Sam Odio
InvestorFounderHusband, Father, and SPC Member at South Park Commons · Founder/CEO at Freshplum · Founder/CEO at Divvyshot
San Francisco Bay Area
FoundedDivvyshot · YCFreshplum · YC
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About
Sam Odio is a two-time Y Combinator founder and current member at South Park Commons, with roughly ten years of experience as a product manager and CEO. His work has included leading a redesign of Facebook's desktup photos experience and building Facebook's machine-learning photo tag suggestions, founding Freshplum (a machine-learning retail price prediction tool later acquired by TellApart and Twitter), and helping pivot Fivestars, a 300-person company that raised $100M, toward acquisition and payments services for small businesses. He has also worked at Dropbox on AI and has experience building product, design, research, analytics, and engineering teams.
Founder/CEO at FreshplumYC S11
Intro paths
Sam went through Y Combinator (Summer 2011) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Founder/CEO at DivvyshotYC W09
Intro paths
Sam went through Y Combinator (Winter 2009) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
In turn, Sam can intro founders to Divvyshot's investors below.
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Experience
- PlowFoundercurrent2026 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- South Park CommonsHusband, Father, and SPC Membercurrent2023 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
- DropboxSenior Director of Product Management2021 — 2023Seattle, Washington, United States
- FivestarsVice President, Head of Product2016 — 2021San Francisco Bay Area
- Freshplum (acquired by TellApart/Twitter)Co-founder & CEO2011 — 2015San Francisco Bay Area
- FacebookProduct Manager (Photos, Video and Photo ML products)2010 — 2011San Francisco Bay Area
- Divvyshot, Inc (acquired by Facebook)Founder & CEO2007 — 2010San Francisco Bay Area
Skills & more
- XCS224N - Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning — Stanford University
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Sam Odio?
- Sam Odio is a two-time Y Combinator founder and current member at South Park Commons, with roughly ten years of experience as a product manager and CEO. His work has included leading a redesign of Facebook's desktup photos experience and building Facebook's machine-learning photo tag suggestions, founding Freshplum (a machine-learning retail price prediction tool later acquired by TellApart and Twitter), and helping pivot Fivestars, a 300-person company that raised $100M, toward acquisition and payments services for small businesses. He has also worked at Dropbox on AI and has experience building product, design, research, analytics, and engineering teams.
- Where does Sam Odio work?
- Sam Odio is Founder/CEO of Divvyshot and Husband, Father, and SPC Member at South Park Commons and Founder/CEO at Freshplum.
- What companies did Sam Odio found?
- Sam Odio founded Divvyshot, Freshplum.
- Where did Sam Odio go to school?
- Sam Odio studied at University of Virginia (MS, Accounting); University of Virginia (BS, Finance).
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