Hustle Con

also referred to as: hustlecon

part of The Hustle

8 statements across 5 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 16, 2021 by Sam Parr · said 66 times in 43 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

Mentions by year

brought up most by Sam Parr (51), Shaan Puri (15)

tap a year for its mentions
0020134025202020212022202320242025episodesmentions
01325202020212022202320242025episodes it came up in
001.3132.525202020212022202320242025episodesmentions per episode
2025 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 10 mentions in 7 episodes 1 per episode
2022 11 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
2021 38 mentions in 25 episodes 2 per episode
2020 1 mention in 1 episode

every mention, scene by scene, with the transcript →

Everything said about Hustle Con, oldest first

Apr 16, 2021
Disclosure
Parr: Hustle Con secured speakers by bluffing Pandora founder Tim Westergren
“I convinced the founder of Pandora, Tim Westergen to speak. And he was one of the first people I had. The truth is I kind of lied about who else was coming. I said all these people were all these other people were coming to speak. None of them have had actuall…”
Sam Parr Apr 16, 2021 ▶ 39:31 MFM #171: How to Generate Millions from Paid Events (Bootstrapped)
Apr 16, 2021
Disclosure
Parr: Casey Neistat was the only paid speaker at Hustle Con
“I paid Casey Neistat money to speak at HustleCon, which is no surprise. Like you could just Google what a speaking view is. But besides that, I've had probably three, four, 500 people speak. Not once did I ever pay for another speaker. Not one time.”
Sam Parr Apr 16, 2021 ▶ 33:17 MFM #171: How to Generate Millions from Paid Events (Bootstrapped)
Apr 16, 2021
Disclosure
Parr: First Hustle Con made roughly $50,000 profit on $60,000 revenue
“In the first six weeks, it made about 60,000 dollars in revenue and fifty-ish thousand dollars in profit.”
Sam Parr Apr 16, 2021 ▶ 24:42 MFM #171: How to Generate Millions from Paid Events (Bootstrapped)
Dec 22, 2023 neutral
What-if
Parr: Structuring HustleCon as a trade show could have netted tens of millions
“Had I made it like a trade show, I probably could have made tens of millions per event, but I just didn't know what I was doing.”
Sam Parr Dec 22, 2023 ▶ 27:09 How We Got Our First 100 Customers (No Bulls**t, Specific Details) (#534)
Dec 22, 2023 positive
Disclosure
The first HustleCon generated $50,000 in profit after six weeks of planning
“The first time I hosted it, I decided to host it in May. And I think it went, ah, the event happened in July, ah, July one or July 15th. But I had roughly six weeks between deciding to do it and it happening. And I think I made 60 grand in revenue and I think …”
Sam Parr Dec 22, 2023 ▶ 26:20 How We Got Our First 100 Customers (No Bulls**t, Specific Details) (#534)
Aug 7, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Sam Parr built his Hustle Con email list using Meetup.com
“I actually started my event hustle con because of meetup.com. I created a small meetup event on meetup.com. I got a lot of free users that way. That's how I built my email list.”
Sam Parr Aug 7, 2024 ▶ 23:47 He Sold His Company For $15M, Then Got A Job At McDonald’s
Feb 26, 2025
Assertion Contradicted
Bitfinex Hacker Ilya Lichtenstein Spoke at the First Hustle Con
“The guy, Ilya, spoke at the very first HustleCon, which is kind of funny.”
Sam Parr Feb 26, 2025 ▶ 1:12:58 We talk to the guy who knows Silicon Valley’s darkest secrets
Apr 4, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
HustleCon generated $400K in revenue and $200K in profit in 2015
“So in 2015, I think I was 25. It wasn't the hustle. It was just an event called HustleCon. And that year, I think it had made around 400,000 dollars in revenue and like 200,000 dollars in profit.”
Sam Parr Apr 4, 2025 ▶ 5:07 How to build a $100M+ newsletter business
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 300 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.