Apartment Bakery Success
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A story about how a French-American couple built a successful croissant business from their apartment.
"Right before the pandemic started, there was a French guy and his American girlfriend (now husband and wife) who started baking croissants in their apartment. They brought them to work and sold them to their friends and coworkers.
Eventually, they created an Instagram account and went viral. Now you have to pre-order 8 weeks out because they're sold out for weeks. They're just baking these croissants and cookies out of their apartment.
The apartment I'm staying in right now bought some - you have to pre-order, and it's like $90 for these fancy croissants. The guy who owns my apartment got them but ended up going out of the country, so he told me I could have his order. I invited Dave Nemitz, the founder of Bleacher Report, and his wife to come over and eat these with me on Sunday."
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.