Jack Smith's Item Rankings
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Sam Parr shares a story about their mutual friend Jack Smith's obsessive personality and systematic approach to purchases.
"Jack Smith is obsessed with buying things - if he buys anything, he'll buy 30 of them. At his house, he's got a Google spreadsheet where he tracks every item and category of thing he's bought and ranks it. If you ask him about chocolate, he actually has a spreadsheet with literally 100 pieces of chocolate. He'll say 'I tested all of them, here's the best one.'
When we got married, my wedding gift from him was roughly $1,000 of stuff that he considered the best. It was so weird - the best socks, the best underwear, the best lotion. He's so obsessed with this that Amazon has multiple times banned him from having an account, and he has to create different credit cards just to continue getting an account.
He's incredibly wealthy and probably got wealthy when he was 28, really young, but he's just crazy obsessed with stuff. I just accept that's who he is - he's just an oddball."
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.