Sam Wholley
@SamWholley
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Passionate about helping people and businesses be better.
San Francisco Bay Area
Joined April 2009
We have raised a $61M Series A to automate customer operations. The world’s leading companies like DoorDash trust Giga to supercharge customer experience with AI.
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We just led the Epiminds round @lightspeedvp! I’ve spent $100M+ on performance marketing as a founder. Agencies are essential and AI changes everything. Excited for Epiminds to power the world’s top performance agencies.
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CREDENTIALS DON’T MATTER Over the last few months, I’ve seen several A+ execs and operators flounder and fail at AI startups, while young “inexperienced” builders have crushed execution and performed superbly. It’s the biggest discontinuity in talent evaluation I’ve seen in my
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Proud to co-lead @reflection_ai Series A as they emerge from stealth with $130M in funding. Huge congrats to Co-Founders @MishaLaskin and @real_ioannis, and the incredible team they’ve built—one of the strongest Reinforcement Learning (RL) research teams in the world. Misha and
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Mike Krieger (@mikeyk) is the CPO of @AnthropicAI ($10B+ raised) and the co-founder of Instagram, which he sold to Meta for $1B. Here's the full video of my recent conversation with him. Mike has one of the AI industry's most interesting jobs. He shared with me how he and his
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A lot of legitimately awesome science happening at @arcinstitute. (Including some coming later this month.)
Amazing science at the Arc Institute Symposium yesterday! Such a treat to bring together 32 Arc-affiliated labs and our 9 Technology Center groups
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Not that @hubermanlab needs me to validate that he doesn’t get paid to endorse anyone, but I have been following (and…literally following, the advice of, that is) @FitFounder for a long time and his advice is accessible, concise and effective. It has helped me personally and
Informative thread. @FitFounder continuing to stand out as high-useful-information to post ratio. (No, I don’t get paid to endorse; save your conspiracies for politics where they sometimes end up being true later).
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It doesn't matter if you're 25 or 75, but if you are 45+ just DO IT. Makes a huge difference. Mobility matters. #themoreyouknow
It doesn't matter if you're 25 or 75, do these 12 exercises for the rest of your life:
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It doesn't matter if you're 25 or 75, do these 12 exercises for the rest of your life:
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Each year @AtlanticoPart outdoes itself with LATAM Digital Transformation Report. This year is no different! If you want to understand the opportunity in Central and South America, I highly recommend it. Congrats to my friend @JulioV and the Atlantico team! Well done! 👇👇
"LatAm does it best" is the theme for the 5th annual @AtlanticoPart LatAm Digital Transformation Report, where we introduce the "Triumphant Three" and show why Market Dynamics trump Market Size 🧵 Link here: https://t.co/kLaas3bsGh
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lightspeed just became the top series a investor for consumer companies
Ladies & gentlemen: I’d like to share that I’m joining Lightspeed as a Product Growth Partner. I've been talking with @mignano for a couple years about working together and the stars finally aligned. In this new role, I'll be helping out their consumer companies grow,
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The AI boom has been building for over a decade through foundational research breakthroughs. These research findings have been the foundation of some of today’s top AI companies and new innovation ecosystems. At Lightspeed, we have been close observers of AI research over the
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The world is facing a massive global labor shortage, particularly in industries like construction and healthcare, and many more. There are not enough people to fill the jobs, and more importantly, there are so many jobs that are not suitable for humans. While AI has the potential
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Some exciting leadership changes at @Faire_Wholesale this morning. Congrats to @laurenbcl and Jason Lee on your promotions to President and CFO, respectively. Thrilled to partner with you in your new roles! https://t.co/ExxPHvBovY
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Faire is the platform connecting thousands of brands and retailers worldwide.
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The @suno_ai_ team has built an AI music model and creation product unlike anything the world has seen before, with the potential to change how we all experience music. We at @lightspeedvp have been so impressed by not only their execution, but also their thoughtfulness: Suno
We’re excited to announce that Suno has raised $125 million to build a future where anyone can make music, and where technology amplifies our most precious resource: human creativity. We will use this funding to accelerate product development and grow our world-class team of
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.@beehiiv, a next-generation email newsletter platform backed by Lightspeed, announced its $33M Series B funding today. Lightspeed led their Series A last year, and we're proud to continue our partnership. beehiiv provides a comprehensive platform for publishers to build custom
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If anyone is going to challenge OpenAI’s dominance it’s @MistralAI. After just 1 year: 💻 7B model on fire 🔥 🚀 Open-source 8x22B performance rocking 🏧 $520M raised My 7 key takeaways from Co-Founder & CEO @arthurmensch 👇
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1/4 Congratulations to @RubrikInc and @BipulSinha on today’s IPO! From an idea incubated at Lightspeed to a large-scale company to IPO - we are thankful to have been a partner since the very beginning. https://t.co/4fML3DJqMT
#RubrikIPO
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@caitlinbolnick1 My reductive list of "must haves" for B2B marketplaces: 1. High frag of supply or demand (ideally both) 2. Core discovery challenge (or other info arb) solved with 1st party data. 3. ~$100B+ GMV TAM or ~$10B+ rev TAM 4. Compelling wedge solution to break status quo behavior.
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