Castro AIDS Audio Tour
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Sam Parr shares a story about using Detour, a location-based audio tour app, in San Francisco's Castro district.
"I did one where I went to the Castro and it was all about the AIDS epidemic. You got to know Harvey Milk, the gay activist that was murdered during the eighties when the AIDS crisis was going on.
The narrator was talking and he said 'Now this is the last time that I hugged Harvey before he died.' Then he's like 'Now this house up here, these guys lived here, and on top these guys lived here - they all died.' It was so emotionally powerful."
The story demonstrates how location-based audio tours could create deeply moving experiences by connecting historical events to physical places.
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.