Disco Taxi Profits
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Sam Parr shares a story about running an unofficial taxi service during New Year's Eve with a disco theme.
"For two New Years in a row, my buddy Joe and I rented a zip car minivan. We wore fake afros and disco clothes - if you Google 'disco frisco taxi' you'll see photos of me doing this. We called it the Disco Frisco Taxi.
We would drive around saying 'Hey guys, where are you going? You want to go to this place? How about $30?' When people got in we'd say 'Alright, you entered the Disco Frisco Taxi, spin the wheel, you can win a juice box!'
We would charge them like $50 per ride and make about $1,000 a night on New Year's. It was called the Disco Frisco Taxi."
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.