🔥 The $27M newsletter business

Hi Guy & Farzan here, 👋 

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Read time: 9 mins.

In the mail:

1. Founder story: The story of surf company Need Essentials 🍿

2. Founder playbook: How Sam Parr sold The Hustle for $27M 🚀

3. Video playbook: How to start a $5M/year YouTube business 🔥

4. Video playbook: Meet the $3 Billion dollar man 💪

5. Video short: How to get your first 100 customers using content ⚡️

6. Quote: A quote on funding ❤️

1. Founder story

🍿 The story of Ryan, the reluctant founder and his surf company, Need Essentials.

"We provide the warmth." - Ryan Scanlon

🌅 Milestone 1: Growing up on the surf coast of Victoria 🐄. A dairy farm boy who fell head over heels for surfing and then studied fine arts 🎨.

🌊 Milestone 2: Finding his creative flair with Quiksilver, hand-painting fabrics and t-shirt designs 🖌️.

🌏 Milestone 3: Embracing the wanderlust 🌍. Leaving his comfort zone to travel, surf, and soak up the world's beauty, only to circle back to Quiksilver, each time gaining a broader perspective on product design.

🛠️ Milestone 4: The birth of needessentials 💡. Stripping everything back to the essentials, Ryan started a company that was never meant to be a brand. Just essentials. Just warmth. Just top-notch wetsuits.

🚀 Milestone 5: Growth, but at a comfortable pace. Celebrating the true heartbeat of the Australian surf industry.

🔑 Golden Lesson: It's not about mass production. It's about passion production! Building a brand means cultivating trust, understanding every tiny component of your product, and ensuring it stands the test of time and nature. And most of all, it's about creating something that feels good, that's rewarding, and that brings good people together.

Wondering how he built such an authentic surf brand that resonates with wave lovers globally? 🌍

👉 Dive into Ryan's full entrepreneurial journey on Founderoo.

2. Founder playbook

🚀  How Sam Parr Went from Selling Hotdogs to Running The Hustle and selling to Hubspot for $27 million.

From orchestrating entrepreneurial events in 2014 to mastering the art of daily newsletters in 2016, Sam Parr's journey with The Hustle has been nothing short of exhilarating.

🚀 Pivot Point: Transitioning from events to media, inspired by TheSkimm.

📈 Explosive Growth: 1 million newsletter subscribers in just three years!

🎙️ Podcast Launch: "My First Million" – turning initial hurdles 🚧 into hundreds of thousands of monthly downloads.

💡 Innovation: Introduction of "Trends" – recognizing the thirst for hot business opportunities.

💰 Strategic Exit: Selling The Hustle to HubSpot in a multi-million-dollar deal.

Key Lesson: Persistence and adaptability. In the world of entrepreneurship, not every endeavour will immediately take off 🚀. But with grit and the right pivots, success isn't just a possibility; it's a guarantee.

Feel the rush of entrepreneurial roller coasters and dive deeper into Sam's captivating journey. Full story on Founderoo

3. Video playbook

🔥 How to start a $5M /year YouTube business (featuring Ali Abdaal)

Want to transform your YouTube channel into a million-dollar business? Join Vodei Sanchez as she chats with productivity guru Ali Abdaal, who swapped his doctor's coat for the spotlight. Discover the secrets behind his success and learn how identifying market needs can skyrocket your growth. Find out our unfair advantages and learn how to leverage yours. Plus, master the art of selling the right way. Dive in and find out why attention is the real game-changer in today's video!

4. Video playbook

💪 Meet the $3 Billion dollar man

Ever wonder how someone turns $200 into a staggering $25 billion? Jordan Welch sat down with billionaire Thomas Peterffy, the 56th richest person on the planet. From growing up in war-torn Hungary with a single mother to one of the richest men in the world. This is an absolutely nuts story, so inspiring.

5. Video short

⚡️ How to get your first 100 customers for your SaaS using content

6. A quote on funding ❤️

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Guy + Farzan 👋 
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