NYC Impromptu Meetup Success
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Sam Parr shares a story about organizing a last-minute meetup in NYC for his newsletter subscribers.
"On Sunday night, I tweeted that I rented an Airbnb and was going to host a meetup. I got 200 replies saying 'let's meet up.' I couldn't accommodate everyone, so I only let 20 Trend subscribers come. Eventually, 30 people showed up and it was awesome.
This one kid flew up from South Carolina. There was no preparation - we landed Monday morning, went to the Mexican place next door and said 'Can you bring over enough tacos for 20 people? Here's $200-300, and go buy some beer.'
The people who came were fascinating. One guy, the eldest there in his forties or fifties, built custom electric cars and sold 50 cars to another company. They took pickup trucks and converted them into electric delivery vans for a cannabis company in LA. Another guy, Hunter Fairchild, sells breast implants for a living. We were sitting there with this girl Aditi, and when Hunter told us what he did, we started asking him about his sales process and how he demonstrates his products. It was crazy - I had never heard of such a thing."
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.