We asked a $18.9B Investor how to survive the AI bubble

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Sam Parr and Shaan Puri interview Graham Weaver about surviving the AI bubble and effective private equity strategies.

Run your life like a $100M business. Get Sam's personal system here: https://clickhubspot.com/emtd Episode 812: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Graham Weaver ( https://x.com/GrahamCWeaver ) about how which moats will win in AI and how he runs a ruthless PE strategy. — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (7:06) The buy and build strategy (10:43) Mowing lawns (14:48) What’s the overhype with AI (23:00) Where’s the opportunity (25:17) Ruthless PE (28:17) Hero deal: $8M to $500M (31:24) White hot will to win (34:17) The blank page (44:02) Graham’s first million (46:03) the biggest wealth mistake (53:39) second-hand therapy from graham — Links: • Alpine - https://alpineinvestors.com/ — 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 — 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%…

People in this episode

Hosts: Sam Parr, Shaan Puri

Guest: Graham Weaver

Topics covered

• AI investment
• private equity strategy
• business growth
• opportunities in AI
• wealth management
• entrepreneurship

Keywords

• AI bubble
• private equity
• business strategy
• investment
• wealth mistakes
• entrepreneurial growth

Sponsors

Hampton, Mercury

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Hubspot Media, Alpine, Hampton, Mercury, Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., Evolve Bank & Trust

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