NYC this week: [TBD] Gentlemen's Agreement: if you've gotten value from this newsletter, fulfill your end of our gentleman's agreement and share with a friend. Here's the link where people can sign up, as well as a link to all the articles in this newsletter. --- The one thing I've learned from successful people We’re all idiots. Over the last 10 years I’ve done 800+ conversations with successful founders and read hundreds of books on the topic of “how to be successful.” And after all that,...
21 days ago • 9 min read
NYC this week: Sunny every day, highs in the low-to-mid 60s, nights in the 40s. October’s being suspiciously nice. Pack a jacket and your feelings. Spent the weekend in Central Park with my kids. Felt like a 90's romcom. --- The number of the day: 2.9. I met a guy in Hampton who sold a company for ~$10m in 2016. For the last decade his fulltime job has been buying individual public stocks. His return: 21.8% a year. The S&P 500 did 13.5% over the same time. At most times he only owns 4-8...
25 days ago • 6 min read
NYC this week: 78° and sunny Wed, showers Thu night into Fri, then 52° and windy Sat. October’s giving us one last summer fling before it dumps us for good. Pack a jacket and your feelings. Spent the weekend in Central Park with my kids. Felt like a 90's romcom. --- The number of the day: 2.9. I met a guy in Hampton who sold a company for ~$10m in 2016. For the last decade he's put those winnings into public stocks. His return: 21.8% a year. The S&P 500 did 13.5% over the same time. Being...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
The number of the day: 2.9 I just got back from Jackson Hole, where I met a guy who sold his company for about $10M a while back. For the last decade he's put those winnings into public stocks. His return: 21.8% a year. The S&P 500 did 13.5% over the same stretch. Being that I'm a nosy son of a bitch, I asked to see his brokerage accounts. (My excuse is that I'm gathering info for you, my dear reader.) He actually showed me. $100 he invested in 2014 is now worth $1,063. The same $100 in an...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Hey, I'm Sam Parr. I'm known for My First Million and starting a few +$10m companies like Hampton and The Hustle. I've started a newsletter. That's what this thing is. I'll share what I'm reading and something I've learned in the past week. Why should you care? Because my job is talking to people who are billionaires, or run massive companies, or are the world's best in their field. And in this letter I'll tell you the good shit they've told me. I care about living a rich life, which I define...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
Hey, it's Sam Parr. This is week #4 of a newsletter test I'm doing. You're in my testing pool. This is the last week of the test. If you have any feedback, reply and let me know. ----- Natural Moneymakers Some entrepreneurs are so violently good at making money it looks like cheating. I call these people natural moneymakers and I want to explain their attributes. These people tend to be in roles that involve deal making, brokering, and inserting themselves into a situation. They rarely build...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Hey, it's Sam Parr. This is week #4 of a newsletter test I'm doing. You're in my testing pool. This is the last week of the test. If you have any feedback, reply and let me know. ----- Natural Moneymakers Some entrepreneurs are so violently good at making money it looks like cheating. I call these people natural moneymakers and I want to explain their attributes. These people tend to be in roles that involve deal making, brokering, and inserting themselves into a situation. They rarely build...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Hey, it's Sam Parr. I'm thinking of writing a weekly newsletter. Here's the second one. You signed up for CopyThat recently and so I put you into my testing pool. Reply and let me know if you like this email and want to keep getting it. And if you want me to write about something, let me know. ----- I used to be a Missouri 4. Now I'm a New York 7 (roughly a Missouri 9). Huge glow up. Read the intro of this email and you'll understand this. Last week I told you I had to go to Boston to speak...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
Hey, it's Sam Parr. I'm thinking of writing a weekly newsletter. Here's the first one. You signed up for CopyThat recently and so I put you into my testing pool. Reply and let me know if you like this email and want to keep getting it. And if you want me to write about something, let me know. ----- This tweet...should it scare you? Imagine I put 20 top AI researchers into a room and then I drew a 30ft line on the ground. I tell the researchers to stand on the far left side of the line if they...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read