Episode
Greatest Hits #6 - Sam Tells All, Again - Selling for 10s of Millions after Making Millions with an Email Newsletter
1:14:58
Published: Mon Jun 21 2021
Description
On this episode, Sam (@theSamParr) gives an update on an earlier episode with one of our most popular guests, himself. Sam revisits what he said almost 2 years during Episode 3, and shares 18 updates on how he currently thinks about those same topics now. Sam Parr (@theSamParr) is the founder of The Hustle - a simple email newsletter that has surpassed 1M daily subscribers and will be north of 8 figures this year. Sam walks us through how he built The Hustle from scratch as well as his adventures starting a hot dog stand, selling booze on the internet, meeting celebrities on the street and convincing them to hire him and how he would get rich if he was 21 again! --------- * Want to be featured in a future episode? Drop your question/comment/criticism/love here: https://www.mfmpod.com/p/hotline/ * Support the pod by spreading the word, become a referrer here: https://refer.fm/million * Have you joined our private Facebook group yet? Go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/ourfirstmillion and join thousands of other entrepreneurs and founders scheming up ideas. --------- Sam's commentary: * (1:02) Sam intro commentary * (7:41) Sam commentary 2 * (13:56) Sam commentary 3 * (20:07) Sam commentary 4 * (25:14) Sam commentary 5 * (39:46) Sam commentary 6 * (42:52) Sam commentary 7 * (45:16) Sam commentary 8 * (47:33) Sam commentary 9 * (49:06) Sam commentary 10 * (53:18) Sam commentary 11 * (54:43) Sam commentary 12 * (58:07) Sam commentary 13 * (1:05:42) Sam commentary 14 * (1:06:06) Sam commentary 15 * (1:07:37) Sam commentary 16 * (1:09:29) Sam commentary 17 * (1:12:32) Sam final commentary
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