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every year every show Latent Space 20 the Official SaaStr Podcast 11 Top Founders 8 20VC 8 Startups For the Rest of Us 7 the Startup Ideas Podcast 7 Founder's Journal 6 
My First Million 5 How I Built This 5 
All-In 4 
the Neon Show 3 
Catalyst 3 
Founders 2 
BigDeal 2 
David Senra 2 
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 2 
Invest Like the Best 2 
Lenny's Podcast 1 
the MAD Podcast 1 
TBPN 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Sam comes up on Latent Space, the Official SaaStr Podcast, Top Founders, 20VC, Startups For the Rest of Us
How to use your "useless” hobby to make money
Two Pharma Giants Who'd Never Met | Mankind & Dr. Reddy's | WTF is Pharma? · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 58:19 Nikhil Kamath Uh, Sam, just give me that machar ka bat, no, there's one fly, I'm gonna kill him.
- ▶ 2:34:16 Nikhil Kamath Uh, Sam?
Why the AI Boom Is Just Getting Started · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 1:08:06 Alex Sacerdote Convinced me to buy, I knew ad tech, I started actually nearby here in New York at an internet, at that internet advertising startup, and after I did banking, so I knew internet advertising and ad tech, which is historically a terrible… 2 times in the scene
Flip Reaches $12M ARR with AI Voice Support for 250 Brands
- ▶ 0:33 Nathan Latka If someone came and offered you a hundred and fifty million all cash up front today to sell the business, you and Sam say,
- ▶ 0:48 Nathan Latka He and his co-founder, Sam, originally started the company as a ride-sharing app at Cornell before pivoting to voice AI in 2018. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:53 Nathan Latka Let's just fast forward to the product today and then we'll go back and get your and Sam's history.
🔬 From Red Teaming GPT-4 to Automating Drug Discovery: The Future of AI in Science — Andrew White
- ▶ 28:05 Andrew White There was a time when we used, um, something called tiling trees and tiling trees, like a literal brute force method invented by Ed Boyd and Sam's PhD advisor.
20VC: Raising $400M for 20VC: Fundraising Lessons | Getting Marc Benioff Through 53 Cold Emails: How to Master Cold Outbound | 7 Lessons from 101 Decacorn Founders with Harry Stebbings (Simon Squibb Edition)
- ▶ 6:08 Simon Squibb So they're not just like, hi, Sam, I'd like to work with you because I can learn a load, which is great, but also that's just taking from me.
My Conversation With Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Founder of Colossus & Positive Sum | David Senra
- ▶ 26:52 Patrick O'Shaughnessy Our friend Sam has this idea of, um, there's founders of businesses and there's founders of families. 2 times in the scene
Ola, Flipkart & Swiggy use This $800 Million Software to Send Notifications | Raviteja, MoEngage
- ▶ 45:00 Raviteja Dodda No, no, so my, so I was mentioning, like, there was another founder, his name is Sam. 3 times in the scene
Inside the $50 Trillion AI Gold Rush | Episode 1
- ▶ 1:15 unnamed speaker I'm Sam.
General Catalyst CEO, Hemant Taneja: Lessons Scaling GC to $40BN in AUM · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:29:37 Hemant Taneja Yeah, Sam.
BVP Partner, Byron Deeter: The Future of Venture - Why Chanel vs Walmart is BS · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:40 Harry Stebbings Sam, do you want it?
Figma’s IPO: The Full Breakdown & Why Melio’s $2.5BN Acquisition is “Discouraging” · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:47 Harry Stebbings Listen, Roy, you don't need to get salty just because my friend Sam told me that you were in this shitty, messy middle thing, your shitty, shitty middle fun side.
AI Expert: Automate or Be Automated
- ▶ 43:23 Dara Ladjevardian And Sam and I initially were super competitive. 2 times in the scene
The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Most Powerful Man in Hollywood: Michael Ovitz
- ▶ 11:02 David Senra That modest dream was still out of reach for Obitz's dad, and he talks about the fact that there is his mom's uncle, this guy named Sam, he's like, you know, kind of like a small-time business guy, but, you know, successful enough that he… 2 times in the scene
Inside Facebooks Secret "Red Book" (ep18)
- ▶ 38:35 Jordi Hays Jeremy and Sam, uh, do your best to make Canadian cool again.
[Paper Club] Embeddings in 2024: OpenAI, Nomic Embed, Jina Embed, cde-small-v1 - with swyx
- ▶ 9:24 unnamed speaker Um, all right, so let me just continue unless Sam has, yeah, Sam has other questions that people can answer. 2 times in the scene
[Paper Club] BERT: Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers
- ▶ 17:31 unnamed speaker Um, I guess Sam had one.
[Paper Club] Molmo + Pixmo + Whisper 3 Turbo - with Vibhu Sapra, Nathan Lambert, Amgadoz
- ▶ 40:33 unnamed speaker We have a question from Sam.
[Paper Club] Who Validates the Validators? Aligning LLM-Judges with Humans (w/ Eugene Yan)
- ▶ 40:07 Eugene Yan I, I, I know you pinged me that, Sam.
- ▶ 58:56 unnamed speaker Uh, yeah, we have, uh, people signing up to do, I, I think Sam signed up to do a paper. 4 times in the scene
[Paper Club] Writing in the Margins: Chunked Prefill KV Caching for Long Context Retrieval
- ▶ 0:04 unnamed speaker So Sam, we'll, we'll get you recording after.
- ▶ 38:58 Eugene Yan I want to come on screen to just ask Umar and Sam more questions.
- ▶ 51:50 unnamed speaker Um, Sam is in discord as well.
How to Hire a Great VP of Sales Today with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 12:34 Jason Lemkin And I'm going to bring Brendan and Sam with me.
David Schneider: Why the Worst VCs are "Seagull VCs" & VC Value Add - Is it Real? | E1200 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:08 Harry Stebbings Uh, you know, we had Sam from Greylock on the show, and he said that actually this vintage of Series B and C would not be positive cash returning to LPs. 2 times in the scene
Is finetuning GPT4o worth it?
- ▶ 1:17 Alistair Pullen So basically when I left university, I, I met my now co-founder Sam. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:14 Alistair Pullen Sam loves Reddit. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:35 Alistair Pullen It was really frustrating for us because it was just me and Sam, like working like all hours trying to get this thing to work.
$5m in ARR? Your CRO Should Be Focused on These 3 Things
- ▶ 21:55 Kyle Norton Uh, I was saying to Sam, like overnight, my sales manager,
The ultimate guide to paid growth | Timothy Davis (Shopify)
- ▶ 54:30 Timothy Davis Shout out to Francisco at Google and, uh, Sammy and Alana and, uh, Meta and Nick and Sam.
The Simple Newsletter Making $20M+ A Year With 1 Employee
$50m Bootstrapped CEO Shares His First SEO Hire, Growth Tactics and Playbook
- ▶ 1:17 Rytis Lauris We prefer call ourselves being customer funded and basically to what Sam was talking about.
Mailbag episode! Interest rates, carbon dioxide removal, load growth, and more
- ▶ 36:44 Sarah Golden Our next question comes from Sam, also via voicemail, and Sam points out that our categorization of carbon dioxide removal technologies is unhelpfully large, and it includes things like direct air capture, and biomass, and kelp farming,… 3 times in the scene
How To Find Great Business Ideas Using Effectuation
- ▶ 7:42 Michael Girdley And like Sam and I went and talked to like, 50 of them.
- ▶ 9:53 Michael Girdley Sam was part of my crazy quilt. 5 times in the scene
How Holdco Legend Michael Girdley is Playing Multi-Decade Games (and Winning)
- ▶ 28:28 Michael Girdley So using the associate model, um, that I used to basically bring on entrepreneurial apprentices, um, you know, Sam, who is the CEO of scale path, he and I like dug into that particular idea after going through three other ideas over the… 6 times in the scene
Lauryn Isford: Product Growth Secrets from Facebook, Airtable, BlueBottle, Dropbox & Notion | E1037 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:52 Harry Stebbings Sam clearly has so much, I mean, if I was an interviewer, that'd be great.
Top 5 Mistakes Building & Scaling Global Product Teams | HubSpot GM & VP, Products Poorvi Shrivastav
- ▶ 7:15 Poorvi Shrivastav One of my team members, let's call him Sam. 10 times in the scene
Episode 561 | Launching on Product Hunt and DIY vs. DFY
- ▶ 4:50 Andy Cabasso Um, I, I'll probably give all the, give all the credit to Sam for that because in like explaining Postaga, best way to describe it is it's an all-in-one platform that combines the concept of several different tools that people often use… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:30 Rob Walling It sounds like you went about it pretty methodically and pretty intelligently, but why did you and Sam decide to do that five month beta and to really talk to and do interviews with that many customers? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:51 unnamed speaker And so it was an all hands on deck situation with me and Sam to make sure that this launch would be as successful as it could be.
- ▶ 20:49 Andy Cabasso That was time that we, that Sam, uh, had spent developing and adding that functionality.
E36: New FTC Chair, breaking up big tech, government silent spying, Jon Stewart, wildfires & more
- ▶ 1:23:52 Chamath Palihapitiya Shout out to Sam. 4 times in the scene
Hinge: Justin McLeod
- ▶ 1:04:46 Justin McLeod And I called up my COO, Sam, talked to Katie, you know, I got them right around this idea that what we built is not going to succeed, and we have to rip it down, start over from scratch.
Kenneth Cole: Kenneth Cole
- ▶ 32:14 Kenneth Cole You know, we worked very hard to, and Sam was a great salesman, and we worked very hard to get the product placed in, in the best stores. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:11 Kenneth Cole I think I had originally made it from Sam. 2 times in the scene
Lead Gen Businesses, Islamic Finance & COVID-19 Virality | My First Million Podcast 03-10-2020
- ▶ 30:43 Shaan Puri So, um, Manziel is, uh, this, so this guy, Sam reached out. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Why Not Every Element of A Scalable Business Has To Scale, Why You Should Be Bearish on Retail & Why Fewer Businesses Are Getting Started Today Since The Great Depression with Brad Hargreaves, Founder & CEO @ Common
- ▶ 27:04 Harry Stebbings As I said, I heard so many great things, both from Rebecca and Sam.
Three Loops of Analytics Efficiency // Sean Kandel, Trifacta (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 1:19 Sean Kandel Uh, Sam mentioned this as well.
699: The Fired ConvertKit Co-Founder You've Never Heard Of, Father Made Me Feel "Not Worth Enough"
- ▶ 27:07 Nathan Latka If you enjoyed Dan today, go back and listen to Sam yesterday.
YEC Lands Forbes Partnership, 1000's of Paying Members Early EP 232
- ▶ 1:57 Nathan Latka I'm going to re-ask the question so Sam can, our editor can edit it out.