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Making millions off of a newsletter

 In episode 3 of the My first million podcast hosted by Shaan Puri and Sam Parr, Shaan interviews Sam Parr, the founder of the hustle which is a daily email newsletter with a million and a half readers every morning. This episode was in July of 2019 and they are now up to their 133rd episode. Their podcast is centred around business ideas and entrepreneurship. This particular episode is one that i listened to a while back and found very insightful i thought i'd share.  Sam Parr is the founder of the hustle which is a daily newsletter that goes out to almost a million and a half readers every morning. His email newsletter explains news in like 5 minutes very briefly. The way Sam phrases it is "your no bs friend explaining the news to you" which holds up even today. The hustle.co at the time according to Sam was generating 8 figures in revenue and his goal is to get it to a 100 million dollars by 2025. Sam says he earned his first million by buying and selling companies sta...