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Sam Odio

Founder

Founder/CEO at Freshplum · Founder/CEO at Divvyshot

San Francisco Bay Area

FoundedDivvyshot · YCFreshplum · YC

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

YC

Sam went through Y Combinator (Summer 2011) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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In turn, Sam can intro founders to Freshplum's investors below.

Freshplum's investors · 2

DCVC (Data Collective)Palo Alto · $5M – $25M checksY CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2011

Co-founders at Freshplum

NANick Alexander
Nick AlexanderFounder/CTO

Founder/CEO at DivvyshotYC W09

Intro paths

YC

Sam went through Y Combinator (Winter 2009) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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In turn, Sam can intro founders to Divvyshot's investors below.

Divvyshot's investors · 1

Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2009

Co-founders at Divvyshot

JDJohn Devor
John DevorFounder/COO

Experience

  1. PlowFoundercurrent2026 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  2. South Park CommonsHusband, Father, and SPC Membercurrent2023 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
  3. DropboxSenior Director of Product Management2021 — 2023Seattle, Washington, United States
  4. FivestarsVice President, Head of Product2016 — 2021San Francisco Bay Area
  5. Freshplum (acquired by TellApart/Twitter)Co-founder & CEO2011 — 2015San Francisco Bay Area
  6. FacebookProduct Manager (Photos, Video and Photo ML products)2010 — 2011San Francisco Bay Area
  7. Divvyshot, Inc (acquired by Facebook)Founder & CEO2007 — 2010San Francisco Bay Area

Education

  1. University of VirginiaMS, Accounting2007
  2. University of VirginiaBS, Finance2004 — 2007

Skills & more

Natural Language Processing (NLP)Applied Machine LearningProduct Management23Mobile Applications9Analytics1User Experience1Product LeadershipPython9
  • XCS224N - Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning — Stanford University

From Sam's professional profile.

Frequently asked questions

Where does Sam Odio work?
Sam Odio is Founder/CEO at Freshplum and Founder/CEO at Divvyshot.
What companies did Sam Odio found?
Sam Odio founded Divvyshot, Freshplum.

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