I dropped out of college and built a $3.6B company from scratch

2026-07-02 · 58 min · 18 entities

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Link in episode "I dropped out of college and built a $3.6B company from scratch": https://shaanpuri.com/
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Link in episode "I dropped out of college and built a $3.6B company from scratch": http://mercury.com/
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Link in episode "I dropped out of college and built a $3.6B company from scratch": https://box.com/
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Link in episode "I dropped out of college and built a $3.6B company from scratch": https://clickhubspot.com/ktng

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mentioned shaanpuri.com website

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evidence rules-v4
Link in episode "I dropped out of college and built a $3.6B company from scratch": https://shaanpuri.com/
mentioned mercury.com website

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Link in episode "I dropped out of college and built a $3.6B company from scratch": http://mercury.com/
mentioned box.com website

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evidence rules-v4
Link in episode "I dropped out of college and built a $3.6B company from scratch": https://box.com/
mentioned Ktng website

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Link in episode "I dropped out of college and built a $3.6B company from scratch": https://clickhubspot.com/ktng
references shaanpuri.com website

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Link in episode "I dropped out of college and built a $3.6B company from scratch": https://shaanpuri.com/
references mercury.com website

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Link in episode "I dropped out of college and built a $3.6B company from scratch": http://mercury.com/
references box.com website

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Link in episode "I dropped out of college and built a $3.6B company from scratch": https://box.com/
references Ktng website

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Link in episode "I dropped out of college and built a $3.6B company from scratch": https://clickhubspot.com/ktng

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mentioned Business concept

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mentioned Investing concept

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discusses Business concept

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discusses Investing concept

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discusses Entrepreneurship concept

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Feed category: Entrepreneurship

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mentioned HubSpot company

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mentioned Hubspot Media company

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Episode description as stored

Get Sam and Shaan's hard-won CEO lessons in one guide: https://clickhubspot.com/ktng Episode 838: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Aaron Levie ( https://x.com/levie ) talk about building Box, getting rich slowly, why AI might make us work harder. — Show Notes: (0:00) Story of Box (06:30) Enterprise Over Consumer (10:00) Turning Down Huge Acquisition Offers (17:05) Angel Investing, Missed Bets, and Investing in Your P&L (23:00) Aaron’s Contrarian AI Takes: More Jobs, More Work (30:00) Founder Anxiety, Therapy, and Surviving the CEO Grind (38:45) The Business Strategy Books Aaron Swears By (48:00) AI Tools, Software Stocks, and Why SaaS Isn’t Dead — Links: • Box - https://www.box.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% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Shaan uses Mercury for banking across all of his companies. you can too: http://mercury.com/ Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC • I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out: beehiiv.com/mfm-challenge My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano /