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Coogan: Varda Space Industries Is Valued at $726 Million
“Valuation, seven hundred and twenty-six million, but, like, one of those multi-decade projects that could have really, really large TAM, really, really large expectations.”
Bonforte: CFIUS grants foreign owners one year for forced U.S. divestitures
“They give the company one year. You have one year to sell to a U.S. Ownership group. And if you do not, the government will take control of the business.”
A sudden Mexican import freeze shut down Shaan Puri's e-commerce warehouse.
“On Christmas Eve this last year, the Mexican president blocked all imports. So like, hey, that's cool. Our warehouse is in Mexico, and on Christmas Eve all imports are blocked with no notice and no, there's no other thing you could do at the port.”
Parr: Palantir is trading at roughly 200 times revenue
“So for example, Palantir, I'm pretty sure they're trading at like 200 times revenue or something like that.”
Isenberg: Windsurf was acquired for $3 billion
“Windsurf is another one that just, I think got acquired for three billion.”
Senra: Raising Cane's operates with profit margins below 10%
“Raising Cane is one of my favorite entrepreneurs. His margin's, like, less than 10%.”
Sam Parr: Fyre Festival II's top-tier tickets cost $25,000
“Also the most expensive tickets are 25,000 dollars.”
Silk Road Processed Over $1B in Gross Merchandise Value
“Where I think, I don't know if at its peak, but I think Silk Road was doing like, you know, over a billion dollars, like GMV through the marketplace.”
Bitfinex Hacker Ilya Lichtenstein Spoke at the First Hustle Con
“The guy, Ilya, spoke at the very first HustleCon, which is kind of funny.”
Parr: Iron Mountain has generated roughly $1B annually in free cash flow since 2000
“So this company, I looked it up since the year, 2000, they have created a billion dollars at least, or roughly per year in free cash flow.”
Parr: Iron Mountain uses decommissioned atomic bomb shelters as storage vaults
“They actually have a whole bunch of decommissioned atomic bomb structures as their vaults”
Summer melt costs higher education over $11 billion annually
“At a minimum, this summer melt issue is calculated to cost the higher education system over eleven billion dollars per year.”
Water testing app Oasis generates roughly $40,000 in monthly revenue
“So, it's doing, let's say 40,000 a month now in revenue. So, 40,000 a month, so basically a half a million bucks a year”
Hallmark helped invent commercial holidays like Valentine's Day and Mother's Day
“Hallmark is like one of the inventors of like Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, things like that.”
Mahlum: Back on My Feet Raised $1M in First Year
“I'm sure I raised a million bucks in the first year.”
Puri: Sesame Street and 7-Eleven launched VC funds during 2021 peak
“Sesame Street and Seven 11 launched VC funds during this time, and so they had their own venture funds.”
Parr: Roughly 80% of Fortune 100 companies use Wiz
“Something like 80% of the Fortune 100 companies are already using the tool.”
Puri: Peachy Babies Generates Tens of Millions Selling Slime Online
“Tens of millions of dollars worth of slime gets sold from these guys. They got like, if you go to their Tik Tok, they have ten million followers on Tik Tok.”
Shaan Puri: 20,000 US women froze their eggs in 2023
“I think last year, 20,000 women in the United States chose to freeze their eggs.”
Pornhub's founder originally built its video streaming technology for competitive foosball
“And he creates a live streaming video website to stream their foosball competitions, and there's not much of an audience for the foosball competitions, but he realizes as he's building all this video tech, he's like, hey, I think we could do the same thing for…”
DuckDuckGo logged 100 billion search queries in the third quarter of 2022
“They had a hundred billion searches in Q three of 2022.”
Parr: 30,000 creators sell custom Lego build instructions on Rebrickable
“And he has roughly 30,000 people who have uploaded a variety of MOCs that you can buy from 10 dollars, probably all the way up to a hundred dollars.”
LittleThings reached 250M monthly uniques and $90M revenue in four years
“And so within four years, they were the most shared website on Facebook, bigger than Viral Nova, bigger than BuzzFeed, bigger than HuffPo, all these publishers that were huge in the 2014, 15 era. And it started getting something like two hundred and fifty mill…”
Sam Parr: Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick ranked third globally in Wii Tennis
“Travis Kalanick was ranked number three in Wii Tennis.”
MrBeast Burger grossed over $100M in its first year
“And I think it did over a hundred million in sort of gross revenue. You know, just sort of purchases of from Beast Burger.”
Thrasio grew from zero to a $1B valuation in 12 months
“I think they went from zero to a billion dollars in market cap or a valuation in like 12 months.”
Adcock: No electric aircraft had ever been certified in history before Archer
“Nobody in history has had ever certified an electric aircraft before.”
Puri: Christian church attendance has dropped 65% over 20 years
“In traditional churches, so the Christian churches, attendance is down 65% in the last 20 years.”
Connor Price's 'Spin the Globe' video hit 144M cross-platform views
“That, that, that first video that we did where we landed on Zambia and found this Zambian artist, that, that video has seventy two million views on TikTok and seventy two million views on YouTube Shorts.”
Jason Calacanis Pledges $10,000 For Rogan Vaccine Debate
“Don't forget Jason Calacanis coming in with a hard 10 K tried to slip that in and say, I I'm with you. Put me down for a, put me down for a buck.”
DeMuro: Hearst Media acquired about half of Bring a Trailer
“Hearst Media bought like half of it is our understanding.”
Shkreli: Hedge fund industry totaled only $50B to $100B in early 2000s
“Hedge funds were a different world back then. It was a very, very small asset class, maybe fifty billion, a hundred billion totals.”
Scott Harrison: Charity Water's birthday campaign raised over $100M
“The birthday idea raised over a hundred million dollars by getting over a million people involved just in that simple idea.”
Charity: Water's monthly subscription community tripled the nonprofit's size
“We have an amazing subscription community called the spring which is that has really helped the organization triple over the last five years.”
Sam Parr passed on investing in Speechify, now a unicorn
“His company now, Speechify, it's in the unicorn territory and I didn't invest in it”
Puri: Sam Altman was Airbnb's first seed investor
“He then invested in Airbnb right away and was the first seed investor in Airbnb.”
Holiday: Publishers Cap Subscription Book Discounts at 50%
“At the very, very best, you're gonna be able to get those books at 50% off from the publisher.”
Ali Abdaal's Part-Time YouTuber Academy Tracking Toward $6 Million in 2022
“It's a six million. I think he's tracking to six million this year. YouTuber Academy.”
Puri: Reddit Tracked Private Jets to Scoop Kawhi Leonard's Clippers Signing
“And all the reporters were trying to like work their sources, but like their sources are basically like teams leaking information that makes them look good, and the agent leaking information that just like is a negotiation in public against other teams, and Re…”
Parr: Pieter Levels reached nearly $5M in revenue in 2021
“For the longest time, only like three, four, 500,000 dollars a year in revenue. Like neat, but not that cool. This year, he got close to five million in revenue. And for a one person internet business, that's pretty phenomenal.”
60 federal agents infiltrated Silk Road with fake transactions
“That's 60 federal agents who were on there doing like fake sales or fake buys and bust.”
Listener built doctor compensation site and was acquired by Levels.fyi
“Someone heard our podcast about levels, they made it for Doctors, doctors, and then it got acquired by levels.”
Puri: Only one original US Constitution copy is privately owned
“11 copies. I think there's only one that's in the hands of private, private buyers. This is the one.”
Zesty Paws generates $8 million monthly on Amazon and $7 million retail
“It's estimated on Amazon. They are doing around 800, sorry, eight million dollars a month on Amazon only. And then probably another seven million through their retail outlets.”
Shahid Khan's Flex-N-Gate manufactures bumpers for 30% of all vehicles
“Now, like, as of today, I think he's basically making like every automaker's bumpers. Like, I think You know, there's like, twenty million plus cars that are, have his bumper, something, some ridiculous number, like, 30% of all cars use his bumpers.”
Parr: Direct response publisher Agora generates $1.5B in revenue
“And so if you want to look at the internet version of this, there's also Agora, which is a 1.5 billion dollars.”
Shaan Puri: AngelList is valued at $2 billion to $3 billion
“Ends up becoming full, like, platform and network, basically LinkedIn for the startup community, and now it's a multi-billion dollar, two or three billion dollar, at least, company that is, you know, the best place to go, you know, list your startup, get, rais…”