CompareVPN $100M Exit
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Sam Parr shares a story about a seemingly basic website called CompareVPN that achieved massive success.
"I was looking at Michael Bisping, who's a UFC YouTuber, and a VPN company sponsored him. I thought that was strange, so I googled 'what's a good VPN.' I came across this website called CompareVPN.
The site gets millions of views. I noticed they're based in England, and in the UK, you can look up private companies' financials through Companies House. I looked up their financials - in 2021 they did $15 million in revenue and $13.2 million in profit. The year before that, $10 million in revenue, $9.5 million in profit.
The website isn't good looking, doesn't have the best design, and I believe only gets about a million visits a month. But they ended up selling for over $100 million last year. It's just this little old website that reviews VPNs. I'm sure it's more sophisticated than what it looks like, but it's not particularly impressive looking."
Sam Parr
Host of MFM and fitness influencer
Sam Parr is a serial entrepreneur and business media pioneer.
In 2016, he founded The Hustle, a business news media company that started in his kitchen with just $12 and grew to eight figures in revenue.
Sam led the charge in making newsletters popular when few believed in their potential.
After four successful years, he sold The Hustle to HubSpot, a publicly traded company. Now operating as HubSpot Media, The Hustle reaches 3 million readers daily, employs a team of nearly 100, and has been the launchpad for dozens of its staff to found their own media companies and newsletters.
Sam remains the host of the popular business podcast, My First Million, and continues to start and sell companies. He also co-founded Hampton, a highly vetted community for entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs, and teaches people to write better through his platform, Copy That.