Sam's Startup Investment Success
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A brief overview of Sam Altman's early career success path in Silicon Valley.
"Sam is from St. Louis. He moved to Silicon Valley to join Y Combinator at age 19 or 20. He started a company that had mild success - I think it raised a fair amount of money and sold for $50 million, of which he walked away with $5 million at age 21.
Using that $5 million, he parlayed it into $100 million by investing in things like Airbnb, Dropbox, and similar companies because he worked at Y Combinator. Eventually he became president of Y Combinator at age 27."
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.