12-Year-Old College Student
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Sam Parr shares a story about Andrew Chen, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, who attended college at an extraordinarily young age.
"When Andrew Chen was in 6th grade, he took the SAT and scored really high. The University of Washington has a program where they select 5-10 students per year who are in 6th or 7th grade to attend college. Andrew was selected, skipped 7th grade, and went straight to college, living in the dorms.
Emmett Sheer from Twitch was also part of this program. What's even more interesting is that Andrew was embarrassed about his age and didn't tell many people. His college peers assumed he was 18 like everyone else. He even dated someone who didn't find out his real age until senior year when everyone was turning 21, and he had to admit he was only 16 or 17.
The University of Washington still runs this program today. They have psychologists and therapists meet with the kids every month to discuss what's going on. When I asked Andrew if it was weird to skip high school, in typical genius fashion, he responded, 'Well, when you think about it, adolescence is really just a societal constraint.'"
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.