NYC Flea Market Generational Divide
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Sam Parr shares his experience visiting a trendy flea market in New York City that changed his perspective on the industry.
"This weekend I experienced something that has totally changed my worldview on this topic. There's this thing called El Fargo's Marketplace and I went to it the other day. The story is basically it's these four guys who look like they're 24 years old, and they started organizing this flea market in New York City. They host it at this place called Newhouse, which is the hipper version of WeWork.
It's just a weird combination of urban New York stuff but with flea markets, which are historically associated with old people and Southern heritage. It's not typically a New York cool kid thing, but it is now.
It's a high-end vintage flea market and it was packed. I'm 35 and I was the oldest person there. They're all wearing suits and ties - all 24-year-old single guys. I went there with my daughter, just me and her. I felt like I was the oldest person there, no one had children.
We were just hanging out for the day and I was like, 'Let's go to the flea market.' We wore matching sweaters. We were the hit - we made the Instagram of these guys. They built this flea market and it was packed. I was regretting bringing her because it was way too packed and I couldn't even get around, so we didn't stay for that long.
But it got me thinking about flea markets. I think that millennial hipsters have just disappeared - they're just gone, they're no longer a thing anymore. These are the new hipsters - young people who wear nice clothing and are into vintage. This is the new version."
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.