Family Hire Responsibility
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Sam Parr shares a story about the emotional weight of hiring his first employee who had a family.
"The first family person that I hired, the person that had children - I remember thinking when we hired them, I was like 'I have a family.' I was only 26 and I thought 'shit, it feels like I have a child.'
It shouldn't actually feel that way maybe, but in a way it kind of should, where I'm like 'oh shit, this is no longer just necessarily about me, this is about all these other people and stakeholders involved.'
I remember freaking out. It was very nerve-wracking."
The story illustrates how hiring someone with dependents made Sam realize the increased level of responsibility he had as an employer, as his business decisions would now affect not just an individual, but entire families.
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.