March 27, 2025

7 Business Ideas from a Unicorn Founder

7 Business Ideas from a Unicorn Founder

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Episode 691: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talks to Immad Akhund ( https://x.com/immad )  about the businesses he would start if he wasn’t running a unicorn.

Show Notes: 

(0:00) Intro

(2:17) IDEA: Lunar nuclear power plant

(5:04) IDEA: Defense tech

(10:09) The Peter Thiel test

(13:52) IDEA: Selling stars

(15:54) IDEA: Enterprise Agents

(22:45) IDEA: Digital Twin CEO

(32:39) Find accepted abuse

(36:18) Silicon Valley Bank fail

(44:15) Bets with asymmetric upside

(54:07) Choose your mess


Links:

• Mercury - https://mercury.com/ 



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• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

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• Copy That - https://copythat.com

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• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/


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