My First Million · 11/9/2026 · 41 min

What I’d build if I wanted to get rich with AI

Transcript (13 segments)

0:58

Shaan Puri

It's basically the best business in the history of capitalism so far, right?

1:08

Sam Parr

Do you realize that amongst the seven co-founders, I think they've been around for $2,500, 2,500 days, they have basically created collectively, the seven founders, $96 million of net worth every single day since founding? Yeah.

2:25

Shaan Puri

So I really started thinking about, where would I go if I really wanted to make something happen right now?

3:49

Shaan Puri

I think has very low returns.

4:10

Shaan Puri

the first place I would go look is drugs and miracles.

5:01

Shaan Puri

You know, a drug typically took 10 years and $2 billion to make and had like a 80 or 90% failure rate.

14:32

Shaan Puri

20 times.

7:37

Shaan Puri

food is technology.

10:04

Shaan Puri

drones fighting drones.

14:21

Shaan Puri

And there are people who are building homes, like prefab high-end homes that can be done at 20 times cheaper.

15:05

Shaan Puri

what they do is they basically like print a home a day.

24:00

Shaan Puri

Are trending towards socialism.

26:36

Shaan Puri

Who can say things like, America's amazing and we have problems that we should fix.