MFM Mini-Camp, Lessons from Selling a Company, and Storytelling Wins

**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. It 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.

**Shaan Puri** (1:14)
So I had a crazy, amazing weekend, and I wanna tell you about it.

**Sam Parr** (1:19)
Go for it, I wanna hear about it.

**Shaan Puri** (1:20)
All right, so we've done these before, but I'll explain kinda how they work for people who are listening. So about once a year, maybe twice a year, we do these kinda like friend slash founder, weekend hangout type things. And by the way, sorry, you should have been there, I don't know why the invite got lost in the mail. Don't worry about that.

**Sam Parr** (1:40)
Oh, I'm worried about it. You're lucky I couldn't have made it, but I'm worried about it.

**Shaan Puri** (1:45)
I was gonna text you while we were doing it and I was like, wait, why isn't Sam here? And I was like, Ben, did Sam say no or did we not tell Sam? And then he was like, I don't know, this whole thing got screwed up because we, whatever, we bumped it back twice and then this happened. Anyway, so once twice a year, go somewhere, rent an Airbnb, four to five kinda founder friends and hang out and the idea-

**Sam Parr** (2:11)
But this one was different. This one was an intimate birthday thing as opposed to the last time we did it, it was like a 20 person one.

**Shaan Puri** (2:18)
Maybe, yeah, I don't even remember. It's got bumped back twice, so at this point, who knows?
But basically it was like, all right, start the new year, let's all get together, hang out and do whatever. And so we go to San Diego, we rent an Airbnb from Mark Jenny, who you've talked about on the pod before, just to explain what he's doing. He founded a company called RVshare, which was like Airbnb for renting RVs and grew that, sold that for, I think, $100 million.

**Sam Parr** (2:47)
Part of it. I think he's sold it to KKR, I believe.

**Shaan Puri** (2:52)
I think he's actually sold twice. So he sold one chunk the first time, second chunk recently.
And I think he still owns a piece of it. But anyways, RVshare, really successful business. He's got a crazy story where I think he was homeless at one point in time and made the whole thing happen.

**Sam Parr** (3:06)
We'll have him on shortly, but very inspirational person.

**Shaan Puri** (3:09)
He now has an Airbnb, a luxury Airbnb portfolio worth about $50 million. And so he's got, I don't know, 20 something properties and he goes for the over the top kind of like destination experience, you know, maybe like party type of houses. So this house, like family parties, family or like buddies going for a golf trip, you know, type of thing where it's like, one of his most successful properties is in Scottsdale, Arizona. And we're like, Scottsdale, why? He's like, oh, people guys go there for golf trips. And so, you know, eight buddies get together and they rent my place and it's great. And they all have money and so the price isn't as big of an issue or whatever. So this one is in San Diego and the backyard, I think this guy must have put somewhere between one and $2 million into the backyard. So he, when you go outside, there's a basketball court, there's a pickleball court. There's a wiffle ball field with a fence, like a full baseball diamond, basically. There is golf course, there is like pool, sauna, everything you could think of. It is like a boy, you know, boy paradise, basically, a little boy paradise. It's perfect for us, right? That's all we were doing. You go inside the house, you know, there's like a full poker table with the poker set with the perfect chairs. There's a pool table, there's all kinds of good stuff anyways.