Tony Hawk inspiring us for 72 minutes straight
A My First Million conversation (episode 860) with Sam Parr, Shaan Puri and skateboarding legend Tony Hawk. They cover a past trip to Ethiopia with Charity Water, how Charity Water built trust by showing donors where money goes, the economics of skate parks, and the story of how the Tony Hawk video game was pitched and eventually made. Sponsor: the description links a HubSpot promotion; no HubSpot read appears in the parts covered. PARTIAL COVERAGE: this note covers the opening, the Charity Water and skate park discussion, the video game pitch story, and the closing, and does not cover every part of the roughly 71 minute conversation, including the sections on the price of greatness, scraping by and the 900. Stories and figures are the speakers' own recollections and not independently checked.
Executive Summary (TL;DR)
A My First Million conversation (episode 860) with Sam Parr, Shaan Puri and skateboarding legend Tony Hawk. They cover a past trip to Ethiopia with Charity Water, how Charity Water built trust by showing donors where money goes, the economics of skate parks, and the story of how the Tony Hawk video game was pitched and eventually made. Sponsor: the description links a HubSpot promotion; no HubSpot read appears in the parts covered. PARTIAL COVERAGE: this note covers the opening, the Charity Water and skate park discussion, the video game pitch story, and the closing, and does not cover every part of the roughly 71 minute conversation, including the sections on the price of greatness, scraping by and the 900. Stories and figures are the speakers' own recollections and not independently checked.