Sam Parr
435 statements across 199 episodes · 164 bullish · 57 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Mar 12, 2020 by Sam Parr · said 111 times in 13 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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brought up most by Shaan Puri (62), Ramon Van Meer (14), Hasan Minhaj (12), Steph Smith (7), Codie Sanchez (7), Suleman "Suli" Ali (1), Julian Shapiro (1), Cody Ko (1)
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 35 mentions in 5 episodes 7 per episode
- 4 Profitable Business Ideas That Men Are Sleeping On | ft. Codie Sanchez (#512)
- Behind The Scenes of Selling My Company For Millions | Suli Ali (#410)
- Wait, My Intern Became a 21-Year-Old Millionaire?? (#510)
- 10 AI Startup Ideas in 43 Minutes (#506)
- Cody Ko On Building A YouTube Empire, Partying With Elon & Stand-Up Comedy (#503)
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
2022 8 mentions in 1 episode
2021 67 mentions in 6 episodes 11 per episode
- MFM #164: BitClout Explained & How To Successfully Angel Invest
- Hasan Minhaj - Comedy, Netflix, Haters, & Money
- From $300k to $35M+ Selling Dog Ramps with Ramon Van Meer, CEO & Founder at Alpha Paw
- Why You Need a Chief Automation Officer | My First Million #208 with Steph Smith
- Near Death Accidents and Hitting $1B ARR with Brian Halligan, Founder and Exec Chairman of HubSpot
- The 3 Cheat Codes Startups Use to Print Cash | My First Million #211 with Julian Shapiro
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
Everything said about Sam Parr, oldest first
Mar 12, 2020
Mar 12, 2020 bullish
Apr 3, 2020 neutral
Apr 3, 2020 bearish
Apr 3, 2020 bullish
Parr: Bullish on True North Fleet as Trucking Market Is Underestimated
“This company is, is building bits of, like, software for small, small trucking businesses, and I don't, I think people vastly underestimate how trucking is, like, the backbone of America, and how big logistics is in our country, so I, I'm very bullish on that …”
May 1, 2020 positive
Parr: Pre-selling non-existent products to test demand is ethical if refunded
“I'm saying advertise something that doesn't exist so you can get demand, improve demand, and then you refund the money.
You don't, I'm not saying you steal from them, but
yeah,
you are lying, and so I think that's ethical.”
Mar 10, 2021 neutral
Parr: Advisors urged him to avoid investing for six months post-acquisition
“When I did my deal, every smart person I talked to, what did you know what they said? ... Do nothing for six months. Right. So don't invest it on your hands. ... Don't invest. And so many times I've been, I've wanted to change and do something and everyone has…”
Mar 10, 2021
Mar 10, 2021
Mar 12, 2021 positive
Mar 12, 2021
Parr: If rebuilding his paid community, he would charge far more money
“By the way, if I had to start over, I would have done it differently. I would have charged way more money. Because I've learned the mistakes that you have to add a ton of people to build a big business and a ton of people for certain groups isn't necessarily g…”
Mar 12, 2021 positive
Parr: Actively burn bridges to create forcing functions and break inertia
“The way that I get out of this is I do two things. The first is I burn bridges. So a lot of people say don't burn bridges. I say, no, I actually do burn bridges. So quit your job or move to another city or do something drastic. Because for me, I've said, I can…”
Mar 19, 2021
Sam Parr: Ask writer candidates about the bottom of their resume
“The last thing is when we interview them, I always ask about the bottom fourth of the resume, which is like the college classes and all the things that they take, because I want them to like entertain me during the interview. So in the same way that you are re…”
Mar 19, 2021
Sam Parr: Outrage outperforms sadness when trying to create viral content
“So the way to go viral is you always want to start. You start with the emotion that you're trying to get out of someone. And we already know that certain emotions get more shares. So for example, creating depression or sadness that doesn't get shares. Creating…”
Mar 24, 2021 negative
Parr: Regrets raising equity crowdfunding for The Hustle due to distracting investors
“I still regret, I actually regret doing that. And I wish I didn't do it. And I wish I didn't do it because when you do that, you now have a whole lot of people who are going to ask you questions and things like that. And it's quite distracting.”
Mar 24, 2021 positive
Apr 5, 2021 negative
Apr 5, 2021 bullish
Apr 5, 2021
Apr 5, 2021 bullish
Apr 5, 2021 neutral
Sam Parr admits feeling insecure around Stanford graduates and a16z partners
“I'm insecure. That I like I didn't go to Stanford or like a fancy school. And when I meet people in the in crowd, like when we meet guys like Andrew Chen, who works in Andreessen Horowitz, I'm like, dude, like, I kind of want to be in the in crowd, but like, I…”
Apr 5, 2021 negative
Sam Parr: Managers and CEOs should avoid being friends with employees
“If you're a manager, you shouldn't be friends with your employees. If you're a business owner or CEO, I actually don't think I think you should be friendly. But I think you should be really careful about being friends with your employees.”
Apr 7, 2021 positive
Apr 9, 2021 positive
Apr 9, 2021
Apr 9, 2021 positive
Apr 9, 2021 negative
Parr: Internet followers locate my vacation rentals on Street View and send packages
“There's been times where Sarah and I have been on vacation and we'll take the picture of take a picture of our guest house or the vacation home and we'll cover the address, but still, but I'll get like five or 10 packages from people saying like, oh, we just f…”
Apr 16, 2021 negative
Apr 16, 2021
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…”
Apr 16, 2021
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.”
Apr 16, 2021 negative
Apr 16, 2021
Apr 19, 2021 neutral
Parr: Poison ivy remedy hustle generated $5,000 monthly repackaging industrial degreaser
“I was just gonna bulk buy this Mean Green crap and repackage it and sell it for 40 dollars as opposed to, I sold it for like 40 dollars for like some, like a Carmex size or like a, you know, like a chapstick size thing when it costs like 40 dollars for like li…”
Apr 21, 2021 bullish
Apr 26, 2021 bullish
Apr 28, 2021 positive
Apr 30, 2021 bullish
May 13, 2021 neutral
Parr tried to invest in Zed Run but was rejected
“And I contacted the founders of Zed, and I got them on the phone, and I spent like an hour talking to them, and they're raising money, and I was like, I'm in. They're gonna let me invest. And they took a week, and they said, no, we don't have either. It was a …”
May 14, 2021 positive
May 14, 2021 positive
May 14, 2021 bullish
May 20, 2021 neutral
Parr: Unnamed beer-tracking app generates tens of millions in annual revenue
“I interviewed a guy to work at the hustle and he worked at one of these companies and it was like a tens of millions, maybe even close to hundreds of millions of dollar revenue business. And all it was an app where you could track all the beers that you drink.”
May 21, 2021 positive
May 21, 2021 bullish
May 25, 2021
Parr: Pays $25,000 annually for a personal concierge doctor
“Basically I have this doctor named Dr. Horowitz and I just text them. I go, Hey, Dr. Horowitz my killies really hurts me. Can you schedule an MRI for me or something like that? And he's like, yeah, I think an MRI would be good. I'll hook it up. So they, you kn…”
May 25, 2021
Parr: Built portfolio generating $50,000 in monthly passive income by 30
“Basically, I told you the goal when I started the hustle was by around 30. I wanted to make enough money that right up front, like my nut, would very passively spit off 50,000 dollars a month in perpetuity. So 50 K or the equivalent with big, including inflati…”
May 28, 2021 positive
Jun 9, 2021 neutral
Jun 9, 2021 positive
Jun 9, 2021 positive
Sam Parr: $15M To $20M By Age 31 Guarantees Financial Freedom
“15 to 20, like, if you have 15, twenty million dollars at a really young age, like, You know, let's say, 31. Like, it's, you're set. It's hard to lose. Yeah, I can lose ten million and still have ten million. So like, it's hard to lose. Now, you're not flying …”
Jun 9, 2021 negative
Jun 18, 2021 bearish
Jun 18, 2021
Jun 25, 2021 neutral
Jun 25, 2021 negative
Jun 25, 2021 neutral
Parr: Most Toodledo customers came from one mention in Getting Things Done
“When I when we owned Tootledoo, there was this one guy, an author, I think he wrote a book, Getting Things Done... And he mentioned Tootledoo, this app that me and Ramon bought. And most of our customers came to us because they read about Tootledoo. Like, it j…”
Jun 30, 2021 bullish
Sam Parr invests $400K into Abstract Ops personally and via Hampton VC
“I ended up investing around 400,000 dollars. And I got a preface that saying that, I do my own money that comes straight out of my checking account. And then I also have this thing called HamptonVC. So HamptonVC.com or is it .com or .co? And you can it's where…”
Jun 30, 2021
Jul 7, 2021 positive
Jul 9, 2021
Parr: Hustle subscribers who opened five early emails retained long-term
“So at the hustle, we found, I don't remember the numbers off the top of my head, but we found like, if you open five out of seven days right off in the first seven, five times the first seven, you're going to be with us and we're going to call you a gold perso…”
Jul 9, 2021 positive
Sam Parr: Never build custom software internally when off-the-shelf solutions exist
“A lot of people who have been there, done that will say the exact opposite, which is never build anything if you don't have to always use off the shelf, right? I fall into that category. Yeah. And I wish I wish a lot of this stuff had existed. I'd rather pay a…”
Jul 9, 2021 positive
Jul 9, 2021
Jul 14, 2021 bullish
Jul 14, 2021 bullish
Jul 14, 2021 neutral
Sam Parr: Founders do not need a personal audience to succeed
“You get caught in this bubble of you have to build an audience. No, you don't. You don't, you can, and maybe that could be fun for you. You don't. You could do something that no one has ever heard of you. You could just cold call and you could get done what, l…”
Jul 17, 2021 bullish
Jul 17, 2021
Jul 21, 2021 neutral
Parr: Massive business profits come from high switching costs over innovation
“And a lot of times when I think of like, when we think of entrepreneurship and we think of starting stuff, we think, how can I be innovative? How can I be new? In reality, in order to make a lot of money, it's how do I get locked into this to the point to wher…”
Jul 21, 2021 negative
Parr: Mugshot database businesses generate up to $15 million annual profit
“Probably you could own the person who can own one of these businesses and make like, 10, fifteen million dollars a year in profit. Although you got to like, you know, live this shitty life where like, you're just kind of a piece of shit scamming someone. But i…”
Jul 23, 2021
Parr launched his hot dog stand using a $5,000 turnkey package
“When I started my hot dog stand, there was a guy in Tennessee who was doing this exact same things for hot dog stands. So you'd give him five grand and he would send you everything you needed along with the state rules and things like that.”
Jul 29, 2021 positive
Jul 29, 2021 bearish
Aug 5, 2021 positive
Aug 5, 2021 negative
Parr: Belmont University Provides Zero Value and Current Students Should Quit
“Belmont University, where I went, that cost 50,000 dollars a year, and then they're like, fuck Belmont. I mean, who, no one knows what Belmont is. It provides zero value. Like, there's no point. If you go to Belmont, you should quit right now.”
Aug 6, 2021
Parr: Heavy podcast production spending is only justified after gaining traction
“People spend so much money on recording their stuff, and I actually don't think that's important, but when you have something like we have, which is like you kind of hit this lick, it's important to invest, and I think we've under invested, which is crazy.”
Aug 6, 2021 bullish
Aug 24, 2021 negative
Aug 24, 2021 neutral
Sam Parr: Extreme work hours give early advantages but aren't needed forever
“If you are going to build like these outlandish things, like an Elon Musk type of thing, It does give you a competitive advantage to work really, really, really hard. And regardless if you start anything, you got to work really hard. But I don't think that you…”
Aug 25, 2021 bullish
Puri: Tokenizing creator time makes access a tradable speculative asset
“So I think that's the other thing you could offer a value is basically time with people of value. And that time could be like an investment. You're basically betting today that I want to hold a block of Sam's kind of like advice or coaching or, you know, just …”
Aug 27, 2021 positive
Aug 27, 2021
Aug 27, 2021
Parr: Point-and-shoot cameras cap video recording at 60 minutes due to taxes
“You can't import a camera or the import tax on a camera that can record above 60 minutes is taxed at a video camera versus a picture camera. Therefore, you can't record for more than 60 minutes on a point and shoot camera.”
Aug 27, 2021 negative
Aug 27, 2021
Sep 3, 2021 positive
Sep 3, 2021 neutral
Parr: The Hustle could have charged $30,000 annually for Trends
“Had we made relatively minor changes, like not that different, like it wouldn't have cost us more money. We maybe would have had a few more people. And we are right now we charge 300 dollars a year. There's a world where it wouldn't have had to been that much …”
Sep 3, 2021 positive
Parr: Surviving physical combat eliminates routine daily and business stress
“It makes me feel good to survive getting beat up because I know that I'm not going to be stressed out about anything else that I'm going to do throughout the day. Because, like, when I stress out about, like, this podcast, or if I get mad that our freaking int…”
Sep 15, 2021 positive
Sep 17, 2021 positive
Parr: Well-resourced startups offer competitive pay plus 5x to 15x upside
“The idea here is that we made a list of companies that are cushier than like a 20 person startup, but still have wonderful upsides. So you can make a very competitive salary, have wonderful benefits, and there's like a five, 10, 15 x upside.”
Sep 23, 2021 negative
Parr: 90% of chiropractic claims are nonsense and school acceptance is 100%
“Now, some chiropractor can help very little, like, but 90%, like, 90% of what chiropractors, what we think they do, you can't adjust your spine and, like, your headache stop. Like, that's just not how your body works. But it's nonsense, right? Also, the accept…”
Sep 23, 2021
Sam Parr: Concentrated angel bets beat broad diversification
“Then, I got the money, and I invest in safe stuff. But here's the thing, when I find shit that I love, I go all in on it. I just, what you and a lot of our friends do is they go to a, they spread their shit like wild. I try to go all in on a couple of things.”
Sep 29, 2021 neutral
Oct 12, 2021 positive
Parr: Renting commercial carpet cleaners is an elite ROI side hustle
“I think buying and renting carpet cleaners is one of the greatest like banks for your money. When I went to the grocery store and I just looked, I was like, how much does this cost? And I looked at how much they cost to buy. They cost like 800 dollars to buy.”
Oct 20, 2021
Parr: Phones exist for convenience, so ignoring calls shouldn't cause guilt
“And whenever I heard that story a couple of years ago, I was like, that's how I'm gonna treat my phone. It is there for me. And so I don't feel guilty about clicking ignore, deny, or don't re not replying. It is this thing, this phone, it exists for my conveni…”
Oct 27, 2021 bullish
Oct 29, 2021
Parr: The Hustle reached 2M daily readers and Trends made millions
“This podcast was owned by my company called the hustle. We just sold it for a lot of money to this company called hubspot. And before we sold it, thank you. And before we sold it, we had a daily email that reached around two million people a day. And then we o…”
Nov 5, 2021
Sam Parr's Brutally Simple Reply to Unsolicited Startup Pitches
“People people DM us a lot of interesting ideas. My reply to all of them, they go, what do you think about this? I always reply with two things. I think that's an amazing idea. And I always say it's an amazing idea. And then I say, when are you launching?”
Nov 5, 2021 positive
Nov 11, 2021 bullish
Nov 11, 2021 positive
Nov 11, 2021 positive
Parr: Hosted weekly in-person meetups for two years to drive app downloads
“Well, like for the hustle, we've done meetups forever. And then when I started my roommate business, we had meetups every single week for like two years. And so it was basically anyone who's ever looking for a roommate, you come that day and we'll have a party…”
Nov 15, 2021 bullish
Nov 15, 2021 positive
Nov 18, 2021 positive
Parr: The Hustle reached 2M subscribers, generated $20M ad revenue before sale
“I started this company called The Hustle, which was a daily email that reached about two million people a day for business news. We just sold it to HubSpot for many tens of millions of dollars. And we are making, you know, twenty million dollars on ads.”
Nov 19, 2021
Nov 23, 2021 negative
Parr: Gatekeeping, not capital, prevents outsiders from buying sports franchises
“The issue is not the lack of money. The issue is that it's like, You know, in England, they knight you, and they start calling you Sir Richard Branson. In America, we allow you to buy a sports team. Like, it's a select group of people, and very few people are …”
Nov 30, 2021
Parr: Up to 30 percent of surveyed 15-year-olds want to be YouTubers
“If you look at the stats, I think that Either you or me or one of us shared something where they asked, like, fifteen-year-olds what they want to do when they grow up, and, like, 20 or 30%, like a shocking large number, said they wanted to be a YouTube creator…”
Nov 30, 2021 positive
Nov 30, 2021
Nov 30, 2021
Parr's single-year side investments exceeded his cumulative Hustle salaries
“And at this point at age 32, I'll make more this year from a couple like side investments, like a real estate deal that I did. I'll make more this year than collectively all of my salaries combined while working at the hustle.”
Nov 30, 2021
Nov 30, 2021
Nov 30, 2021
Dec 9, 2021
Dec 9, 2021
Dec 29, 2021 positive
Solo-blogging for The Hustle early on was Sam Parr's most fun
“Mine was when I first started the hustle and I was the only employee blogging and trying to game Reddit and get all this traffic was the most fun I had because I, it created these dopamine rushes where like it sucked. And then like one of our articles got like…”
Dec 29, 2021
Dec 29, 2021 bearish
Dec 29, 2021
Dec 31, 2021 neutral
Puri: OnlyFans receives 250 million monthly visitors
“It's two hundred fifty million. You're off by 10 X, an order of magnitude. Is it really? That was going to be my other unsexy business was actually the business of sexy which was like, I had no idea they get two hundred fifty million visitors per month.”
Jan 4, 2022
Jan 12, 2022 neutral
Jan 12, 2022 bullish
Jan 12, 2022 bearish
Jan 12, 2022 neutral
Jan 12, 2022 positive
Jan 18, 2022 neutral
Ramp acquired Buyer.co, a 'negotiating-as-a-service' startup taking a percentage of savings
“There's this company called buyer.co and my friend started it and it was called negotiating as a service and they would negotiate anything on your behalf and take a percentage of the savings and the company sold to ramp.”
Jan 18, 2022 bullish
Sam Parr bought Zoom stock pre-IPO after seeing its ad conversion rates
“So when we like years ago, or a couple years ago, we had Zoom was one of our advertisers, and this was before they went public. And the ad crushed it. It was so good. And we were like, damn dude, people love this product. They love zoom. And I ended up buying …”
Jan 18, 2022 neutral
Ryan Deiss sold a doomsday prepper affiliate website for eight figures
“We have this friend named Ryan Dice and Ryan Dice started digital marketer, which is like a pretty sizable business that does all types of stuff. And he owned a conference that he sold for a lot of money, but pre pandemic, like two years before the pandemic, h…”
Jan 18, 2022
Jan 26, 2022 positive
Parr: Immigrant hardship removes the fear of taking minor business losses
“There's this thing, particularly I find it amongst immigrants or children of immigrants. And maybe because they've like experienced some type of hardship where they're like, dude, I've experienced some crazy shit or my family has experiencing, has experienced …”
Jan 28, 2022 neutral
Parr: Billionaire Outlier Success Requires Genetic Predisposition, Not Just Hard Work
“You can kind of sweat your way to like maybe five or ten million in a lifetime, but becoming a billionaire and this huge outlier, I think it takes like a particular type of skill. Like you just genetically Predisposed to have it in your favor. And I think that…”
Mar 8, 2022 neutral
Meetup founder Scott Heiferman was constrained by a small market size
“I think if that guy would have worked on something else, it actually would have, he would have been significantly more successful. And some of these guys, it's kind of like they're Lance Armstrong and they're riding the Tour de France in a mountain bike or wit…”
Mar 22, 2022 bearish
Mar 26, 2022 negative
Mar 26, 2022 positive
Mar 31, 2022
Apr 22, 2022 positive
Sam Parr pitches future M&A business to secure calls with bankers
“And I've been contacting bankers and my pitch to them is this. Hey, I'm thinking about starting a company in this space. You've sold a few companies in this space. Tell me everything about why the, this company was bought as well as what the opportunities are …”
Apr 22, 2022
Jun 1, 2022 bullish
Parr: Personal wealth strategy is shifting tech profits into real estate
“And the kind of the strategy that my wife and I had was let's just try to get somewhat wealthy with tech stuff and have that continue to make cashflow and, you know, selling companies and pile a lot of it into real estate because that's something, because like…”
Jun 1, 2022
Parr: Selling a business is easier than accumulating $20M through cash flow
“To make twenty million, like you could build a business for five or 10 years, sell it, and make that. To make twenty million after, to make twenty million from cash flow, annual cash, that's really freaking hard. Like, you gotta, I mean, your taxes are higher …”
Jun 1, 2022 neutral
Jun 1, 2022
Jul 19, 2022 positive
Sam Parr: Immigrant founders succeed because foundational hardships reframe business risk
“What you notice talking to these people and a lot of you and I are friends with a lot of immigrant entrepreneurs or children of immigrant grants and their entrepreneurs. And you like, I often wonder, I'm like, how are these people succeeding when there's. It's…”
Jul 19, 2022 neutral
Jul 28, 2022 positive
SEO aggregators make millions selling senior living facility leads for $200 each
“Dude, I knew a guy who owned one of those search engines, and he was making a couple million bucks a year, and basically he would come up on top on Google, and then sell the lead for 200 dollars to your guy, and he would buy that lead, and then hopefully close…”
Aug 23, 2022 neutral
Sep 8, 2022 negative
TikTok's finance influencers are just making uncreative Alex Hormozi clone content
“Basically, these eighteen-year-old kids are like the most creative people I've ever seen. But then there's guys like you and me, these like money people and influencers, and everyone's doing the same fucking circle jerk Alex Hermosi stuff, and it's really lame…”
Sep 8, 2022 positive
Sam Parr's TikTok drove 'How to Get Rich' to #1 on Audible
“Look how to get rich is now number 30 in all of audible and originals. It's number one in the small business category. Yeah, look up how to get rich. Go look at it right now. Look at the categories. Like, it, like, skyrocketed after this video.”
Sep 8, 2022 positive
Sam Parr's outsourced TikTok generated 1.5M views in six days
“And I gave him the password to my TikTok. It's been one week. So in one week, this kid has taken you and I's videos and posted it to a day on TikTok. And in six days, maybe I think one week's tomorrow, he's gotten 1.5 million views. And I went from basically z…”
Sep 15, 2022
Sep 23, 2022
Sep 23, 2022 positive
Sep 23, 2022
Sep 23, 2022
Sep 23, 2022 positive
Parr: People become the average of who they follow on Instagram
“And you know, they say you're the average of the five people you hang out with most. I feel like I'm the average of like the 50 followers that I follow on Instagram. So I'm just constantly like seeing like ripped dudes and like people running far and running f…”
Oct 1, 2022 positive
Sam Parr: Start immediately because almost all project decisions are reversible
“It's a bullshit way to make you think that you actually are doing something when instead you should just start and figure it out along the way because virtually everything, not everything, but almost everything related to a project is reversible. And so you sh…”
Oct 1, 2022 neutral
Parr: MrBeast offered schools $5,000 to open gym at 11 PM
“At, like, 11 p.m. At night, someone mentioned basketball and how excited he was To play basketball. And Jimmy, he goes, let's just go right now. And we were like, what? Dude, it's like 11 o'clock. No one, he goes, yeah, yeah, yeah, let's figure it out. And as …”
Oct 4, 2022 bullish
Sam Parr: My First Million generates 2M to 5M monthly impressions
“Our monthly downloads on the podcast are, Range between 1.5 and two or 1.3 and two million. And then the pod, the, and then the YouTube episode views are another one or two million. So we're in the range of two to five on any given month.”
Oct 4, 2022 neutral
Sam Parr: The Hustle sold for tens of millions when I was 30
“So the hustle we sold for, let's say tens of millions of dollars, which is like, I think by most people, if you do, I think I was 3130 when we sold it, which is so like, that's six that I would say it's objectively successful, but compared to others, like it's…”
Oct 11, 2022 positive
Oct 11, 2022
Oct 18, 2022 neutral
Parr: Steve Jobs predicted interactive AI models of thinkers in 1985
“So basically in 1985 here, this is a quote from Steve Jobs. He goes, my hope is someday when the next Aristotle is alive, we can capture the underlying worldview of that Aristotle in a computer. And someday some student will not be only be able to read the wor…”
Nov 1, 2022 positive
Nov 1, 2022 neutral
Sam Parr: Humans Are Built to Work About 30 Hours a Week
“We are not built to sit idle. We are, you know, created to work. I don't think we're actually created to work a hundred hours a week, but I think we are created to work like 30 hours a week. And like, that's the minimum where it's like, you just have to produc…”
Nov 3, 2022 positive
Nov 3, 2022
Nov 17, 2022 neutral
Nov 17, 2022 positive
Dec 16, 2022 negative
Dec 16, 2022 neutral
Sam Parr: Marketplace Startups Only Succeed by Focusing on Specific Niches
“I think that one of the few ways that these, one of the few ways these businesses can work is by like being very niche. So you have Poshmark for women's clothing. You've got Grail for men's streetwear. You know, there's like dozens of these that are like prett…”
Dec 29, 2022 neutral
Dec 29, 2022 neutral
Parr: Andrew Tate's Discord community brings in over $100M in revenue
“It's, like, tens of thousands of members. Yeah. No, no, no, no, no, no. Like, a million members. Oh, wow. Like, we're talking nine figures in revenue, and CoffeeZilla, like, did it. He's like, look, here's all the members. If you multiply that by 50, and then …”
Dec 29, 2022 negative
Jan 26, 2023 negative
Parr: Occasional Indulgence and Social Joy Outweigh Extreme Health Optimization
“That like, you know, that's like a life worth living is like when you have things to celebrate and like, you can build camaraderie with your friends. Like, yeah, just do it. You might live a little shorter. You might be sick for a few days, but like, you know,…”
Jan 26, 2023 positive
Feb 2, 2023 bullish
Feb 10, 2023 positive
Sam Parr: Facebook user acquisition costs dropped back to $1.50
“Facebook ads are killing it. They seem like they're working really nicely. Like when I was running it was like, you know, we are acquiring users for like three or four dollars. And then nowadays it's back down to like one 50 when we first started.”
Mar 9, 2023 negative
Sam Parr: Building a business around a domain name is a mistake
“It always bothers me when people collect domain names, that's a pet peeve. Cause I, cause I'm saying, if you're doing that, you're doing the wrong stuff. Cause people will say, I'm gonna, I've got this great idea. I'm gonna buy a domain name or even worse. The…”
Mar 9, 2023
Mar 9, 2023
Mar 9, 2023 neutral
Mar 9, 2023 positive
Mar 9, 2023
Mar 28, 2023 neutral
Mar 28, 2023 bullish
Puri: Hampton will generate $100M+ revenue and reach up to $1B valuation
“I will predict and guarantee really that this is going to be a greater than a hundred million dollar a year revenue business, which means it's going to be worth something like low end, 304 hundred million, high end billion dollars.”
Mar 28, 2023 positive
Mar 28, 2023 positive
Mar 28, 2023 neutral
Mar 28, 2023
Puri: Sam Parr's mastermind was the blueprint for building Milk Road
“Had I not been in a mastermind with you, I wouldn't have seen how you built the hustle and I wouldn't have known. How to build the milk road, a business I didn't know I was planning to create five years later, but that blueprint was etched in my brain from tho…”
Mar 28, 2023 positive
Mar 30, 2023 bullish
Shah: Sam Parr's Hampton could be a $100M revenue business worth $1B+
“Hampton's a cool idea with actual utility. And Sean, you said this in the last thing, like this Could be a hundred million dollar business worth anywhere from three hundred million dollars to a billion plus dollars. And I think you're right.”
Apr 29, 2023 bullish
Parr: Admit Yogi founder should reject VC and bootstrap to an exit
“I think if I'm in your position, I wouldn't raise money. And I think that by the time you're 30 years old, you can be worth hundreds of millions of dollars because you own a business that makes 30 or forty million bucks that potentially you could sell for a hu…”
May 4, 2023 positive
May 4, 2023 bearish
Parr: Home-swapping platform Kindred is a bad business lacking monetization
“Frankly, I don't think it's a good business. I don't understand how they make money. And cause what I said, what I signed up for, I was like, I'm getting a lot of value. I'm not spending a lot of value. I don't know how you guys are doing this.”
May 12, 2023 negative
Parr: Vice Media Offered $10M in Stock to Buy The Hustle
“They get me in a room, they like send me a term sheet and they're like, well, buy your company for ten million dollars, but it's going to be all in stock. And I was like, well, show me the financials and like, let me see what's going on with your business. And…”
Jun 20, 2023
Jul 27, 2023
Jul 27, 2023
Sam Parr: Successful communities require high barriers to entry to drive FOMO.
“The first is you have to create FOMO. So a little bit of fear of missing out. And once they're in your community, they feel excited that they're finally in... There needs to be a barrier to entry for building a good community, I think.”
Jul 27, 2023 positive
Parr: Massive wealth typically stems from singular focus, not diversified ventures
“I've noticed that the people that have huge outside outsized results, And have massive, massive wealth. It typically comes from one thing. And then once they get incredibly successful, it appears as though they have a lot of things going on. But those lot of t…”
Jul 27, 2023
Jul 27, 2023 neutral
Sam Parr shares his framing for high-upside cold outreach to peers.
“The best case scenario here is that somehow we work together and we create magic. The worst case scenario is that you have a new friend in the industry and we'll just help one another. But our world is small and I have a feeling that it's going to be nice that…”
Jul 27, 2023 positive
Jul 27, 2023 bullish
Jul 27, 2023 positive
Sam Parr says 15 to 20 Hustle alumni founded successful tech companies.
“I mean, if you look at the hustle, I don't know how many people we had when we sold the company, maybe 40. So we probably have hired 60 or 70 people. A lot of them are really successful now. Like we hired them when they were like 23 and a lot of them, maybe li…”
Jul 27, 2023
Sam Parr seeded the Trends community by giving influencers free early access.
“A lot of times, particularly in trends, my one of the first communities that I built, I would seed it by having 10, 20, 30 people who I knew were impressive. And I just said, you don't have to pay anything, but you're joining this community. Also on this date,…”
Aug 9, 2023
Parr Uses Hard Physical Training To Counteract A Soft Daily Life
“The hardest points in my life are if I go boxing, or if I have a hard workout, and I'm like, I need some pain in my life in order to realize that, like to turn down my, the volume of my daily life, because my daily life is soft, so I need to read about somethi…”
Aug 9, 2023 positive
Aug 9, 2023
Long-Term Business Victory Comes From Simply Outlasting Every Single Competitor
“You can have your little wins and your little wins and all great. But I'm talking about like at the end when you're the only one left on the battlefield and everybody's laying on the ground, then you don't even have to be any good. You don't even have to be go…”
Aug 23, 2023 negative
Facebook algorithm change crashed a website's sale from $200M to $30M
“He was about to get a two hundred million dollar check for the sale. And it was a, like a, one of those like click baby websites on Facebook that showed like top 10 lists. And then Facebook changed the algorithm and the sale, sale dropped from two hundred mill…”
Sep 4, 2023
Samir Chaudry: Strong co-host dynamic frees podcasts from guest reliance
“When you're building a show that's guest dependent Or all about the guest bookings. It's like some people will look at this and be like, I don't know who that is, so I'm not going to click on it. Some people will give it a chance because they trust you. But re…”
Sep 7, 2023 bearish
Sep 7, 2023
Parr: Hustle Con made $50K from 2K newsletter subscribers
“I originally started it as a conference and if I had five if I had 2000 subscribers,
To my conference newsletter, I think I made 50,000 dollars in conference ticket sales.
And then when I had 10,000, I think we did a 150,000 in ticket sales, something like tha…”
Sep 7, 2023 neutral
Parr turned down Andrew Yang and Vivek Ramaswamy before they blew up
“So I've turned down two presidential candidates to either come on this pod or speak at my events. The first one was Andrew what's his name? Yang, the guy, the math guy. So he emailed me, I think in 2015 being like, Hey, I want to come speak at your event. And …”
Sep 7, 2023 positive
Parr: I am biased toward disciplined, systematic operators out of envy
“Like I'm drawn to people who are like orderly and systematic and disciplined, like people who wake up at five AM every morning. That's not me. And so like, I'm really fascinated by people who like grind really hard and are systematic and are operational and th…”
Sep 21, 2023 bullish
Sep 22, 2023 bullish
Sep 28, 2023
Parr: Low barrier to entry causes most media creators to execute poorly
“Media is an interesting business because the barrier to entry is really low, particularly for the written word.
Well, even for podcasts, everyone can write.
Therefore everyone, the pool of people who think they're good writers is significantly higher than like…”
Sep 28, 2023 bullish
Sep 29, 2023
Sep 29, 2023
Sam Parr: Major Media CEO Claimed The Hustle Wouldn't Top $1M Revenue
“And this CEO of a large multi-billion dollar media startup that everyone knows. I'm not going to call him out. He told me, I go, I'm gonna start this thing called the hustle. I think it could become a huge thing. He said, this will never make more than a milli…”
Sep 29, 2023
Parr Plans to Only Fund His Daughter's Tuition and Medical Care
“And so my current thinking, this has not been settled, but my thinking, this is just me, not my family, me, is the only thing that I'll pay for is free tuition and free medical for life. And beyond that, give her nothing. That's kind of like my current thinkin…”
Sep 29, 2023 neutral
Oct 5, 2023
Oct 10, 2023 positive
Parr: Ask references how an 8-out-of-10 candidate becomes a 10
“And so I say, what are they out of scale? One to 10. They always say an eight or nine. And I say, all right, how can they be a perfect tenant? Like what's missing? And then that's typically when they'll tell me like bad stuff. And I'm always looking for that b…”
Oct 10, 2023 positive
Oct 10, 2023
Parr: Leaders cannot fundamentally change an underperforming employee
“I've come to the conclusion I can't change people. So if I think someone is just repeatedly not screwing up, I just, I shouldn't have hired them. I made that mistake. Someone is either great. You're normally a great executor who sometimes makes mistakes, or yo…”
Oct 10, 2023 positive
Parr: My core business mission is working with cool people
“Here's my, the mission for the business. This first one, it's very selfish, which is I want to work on cool shit with cool people and have a dope life. That's just what I tell people. I go, so it's very selfish. I just want to work with cool people on interest…”
Oct 10, 2023 negative
Oct 10, 2023 neutral
Oct 10, 2023 positive
Parr: Hitting achievable goals is better than missing hyper-ambitious targets
“I actually think achievable goals are inspiring, and I try to hit, like, 75% of the goals that we set. If I'm not hitting about 80% my goal setting was quite bad. So I, hitting goals, hitting, hitting goals that are not that ambitious, I think gets you a bette…”
Oct 13, 2023 positive
Oct 17, 2023 bullish
Parr estimates his investment in Hone is now up 10x
“I think I invested at a 10 or fifteen million dollar valuation. I don't actually, I haven't read their updates because I think it got sent to my old email. If you're listening to this Hone, update my email. But I imagine that business is worth nine figures. I …”
Oct 17, 2023
Oct 19, 2023
Parr takes high-variance financial risks only when operating companies
“And so, I'm wary of those types of games, where I fall a little bit more into the Warren Buffett thing, where I'd rather have steady, but smaller returns, as opposed to big, lumpy jumps. I do get big, lumpy jumps, but I do those in things, with things that I c…”
Oct 20, 2023 neutral
Puri: 'My First Million' was originally launched with Ishan Haque
“One thing that people don't know is this podcast was started actually not with me and Sam, me and you. I hit you up on Twitter DMs. And I saw that you were doing a, you were a podcast editor for somebody else I knew I think Corey or Angel List or something lik…”
Oct 24, 2023 negative
Galloway: Wealthy individuals should sell concentrated single stocks and buy index funds
“Like you're, quite frankly, you should be selling down your Airbnb and your HubSpot stock and just letting, you don't need the needle in a haystack. You just need to buy the whole haystack because you've got enough capital.”
Oct 24, 2023 neutral
Oct 24, 2023 positive
Oct 24, 2023 positive
Nov 7, 2023 positive
Nov 7, 2023
Sam Parr: Only 5 of 30 friends immediately loved their newborns
“I think I talked to 30 friends. You were one of them. And I think the predominant answer was you love this from a man. You love your baby, but you're not in love with your baby. And I only heard about five of the 30 people say I was in love right away.”
Nov 7, 2023 positive
Nov 24, 2023
Parr: Disorganized diligence files make acquirers suspect missing or fraudulent data
“And you don't want to give them anything that's messy. Otherwise you'll look not buttoned up. And if you look not buttoned up, they'll say, what else are you missing? Or like, are you lying about something and you need to present things in a really nice orderl…”
Nov 24, 2023 neutral
Parr: The Best Acquisition Offer Is the One That Actually Closes
“And you know which deal is the best deal? The one that will actually close. That's another huge learning. Not all deals are the same. The one that will close. To close a deal, it's a really big deal. To get an offer and go through diligence, that's not nearly …”
Nov 24, 2023 neutral
Parr: Negotiation Leverage Comes Entirely From Willingness to Walk Away
“And when you are desperate, you have zero power. And when you have zero power, that is the worst part to be in when you negotiate. And the best part when you can negotiate is to walk away. And the, and, or to be able to walk away. And to be able to walk away, …”
Nov 27, 2023 positive
Parr: Ancient Nutrition raised $100M after starting from Dr. Axe's blog
“Ancient nutrition. They've raised a hundred million dollars, so I have to imagine they're doing hundreds of millions of revenue, and it started because this guy named Josh Axe. Dr. Axe is what his name was, or his name is, and he's got a... Dr. Axe, spelled li…”
Nov 27, 2023 positive
Parr: Rejecting corporate political games and professional dress is a mistake
“A lot of times guys like you and me or people listening, they think clothes don't matter. They think, you know, I'm just going to curse and people are going to think that I'm real and all this stuff. I've grown to think that's complete nonsense that like, you …”
Nov 30, 2023 negative
Nov 30, 2023
Nov 30, 2023 positive
Dec 8, 2023
Dec 8, 2023 neutral
Parr: Founder walked away with only $3M from a $990M exit
“So I know a guy who sold the company for nine hundred million dollars, nine hundred and ninety million dollars. You know how much he made after the sale? Three million dollars. That's how much he made. He had four co-founders or maybe five and he raised a ton …”
Dec 8, 2023
Parr: Selling a business is easier than accumulating $1M in cash flow
“I think that there, if you want to make a certain amount of money quickly, you have to ask yourself, is it going to come through annual cashflow? Or is it going to come through selling something, like selling a business?... I think the easiest thing to do with…”
Dec 8, 2023 neutral
Dec 8, 2023
Dec 8, 2023 neutral
Dec 8, 2023 neutral
Parr: Fully accredited universities are listed for $8.5M on DealStream
“You can go on to deal stream, which I am, and I'm looking at universities that you can buy. Here's a university for 8.5 million dollars that you can purchase fully accredited, which I don't know what the value of that is. And you get a campus. This particular …”
Dec 8, 2023 positive
Parr: Business operators can win by organizing brilliant deep tech inventors
“And a lot of these people who do this, they're not, a lot of them don't care about business. A lot of them are unorganized. It's like the typical like scientist who wears like, who forgets to put one sock on and only wears like one sock or like their shoes on,…”
Dec 11, 2023
Parr: Across 75 Hires, Female Candidates Negotiated Salaries Far Less Than Men
“Women in particular were horrible at pushing back on their salary for what they should ask for. And, you know, my company was small. We, in aggregate, probably hired 75 people. But I noticed a small trend of women in particular did not push back nearly as hard…”
Dec 18, 2023 positive
Dec 18, 2023 neutral
Dec 22, 2023
Parr: Craigslist ads generated a 10,000-subscriber book club email list
“I had a book club, the anti MBA.com and I, it's how I met Siva. I met Ryan Hoover this way. Some of my best friends, dude, I just put another ad on Craigslist and I said, I'm going to organizing a business book club. And it was just from Craigslist. And I ende…”
Dec 22, 2023
Dec 22, 2023
Dec 22, 2023
Dec 22, 2023 neutral
Dec 22, 2023 positive
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 …”
Dec 22, 2023
Dec 22, 2023
Jan 15, 2024 positive
Sam Parr: DIY Packaging Outperforms Corporate Polish for Creator Products
“Now that I know that like mom and pop is better than big, you know, big corporate company vibe, keep it lame or not lame. Keep it kind of like thrown together. That's the way to do it. I want to see a USPS box. I want to see some of the tape all messed up when…”
Jan 24, 2024 positive
Andrew Wilkinson Uses His Private Jet to Aggressively Pursue Deals
“Andrew Wilkinson does this. He throws his weight around. When he wants something, or he like sets his target on someone, a relationship, or a business he wants to buy, or whatever, He really throws his weight around in a way that I definitely don't, right? Lik…”
Jan 29, 2024 positive
Feb 2, 2024 negative
Feb 2, 2024
Feb 5, 2024 positive
Sam Parr views superstar employees as short-term collaborators, not subordinates
“I don't ever use the word work for me because oftentimes it doesn't, I hate that. It's just, it's not that it's, we work together on something and I'm only going to be able to have them for a little, a short amount of time.”
Feb 5, 2024 positive
Sam Parr: Controlling spreadsheets and presentations creates significant organizational influence
“You need to get really good at presenting your work, and you need to be really, really loud about it, but you have to be great at presenting your work,
Making presentations, writing stuff, controlling the Google Sheets, and making them look presentable, and ma…”
Feb 5, 2024
Feb 5, 2024 positive
Sam Parr: Uber's 2008 seed deck framed $30M profit as realistic
“So in 2008, Uber was just getting started. They're raising only 200,000 dollars. And on slide 20, They have a deck or a slide that says potential outcomes, and they say best case scenario becomes a market leader with over a billion dollars in annual revenue. R…”
Feb 5, 2024 neutral
Feb 12, 2024 bullish
TKO Group has significantly higher investment upside than Ferrari
“Okay, so if I had to put my own money, if I had to put a 100,000 dollars, let's say, into either Ferrari or TKO, I think I would go Ferrari. I think I would go Ferrari, but I think TKO has significantly higher upside. Significantly.”
Feb 14, 2024 positive
Feb 16, 2024 bullish
Mar 8, 2024 bullish
Mar 25, 2024 neutral
Apr 1, 2024 positive
Sam Parr: Forcing customers to jump through hoops builds cult brands
“Making your customer jump through hoops in order to acquire the good. It makes it so much more valuable. The problem is, is that's really hard to pull off. But if you can pull it off, you have the will and discipline in order to, like, take this risk. It's pre…”
Apr 5, 2024
Apr 5, 2024 positive
Parr scaled Hampton to millions in revenue without podcast promotion
“You built a product, launched it, did not use your audience initially publicly. You didn't use the podcast to promote it initially. Maybe your brand name helped in private, but you didn't do it publicly and you drove it to millions of dollars in revenue very e…”
Apr 5, 2024
Apr 5, 2024
Apr 12, 2024
Parr: Ultra-successful people stop asking questions due to status conditioning
“I think when you're as successful as this person who you went and hung out with, you're just used to being the,
I don't know, not particularly wise one, but you're the one that's supposed to have a lot more answers and you have what others are seeking.
And so …”
Apr 30, 2024 bullish
May 10, 2024 negative
May 22, 2024 neutral
May 31, 2024 negative
May 31, 2024
May 31, 2024 negative
Jun 5, 2024 positive
Jun 5, 2024 positive
Jun 13, 2024
Sam Parr: The Hustle Reached 2M Subscribers With Three Editorial Staff
“Basically the hustle. We could have, I mean, we were at about two million subscribers when I sold. Now I don't know what it's at. Let's say three or three and a half. Basically three people on editorial. If we were selling ads. So when I ran the company, three…”
Jun 13, 2024
Jun 21, 2024
The Hustle reached $12M in revenue and $1M profit before its sale
“I think we went from like 500,000 in revenue to 2.2 To like five to 12 or something like that. And we didn't make a lot of profit along the way. I think the year we sold, we did maybe a million in profit, but our cash flow was high. So I was able to add like t…”
Jun 21, 2024
Jun 28, 2024 neutral
Sam Parr: 70% of Wealthy Founders Endured Miserable Grinds for Money
“If I had to guess, 60 to 70% Of the people who we know who we would consider wealthy enough that money doesn't really matter, probably made money in a way that looking back, they were like, that was really hard and miserable. And I don't think I can do that ag…”
Jun 28, 2024 neutral
Parr: Working purely for intrinsic enjoyment requires privilege and luck
“That's a very privileged way to go about it, which is if you hit the lottery, like maybe we have, or I mean, we've worked hard, but we've got lucky as well, where that's a very privileged way to go about it. And so I do think you have to eat shit for a certain…”
Jul 5, 2024 positive
Puri: Denominate Savings in Time of Freedom Rather Than Nominal Dollars
“That's a powerful thing to do is change the denomination into time instead of money. So, you know, if you have 24,000 dollars or 36,000 dollars or 90,000 dollars, it's kind of like Chuck E. Cheese money. It's tokens that you don't really understand what this d…”
Jul 5, 2024
Jul 19, 2024
Jul 22, 2024 negative
Jul 22, 2024 neutral
Jul 29, 2024 positive
Jul 29, 2024 positive
Sam Parr: Adopting intentional identity labels is vital for behavioral change
“And I think labeling yourself as a good person, a loyal person, as a business builder, as a force of nature, as a fitness freak, I think those labels are incredibly important because it makes sure that you recreate your identity, and I like to tell people that…”
Jul 29, 2024
Jul 29, 2024 neutral
Jul 31, 2024
Aug 7, 2024 positive
Aug 19, 2024 negative
Aug 19, 2024 positive
Parr says building interesting companies requires enduring constant confrontation and tension
“To do anything interesting in life, whether it's business or whatever,
It involves confrontation, and it involves tension a lot of times.
That is such an uncomfortable feeling, but it's sort of like working out, where it's like, you've got to do that to make…”
Aug 23, 2024 neutral
Parr Ranked Number Three on the Rejuvenation Olympics Biological Age Leaderboard
“I did this test, Sean, and I scored great. So great that I messaged Brian Johnson, and I was like, this is wrong, right? And he's like, well, no, like, you're, you, you're like the number three on the Rejuvenation Olympics.”
Aug 23, 2024 neutral
Parr: Biological Aging Test Scores Are Largely Driven by Genetics
“The thing is, is like, I'm a, eighty-twenty type of guy. I do like, 80% great, and then I like, fuck off for 20%. Like, I eat poorly sometimes, and, but I just think that a lot of this, the takeaway from when I did that thing was, it's mostly genetics, I think…”
Aug 23, 2024
Sep 6, 2024 neutral
Sep 11, 2024 negative
Parr: Remote internet businesses obscure the real-world impact of your work
“And it made me sad that I make money on the internet, and that I make money remotely with remote staff, because it's hard to see the magic that you're working so hard to create, or hopefully your output is magic, where you create products and services that peo…”
Sep 18, 2024 bullish
Sep 18, 2024 bearish
Oct 10, 2024 negative
Sam Parr: Large conspiracies inevitably fail because too many people must keep secrets
“The problem with conspiracies, there's two problems with them. One, secrets are really hard to keep. You know what I mean? Like if, so if 50 people know that they had to work together to do X, Y, and Z, it's really hard, particularly over decades, to keep that…”
Oct 10, 2024
Parr claims he met London Breed hours before Mayor Ed Lee died
“By the way, the last time I met with the mayor it was in San Francisco, and so I met with London Breed, and she was just a council person, whatever, a district, I don't even know what it was called. Literally eight hours later, I met with her at like, five p.m…”
Oct 14, 2024
Sam Parr: Disguising a natural writing style under pseudonyms is extremely difficult
“I used to actually write in fake names, like fake blog posts all the time. And I remember trying to change how I was writing. And I remember doing that and thinking, this is really challenging. Everyone's going to know this is me. I used to write fake blog pos…”
Oct 30, 2024 positive
Oct 30, 2024 negative
Oct 30, 2024 neutral
Dec 5, 2024 bearish
Dec 18, 2024 positive
Sam Parr: Overcoming panic requires confronting fear via 'walking to the gallows'
“There's this, like, idea of, like getting over the stuff. It's called, like, walking to the gallow, where, like, when you get panicky, it feels like you're dying. And in order to overcome that, you just gotta be like, fuck it. I'm gonna go die. Like, I'm gonna…”
Dec 18, 2024
Parr: Enrolling in university is like buying stock in brand equity
“There's like been a lot of times where people will sign up to, for a university. And the goal is that after 10 or 15 years, the brand name has elevated. So you bought the price before it was full. You know, it's just like investing in a stock.”
Dec 18, 2024 negative
Dec 18, 2024 positive
Parr: Tim Ferriss Advised Using Pairing Metrics for The Hustle's Growth
“When Tim Ferriss invested in the hustle, we, I got to hang out with him for an hour or so, and I was telling him about how many subscribers that we were growing by. He's like, well, you need, like, a pairing metric. You need you know, not just top-line, like, …”
Dec 18, 2024 positive
Dec 18, 2024 positive
Parr: Hate, rage, and guilt are highly useful emotions for success
“I actually think that hate is If you have in your heart, it can be really useful. Like revenge and rage is like a very useful feeling. So is Shane. People will be like, why are you guilting someone into like doing this or that? I'm like, well, guilt is a wonde…”
Dec 18, 2024 positive
Dec 30, 2024 neutral
Sam Parr: New parents must pretend work matters to maintain productivity
“When you have a kid, and I experienced this, where I'm like, oh, nothing else matters. But you should still kind of pretend it does so you could, like, kind of be productive, and I kind of, like, acted like nothing else mattered.”
Dec 30, 2024 positive
Sam Parr uses 'The Brick' daily until noon to block phone distractions
“Every morning when I'm getting ready to go to the gym, I walk by my door and I brick my phone, which means it's completely unusable other than making phone calls. So my wife can call me for an emergency Spotify and my workout app. And so I will keep it like th…”
Dec 30, 2024 positive
Dec 30, 2024
Dec 30, 2024 positive
Sam Parr: Paying for entire family vacations is consistently among life's best experiences
“Taking family and just paying for it, and it sounds like a ridiculous, and it's very expensive, and it's very challenging for a lot of people, but if you can pull it off, it is almost always one of the best moments.”
Jan 6, 2025
Sam Parr Only Paid Himself $24,000 Annually During Early Startup Years
“I think I ran the company for four years, but something like the first three years, or the first two years, I paid myself roughly 24,000 dollars a year, which was so stupid. People should not do that because my business was doing fine. I could have paid myself…”
Jan 6, 2025 positive
Sam Parr Holds Monthly Money Meetings to Track Net Worth
“My wife Sarah and I, we do this thing that we just call our monthly money meeting. And the way it works is that we, like, break down our monthly expenses, our income, and we also look at our net worth, and we talk about how can we spend the next month to, like…”
Jan 6, 2025
Sam Parr Funded a $20,000 Guilt-Free Account Strictly for High-End Clothing
“And so I put 20 grand into an account because I was like, here, I'm newly into, somewhat newly into clothing, and I got interested in, like, the craftsmanship.
And a lot of, like, this Japanese shit that I love, it's, like, pretty expensive.
Like, it's, like 6…”
Jan 6, 2025 positive
Jan 10, 2025 neutral
Jan 10, 2025 negative
Review directories fail unless targeting industries with high-budget enterprise clients
“Accountants are basically... A lot of them are like mop and pop organizations. It's a pretty bad group to sell to, but like whatever organization or industry you want to do this for, it has to be where they're already spending a lot of money and it's bigger co…”
Jan 14, 2025 positive
Mapping biographical timelines helps founders visualize the gaps before overnight success
“Whenever I read a book, I do a few things. One, I make, whenever there's like a year and a money term or some type of milestone, I write it down in a sheet. And the reason why I write it in a sheet is because a lot of times when you're building a company or do…”
Jan 16, 2025 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 …”
Jan 29, 2025 neutral
Sam Parr: Elite founders sometimes scale back to 20-hour work weeks
“Hard work amongst this group, not universal. So there was one guy, I don't, you weren't there, you were, Sean like busted his knee in the second hour or something like that and had to stay at home for like this whole, one whole session. And there was this guy …”
Feb 11, 2025 bearish
Feb 11, 2025 neutral
Mar 3, 2025
Parr: Young founders have a brief window to leverage their prodigy status
“There's also for all y'all there's a small window that you have Where you're like this prodigy. But you've got this like two to maybe six year window where you being pestering, that's just cute and awesome. And then in a few years, it's going to be annoying an…”
Mar 3, 2025
Mar 12, 2025 positive
Mar 12, 2025 negative
Parr: Moving to another city solely for tax savings is foolish
“Moving for taxes, when someone tells me they do that, I think they're stupid. I think that's a really, that's a foolish thing to do. Do you agree or disagree? There's a lot of people that do that. I think it's foolish. Sorry, they're not stupid. I think that d…”
Mar 14, 2025
Mar 19, 2025 neutral
Mar 19, 2025 bearish
Apr 4, 2025 positive
Apr 4, 2025 neutral
Apr 4, 2025 negative
Media companies that attempt to sell software to their audiences will fail
“That strategy that they and many other people who are, or I don't even know if they did do it, but whoever wants to try and do that, it will almost always fail.
Because in order to make a business like this work,
Where you sell stuff to your audience.
You almo…”
Apr 4, 2025 neutral
Apr 4, 2025 bearish
Apr 4, 2025 positive
Apr 4, 2025 negative
Apr 4, 2025
Apr 4, 2025
Apr 4, 2025
Apr 4, 2025
Apr 17, 2025 positive
Apr 24, 2025 bullish
Apr 28, 2025 bearish
Sam Parr admits The Hustle could not grow organically if launched today
“I don't think it would succeed. I think that it would, I would not succeed. I got to like 300,000 subscribers organically in like two years. Like it was so easy looking back on it. That would never happen again. It's, there's too much noise.”
May 5, 2025 positive
May 5, 2025 neutral
Parr: Imagined rejection email from journalist motivated him for eight years
“This like prestigious journalist, I asked her to come in freelance for the hustle. And she wrote a letter back to me and she says like, that's cute. Thanks. And like, it drove like eight years of like success for me because I was like, I'm going to prove this …”
May 21, 2025 positive
May 30, 2025 positive
Sam Parr: Ideas Matter Incredibly for Founders Who Have Mastered Execution
“I think that for a lot of people just starting out, ideas are unimportant, because it's just like, dude, just get into something and you'll figure it out. But I think that if you have a proven track record of like, I execute, so execution, or going forward is …”
Jun 4, 2025 positive
Jun 25, 2025 positive
Jul 9, 2025
Sep 26, 2025 neutral
Oct 6, 2025
Negreanu: Admitting flaws makes a deceptive pitch far more believable
“I'd say an over exuberance of confidence though is problematic. Like if you're just too like, oh my God, this is the greatest thing. If you actually acknowledge Both good and bad. Right. So you're like, listen, we're in great shape. However, you know, we got, …”
Oct 6, 2025
Oct 17, 2025
Oct 17, 2025 bullish
Oct 17, 2025 negative
Oct 21, 2025 positive
Oct 28, 2025 positive
Parr: Founders should wait several years before defining company core values
“And I did the same thing with my company, where I purposely did not have values And I was like, what bothers, what attributes bothers me? And what attributes do I particularly love when I see us do here? And now after, you know, my company is weird. I started …”
Oct 28, 2025 neutral
Parr: Startups outgrow brute-force execution at $3M revenue or $1M profit
“Honestly, it probably starts at three million in revenue where you're out of the brute force stage. And it depends on your business, but something like A million a year in profit, maybe. Where you're out of the brute force stage, and what happens next is actua…”
Oct 28, 2025 positive
Parr: Effective CEOs fix small mistakes quickly through difficult conversations
“Basically to be a CEO or to be a leader, you basically have to recognize that a large percentage of your time is going to be having difficult conversations. And the best way to have a difficult conversation is A, you get it early on. So if you're in a meeting …”
Nov 12, 2025 bullish
Parr: 'One Hour Books' will be Shaan Puri's most successful project
“If I had to bet this is going to be the most successful thing you've ever done, because my instinct, and I don't want to do this right now, but is to like, oh, can you just tell me all of the things that you learned from Rick Rubin and all these people?”
Nov 17, 2025
Shaan Puri: Entrepreneurs are actually risk minimizers, not risk seekers
“People think that entrepreneurs take a lot of risk. But I actually think that you are a good example of what most entrepreneurs really do, which is they're actual risk minimizers. It's like, how do I win while taking the least amount of risk necessary to win?”
Nov 17, 2025
Parr: First Liquid Million Came From Airbnb IPO and Company Sale
“So, cash, like cash million, I made it when my wife worked at Airbnb, and it went public. And that, that's when we made our first. And then about three months later, I think it went later in December, my company sold in February, and then we made a lot. Leadin…”
Nov 17, 2025
Nov 17, 2025
Nov 17, 2025 neutral
Parr repackaged 20-cent mechanic scrub as a $20 poison ivy treatment
“In 2015, I started a business called Itch Juice, a poison ivy treatment... There was this, like, type of lotion that mechanics used. It was like a, called a green scrub, I forget exactly what it's called, but it turns out it was also had the same ingredients a…”
Nov 19, 2025 negative
Nov 19, 2025 neutral
Parr: Applying for jobs after a failed startup is common but mortifying
“For a lot of people in these situations where the thing's just not working, going to ask for a job, A, it's normal, B, it's incredibly mortifying because you're like, shit, I'm supposed to be this guy who has this business, I put all my identity into it, now I…”
Nov 26, 2025 positive
Master and reread two or three classic books instead of reading widely
“And so my opinion that I'm telling young people when it comes to reading, I'm like, pick like the two or three like classics or the greats of it and master it.
Know it word for word and master it and don't read a lot.
Just read the same thing over and over and…”
Dec 8, 2025
Parr: Hampton repeats core values six times before members internalize them.
“At Hampton, we have this thing called the three C's commitment, candor and confidentiality. And that, and so we have to repeat it. We have found roughly six times To our customer for them to understand and remember the three C's.”
Dec 8, 2025
Parr: Hiring employees forces him into painful but highly effective accountability.
“When I hire employees from my company, I then feel like, well, now I have to keep feeding this system because now I'm held accountable and it's very painful, but I get significantly better results.
And so when I back myself into a corner where I must perform a…”
Dec 8, 2025 bullish
Parr: Instagram videos generate substantial revenue despite maxing at 80,000 views.
“You don't need that many people to watch it. Like I'm seeing it's changing our, like, we're getting customers. I've made a lot of money off of it already in a very short amount of time with very few views. I think my most popular thing is getting like, 70 or 8…”
Dec 8, 2025 positive
Parr: GLP-1s eliminate food noise alongside nail-biting and alcohol cravings.
“And when you take, ah, GLP-ONES, not only does that voice get dimmed, other addictions get dimmed. I noticed I bit my nails less. I noticed I wasn't craving, like, it used to be where I would smell, like, beer. If I walked by, like, a brewery, I'd be like, let…”
Dec 8, 2025
Dec 8, 2025 neutral
Feb 16, 2026
Feb 18, 2026
Feb 18, 2026 neutral
Feb 18, 2026
Parr: Freedom from screens will become an upper-class luxury like health food
“I think that what we're going to see is that there's going to be like these classes where like the upper class, the rich people who don't have to be on their phone or computer all the time, they're going to know that this is an issue. Sort of like, it's a litt…”
Feb 18, 2026 positive
Parr: Diagnostic clinics will emerge to objectively measure human attention and burnout
“And I think that we are gonna see this for nervous system or attention. Like, it'll be advertised towards, like, let's see where you rank or where you are, like, in terms of attention. And we're gonna tell you how fried you are. And then we're going to give yo…”
Feb 20, 2026 positive
Sam Parr: Early positive affirmation directly increases a child's likelihood of success
“It's a really cool idea that if I tell you at a young age that you are special, that you work hard, that you're gonna be great, that you belong in this category, you are more likely to actually become that simply of me, like, telling you that you are.”
Feb 24, 2026 positive
Parr: Hampton Uses Six-Week Planning Cycles Because Quarterly Is Too Long
“Typically EOS is divided quarterly. We actually at Hampton do ours every six weeks. So we do rock planning every six weeks as opposed to quarterly. I think quarterly is too long for a startup, but so you can kind of like manipulate it to like fit your needs.”
Feb 24, 2026 bullish
Mar 17, 2026 neutral
Mar 27, 2026
Mar 27, 2026
Sam Parr: Good taste follows rules, but great taste breaks them
“The definition of good taste is doing exactly what I said, which is understanding what you want to say and following the rules to say it. The definition of great taste, which we're not going to talk today, is then taking those rules and breaking them.”
Mar 27, 2026 positive
Apr 27, 2026
Apr 27, 2026 bullish
Apr 27, 2026
Parr: Following your passion does not mean turning it into your career
“I would argue That the answer is you should follow your passion, but your passion doesn't need to be your job. I have seen so many people that have made that mistake where they thought following their passion was following that as a career, and I think that ac…”
Apr 27, 2026 negative
Parr: Constantly questioning your happiness makes you significantly more discontent
“People who think why and ask themselves all the time, why am I not happy? Why am I not following my life's work? Why am I not following my passion? This should feel better. This doesn't feel better. Those people are actually oftentimes significantly more disco…”
May 11, 2026
Sam Parr: A company's internal issues are an extension of the founder's psychology
“The business that you're controlling, if you are controlling, it's just an extension of your personality. So if you have trust issues, then your coworkers are probably going to think that you're micromanaging them. If you have trouble committing, then they're …”
May 11, 2026 bullish
Jul 21, 2026 negative
Jul 21, 2026 neutral
Sam Parr estimates Mark O'Brien nets $500k-$1M flipping NYC brownstones
“Basically, I think that he probably does something like 500,000 to a million dollars a year in income, but that's on a good year. On a bad year, he probably can, like, lose money, and it was just a lot of work for that amount of money.”
Sep 2, 2026 neutral
Parr: Ambitious men often experience a temporary ambition dip when raising children
“And for a lot of men who are ambitious people, what they notice is that their ambition goes away or dials down during this period because they love being around their kids. And it doesn't happen to everyone, but a lot of men do. And what I've noticed is that t…”
Sep 2, 2026
Sep 2, 2026 neutral