350-Foot Prometheus Statue
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Sam Parr shares a story about an ambitious monument project planned for San Francisco's Alcatraz.
"There's this guy trying to raise money for a monument based in San Francisco on Alcatraz. They want to build a massive statue of Prometheus that's 350 feet tall. It represents the spirit of innovation and courage for manifest destiny and inborn nobility.
They're raising $170 million to build this statue, and in their deck, they show the revenue and profit of other monuments. The Statue of Liberty does $154 million a year in revenue, $70 million in net income. Mount Rushmore does $50 million in sales and $20 million in net income. Pearl Harbor does $50 million, $23 million in net income.
They're projecting to make $100 million a year in profit. When I googled it, they have a Substack and claim Joe Lonsdale is on board and all these amazing people are involved. But this will never happen in San Francisco - they're not going to have any part of a statue that touts manifest destiny and inborn nobility, especially with a shirtless, ripped dude in the Bay of San Francisco. San Francisco is the antithesis of a ripped, alpha-looking heterosexual male - this is not what the culture is about."
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.