*Get Shaan's money rules he used to go from broke to $25M by 30:* https://clickhubspot.com/gwb Have a newsletter? Want to pitch it live on an upcoming episode of My First Million for a chance to win Shaan and Tyler becoming official advisors plus $10K? Join the MFM Newsletter Challenge → beehiiv.com/mfm and use code MFM30 for 30% off your first 3 months. Episode 790: Shaan Puri ( ⁠https://x.com/ShaanVP⁠ ) talk to Tyler Denk ( https://x.com/denk_tweets ) about every step he took to grow Beehiiv to $1M in 12 months. Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (5:10) The marketing kill shot (7:52) launch a company with one story (10:56) getting your first 100 users (15:28) the underrated customer question (18:12) one feature (21:59) 7-min customer interviews (25:57) message from the founder (29:10) big desk energy (32:39) 1 marketable feature (35:19) death of a co-founder (37:02) write monthly investor updates (41:00) everyone is distribution (43:10) school of common sense (44:39) inherent virality (45:23) don't make people think (50:16) the 20-mile approach — Links: • Big Desk Energy - https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/ • Beehiiv - https://www.beehiiv.com/ and use code MFM30 for 30% off your first 3 months. — 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 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., 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 /