Shaan Puri

Shaan Puri is an entrepreneur and co-host of the My First Million podcast alongside Sam Parr. He previously co-founded Bebo, a short video social platform that was acquired by Twitch in 2019. He has also worked as president of Twitch's games studio and has invested in and advised startups. He co-launched My First Million in 2019, and the podcast has grown to several million YouTube subscribers and consistent top rankings in business podcast charts.

His content on My First Million and on social media covers business idea brainstorming, trend analysis, startup evaluation, and entrepreneurship broadly. His background as a founder and acquiree provides firsthand context for discussing startup dynamics. He also publishes on X and operates the Power Writing newsletter. His social media writing on business and writing frameworks has received wide distribution within entrepreneurship and startup communities.

Puri and Parr's combined following reflects the podcast's position within the internet entrepreneur community. His business background is concentrated in social media, gaming, and internet consumer products, which shapes the types of businesses he discusses with the most familiarity. As with all business commentary from practitioners, his frameworks reflect the specific contexts in which he has operated, and their applicability to different industries varies.

His communication style is direct and he has been publicly willing to update positions. His business predictions and investment opinions are shared with varying degrees of confidence and have mixed track records, as is typical for forward-looking business commentary. His audience engages with him primarily for the reasoning process and the breadth of business ideas discussed rather than as a reliable source of verified predictions.