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Sam Patel on Storytelling, Conviction, and the Long Game of Entrepreneurship

Sam Patel, founder of Astra Culture & Looped shares that storytelling isn’t marketing fluff - it’s how people emotionally decide to buy. He is a Chicago-based MD/MBA who built and scaled multiple medical clinics (eventually reaching 12 locations) before shifting toward consulting and healthcare software. Patel traces his “builder” identity to his immigrant parents’ entrepreneurship and emphasizes that real learning comes from doing rather than books alone. He shares how he funded early growth (a $75K family loan + aggressive reinvestment), why he avoided outside investors early, and how he decides when to exit (when passion and momentum shift). Across healthcare’s regulatory and cultural resistance to innovation, Patel highlights the importance of influence, network, and storytelling as modern leadership levers. He also names key blind spots he sees in founders - financial literacy and team/psychological safety - and credits Harvard’s OPM program for sharpening frameworks around communication, quality, empowerment, and execution discipline. The conversation ends with personal operating principles: invest in yourself early in the day, ask for help to handle pressure, prioritize balance, and stop believing leaders must have all the answers.