Justin Mares
19 statements across 3 episodes · 11 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jun 25, 2021 by Justin Mares · said 34 times in 17 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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brought up most by Sam Parr (21), Calley Means (6), Shaan Puri (3), John Coogan (2)
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2026 8 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
2025 8 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
2024 9 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
2023 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2022 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2021 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
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- Dr. Andrew Huberman’s Path to Fame, Money, and Total Human Optimization
- How To Get the Most Out of Every Event and the World Premier of Southern Sam’s Sticky Icky
- Frameworks to Become a Billionaire with HubSpot Co-Founder Dharmesh Shah | My First Million #197
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Everything said about Justin Mares, oldest first
Jun 25, 2021 positive
Mares acquired 85% of Shopify app FOMO with zero out-of-pocket capital
“We bought 85% of the business. We bought it and then we were basically like, we're going to buy this and pay you in monthly chunks for the next 20 months. And so every like month for 20 months, we use the revenue that we were making from FOMO to make our payme…”
Jun 25, 2021 neutral
Puri: Most business operators and content creators rarely excel at both disciplines
“People are good at one of the, I know a bunch of amazing business people who don't want to or suck at creating content. And I know some great content people that I'm like, once I meet them, I'm like, oh, you've, this is what, this is your business. You've neve…”
Jun 25, 2021 positive
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Jun 25, 2021 positive
Jun 25, 2021
Mares will take zero cash from incubated startup Surely Wines until exit
“A company I incubated Shirley wines, it's like a non-alcoholic wine company we launched earlier this year. I recruited, I like basically had the idea, tested it, validated it, lined up supply chain, hired in the operator the operator and CEO, he's taking a sal…”
Jun 25, 2021
Jun 25, 2021 positive
Kettle & Fire employs one virtual assistant for every two full-time staff
“Like, we have basically one virtual assistant hire for every two people that we have that are on the team, and we give them, like, a training that's like, here's how to use virtual assistants, get all of the repetitive stuff off your plate”
Jun 25, 2021 negative
Mares: Credit card purchase history predicts dating compatibility better than Hinge
“I think that, like, where you spend your resources tells a lot about someone that a Hinge profile doesn't, and so I suspect if, like, you were to say, hey, we are matching the two of you up because you spend an absurd amount of your income at this, like, weird…”
Jun 25, 2021 positive
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Jun 25, 2021 bullish
Mares estimates Hipcamp land rentals can generate 30% to 40% cash-on-cash returns
“So I was mainly modeling it from like a NOI basis which is net operating income, which is like a term that's used a lot in real estate. But basically I think that you could get like 30 to 40% cash on cash returns by following this strategy.”
Jun 25, 2021 bullish
Mares: Venture capital beats bootstrapping because elite talent is prohibitively expensive
“I think I will probably raise for most things that I do going forward or invest my own money just because, The caliber of the team that we were able to hire around us, like what we were doing on a shoestring budget versus what we could do after was just night …”
Jun 25, 2021 positive
Mares converted a 14-unit Las Vegas building to Airbnb, tripling cash flow
“We ended up doing this too with an apartment building in, in Vegas where we bought a 14 unit apartment building, could put it all on Airbnb basically like tripled the cashflow and then sold it. 18 months later for, you know, it's 70% more than what we paid.”
Jun 25, 2021 positive
Mares made $15K-$18K monthly via Airbnb arbitrage in San Francisco in 2013
“In 2013, we had, like, the number third, like, the third ranked Airbnb in San Francisco, and so we were we were, like, renting out either our living room most nights, or you know, over summers, we'd rent it out for, like, 15, 18 grand a month, and then we just…”
May 4, 2023 bullish
Jan 24, 2025
Parr: Passed on TrueMed because founder had too much going on
“My most recent one is Justin Mayer's TrueMed. He was raising for it at a, I forget what it was, reasonable valuation. Justin's my friend. I think Justin's amazing. He had, he, I thought he had too much going on and I was like, no way are you going to focus on …”