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Make $8K/day From These Side Hustles You’ve Never Heard Of Sep 22, 2025 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 34:44 Chris Koerner So there are these liquidation marketplaces where you can buy Costco returns and everything that the TSA confiscates. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 52:52 Shaan Puri And so like, I remember thinking like somebody should do the Costco 5 times in the scene

The Side Hustle King: “I’m making $8K/DAY from easy businesses” Jun 18, 2025 · 2 mentions

Anti-Business Billionaires: Lessons from Steve Jobs, James Dyson, and Yvon Chouinard Apr 17, 2025 · 2 mentions

How to build a $100M+ newsletter business Apr 4, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 5:31 Sam Parr One of my biggest regrets in life is buying the supplies that I needed for that event at Costco and returning the stuff that we didn't use. 2 times in the scene

6 under-the-radar trends (+ our business ideas) Mar 19, 2025 · 2 mentions

We spent 48 hours with MrBeast + 11 Billionaires Jan 29, 2025 · 2 mentions

The $70M/yr Sports Bar + Sleepy Industries Worth $100M Sep 11, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 21:36 Shaan Puri They do hundreds of millions in revenue, and, you know, they're, they're sold in Costco. 2 times in the scene

Life Hacks From The King of Introverts + 7 Business Ideas Sep 6, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 55:30 Shaan Puri And then you basically drive it to like, you know, CVS or Costco and they do the shit for you.

He Turned A $300/Mo Gardening Side Hustle Into $45 Million/Year | Kevin Espiritu Interview May 31, 2024 · 1 mention

This Gas Station Pizza Business Makes $540M/Yr?! May 10, 2024 · 1 mention

How We Got Our First 100 Customers (No Bulls**t, Specific Details) (#534) Dec 22, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:19 Sam Parr At this point, I didn't even drink, but the name of the game was pizza in the forties, because we didn't have a lot of money, so we'll supply Costco pizza and we'll have beer, and the speaker has to have a 40 ounce beer, and the, the…

From $0 to $100 Million In 3 Years Selling Cold Plunges (#527) Dec 6, 2023 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 17:34 Shaan Puri If you go look at his Instagram, he'll go to a grocery store at Costco. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:59 Shaan Puri Derek for more plates, more dates, obviously hits the gym bro market, but then Flav City hits the, like, mom shop, Costco shopper market, and you should just keep, there's, there's a lot more niches than that.

CEO Lessons: Bulls**t Mission Statements, Firing People & Saying ‘NO' (#505) Oct 10, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 38:34 Sam Parr One of, deep in my soul, the thing that hurts me most is one time I bought all this supplies from Costco for a conference, and I ended up returning 2000 dollars worth of like canned soda and stuff. 2 times in the scene

Jesse Itzler's Exact Playbook For Creating HIT AFTER HIT (#504) Oct 5, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 35:47 Sam Parr Is it like a Costco model where you were breaking even on the two hundred million in sales, but you made money off the, uh, membership?

How I Live On $25,000/Month In New York City Sep 29, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:05 Sam Parr So we went to Costco this weekend because we had a 20 dollar off or something like that coupon.
  • ▶ 7:47 Sam Parr So we went to Costco this weekend because we had a 20 dollar off or something like that coupon.

University of Michigan Students Pitch Us Their Startups | $5000 Prize Money (#396) Dec 16, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:11 Sam Parr I would, I think Costco, I imagine what Sam's Club, which is also Walmart does.

This Guy Went From $0 to Billionaire By Starting A Toy Factory In China (#372) Oct 11, 2022 · 1 mention

The Easiest Way To Make $10,000/Month In Passive Income Jul 28, 2022 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 47:01 Shaan Puri But I think that somebody can go create the Costco for clothes. 4 times in the scene

6 Profitable Business Ideas You Should Start in 2022 Apr 23, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:27 Sam Parr It was just a, I mean, it was just a normal, cheap Costco bottle of water, and somehow some company, they probably paid a quarter per bottle, and they just wrapped, it just had their label on it.

Brainstorming The Best Business Ideas To Start In 2022 with Noah Kagan Jan 18, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:02:47 Sam Parr Um, one thing that we do at my house is we do Costco socks and we'll buy, like, 50 pairs.

This Year's Best Twitter Accounts to Follow Dec 21, 2021 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 7:03 Shaan Puri They're kind of like a subscription, almost like a Whole Foods, Costco type of model where you can go buy products, uh, from them, I believe.
  • ▶ 13:04 Shaan Puri Costco. 2 times in the scene

Hasan Minhaj - Comedy, Netflix, Haters, & Money Dec 15, 2021 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:16:11 Hasan Minhaj My dad will be like in Manhattan and at the bodega or at Costco over in New Jersey.
  • ▶ 1:20:23 Shaan Puri so like, there's, that's how I would approach it if I was, the other thing you said, which is important, which is the artists have to get leverage, so like people were, last night when we were leaving the show, I was talking to my sister,… 2 times in the scene

Holiday Special: Great Finds (Products, Apps, Media) Nov 30, 2021 · 1 mention

Why Today Is the Day to Ask For a Raise | My First Million #216 Sep 3, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:08 Sam Parr Well, they only sell, they only sell beer and Costco pizza, right?

What Venture Capital Will Look Like in the Future | My First Million #215 Sep 1, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 29:54 Sam Parr In 2014, when I launched my first conference, HustleCon, I was, like, crazy cheap, and I didn't have a lot of money, and Costco is famous for, like, taking so many returns, and I bought, like,
  • ▶ 30:09 Sam Parr Maybe it was the second conference, but I think I bought like, 10,000 dollars worth of stuff from Costco, ranging from tables, to tablecloths, to like, two grand worth of soda.

Why You Should Have a Diversified Investment Portfolio | My First Million #214 with Ramit Sethi Aug 27, 2021 · 2 mentions

When to Go All In on an Idea & the Crypto Exchange That Could Have Been | My First Million #200 Jul 14, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 58:22 Shaan Puri Uh, we could basically just go drive it to like Costco or whoever does this, but, or you could do it yourself. 2 times in the scene

How Vending Machines are Generating Millions & The Next Big Social App | My First Million #187 May 28, 2021 · 2 mentions

MFM #171: How to Generate Millions from Paid Events (Bootstrapped) Apr 16, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 36:59 Sam Parr And then that morning or that night or the night before we would go to Costco and we would buy every single Danish that they had, and we would rent a truck and bring it there.

How to Get Your Product in 10,000 Retail Stores - Hustle Con 2015 May 13, 2015 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 14:42 Nikhil Arora Ended up redesigning it to what it is today, a much more, like, bright, vibrant, colorful packaging that actually stands out, and luckily learned that lesson with Kickstarter and Whole Foods, who was really flexible with us, and learned it…
  • ▶ 15:34 Alejandro "Alex" Velez And Costco, and Amazon in particular, and, and Whole Foods from just the inspiration of how to grow food in a much more sustainable and just better way for the, for society, and had a, had an opportunity to meet with the executive vice…
  • ▶ 18:54 Alejandro "Alex" Velez We're crazy for going from mushroom farming to fish poo farming to now wheat and cereal making, and, ah, you know, through that we've, you know, as I briefly mentioned, we, we developed this alongside Whole Foods from the learning of how… 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:50 Nikhil Arora So, um, like we launched our cereal first into Costco, and like with the water garden we launched on Kickstarter, launching this thing first into Costco means we couldn't mess up, we messed up, we were out of business. 2 times in the scene
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