Sam Parr left school for Silicon Valley, turned down Airbnb, and built Bunk, a roommate-matching startup that cold-emailed landlords and threw social events to connect renters. He sold it to Apartment List for hundreds of thousands and quit his job the day after the sale.
Started a website that made a little bit of money, but I was like, oh, the internet's the way to go. And so I left school and moved out to Silicon Valley. Originally had job offers at Airbnb, but I was like, you know, screw this, let's try to start something. So I started a roommate matching app that had a small exit and then kind of parlayed that into the hustle and what I'm doing now. And what was that company called and who did it sell to? It was called Bunk originally. We would cold email all these landlords who had 2, 3, 4, 5-bedroom apartments, and then we would host parties so people who had similar wants and needs for living situation could all meet one another and we would help them move into these buildings. And so it was a small exit, like hundreds of thousands of dollars to Apartment List. And did you have to work in that company or no? Yeah. And I quit on the first day. Day she could. 66 or whatever it was. Yeah. Like that last day.
