How to Bootstrap a Business to $550K with Only Volunteers (w/ Sam Parr)
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Noah Kagan
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode, I welcome Sam Parr back to the podcast!
Sam created the popular newsletter The Hustle, which emails over 1 million people per day. Four years after he built it, he sold it to HubSpot for multi-millions of dollars.
Now, he’s the co-host of one of the top business podcasts, My First Million, where he and his co-host Shaan Puri talk all things business ideas and market trends, and interview other entrepreneurs to get the behind-the-scenes scoop on their projects.
Search for My First Million wherever you listen to podcasts, and check out Sam Parr on Twitter, at @TheSamParr.
If you’ve ever wanted to learn about how to build cool things with cool people, you’ll love this episode!
PLUS! My exact course, Monthly1K, which Sam used to help launch and grow The Hustle is now 90% OFF. Get the exact info, tactics, and strategies I shared with Sam and other entrepreneurs to start your own business this year. Stop waiting and wishing and finally get started!
We cut the price down to $10 to make sure that we can try to help as many entrepreneurs as possible.
- Check out the Monthly1K Course here.
- Check out Sam Parr’s first episode on the podcast here.
- Here’s the link to the blog post Sam used to create Hustle Con.
- And start your own email newsletter with SendFox.com.
Full show notes: https://okdork.com/podcast/284
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| 0:00.0 | So if you want to just start and you're trying to get a million dollars, I think like dial up the intensity and figure out what can you accomplish in six months that would normally take like five years and be maniacal about hitting your daily and weekly and monthly targets and reverse engineer back in there. |
| 0:15.0 | What is that you sexy bastards? It is your boy for moof, |
| 0:20.0 | aka rabbi can't lose, aka, okay again. |
| 0:23.0 | In today's episode I talked to my good buddy, Sam PAR, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:26.0 | Sam created the super popular newsletter, The Hustle, which emails over a million people a day. |
| 0:30.0 | Four years later, he sold it for a bunch of money to HubSpot, and now he is the co-host of one of the most popular business podcast my first million |
| 0:36.8 | Where he talks with Sean Prairie about business ideas market trends and interviews other entrepreneurs |
| 0:40.7 | You can search for my first million podcast for review |
| 0:42.8 | this on the shows and check out Sam PAR on Twitter that's at the Sam PAR PAR PAR PAR |
| 0:47.2 | with two ours. Sam has got the heart of a lion and the hustle of someone I'm |
| 0:52.4 | really impressed with. |
| 0:53.4 | Sam is super creative, super adventurous, |
| 0:55.5 | and he always comes up with really fun ideas. |
| 0:57.4 | If you ever want to learn about building cool things fast |
| 0:59.3 | with cool people, you're gonna love this episode. |
| 1:01.4 | This conversation here is three gigantic things |
| 1:02.8 | you can take away. |
| 1:03.4 | One, why successful businesses keep their staff small |
| 1:06.2 | so they can grow big. |
| 1:07.1 | Two, how Sam followed my formula. |
| 1:09.0 | Wait, that's weird. |
| 1:09.6 | And spreadsheets to build a multi-million dollar business. |
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