Event Details
This event features Sam Yagan, Co-founder and CEO of OkCupid and Executive Director of Excelerate Labs Learn more about entrepreneurship and re-connect with the Booth community!
Hosted by: The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship, the New York Entrepreneur’s Advisory Group and the Office of Alumni Affairs and Development.
$10 (includes light hors d’oeuvres and one drink ticket)
Speaker Profiles
Sam Yagan (Speaker)
Co-founder and CEO of OkCupid and Executive Director of Excelerate Labs
Sam is the co-founder and CEO of OkCupid.com and the executive director of Excelerate Labs. He has spent six years as an entrepreneur, first as co-founder and CEO of TheSpark.com, Inc., maker of SparkNotes, the world’s leading brand of educational study aids. More recently, he has served as President of MetaMachine, Inc., developer and distributor of the world’s leading P2P file-sharing application, eDonkey. Sam has also served as vice president and general manager at Delias, Corp., and as vice president and publisher at Barnes & Noble, Inc. Sam has an AB in Applied Mathematics & Economics from Harvard College and an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.