Unpopular Truths From The Pod, Gourmet Gifts, and 4 Side Hustles

**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** (1:02)
Here's the headline.

**Sam Parr** (1:03)
Great headline, great headline.

**Shaan Puri** (1:04)
Guy sells $1 bills for $15. Here's how, right? And so here's what he did. So he basically, he's 15 years old, and he says he sees a dollar bill on eBay that instead of, who's on the dollar bill? Is it Washington or something like that? Instead of whoever, let's call it George Washington, it's Michael Jordan's face in the middle, right? And he orders it, is he's like, oh, love Michael Jordan or whatever, and this is funny, and he gets it. And it's basically, it's a normal dollar bill, but then there's just like a sticker paper over the George Washington. And you could just like do that, you could just go to Office Max and like do this. And so that's exactly what he did. He goes to Office Max, he's like, I need to be able to create these because what better business is there to sell dollar bills for $15? And so he goes there and then he goes, he puts them up on eBay.
What's up?
Let's jump in. What you got?

**Sam Parr** (2:05)
You tell me.
I think I've been driving the last handful of sessions. I'm gonna ask you to drive right now.

**Shaan Puri** (2:14)
Let's switch gears. I wanna do a topic about, I think you know Mark Jenney. You know Mark Jenney?

**Sam Parr** (2:20)
Mark Jenney's a great friend of mine. He's an amazing, amazing, amazing entrepreneur.

**Shaan Puri** (2:24)
He's an awesome guy. We're going, I'm gonna meet him next week. We're going down to stay at one of his, he has this like luxury Airbnb portfolio and you should follow him on Twitter.

**Sam Parr** (2:35)
Well, you want me to give his background? You know his background?

**Shaan Puri** (2:38)
I know a little bit of it, but go give the story.

**Sam Parr** (2:40)
So if I remember correctly, I think he was raised, he had a, something was a little wonky with his childhood. I think like he didn't have a dad or a single household or something like that. So he wasn't raised in like a very privileged place. And then at one point, I think he was even homeless and he lived out of like a storage unit or something like that. He started a bunch of different companies like info marketing stuff and everything did kind of okay. Then he started RV Trader, I believe, or is it RV Share? RV Share, which was like Airbnb for RVs.
He eventually sold a large portion of it to KKR, I think a large PE company. And he probably made many, many tens of millions of dollars, a lifetime of money. Now he has a new thing that he's been doing for the last maybe five or something like that years where he buys, I think he owns 20 of them now. He's got a huge portfolio of Airbnb's and these are high-end luxury homes that sleep like 20 people.
It's like a two acre plot with a fancy four or five, 6,000 square foot home with basketball courts, tennis courts, mini putt putt. And he's built this really, really good business making millions and millions of dollars renting Airbnbs. And he's doing it right and he's got a small team and it's a proper company, not like a side project.