can send really expensive equipment out there, but they can just send, like, you know, a little piece a little, you know, a piece of junk metal autonomously flying. It's super cheap to make. You can make in high volume, and it could do a lot of damage. And so I think warfare is probably... You know, Anduril obviously is doing really interesting things there. There's other companies. You know, Joe Lonsdale has a company that's, you know, kind of underwater, you know, sort of navy... The navy version of Anduril.
00:08:57 · Shaan Puri, Sam Parr
[00:08:57] S0: Yeah. Next one. Warfare. So, you know, there's the idea... Like, if I picture in my mind, like, the military machine of America. You know, I think about tanks and soldiers and boats and maybe some, like, fighter jets. And I think... You know, okay. I'm speaking a little out of turn here. I don't know actually what's going on with the war fronts here, but I suspect that that is a bit of a fantasy. It's like, you know, my wife growing up dreaming about her wedding. She just, like, had this vision in her mind that didn't meet reality for a very long time. You know, the little girl when she was, you know, eight versus, like, when she was 30, getting married, like, a lot had changed. And I think what's the same thing is is similar with what war probably will look like at this point, which is drones fighting drones. It's, you know, unmanned tiny aircrafts that are super cheap to build. I think this is what's going on in Ukraine and other places where you can spend you can send really expensive equipment out there, but they can just send, like, you know, a little piece a little, you know, a piece of junk metal autonomously flying. It's super cheap to make. You can make in high volume, and it could do a lot of damage. And so I think warfare is probably... You know, Anduril obviously is doing really interesting things there. There's other companies. You know, Joe Lonsdale has a company that's, you know, kind of underwater, you know, sort of navy... The navy version of Anduril. [00:10:20] S1: Did you read about... You know how we took the the leader of Venezuela?
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.