Sam Parr
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So I was 17 million.
Everybody's like, man.
And I'd puff my chest out everywhere.
And I'd say how much revenue we're making.
Revenue means nothing.
I don't even talk to anybody about revenue anymore.
The name of the game is you got to make profit.
Well, do you remember your profit on 17?
I was paying myself 150 grand, taking a couple hundred grand out.
There was not a lot of money left.
And by the way, we didn't have a great CFO or controller at the time.
It wasn't super lined up.
That's one thing that changed my life is getting control of the money.
I started in Phoenix, then I went to Tucson in 2012.
2014, we're in Wisconsin and Las Vegas, Milwaukee and Vegas.
And by 2017, I was probably in seven or eight markets, but Phoenix was just massive.
By the way, I had to close down four markets a year later.
I had to close down Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, and Tampa.
And if you want to talk about somebody having to swallow their pride,
and basically say you're a failure, but I was gonna go broke.