Sam Parr
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I wanted to hire somebody on my content team.
And we found this kid who was great.
He sent in this wonderful video.
He made this video application that was super funny.
And it was well done.
And I was like, yes, this is my kind of guy.
Young, green, cool.
Yeah, he used to do this, you know, he just graduated, but like this video is amazing.
I got to talk to this guy.
I talked to him.
I like him.
Good dude.
And right before we hired him, you know, we asked a very simple question, which is like,
So we want this to go well, right?
We want this to be great and we want this to work.
And so like, does it make sense to just go with somebody who has never done anything even remotely like this?
Or are there people in the world who have done very similar things that we could go talk to first?
And should we not like lean in that direction?
And as soon as we had that like very simple sanity check, because I'm like you, I fall in love with the sort of angel investing in people idea.
It's like...