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Assertion Supported
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.”
Assertion Supported
Parr: The Hustle scaled to over 1M subscribers by year three
“The hustle, I think we were at a 100,000 subscribers in year one, and then I think it was 500 in year two, and then a 1,000,003, something like that.”
Assertion Partly supported
Parr: HubSpot stock jumped from $350 to $460 after acquiring The Hustle
“When we sold to Hub, when we sold to HubSpot, I think the share price, I think it was 350 dollars, And then, like, the week they announced it went to, like, 460 dollars, or something like this. Anyone can go back and look at it. It was February of 21.”
Assertion Supported
Parr: The Hustle reached tens of millions in revenue before its acquisition
“I've built a success, a successful-ish company before with the hustle. You know, we had tens of millions of revenue and it exited and all that.”
Assertion Partly supported
Parr: The Hustle bootstrapped and sold for tens of millions
“Basically I started this company called the hustle. It was like a daily email and we sold it for, we bootstrapped and sold it for tens of millions of dollars.”
Assertion Supported
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…”
Assertion Supported
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…”
Assertion Supported
Sam Parr: HubSpot Generates $1B in Annual Revenue With $1B+ Cash
“Our owner, you know, the company, this company now does a billion a year in revenue. There's like a billion plus in cash in the bank account.”
Assertion Supported
Sam Parr: The Hustle executed its 2015 SeedInvest growth roadmap exactly
“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,…”
Assertion Contradicted
Parr: The Hustle did not have an Instagram account for four years
“The hustle didn't, we didn't even have an Instagram handle until like four years in. Like, I like, I was like, no, we're not even gonna do social media. We're doing nothing.”