Spiral Staircase Furniture Problem
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Sam Parr shares a story about his furniture challenges at his Airbnb property due to a poorly designed spiral staircase.
"At my Airbnb, these guys put a spiral staircase going up to the second floor, and that's the only stairs. You can't carry anything up a spiral staircase, so I couldn't get a couch unless I could take it apart.
There was this company in Texas, they're the couch guys, and they take apart your couch just for this problem - they take the whole thing apart and rebuild it wherever you want it. I looked at Lovesac since they make modular furniture that fits through doors, but their couches were like $3,000 or $4,000.
Since it's an Airbnb, I didn't want a fancy couch, so I ended up going with a futon because I could build it upstairs. But it was such a pain finding a couch that could fit into certain doorways that wasn't over $5,000. Now we don't call it a futon - we call it a pull-out couch because it's crazy comfortable. It's basically like a mattress you can sit on sometimes, but I was embarrassed to call it a futon."
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.