Grammarly's Bootstrapped Success
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A story about meeting Grammarly's founder Max and learning about their incredible growth trajectory.
"Grammarly started by this guy named Max who's from Ukraine and lives in Canada. He's a hardcore engineer. I met him backstage at HustleCon after they had bootstrapped the company and raised $100M at a $1B valuation.
I said to him backstage, 'Dude that's amazing, so you're like almost a billionaire now?' He goes 'Yeah, it's pretty cool.' He smirked but was really low key about it and said 'The business is way bigger than most people realize - it's gonna be huge.'
Today Grammarly does about $800M in revenue and is valued around $20B. It's turned into an incredible business."
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.