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StoryEP 846 · 32:57 · Sam

Buffett watched Mary Poppins, then bought 5% of Disney for $4M

“But in 1966, a young Warren Buffett visited a movie theater on 45th and Broadway in New York to watch Mary Poppins. He went with a briefcase in the middle of the afternoon, later joking that it almost felt like he…”

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Build for agentic shopping: let AI bots buy through your API

Harmon says he no longer uses Google for search and that many people now have AI assistants like Grok shop for them. Businesses that expose an agent-friendly checkout, so the bot talks to an API instead of scraping pages, can reach a fast-growing group of shoppers. He calls it a current glitch.

Steal thisExpose your catalog and checkout through an API that AI shopping agents can use directly, before competitors optimize for it.

EP 869 · 13:54 · JEFF HARMON
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Palmer Luckey's from-zero idea: oxytocin doping to end divorce

Asked what he would build if he lost everything, Anduril and Oculus founder Palmer Luckey said he would use oxytocin, the mammal pair-bonding hormone, as an aid in marriage counseling. Sam and Shaan praise it as a rare original answer that came with the pitch already packaged.

Steal thisPitch a fringe biohack around a huge emotional problem like divorce, not around the molecule itself.

EP 868 · 2:47 · PALMER LUCKEY
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Ride the loneliness wave: a membership club monetized by insurance

Sam points to the Knights of Columbus, Good Sam (RV owners), and USCCA (concealed carry, about $400M a year in revenue) as long-lived businesses built on shared identity. His pitch is to start a new one aimed at today's loneliness epidemic and make money from financial products.

Steal thisBuild an identity-based membership club for a lonely niche, then partner with a carrier to sell members insurance.

EP 868 · 23:55 · SAM
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Picks and shovels for live sellers: wholesale supply and live-shopping MCNs

Asked what to build on top of Whatnot's growth, Grant LaFontaine points to wholesale marketplaces that supply inventory-hungry live sellers (several have raised large rounds mostly on Whatnot demand) and multi-channel networks that help people run live shopping businesses.

Steal thisStart a wholesale sourcing marketplace or an MCN-style agency that serves high-volume live-shopping sellers.

EP 863 · 58:21 · GRANT LAFONTAINE
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