Chrome Extension Makes Millions
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Sam discusses the lucrative opportunity in Chrome extensions, highlighting several successful cases and potential platforms for extension development.
Key Examples:
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Amazon Seller Extension:
- 2-person operation
- Generated $25M in revenue
- Similar category to Jungle Scout
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AdBlock Success Story:
- Created by Michael Gunlack in 2009
- Solo founder/employee
- ~20M users
- Reportedly sold to anonymous buyer in 2015
- Potential sale value of $200-300M
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AdBlock+ (Competitor):
- Run by company called IO
- 20-30 employees
- 2017 financials:
- $44M revenue
- $26M profit
- 100M+ users
Other Extension Platform Opportunities:
- Shopify plugins
- Salesforce plugins
- Zoho plugins (similar user base to Salesforce)
- Can build simple apps for sales teams
- Lower competition than Salesforce
- More "janky" but similar market size
Note: Chrome extensions require careful consideration due to security implications as they can read/write web browsing data.
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.