Costco Returns Regret
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Sam Parr shares a story about one of his biggest regrets from his early entrepreneurial days.
"In 2015, I think I was 25. It wasn't The Hustle yet, it was just an event called HustleCon. That year it had made around $400,000 in revenue and like $200,000 in profit. It was a good event, basically like a TED talk for entrepreneurs.
But I was so scrappy, and I honestly regret it. One of my biggest regrets in life is buying the supplies that I needed for that event at Costco and returning the stuff that we didn't use. I didn't realize that you throw things away once - like Costco throws it away. It was the most shame that I'd ever felt, being that cheap and horrible."
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.