Silicon Valley to Construction
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A story about how a former Silicon Valley COO completely transformed his career by starting a marketplace for construction equipment in Austin.
"We had dinner with Adam Lawrence, who previously was the COO of Bolt - this high-flying startup, one-click checkout startup. They raised something like $100 million at multiple billions valuation.
He left there after being there for a while and started Boom and Bucket. It's a marketplace for selling construction equipment - tractors, dump trucks, anything Caterpillar makes. It's only a year or two old, so they're still figuring out if it's going to take off.
The transformation was incredible - he went from the most Silicon Valley VC thing you can do, a network effects VC-funded multibillion unicorn that's either going to become $100 billion or go to zero, and he's like 'I'm gonna move to Austin, grow a mustache, and start selling tractors online.'
He had a thick beautiful mustache and was wearing cowboy boots. He looked exactly like you want him to look - like he was in disguise trying to blend in in Austin."
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.