# Sam Parr

Markdown copy of https://realalpha.app/people/sam-parr/ on Real Alpha, the best minutes from long interviews with the people building AI. Cite and link the page, not this copy.

Real Alpha has cut one moment of Sam Parr (Co-founder, Hampton) talking, from an interview on My First Million published Oct 5, 2026.

- Role: Co-founder, Hampton
- On X: https://x.com/theSamParr

## What Sam Parr said

- [Movie studios spend more on marketing than on making the film](https://realalpha.app/s/movie-studios-spend-more-on-marketing-than-on-making-the/)
  My First Million · Oct 5, 2026 · 3 min
  > “for movies and video games, which are two of the kind of like biggest, you know, parts of the American economy, they spend more money on marketing than they do on actually making the product” — Sam Parr · [41:32](https://realalpha.app/v/4zvicsf1bJQ/?t=2492)

## The episode

- [3 businesses we think are about to blow up](https://realalpha.app/v/4zvicsf1bJQ/) · My First Million · Oct 5, 2026