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5 min readThe Sarah's List Playbook: How to Pick the Next $1M Job
The hosts of My First Million have a running bit about Sam's wife Sarah, who made her first million before either of them did — not by founding a company or grinding as an early employee, but by joining Airbnb as employee 3,000. She got a standard stock package worth about $200,000 over four years, the company 5X'd, and she was a millionaire. "She didn't have to come up with the idea of Airbnb," Sean notes. "She joined it. She wasn't the first employee grinding like crazy. She was employee 3,000." That story birthed "Sarah's List," a recurring exercise where the hosts pick companies you'd join right now if you wanted to bet your time — your most valuable investment — on a clear winner.
The Framework: Time as Investment
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:05) **Sarah's List Origin Story** - Sam's wife Sarah made her first million by joining Airbnb as employee ~3,000, not by founding or grinding early
- 2 (03:19) **Previous List Track Record** - The hosts review their last Sarah's List from 18-24 months ago, noting 6 of 10 picks are already pacing to be winners
- 3 (07:28) **Format & First Pick: Zuru Tech** - Each person gets roughly 3 picks; Sean leads with Zuru Tech, a New Zealand-based toy company expanding into automated home construction
- 4 (14:20) **Pick: Varda Space Industries** - Jordy picks a space manufacturing company that makes things in microgravity (drugs, crystals, fiber)
- 5 (22:20) **Pick: Suno** - Sean picks the AI music generation platform, now at ~$2.5B valuation with $300M ARR
- 6 (31:11) **Pick: TrueMed** - Jordy picks a fintech that adds HSA/FSA-compliant payment buttons to online health/wellness checkouts
- 7 (38:58) **Pick: HubSpot (SaaS Pocalypse Bet)** - Sam picks HubSpot as a bet that the "SaaS pocalypse" is overblown
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Show Notes
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Episode 804: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) team up with the TBPN boys John Coogan ( https://x.com/johncoogan ) and Jordi Hays ( https://x.com/jordihays ) to break down the companies that could make you a millionaire as an employee.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) How to make $1,000,000
(5:05) Zuru
(12:47) Varda Space Industries
(19:33) Suno
(28:19) TrueMed
(37:32) HubSpot
(45:13) SemiAnalysis
(52:32) Harvey
(1:00:01) SendCutSent
(1:04:55) Column
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Links:
• ZURU - https://zurutoys.com/
• Varda - https://www.varda.com/
• Suno - https://suno.com/
• TrueMed - https://www.truemed.com/
• HubSpot - https://www.hubspot.com/
• SemiAnalysis - https://semianalysis.com/
• Harvey - https://www.harvey.ai/
• SendCutSend - https://sendcutsend.com/
• Column - https://column.com/
• TBPN - https://www.youtube.com/@TBPNLive
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