Wealthy Founder's Service Jobs
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A story about how the wealthy founder of Meetup.com chose to work minimum wage jobs for personal growth.
"Scott Heiferman sold his digital ad company for $15 million when he was 28 years old. After getting wealthy, he left tech and went to work at McDonald's as a cashier. People actually noticed him and Fast Company wrote an article asking what he was doing. He explained, 'I've been around ad executives for the last 5 years, I've been around tech people. I needed to get out of my bubble.'
He worked at McDonald's for months, not just a day or field trip. After that experience, he left and started Meetup.com, which eventually sold for hundreds of millions of dollars.
Now, if you go to his LinkedIn, he's working as an Amazon warehouse worker, doing the exact same type of experiment again. What's amazing is he's not doing it for PR - it's like a soul searching thing. He's quite wealthy but he's not making an ordeal out of it - it's other people like us talking about it. I think it's fantastic and pretty badass."
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.