How to Become A Billion Dollar Creator with Nathan Barry, Founder of ConvertKit

**Sam Parr** (0:00)
All right, there's this amazing book called Getting Everything You Can Out Of All You've Got. I read it a few years ago and it changed my life.
And the reason I loved it was because it basically talks about how to get and make more money using things that you already have.
Coincidentally, today's podcast is brought to you by Business Made Simple. It's a podcast by Donald Miller, who I'm gonna tell you about in a second, but he has this amazing episode that's all related to this book and the things that I learned in this book. It's called How To Make Money With What You Already Have. It's an incredible episode. Talks about all the stuff that I learned in this book. The host is Donald Miller. I didn't know who Donald Miller was up until recently, but over the last 12 months, this is totally by coincidence. It was all separate people. They said you have to check out Donald Miller. He's amazing. So I'm happy that he's part of HubSpot's podcast network. You can check it out, Business Made Simple Podcast. It's where he coaches you on how to build your business like an airplane, where the cockpit is your leadership, the body is your overhead, the right engine is your marketing, the left engine is your sales.
You have to check it out. This guy's amazing. It's called Business Made Simple with Donald Miller.

**Nathan Barry** (1:01)
Like you got to choose the business model that's right for you. But answer the question of like, okay, can this audience that I have make me a billionaire?
I have one house that's gonna pull off like 15,000 a month, and it's just a single house. So you'll beat it by quite a bit.

**Sam Parr** (1:30)
No way, really? What's the house worth?

**Nathan Barry** (1:34)
I bought it for 900K.

**Sam Parr** (1:36)
That's ridiculous.

**Nathan Barry** (1:38)
700 a night.

**Shaan Puri** (1:40)
Where is it located?

**Nathan Barry** (1:41)
Yeah. It's in Boise, like right next to the Boise State University Stadium.

**Shaan Puri** (1:49)
So do you get like basically like football tourists, or who's renting this thing for $700 a night in Boise?

**Sam Parr** (1:56)
We're live by the way, Nathan, we're live.

**Nathan Barry** (1:59)
Great.

**Sam Parr** (1:59)
No, for real.

**Nathan Barry** (2:02)
Who's renting it? So you get like all graduation, everyone coming in to tour the university or whatever else. And then just anyone coming into downtown, it's like a five bedroom brand new construction.
Sam, it actually looks like the kitchen looks somewhat similar to the place you just linked me to. So why haven't you bought like five more- Similar like floating shelves and the tile backsplash and all that.

**Shaan Puri** (2:23)
Why haven't you bought like five more in the same area?

**Sam Parr** (2:25)
That's my question.
Yeah, it's a million dollars. It's a million dollar or $900,000 or whatever you said under a million dollar house that's making 15 grand a month. Why don't you buy 50 of them?

**Nathan Barry** (2:36)
Well, I just bought this one. And so it's not making that yet, but that's what we're like the bookings for the summer. So it's at, it just did 8,000 for January locked in.
And then the summer bookings are coming in at like quite a bit higher.
Like, so the January one's, you know, our last minute and Boise Slow is there. But yeah, the summer ones are coming in at eight, nine, $1,000 a night, 800, 900 or 1,000 a night, which is wild. And we haven't even put a hot tub on it yet. So I just bought a hot tub today. And so we'll get that in there. I should be able to charge a little bit more and it's gonna be good.

**Sam Parr** (3:16)
So we should start.

**Shaan Puri** (3:17)
We should intro, intro you.

**Sam Parr** (3:19)
Well, yeah. So you're, we're live, that might go live. This is Nathan Barry, Nathan Barry.
I've known Nathan since a Gumroad meetup, Shaan. I went to a Gumroad meetup and like, for real, I'm not joking.
2012, maybe 2012, 2013 Nathan was doing Gumroad. He had this book called Authority, right? Authority? Yep.
And I don't even remember what the book was about. Just making a living online. But then you also had graphic design stuff and you had a really cool blog and you sold all types of stuff. But I've been homies with you for a while. And then you launched this thing called ConvertKit. And I was like, Nathan, like the other things work and just do that. And anyway, now it's a business that both, Shaan and I, I think are-