Samwer Brothers Clone Empire
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A story about how the Samwer brothers built a successful business by cloning popular tech companies and selling them back to the originals.
"There's these 3 brothers in Germany who have a company called Rocket Internet - it was a clone factory. Before they started that company, they cloned other things and sold it to the original companies. They cloned eBay in Germany and sold it back to eBay for $90 million in like 3 months.
Then they were going to do the same thing with Groupon, but they got bigger than Groupon and realized 'wow, once you get huge this business sucks' so they had to offload it. They tried to do that with Zappos too, but they got bigger than the original Zappos - their market cap was larger so they couldn't sell it.
This was their whole strategy. So far it hasn't panned out for them except for HelloFresh - they copied Blue Apron and HelloFresh worked."
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.