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Sam Yam (Patreon) - Surviving the Startup Grind
Season 15 · Episode 9

Sam Yam (Patreon) - Surviving the Startup Grind

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL) · STVP

January 22, 202045m 58s

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Show Notes

In 2013, Sam Yam teamed up with his former Stanford roommate Jack Conte to create Patreon, a platform that connects content creators with members who provide recurring revenue. As co-founder and CTO, Yam built Patreon into a service that has funded more than one hundred thousand creatives, channelling more than one billion dollars to musicians, podcasters, and artists of all kinds. He describes the intense grind of scaling Patreon and looks at three central challenges that face most entrepreneurs, then focuses in on what makes the entrepreneurial path worth it.

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