People are doing $100M+ in sales on this app (ft. Whatnot founder)

Episode 863: Shaan Puri and Sam Parr talk to Grant Lafontaine the founder of Whatnot.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro
(1:00) Grant turned down Shaan’s investment
(2:12) Shaan buys a crab on Whatnot
(3:58) First 1,000 users
(19:07) Black hat growth tactics
(28:52) 30 sales to $2.3M in year 1
(34:03) $2.3M to $163M in year 2
(34:56) $163M to $1B in year 3
(37:02) How to be a billion-dollar founder
(42:04) Going all the way deep on a single problem
(45:44) Don’t let people use fancy language
(49:48) Being disagreeable but likable
(50:43) The reason I left Facebook
(53:39) “If you think you’re moving fast, you’re probably not”
(54:13) Trends: NeeDohs, squishies, gold bars
(56:21) 9-figure sellers

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