#75 with Randy Hetrick - Navy SEAL To $50M TRX

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**Sam Parr** (0:54)
This is very casual, so I don't even care. We can record right now, it's recording now, and we'll put that up. So this is very casual, and I'm gonna ask you a lot of questions.
And if you don't want to answer something, just say it, but.

**Randy Hetrick** (1:04)
Oh, I will.

**Sam Parr** (1:05)
Yeah, this is very casual. What's going on? You're Randy, right?

**Randy Hetrick** (1:10)
Yeah, that's me.

**Sam Parr** (1:12)
So I'm a fan of your guys' product, and typically, I own it. I have my own gym downstairs.
I do research on the businesses that we talk to, and the people we talk to, but in this case, I didn't do too much research on purpose because I only have the product as a fan of the product's perspective, and I wanted to come from that point of view. But do you know what this podcast is and who we are or anything like that?

**Randy Hetrick** (1:35)
Well, give me a little more background because I've been doing a fair number of these since this crazy making period took off, and it's hard to keep up with them. It was funny because, and I love to support, right, because I do so much in the entrepreneurial community. I love to support young entrepreneurs. So I'm basically taking pods that I normally wouldn't take just because we're here, we're home, and if I can support other guys that are getting stuff going, then I'm all about it.

**Sam Parr** (2:06)
And you said you've been doing a lot since the making. What are you talking about?

**Randy Hetrick** (2:11)
No, since this mayhem, right? Oh, the corona thing. Yeah, I mean, I do quite a lot of stuff in the press, normally, just to promote my brand.
But since we've all been locked at home, there's a massive proliferation of digital content in the form, sometimes in the form of video blogs and podcasts. And so in fact, I just got off another one with a investment bank, an industry panel, basically, but it was just a call. So I didn't have to be as pretty as I am now for you, Sam.

**Sam Parr** (2:45)
Good, well, you look great. So let me, I'm gonna give you the two-minute background and then we're gonna make this all about you. So I'm Sam Parr, I own this company called The Hustle.
And what we do is, I started it, we just turned four years, like two weeks ago. So typically we have these conferences where we host trade shows conferences, where we host tens of thousands of people each year, but we also have The Hustle. And The Hustle is our daily email that goes out to millions of people. So millions of people log in and they get our news from us in their email inbox each morning. And it's a great business. It's a eight figure wonderful business that we've bootstrapped. And then we also have Trends and trends.co. It's our subscription product. So it's this premium content community, which is also a great business.
And we do this podcast as a that I think, I forget how many listeners we have, but we've had millions of listens, over a million listens.
And what this podcast kind of started as was me and Shaan, and my co-hosts who isn't here right now, but we both have started companies and we always had these interesting brainstorms with people like you who were our friends. And we would just riff on interesting ideas and on cool insights. And most people don't have access to those types of people. And so we just do this publicly. And so that's what we're gonna do today. And so what I wanna do right now is, I wanna learn a little bit about your background and kind of how you came to be where you are now and where you are now.