Parr: Funny Business Writers Leave Media for Lucrative Finance Careers
Sam Parr · How a City Tour is Making Millions, & Selling Manhood | My First Million # 177 · Apr 30, 2021 · at 11:17
Sam Parr and Sean Puri discuss whether a satirical media brand akin to Barstool Sports could be created for the technology and startup sectors.
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“If you're smart enough to do this for business and you're funny, you now here's the, where the rub, you likely can get paid a ton of money as some type of analyst or some type of investor or some type of operator. And so it's really hard to retain those types of people because they say, well, why would I make like, if I'm this smart, I'm just going to go and trade stocks or invest in companies or start a company. Versus give you my opinion and make you laugh for 80,000 dollars.”
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