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My First Million · October 3, 2024 · 50m
How to Scale Content Without Losing Your Soul
Sam and Shaan on the challenge of scaling content businesses: hiring writers, maintaining voice, and the tension between volume and quality. How to grow without diluting the personal touch that made the content valuable.
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Sam: the hardest part of scaling The Hustle was maintaining his voice as he hired writers. The brand's true self (Sam's irreverent, direct style) had to be preserved even when Sam wasn't writing every word.
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Sam: when The Hustle was just him, he could take days off. Once he had 25 employees, the responsibility for their mortgages and families made the work more meaningful — and more stressful. Meaning-from-responsibility at media company scale.
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