We hosted a slumber party with 12 billionaires (our minds are blown)

**Sam Parr** (0:00)
All right, Sam, we just had an insane weekend together. We gotta talk about it.
We just lived in a house for a weekend with 25 other founder-entrepreneur types. Probably five to 10 of them were billionaires, a bunch of others were close, and we didn't just like talk or hang out. We literally like slept under one roof, sat in saunas together, played basketball together, went to Walmart together a bunch of times.

**Shaan Puri** (0:36)
My Airbnb had bunk beds, so we bunked bed together.

**Sam Parr** (0:40)
It's as close as two men can get. So we had an experience, and I have in front of me several sticky notes of golden lessons learned, and I phrased each of them, I don't know if you do this, but I phrased each of them to make it fun because nobody wants to hear your vacation story. That's one of the great rules of storytelling, is just never tell a vacation story because it's so fun for you, but they weren't there, nobody cares. But I think we should tell the biggest lessons learned with the story that backs them up, so it's real, not just a generic lesson. And I phrased all of mine like it's Confucius, like Bruce Lee whispered this into your ear.

**Shaan Puri** (1:18)
Yeah, I dig that. And to give the background, basically, I think like three years ago, you tweeted out, I want to play basketball with interesting people.
I think Mr. Beast DM'd you and you're like, wait, is this real? You ended up phoning him and he was like, yeah, come to my place. I want to meet interesting people. The first year, it was like you and Ben organized it. It was like 19 of us in an Airbnb and we were like, what are we gonna do? So we played basketball. The second year, you organized it a little bit more and you had like an itinerary. This year, you guys killed it. It was awesome. It was an amazing event.

**Sam Parr** (1:50)
I do like meeting interesting people when I go to conferences or events. I just hate conferences or events. I get a pit in my stomach when I have to go. And I know it's good for me and I know in the end, I'll meet some cool people. I just hate the format. I hate the structure. So it was like, well, what's this? Instead of just complaining about it, what's the structure I would like? It's like, well, I don't know. What if it was just doing the thing I love, was playing basketball with those people. We basically play ball all day and then we talk at night. And that was the core idea is to use basketball as the icebreaker.

**Shaan Puri** (2:22)
And you broke your knee in the first two hours.

**Sam Parr** (2:24)
Yeah, yeah. So this was an event where you could tear up your knee and be done in the first hour. And I still had a good time. That means it must have been a good event because normally that's pretty brutal. I did have a little pity party for myself, but I feel better now.

**Shaan Puri** (2:38)
Are we allowed to say who was there?

**Sam Parr** (2:40)
Yeah, I think we could say some of the people that were there.

**Shaan Puri** (2:42)
Yeah, let's go for it. So MrBeast, who like, you know, everyone knows him as the guy on YouTube with hundreds of millions of subscribers. I think he's a paper billionaire. I think that's public.

**Sam Parr** (2:52)
Yeah, he's one of the youngest billionaires in the world. I think he's 26 years old and he's worth a few billion dollars. He's one of the most famous people also in the world, one of the most recognized entertainers in the world. And when you hang out with him, he's also one of the like most intense fun to be around. You know, just wants to play all in. Like somebody said this once about Elon, they go, he's playing life as if the simulation theory is true. You know, Elon has a simulation theory. This might just be one of many simulations. And so he therefore just goes all in because, okay, whatever, let's make this the most entertaining version of that simulation. I think that's how Jimmy plays life too.

**Shaan Puri** (3:28)
So we are with him. It was one of the founders of Airbnb who like on paper, like according to Forbes is like the 100th or 90th richest person in the world. It was another billionaire who was one of the first investors in Tesla and SpaceX. It was the founder of Reddit. It was Jesse Itzler who's on the podcast. You, me, Al Doan who runs like a quilting company that does nine figures a year.