Recap Live Event, The Art Of Hosting, Obsession With Time & More

**Sam Parr** (0:00)
At the beginning of the show, we do this thing where we're like, raise your hand if you're an entrepreneur. Most of the hands go up. Okay, keep your hand up if you've launched your business. All right, like 15% of the hands go down.
Okay, keep your hands up if you have more than $100,000 in revenue. Okay, so hands go down.
A million dollars in revenue, 10 million in revenue, 30 million in revenue. We just keep going up to see kind of like, who wins the No Small Boy Stuff competition of that of the crowd? Because we're like, there's the people who are there, they already kind of know our story and they know our bits, we don't know them. And so that might be actually more interesting. And there was a guy who was one of the people who's got, he was at the kind of like 30, 40, 50 million level. He's like, yeah, I sell gear to fire departments around the country. And he's like, you know, like, we're like, like hoses. He's like hoses and uniforms and, you know, you know, nozzles and like, you know, just stuff for the fire department.

**Shaan Puri** (1:01)
And did he say that he did 57 million in revenue of that? Is that what he said?

**Sam Parr** (1:05)
I don't remember the exact number. It was something like that.

**Shaan Puri** (1:17)
All right, we're live. What's going on?

**Sam Parr** (1:19)
I'm back home.
The live pod is over. The show, the show is over.

**Shaan Puri** (1:24)
Let's talk about your time in Austin.
The live pod we should talk about a little bit. We might be airing that episode. We got to go back and listen to it to make sure that there's nothing that we had to bleep out. But what did you think about Austin? It seemed like you had a great time.

**Sam Parr** (1:37)
Had a great time. Dude, I know more people in Austin than in San Francisco somehow. So I think, I don't know if that's about Austin or that's about me. I think it's more about me not leaving the house here in San Francisco. But when I left my house and went to Austin, I saw tons of old friends, you and a bunch of the crew.
Had a great time. Started off in a haunted hotel and then moved to a better hotel and then, yeah, it was a good time.

**Shaan Puri** (2:02)
You came in on something like a Wednesday. You left on a Sunday or a Thursday and Sunday or something like that.

**Sam Parr** (2:07)
Tuesday, five days.

**Shaan Puri** (2:08)
Tuesday, Tuesday to Sunday, you spoke at two conferences.
You were on the Chris Williamson show, which was, that guy's interesting, but what was cool having you here was I felt, I felt, I missed our times in San Francisco, the 2012 to 2018 era where it was like, it felt like all of us were doing the same stuff. Then when you came in town, we had everyone, we had like three or four dinners of like eight friends and it felt like, oh wow, this is, it feels like it's happening again. And actually it feels like it's not happening to the extent of what we experienced then, but there are a lot of really special people here and it felt really cool like to appreciate that.

**Sam Parr** (2:55)
Yeah, you're right. I think people should do whatever we did in our kind of like twenties, which was move to the city where there's a bunch of other people that are chasing the same dream as you. I think that's like a, that's an amazing, like you could pick a city based on weather, based on location, you could pick it based on cost. Those are some factors, but if you're in your twenties and you're the type of person who listens to this podcast, you're sort of entrepreneurial, you're ambitious.
I think the move is move to a city where, move to a place, not even a city, move to a place, this could just be a house in the town you're in, where you will be around other people who are chasing the same dream as you. It is massively underrated. Like you will not only get smarter faster, but also you bond with people and it's like those bonds don't go away.
You will always kind of remember when you were all at the very upstart phase of what you were doing.

**Shaan Puri** (3:51)
And we did this live pod and this live podcast and the con, so it was me, Shaan and Andrew, the content was fine enough, whatever, but we'll talk about that later or we'll just air the episode. But what was cool was I met people, I think we had 550 or 600 people, it was sold out.