Sam Parr

Have a question for those with newsletters: has being on substack or any other newsletter platform giving you meaningful growth through the...

I'm hiring exec coaches aka people to moderate Hampton Core groups. You'll moderate 10 meetings a year and hang with great founders. Perf...

I think media businesses are amazing to own. And horrible to invest in or run if you've raised VC.

What It’s Like to Work at a Startup Clone Factory Years ago, I wrote an article about my friend who worked at a startup clone factory. The...

"I didn’t know it would be a big thing." - yahoo's first employee. I think you can learn more about a company's founding by talking to the ...

Harvard studied 460 private tech startups. Founders who gave up the CEO job or board control held equity worth ~50% more than founders who ...

I would LOVE this. People suggesting making a new one. Not possible/interesting. The goodreads community is great. like 15 years of revie...

I wish I owned Goodreads. It has SO MUCH potential. Yet, sucks in so many basic ways. Has the hardest part: tons of great reviews and a go...

Man in the past ~4 weeks I've talked to like 3 or 4 creators in the tech space. Little 1-2 person businesses. Newsletter, podcast, the usu...

On My First Million, Mark Pincus laid out the whole Zynga thesis. Find a mature market that's dead and played out, that VCs won't touch, but...

Make $35m and retire to a farm....the wet dream of many men. We had this guy named Ryan on Moneywise today and he did this. The story: - ...

Joe Hudson coaches some of the top CEOs in tech, including Sam Altman. We asked him what surprised him about the 1%. 60 to 70% of them fee...

On My First Million the founder of Whatnot walked us through their sales by year: - end of 2020: $2.3m in total sales - the next year: $163...

The founder of Whatnot on today. What's nuts is they're worth $20b but like with ai madness we throw around these numbers. THAT'S SO MUCH....

Codie Sanchez has such high content output. We've been buds since ~2016 and watching the rise has been awesome. Congrats on the book launch...

We were offered like $600k to sell our company data to Micro1. 100% not doing it. But it does interest me like crazy. What a crazy busines...

I asked David Rubenstein how many years into Carlyle he finally felt financially stable. "Maybe yesterday." He's been building the firm si...

David Rubenstein owned a company with a list of every book in print. In the early days, Jeff Bezos came to rent that list to sell books onli...

David Rubenstein episode on MFM today. Some takeaways: - he's worth like $4 billion. He said he still fears it'll go to zero and talked a...

A lot of newsletter companies will say "hey, we rock cuz we own our audience!" No you don't. Google does. Gmail changes something and you'r...