Sam Yam

Co-Founder, President & CTO, Patreon · 1 appearance on the record.

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Yam co-founded Patreon with Jack Conte in 2013, developing the infrastructure for a membership platform that lets creators earn recurring income directly from fans. Previously, he co-founded the mobile advertising network AdWhirl, which was acquired by Google.

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1 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not checkable as stated how the 3 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

3 assertions · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Sam argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Sam Yam built an In-N-Out delivery service at Stanford before DoorDash

“I created a website, I was driving burgers around and to campus. This is, that was my senior year in particular.”

Sam Yam Jan 11, 2021 ▶ 7:23 Patreon: Jack Conte and Sam Yam

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Sam Yam on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

What they said3 What others said1 Episodes1

Everything Sam Yam said on How I Built This that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Partly supported

Sam Yam: AdMob Acquired Adworld One Month Before Google Acquired AdMob

“It was a company called AdMob, and then literally the month afterwards, we were acquired into Google.”

Sam Yam Jan 11, 2021 ▶ 21:30 Patreon: Jack Conte and Sam Yam

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Patreon launched securely storing credit cards but without actual payment processing logic

“We couldn't, for example we couldn't process all the payments at that time yet. I hadn't hooked any of that up. We could accept your credit card. And so that would get saved, you know, very securely by the way, because we were working at Stripe, but we hadn't …”

Sam Yam Jan 11, 2021 ▶ 50:52 Patreon: Jack Conte and Sam Yam

Assertion Supported

Sam Yam built an In-N-Out delivery service at Stanford before DoorDash

“I created a website, I was driving burgers around and to campus. This is, that was my senior year in particular.”

Sam Yam Jan 11, 2021 ▶ 7:23 Patreon: Jack Conte and Sam Yam

The other half of the tape: Sam Yam's own voice is left out of every number here. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

Statements about Sam Yam, by other people (1)

Assertion Not publicly verifiable

Conte: Patreon co-founders agreed to a 50-50 equity split

“Yeah, it's in this email. We agree to become fifty-fifty partners in Patreon.”

Jack Conte Jan 11, 2021 ▶ 43:32 Patreon: Jack Conte and Sam Yam

Appearances (1)