First Mastermind Forms Founders

A story about how Shaan and Sam's original mastermind group led to meaningful connections and success for its members.

"When we met I don't know 10 years ago, it was through something like this. We created a group - it was me, you, Jack Smith who went on to sell his business for like 700-800-900 million dollars, but at the time he wasn't in that spot. A guy named Ceeva who was doing this kind of class notes college business that wasn't really gonna end up being that big, but his next thing Enduring Ventures has turned out to be pretty big - it's a $100 million+ company now.

There was a small group of us and we would meet twice a month. The value was almost on the other side - the connections that you make, the ideas that you get, the relationships. You ended up being one of my groomsmen at my wedding. We invested in a bunch of companies from the mastermind and that made a bunch of money. Had I not been in a mastermind with you, I wouldn't have seen how you built The Hustle and I wouldn't have known how to build The Milk Road - a business I didn't know I was planning to create 5 years later, but that blueprint was etched in my brain from those meetings."