Sam Parr: The Hustle executed its 2015 SeedInvest growth roadmap exactly
Sam Parr · What Does It Take To Become Rich? How Some People Make Millions! My First Million Podcast 04-02-2020 · May 1, 2020 · at 54:06
Sam Parr, founder of media company The Hustle, explains how the company's business model and growth trajectory matched the plan he laid out during his 2015 crowdfunding campaign.
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“The way our company is shaping now, I made a video in 2015, and I outlined what was gonna happen, and it is 100% happening exactly like that. Where, where's that video? What, how do I find that? It's on YouTube. If you google the hustle seed invest, I explain, I go, we're going to build to a million people, we're going to profit from advertising, and we're going to use all that profit to build more stuff, and we're going to sell that stuff, and then we're going to build more media around it, and it is happening exactly”
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