Sam Parr, the founder of one of the most successful email newsletter businesses of the past two decades, The Hustle, shares how he got started and the incredible vision he has for where he's taking his business.

Key Points from this Episode: 

• Sam Parnell talks about HustleCon and when he determined email was the path forward. 
• He describes his business like a pirate ship and how he can go by his own rules and each subscriber is a little wind in the ship's sail. 
• Sam discusses that  people can find success doing what he has done with hard work, talent and that you've got to be good at your craft and the work will be a lot harder than you think.
• He shares his vision from early on and how it has changed over time and continues to be exciting. 
• Cold emails allowed Sam to raise 1 million dollars to start his own company and he has so many incredible friends and business contacts through sending cold emails. 
• Write like you talk is how The Hustle got it's tone and subsequent success of the company and its writers

Tweetables:

What we and I have is a pirate ship and I don't care about anyone not on the ship. I mean, I want people who agree with our ethos to join our ship.  I only care about my subscribers and pleasing them and making them happy and providing value to them. @TheSamParr (05:41)

We can say whatever we want, we could do whatever we want and our people are going to hear us. And I think that that's really invigorating and it makes me feel wonderful. @TheSamParr (06:18)

Therefore there's not that many people who think they're talented, who aren't actually talented, but because of the nature of it is everyone thinks like it's so easy and I'm like, it's simple, but it's not easy. @TheSamParr (07:07)

The vision from day one was always to build up a massive email list of entrepreneurial type folks, provide value to them and get them to love us and trust us. @TheSamParr (09:30)

I raised a million dollars to start my company will almost 100% of it came from a cold email. So I can attribute of million dollars to that as well as the hopefully tens of millions of dollars that we've turned that $1 million into. @TheSamParr (15:13)

Links Mentioned In This Episode:

The Hustle

Trends

Sam Parr on Twitter

Sam Parr on LinkedIn

Thrillist

Groupon

The Morning Brew

Tim Ferriss

NerdWallet

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