Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Libraries Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

Sam Parr

👤 Speaker
8897 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

My First Million
I spent 48 Hours With 10 Billionaires. Here’s What I Learned.

And it was doing well.

My First Million
I spent 48 Hours With 10 Billionaires. Here’s What I Learned.

But Joe reinvented himself.

My First Million
I spent 48 Hours With 10 Billionaires. Here’s What I Learned.

So at this event, he gave a talk that just like brought the house down.

My First Million
I spent 48 Hours With 10 Billionaires. Here’s What I Learned.

It was unbelievable.

My First Million
I spent 48 Hours With 10 Billionaires. Here’s What I Learned.

Literally like...

My First Million
I spent 48 Hours With 10 Billionaires. Here’s What I Learned.

You had 30 people chanting USA, USA at the end because he told the story of his meeting with Trump where he ends up becoming the chief design officer for America, which wasn't even a role before Joe got there and how he wanted to serve and he wanted to use his superpower, which is design and creating this delightful user experience, but bring it to an area which had been like zero care about user experience, which is like...

My First Million
I spent 48 Hours With 10 Billionaires. Here’s What I Learned.

you know, government paperwork, government websites, you know, things that literally look like the first version that was made in 1986.

My First Million
I spent 48 Hours With 10 Billionaires. Here’s What I Learned.

And, you know, actually like taking the time and care to like up those experiences.

My First Million
I spent 48 Hours With 10 Billionaires. Here’s What I Learned.

You know, a very simple example was the

My First Million
I spent 48 Hours With 10 Billionaires. Here’s What I Learned.

And people – this has been talked about publicly, so I can talk about this.

My First Million
I spent 48 Hours With 10 Billionaires. Here’s What I Learned.

To retire from the government, the paperwork was kept in the mine, like an actual physical mine, and it was paperwork.

My First Million
I spent 48 Hours With 10 Billionaires. Here’s What I Learned.

And that's what made sense in the 60s because that's all we had was paperwork.

My First Million
I spent 48 Hours With 10 Billionaires. Here’s What I Learned.

Exactly.

My First Million
I spent 48 Hours With 10 Billionaires. Here’s What I Learned.

So like, let's say you've served, you know, 30 years, you're ready to retire.

My First Million
I spent 48 Hours With 10 Billionaires. Here’s What I Learned.

And now you go through this sort of brutal six to 12 month paperwork process to retire.

My First Million
I spent 48 Hours With 10 Billionaires. Here’s What I Learned.

And like, look, nobody's ever, that's never going to be a top priority for anyone to go fix.

My First Million
I spent 48 Hours With 10 Billionaires. Here’s What I Learned.

So you just have these like tragedy of the commons type problems where it's nobody wins political points for fixing these.

My First Million
I spent 48 Hours With 10 Billionaires. Here’s What I Learned.

Nobody makes any money.

My First Million
I spent 48 Hours With 10 Billionaires. Here’s What I Learned.

Nobody enriches themselves by fixing these things.

My First Million
I spent 48 Hours With 10 Billionaires. Here’s What I Learned.

And therefore they just never get fixed.