Nick's Bold Personality Anecdotes
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This story is about Nick Gray's unique and bold personality, as experienced by Sam Parr and Shaan Puri.
Sam recounts: "I was in New York maybe 8 years ago. Somehow Nick contacts me and goes, 'Hey, do you want to go to Washington Square Park and play frisbee?' Sarah and I go and meet him there. He gives us a tour, saying, 'This is the guy that's always here selling weed. Hey weed guy, how are you? This is my friend Sam and Sarah.' Then he's like, 'These are the people who are always tightrope walking. Hey tightrope people!'
Nick is just a crazy person. You'll go out to dinner with him and he'll be like, 'Alright, for the next 5 minutes I'm gonna talk about my dating life, and then from minutes 7 to 13 we're gonna talk about your work, and then from 13 to 27 we want to talk about philosophy on life.' He actually had agendas for dinners."
Shaan adds: "When we hung out, he was the only person I've ever met in my life who calls people 'babes' but not like they're terrible. He's just like, 'I was hanging out with these two babes.'"
Sam continues: "Nick is my body guy. Sometimes I'll get invited to speak someplace and I'll be like, 'I'm only gonna go if Nick will go with me.' He'll say, 'Can I be your body guy?' At this talk where there's like 10 people in the crowd, he's like, 'Alright, we're gonna do autographs and photographs over here.' He'll see someone walking by and grab them, saying, 'Hey, is it true that you want to take a picture with Sam?' He's like a hype man."
Sam Parr
Host of MFM and fitness influencer
Sam Parr is a serial entrepreneur and business media pioneer.
In 2016, he founded The Hustle, a business news media company that started in his kitchen with just $12 and grew to eight figures in revenue.
Sam led the charge in making newsletters popular when few believed in their potential.
After four successful years, he sold The Hustle to HubSpot, a publicly traded company. Now operating as HubSpot Media, The Hustle reaches 3 million readers daily, employs a team of nearly 100, and has been the launchpad for dozens of its staff to found their own media companies and newsletters.
Sam remains the host of the popular business podcast, My First Million, and continues to start and sell companies. He also co-founded Hampton, a highly vetted community for entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs, and teaches people to write better through his platform, Copy That.