3 weird businesses doing $10M, $20M, $30M

**Alex Daniels** (0:00)
All right, I own $40 million, $10 million in revenue.

**Josh Weissenstein** (0:03)
We acquire $40 million, and this year we'll generate around $20 million of revenue.

**Brian** (0:07)
We manage $40 million of revenue, and that makes $30 million per year of revenue for the company.

**Sam Parr** (0:13)
Those are three ideas that didn't even exist in my Kona vision. I didn't even know that people do businesses like that.

**Shaan Puri** (0:29)
How does it feel to be in real life? This is strange.

**Sam Parr** (0:31)
This is weird. It's been...

**Shaan Puri** (0:33)
There's normally a screen right here.

**Sam Parr** (0:33)
Actually, we should put a side by side of the last time we were in person in San Francisco doing it on the red chairs.

**Shaan Puri** (0:39)
So when you started this thing, and then I came on two or three months later, we had these bright red chairs that we bought off Amazon for $150, and it was just us sitting on chairs, and I hated it because you could see a crotch shot.

**Sam Parr** (0:53)
Yeah, I think I might be doing it now.

**Shaan Puri** (0:54)
We were just like sitting like this, and then we had a camcorder.

**Sam Parr** (1:00)
We would have a guy in the room and we'd be like, hey, are we good to go? Is it all good? Audio, video? And he'd be like, I think so. It was like, I think so is not what you want to hear from the guy who's just sitting here recording.

**Shaan Puri** (1:12)
It was my sever intern. And it was one camera.

**Sam Parr** (1:15)
You ever done audio video before? No.

**Shaan Puri** (1:18)
But I hear you.

**Sam Parr** (1:19)
Yeah, I can hear you great.

**Shaan Puri** (1:22)
What do you think of New York? Have you been to a bodega yet?

**Sam Parr** (1:25)
Yeah, we went to a bodega.

**Shaan Puri** (1:26)
So I talk about bodega culture. I don't know if you've seen any that have impressed you.

**Sam Parr** (1:31)
I have to stay out of bodega. So I just start chatting it up for too long.

**Shaan Puri** (1:33)
It's the best, right?

**Sam Parr** (1:34)
Dude, I've been here for 75 minutes talking to this guy.

**Shaan Puri** (1:38)
Like the cashier, right? It's the best. I'm friends with so many bodega owners.

**Sam Parr** (1:41)
We could do a full MFM just inside a bodega. We probably should have done that actually.

**Shaan Puri** (1:46)
And it's the pure definition of entrepreneurship because you could clearly tell like, oh, one day someone asked for cereal. Now they have 10 Costco sized things of cereal and they're individually packed into an iced coffee cup and they just sell cereal now. Like that's just what they do. There's no like, does this go with our mission statement? Like, no, we sell cereal now. I don't know if you need a license to sell food, even though it says don't repackage this for individual sale, we sell cereal now.
And that's what I love. All right, so today we're doing something a little bit special. You said you were coming and I reached out. I basically just slacked like the Hampton channel. Who in New York has like an odd business that we can like impress Shaan with? And so we picked three different entrepreneurs.
I tried to find three businesses that were off the beaten path a little bit because that's why people like watching MFM, you guys like watching or seeing like kind of strange businesses. So hopefully you can open up your mind being like, oh, there's a million ways to get done whatever I want to get done and build a big company. So I picked three. Okay, so they're going to come on. What are they going to do?

**Sam Parr** (2:41)
So we told them, we just bumped into them. We just told them, hey, come in here and don't start with words. This is MFM, you got to start with a number and don't make us dig it out of you. Just give it to us. You know the shtick, you know what we like to do. We like to know, we like to not be humble and brag about that. We want you to brag a little. So they're going to say a number, they're going to say what they do. And then we're going to get to know their business because we're nerdy about businesses. And then at the end, you know, we will ask them two things. We'll ask them what adjacent business opportunities are there? What other businesses do they see because of where they are in their tiny niche that we don't have enough exposure to, that other people might go run at? And then two, like, how can we help them? Like, what's the burning question?