Nick Gray
Author & Founder, Party.pro. On 2 shows, 4 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Nick Gray is an entrepreneur, author, and angel investor. He founded the tour company Museum Hack and authored the book The 2-Hour Cocktail Party.
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167said about them ↓ Everything Nick Gray said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Gray says his post-wealth lifestyle is the founder end game
“I think I'm like the end game that a lot of people are thinking about how to get to, and they want to make a business and they want to be successful, but for what? And so there's a lot of talk about when is enough. And I think I found enough and this is what h…”
Gray: Building a white-label B2B sales team guarantees an acqui-hire
“If you are looking for an aqua hire, salespeople are in high demand. If you have guys that can sell and girls that can sell, this company will get bought. I don't care what you're selling, but start collecting salespeople and build a sales team. You'll either …”
Gray rejects advice to prioritize marriage over early business success
“I also do not agree with the critiques that say, just get married as soon as you can. Business will follow. Get married first above all else. Make that your priority.”
Gray: Building a business while pursuing a relationship is almost impossible
“If you're listening to this podcast because you want to be financially successful, I think you need to have priorities in life, and it is very hard to run and be laser focused on your business when you're trying to build a relationship. Dare I say it's almost …”
Gray faked an Equinox pool closure on his blog to cut crowds
“I made my own list of all the Equinox gyms with swimming pools. It started to rank pretty quickly as the number one search result for other people searching for the same thing. Unfortunately, my gym started to get very crowded and I would have to wait for the …”
Gray: Dinner parties are a recipe for failure for first-time hosts
“Do not do a dinner party. I talk about why dinner parties are a recipe for failure for new first time hosts.”
Nick Gray: Many personal passions are worthless and cannot be monetized
“No, I think a lot of passions are totally worthless and you're never going to sell them to the market.”
Gray uses structured agendas and custom Keynotes for social lunches
“A hundred percent with agendas and sometimes even my own keynote presentations.”
Gray: Most lifestyle upgrades people want at $10M only require $1M
“The vast majority of things we say that we would do differently at ten million dollars, actually, you only need a million dollars to get there.”
Gray: Access ultra-successful people by befriending their friends instead
“If you are looking to make contact with some of these ultra successful people, there's no way that you will. They have pretty much too much inbound, but you can befriend their friends. And that can be your foot in the door.”
Gray: Revive personal blogging to feed AI scrapers and boost discoverability
“Bring back blogging. You need to fill the AIs, and the AIs need to have data from the public web to scrape.”
Nick Gray: Exporting LinkedIn contacts to Revue is a grey-hat growth tactic
“You can go to LinkedIn, export all your contacts, dump them into Review, and send them a newsletter of cool stuff, questionable whether that's legal.”
Gray: Use a harmonica instead of a whistle for crowd control
“I use this harmonica at all my events as a crowd control device. And I think if my legacy has anything, it's that the harmonica can be a helpful crowd control device and that you can get people's attention in a calm, cool manner without a whistle or like a bum…”
Gray's family business closed a $1M deal via niche SEO in 2009
“Search engine optimization played a huge role within the business and searching for FAA certified in-flight monitors. What a niche thing. And yet all we needed was one and we really got a million dollar deal From the SEO because I bought every domain name. I w…”
Brent Beshore's private equity firm acquired a professional matchmaking business
“There's a huge range, and actually, PE companies do like to buy these businesses. I've heard of two of them. Brent Beshore's company has bought one, and someone else we both know looked at acquiring one of them.”
Gray personally led museum tours for two years before hiring
“I built a multi-million dollar business out of being a tour guide. Every Friday and Saturday night, I was literally leading people at the museum, and I did that for two years before I even hired my first person.”
Gray: A two-hour cocktail networking party should cost under $100
“Each party should cost you less than a hundred dollars.”
Nick Gray: Museum Hack generated $1.3M in total revenue in 2015
“Total revenue, 1.3 million dollars.”
Nick Gray: Museum Hack tour guides cost $88 per two-hour tour
“They each make 32 dollars an hour. A tour lasts about two hours, but we pay them for 2.75 hours of work. So right there, our labor cost for each tour starts at about 88 dollars per person.”
Nick Gray: The Met takes $25 from every $59 tour ticket
“Say we sell a 59 dollar museum tour ticket at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 25 dollars of that goes to the museum.”
Nick Gray: Museum Hack breaks even on standard tours, profiting on VIP
“We really excel and where we make money is on those high dollar tours. We're talking Private tours, bachelorette tours VIP nighttime tours. Our 59 dollar tour, we do basically a break-even to, one, provide shifts for the tour guides, and two, just to get the w…”
Nick Gray: Museum Hack has raised no outside capital and is bootstrapped
“No raise, all bootstrapped.”
Nick Gray ran free tours for two years to build market demand
“I created a ton of demand by doing it for free for almost two years every single weekend. I became the best at it, and then once I had an amazing product, once I had huge pent up demand and word of mouth, that's when I left my job and turned this into a busine…”
The other half of the tape: Nick Gray's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 157 times in 20 episodes across the shows. 10 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Sam Parr 104Shaan Puri 38Nathan Latka 4Noah Kagan 1
Statements about Nick Gray, by other people (10)
Netflix and Amazon explored a show about Nick Gray's Tokyo blind date
“He has Netflix and Amazon reaching out to him about a show for this.”
Parr: Nick Gray grew Museum Hack to $3M revenue in 3-4 years
“He has this story where he started this business called Museum Hack, which grew to three million dollars in revenue over the course of like three or four years.”
Parr: Nick Gray built PatronView for $2,000 using AI
“And it's crazy that because of AI, he was able to make this, he told me for 2000 dollars.”
Parr: 400 women applied for Nick Gray's Tokyo blind date stunt
“Do you know how many applications he got to this? Four, 400 women applied to go with them.”
Museum Hack Reached Millions in Revenue Before Its Sale
“Nick Gray had a business called Museum Hack, and he eventually sold it, and it was doing many, many millions in revenue.”
Parr: Nick Gray grew Museum Hack to $2M in annual sales
“He built this business that was making two million a year in sales.”
Shaan Puri: Nick Gray sold his renegade museum tour business for millions
“He loved museums so he created a business about renegade the museum tours where he would take you on his own tour because museums were boring and he's not boring and he would take you on his own tour unofficially not a part of the museum ended up selling that …”
Gray ships a $100 buckwheat pillow to his hotel for every stay
“There's a buckwheat pillow that he loves, and whenever he goes to a hotel, He buys that 50 dollar or 100 dollar pillow and he has it shipped to the hotel room because he's like, I have to have this buckwheat pillow.”
Puri: Nick Gray runs habit-tracking groups enforced by virtual assistants
“So he has a thing called done. It's like a group of people that all agree. We're going to do X every day. And I forgot what X is. It might be walk a certain amount of steps, might be cold plunge, might be whatever it was. Let's assume you set the bar. And what…”
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| MY FIRST MILLIONLEDGER | Author & Founder, Party.pro | 3 | 18 | 100% 3/3 | full record on My First Million → |
| TOP FOUNDERSLEDGER | Author & Founder, Party.pro | 1 | 16 | 100% 2/2 | full record on Top Founders → |