Episode · My First Million · 2026-11-02
Books mentioned on $100M hedge fund manager: Do not make the mistake of dying rich
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Shaan Puri discussed Die with Zero by Bill Perkins. Bill Perkins discussed Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Die with Zero
Die with Zero by Bill Perkins is a financial and lifestyle book that advocates for using one's wealth to enjoy life and support family while still alive rather than hoarding money for the distant future.
Discussed“And then as we got rich, we started to turn our attention, as one does, to living a rich life versus getting rich, which is the subject of your book.”
Where to get it
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Your Money or Your Life
Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez is a foundational personal finance guide that redefines the relationship between working, spending, and life energy.
Discussed“I read a book called Your Money or Your Life, which kind of introduced the concept that the best definition of money is something you exchange hours of your life for.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Die with Zero
“The words in the book are pure. The stories are pure. Like the concepts are pure.”
Passing The Sun Also Rises
“But like, yeah, I was in this whole, like, I'm just going to date a bunch of people. I'm going to have like kind of this movable feast of a life. You know, like the sun also rises. Hemingway type life.”
Passing Designing Your Life
“Well, a lot of the books now are having like handbooks, which I actually think, I think those are cool. Uh, like, uh, I know that, um, there's design your life, which was that Stanford course.”
Plugged Die with Zero
“As a matter of fact, there's a guy coming out named Austin, who is like the number one fan, my number one fan of the book, gives out the book all the time, spoke at like conferences about the book, about my book.”