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GaryVee & Sam Parr Talk About How The Hustle Started | My First Million Podcast

Name: GaryVee & Sam Parr Talk About How The Hustle Started | My First Million Podcast
Uploaded: 2020-07-05T21:32:23.150Z
Duration: 9 min 15 s
Description: Sam Parr describes his early entrepreneurship: a hot dog stand outside American Pickers’ Nashville store (grossing ~$1,000/day), then a roommate-matching app (Bunk SF) that had a small exit to Apartment List for hundreds of thousands of dollars. He learned that raw hustle works but pairing it with proper procedures (meeting management, accounting) scales a business.

From My First Million · Published Jul 5, 2020 · Watch on YouTube

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Sam Parr describes his early entrepreneurship: a hot dog stand outside American Pickers’ Nashville store (grossing ~$1,000/day), then a roommate-matching app (Bunk SF) that had a small exit to Apartment List for hundreds of thousands of dollars. He learned that raw hustle works but pairing it with proper procedures (meeting management, accounting) scales a business.

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Sam Parr’s first legal, tax-paying business was a hot dog stand (Southern Sam’s Wieners) started at age 20, located near the American Pickers store in Nashville because the line of fans created captiv
He later built Bunk SF (a roommate-matching app) by cold-emailing landlords of multi-bedroom apartments, hosting parties for potential roommates to meet, and taking a placement fee; the company had a
After moving from Missouri/Tennessee to Silicon Valley, Sam felt deeply uncomfortable and out of place; he had to read books on how to run a meeting and learn basic business procedures like distinguis

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