Sam Yam is an experienced product builder, engineer, and analytics expert with an impressive career. He studied Computer Science at Stanford University, where he also received an MS degree and a research grant from the Graduate School of Business. Sam has served in various organizations, including being the Co-founder, President & CTO at Patreon, YCE at Y Combinator, and EIR and mentor at StartX. He was also part of Google via AdWhirl acquisition and the founder & CEO of AdWhirl. Other notable positions include serving as the First Server Engineer and Mobile Engineer at Loopt, a Product Manager at Ning, and an Analytics Engineer at Yahoo! Sam's career has been marked by a keen interest in understanding user behavior through iterative development and data.