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Sam Parr shares a story about visiting Facebook's campus and realizing the vast difference in resources between his startup and a major tech company.
"I remember taking tours there - my wife worked at Facebook and I would just walk around the campus. I would see some of the conversations and hear some of the conversations. I was just starting The Hustle, which was just a daily newsletter, and I was pumped that I hit 100,000 people a day reading it.
I remember walking around and thinking 'I'm a piece of shit, I'm nothing, I am nobody.' I saw the vending machine where they have like MacBook chargers that you could just push a button and a giant brick charger would drop out for you. I'm thinking 'Dude, I just bought 4 computers on Craigslist for $800 a piece and that was a big deal for me, and you guys have a vending machine with mouse and Dr. Dre headphones in it.'
I was like 'Get me signed up, I'm in.'"
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.