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Sam Parr shares a story about a successful recreational sports league for tech companies in Silicon Valley.
"It was awesome - it was like a rec sports league. One season we did soccer, another season it was flag football. Different companies would pay $10 per season and you could have 10 players play. It was a really fun way to hang out and get to know your team.
At the time I was at Apartment List, so it was Apartment List versus whatever company was nearby. It was awesome, it was really fun. The guys who started it used the profits to bootstrap their company. They said they made a million dollars from it.
[When Shaan looked at their current website] The banner image shows two evil looking tech guys pretending to play football against each other. The guy's holding the football not like how you would hold a football when you run - tiny hands and can't hold a football. The other guy looks like an absolute hyena that's actually coming to take your data and sell it, not play sports at all."
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.