Saas Companies that Anyone Can Start with Rob Walling

**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.

**Rob Walling** (1:02)
There's a lot of online communities. Anyone can start one, you get a few hundred people together.
There are so few people who not only run in-person events, but who do them well. And if you can do that, it is an incredible competitive advantage.

**Sam Parr** (1:26)
Okay, Shaan's not here. What are we gonna talk about?
A few things. Oh, let me tell you something. Sorry, I asked you a question that I interrupted you, but let me tell you something. So, I'm doing something cool in 10 days.
So, on the pod and on Twitter, I talked about how I'm buying a piece of property and I'm turning it into like a thing, like a hotel Airbnb fitness thing. I had this guy, I'm not gonna say who it is yet because I haven't asked his permission, but basically he bought like 5,000 acres in the South, in a state in the South, let's say Georgia. And he is turning it into an airline hotel or an airline neighborhood soon with hotels. So basically, they're putting an airstrip in the middle of this piece of property and then they're lining up houses along it. So, you could buy a house and then soon it's gonna be a hotel and then they're gonna have an airplane hangar there. So, for all airplane enthusiasts, you can keep your plane there and take off and land right outside your home. So, it's basically like having a house on a golf course, except instead of a golf course, it's an airplane runway and hangar. But here's the kicker. He asked me if I wanted to come check it out and I said, yeah, sure. He goes, all right, meet me at the Teterboro Airport like outside of New York on January 25th and we'll fly my jet down.
So I'm flying private down. I'm gonna go up to New York just to fly back down, just like it's an experience. But isn't that sick? So is it like super rural or is it kind of just outside of a major metropolitan area? It's an hour and a half outside of a major area. Got it. So, and most of these people, most of these houses, is this gonna be these people's like full-time residents, you think? No, no, probably not. It's a lot of like older people. You don't have to be, you don't have to be like rich, rich to do this. I think you have to like be able to afford a $200,000 plane or something like that. That could be your hobby. So you have to have some money, but it's not like gonna be necessarily like incredibly wealthy people. Yeah. So enough to afford like a Cessna or something like that. And you just fly in and it's just somewhere to fly. And then you stay by your airport and just hang out and chill. Yeah, that's kind of neat, right? Yeah, it is kind of cool. How much do you think he's in on this project?
I'll say it. And then if he says I can't, but nearly eight figures is the money that he's had to use his own money to do that. And then he'll raise some more money.
And then how many houses? And he was like, he was like, oh, it's just like a side project. And I was like, what? That is huge. That is.