Sam Ovens' Dinner Story
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Sam Parr shares a story about an awkward dinner interaction with Sam Ovens, the founder of School.
"I hung out with Sam Ovens once. My wife and I were at a restaurant with him. Sam Ovens is a wonderful person, but he's almost a little awkward - he's really comfortable with silence. It got to the part of the conversation where there was silence and I decided to just sit in it for a minute to see what it feels like.
We sit and finish a conversation, there's about 5 seconds of silence, and he goes 'I delivered my baby.' He's from New Zealand and I was like 'What do you mean you delivered your baby?' He goes 'With my hands.'
He tells a story about how his wife went into labor and the paramedics couldn't make it in time, so he just delivered it on his own. He just threw that out there and I was like 'Oh.' That was the silence breaker - 'I delivered my baby.' I just thought it was awesome. I was like 'You're the best person I've ever met.'"
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.