Sam Parr, founder of the media startup behind Hustle Con, walks through his typical day juggling marketing, partnerships, product development, and newborn care. He started with two people on an ad team, built a custom advertising model, and added 30,000 subscribers in one month. The company now runs events and media to empower creators and entrepreneurs.
Every day is a little bit different. I can tell you what it's like for me, which is get up at 7 AM, try to exercise as that's one of the few times that I can have without my phone ringing, get to the office at 9, and pretty much just talk to all the employees all day. All day what the problems are and how we can fix them. And then go home at 8 or 9 and do it again the next day. We're in this beautiful 1930s theater. We have folks who have flown from all over the place. I get up early, I journal, I make coffee, I work really hard at my day job, I come home, and in between I jot down notes on my phone of like my idea, my psyche, what I want to do. Waking up, nursing my baby who was just born, pumping milk in the car, in the car on the way to work, all thinking about, you know, the problems of the day and probably on a conference call at the same time, working on everything from marketing to new partnerships to, you know, HR issues, coming home at the end of the day to my family, putting the baby to bed, and then getting my computer back out and working some more. Once you get it started, that's the easy part. It's keeping it going that's hard. When people call me like, "What are you doing today?" I'm like, "I'm just figuring out how to do this." And that's what my day is every single day is just Figuring it out. Yeah, that's what it is. Oh, just do a lot of shit all the time. Ask yourself, what should I be doing? What do people need? How can I help? I was running e-commerce, the store, the actual website I was running, our Facebook ads. I managed the social media accounts. As an entrepreneur, you kind of do the things that is nobody else's job. Your job coming in might not be the same job a few months from now. And so if you can have that willingness to fail and get out there and make mistakes, that's what it is. Entrepreneurs are about It's about taking risks. We gotta take 'em each and every day in order to be stepping stones towards our success. But first, it'll piss you off. Hey, bad bitches wanna be my favorite. Hey, pump it down like the CIA. I've never wanted to turn out against Sam Parrish. What we're trying to do is something really cool. We're starting with media, we're starting with events, but we're really trying to empower this entire generation of people who are trying to put their debt in the world. And we're starting with news. I need the spotlight in there. Make sure you get the spotlight in there. We built this ad model from scratch. So we have a 2-person team, Becca and Colby, making this happen all on their own and are The writers who are our foundation spend a crazy amount of time and dedication to make this happen, and they are our foundation. I get it how I live it. Wait a minute. I live it how I get it. Come the motherfucking digits. I pull it with a lemon. Wait a minute. Not 'cause she ain't living. It's just your ass get a city. This is the awesome couch. I worked with Wes since 2012, and he's helping lead a new team of tech. We added 30,000 new subscribers for the month of July. Of May. These guys are responsible for me getting a tattoo. I had to get a tattoo. We hired this crazy guy, Adam Ryan. We pretty much just say, "Adam, what do you want to do now?" And he says, "Oh, I want to get this guy or this woman, and we're going to hire them and get this office and do this." I'm like, "All right, that's fine." Grace and Tara, huge shout out. You guys totally made it happen. That was the smoothest and easiest hustle con we've ever had. He said, "Hey, you know, John and I want to start a company, and we're going to do media and events, and we'd like for you to join us." And I I knew that even though you said there's a 99% chance that we were gonna fail, there's just no way we were gonna fail. And that's the only reason that I joined. So, you know, screw it, let's make it work. Investigator! I got that in email!
