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Sam Parr emailed Nellie Bowles asking her to write for his startup, The Hustle. She replied with "that's cute, but no thanks." The rejection stung enough that he still thinks about it.
Sam Parr emailed Nellie Bowles asking her to write for his startup, The Hustle. She replied with "that's cute, but no thanks." The rejection stung enough that he still thinks about it.
A month into starting The Hustle, I was trying to hire writers and I saw this awesome article. The author was Nellie Bowles. She's like a really famous New York Times person. And I emailed her. I'm like, you are so good. Would you love to interview for a position at my company? Like, we're looking for bloggers. And she was like, that's cute, but no thanks.
And I will never forget that. She told me, that's cute. I have held this grudge against her for years because she said it's cute.
You can just imagine, like, the little pat on the head and the hair tossle that went with, like, that's cute, you know?
It kept me up at night, like, so many— I was like, I'm good, how am I gonna get revenge? And I don't have a good way, but that was like 8 years ago.
