Founder Aids Ukrainian Refugees
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A story about how one of iCracked's founders, AJ, left right before his new company's funding round to help Ukrainian refugees.
"AJ is one of my great friends, he's a crazy person. He's one of the wildest people I've hung out with. His new company is called Coop.farm - it's a smart chicken coop. I almost invested in it, but what made me nervous was that a few weeks before the round closed, when the Ukraine thing happened, AJ went to Poland for like a month and was a volunteer helping Ukrainian refugees. The guy's crazy - he just does wild stuff all the time.
He's not even Ukrainian - he just is into that stuff. He just does wild stuff all the time. Like when I'm hanging out with him, he lived right near Oracle and his iCracked office was in Redwood City, but it was across this little bay and he would take this little boat to work. But every once in a while they had offices at SOMA and he would ride this small boat - literally fit 2 people - he would ride this little boat 20 miles up the bay to SOMA and dock his boat there. Actually, boat's not the best word - it's better described as a jet ski that you stand up on. He would basically jet ski to work."
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.