Sam Parr introduces Hustle Con 2014 in San Francisco

TL;DR

Sam Parr welcomes attendees to HustleCon 2014, a conference that sold ~400 tickets in seven weeks. The event features 15 speakers (10 twenty-minute talks with five-minute Q&A, and five lightning talks with auto-advancing slides every 15 seconds). The community is described as “shamelessly resourceful, shockingly ambitious, and scrappy as hell.

Key insights

• The event website launched on June 6 and the theater sold out in about seven weeks (380+ tickets sold).
• This is the second HustleCon; the first was held the previous year.
• Attendees range from founders of billion-dollar companies to interns at small-stage startups.