Snapshot · My First Million
Lloyd Blankfein concentrates his personal investment portfolio across three sectors: technology, energy (his trading background), and financial services (his professional expertise).
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Sam Parr raises the topic of having a supportive partner, and the conversation shifts into something more personal and candid. Blankfein's wife Laura — herself a former big-law attorney and now chair of Barnard College — was the operational backbone of the household during his CEO years. When they moved overseas, she found the car, the house, organized the schools for the kids; he showed up and 'took victory laps' for doing well at work. He has not personally paid a bill in over 40 years. Blankfein is careful to extend the credit in both directions — plenty of men in his Goldman cohort stepped back professionally to support high-achieving spouses — and notes that the asymmetry remains real but is changing. The section is unusually frank about the gendered economics of elite dual-career households, with Blankfein noting that 'guys don't have babies' as a persistent structural constraint.
Lloyd Blankfein advocates giving wealth away while still alive — 'with your warm hand, not your cold hand' — echoing the premise of the book Die with Zero.
Blankfein passed on SpaceX when it was valued at $100 billion because he thought it was too expensive. The company is now being discussed at a $1.75 trillion valuation — a 17.5x miss. He also passed on early cellular investments because he didn't see the point of portable phones.
Lloyd Blankfein passed on investing in SpaceX when it was valued at $100 billion, which has since grown to a proposed valuation of $1.75 trillion.
Sam built Algrow from zero to $14,000 in monthly revenue within just six months of shipping his first MVP.
Algrow reached over 10,000 users in roughly six months, driven almost entirely by organic Discord community growth.
Sam acquired his first 400 users entirely through Discord communities, without paid advertising or traditional outreach.
Algrow added exactly 480 new paying customers in its most recent month, demonstrating strong ongoing growth.
Sam's Stripe dashboard showed over £10,000 in revenue in the last four weeks, equivalent to roughly $13,000–$14,000 USD.
Sam gave all early users free access so they could show the tool to friends, turning them into live demos and advocates who helped the product spread virally.
By silently screen-sharing his tool in Discord voice chats rather than posting links, Sam attracted curiosity without violating no-self-promo server rules.
Before building Algrow, Sam and two friends made over $10,000 in revenue through affiliate marketing for RizzApp by posting faceless texting story content.
Bhanu grew SiteGPT to $13,000 monthly recurring revenue entirely through organic channels, spending nothing on paid marketing.
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