# the 6 traits of people who can’t stop making money

An episode of [My First Million](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1469759170), 16 Oct 2026, 39 min.

Audio: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/HS2218595252.mp3

Take our founder personality quiz: https://clickhubspot.com/dclt Episode 872: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) and Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talk about the different types of founders. — Show Notes: (0:00) Natural Money-Makers (1:52) Attributes of Natural Money-Makers (3:10) The Story of Nick Kokonas (8:12) The Story of Jay Gould (10:00) Can It Be Learned? (13:04) The Story of Syed Balkhi (17:58) Only Spend the Second Derivative (22:27) Trading Valuable Hours for Useless Dollars (26:50) Other Play Styles That Win — Links: • Syed Balkhi episode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzHdrQ5pDFo — 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 /

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