Early Adopter Advantages
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Sam shares two stories about being an early adopter of emerging trends: vaping and peptide treatments.
Story 1 - Vaping (2004): "I was on the vaping weed trade since 2004. I was never really a weed guy, but I thought the whole smoke thing seemed weird. I researched it like crazy and found this woodmaker who made an oven that you light on fire - basically like a meth pipe for weed. It heats the weed to a certain temperature and turns it into vapor. I thought portable vapes would be a thing, and then Pax came out."
Story 2 - Peptide Treatment: "I started reading on Reddit about this thing called BPC 157, which is a peptide. This guy posted about how his shoulder had been hurting for 20 years, and he injected himself with this thing and three days later had zero pain. I'd been complaining for 5 years that my achilles and calf were always in pain, so I thought 'screw it, this one Reddit guy, I'm gonna try this out.' I did it and my calf feels amazing now, I have zero pain."
The stories demonstrate Sam's willingness to experiment with emerging trends and technologies before they become mainstream.
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.