Lance Armstrong Breakfast Connection
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Sam Parr shares a story about how he unexpectedly connected with Lance Armstrong, one of his childhood heroes.
"I grew up cycling and I'm a massive Lance Armstrong fan. One day I get this email with a picture of our office in Austin - we had a sign on the window. The email said 'Hey that's so cool I didn't realize you guys were in Austin' and the Gmail sender said Lance Armstrong, signed just 'L'.
I hit reply and said 'I don't believe you're Lance Armstrong. Here's my phone number, call me to prove it.' I get a call and he goes 'Hey man, what's going on, it's Lance.' In my mind, of the top 10 famous people I could meet, he was in the top 3. I was so shocked.
We talked on the phone and he asked if I wanted to come over. I said yeah, and he invited me for breakfast the next week. So I flew out there and hung out with him. Now we're friendly and we've gone to dinner a couple of times. I still am nervous around him. That was the craziest celebrity-style moment I've had."
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.