Sam graduated from the University of Michigan with two math degrees and has spent the past 35 years in Silicon Valley. He is as a six-time founder of consumer and enterprise startups, including the startup that created Google Docs. He worked at Google off and on since 2006, at some point running many of the company's consumer apps: Gmail, Blogger, Picasa, GDocs, Page Creator, Reader, and parts of Maps. He has been a venture investor at Google Ventures, and was the SVP of engineering at Box leading up to its IPO. He now works in the office of the CTO at Microsoft, where he works on a number of projects related to product development culture and practices, including a large horizontal infrastructure effort, consumer design culture initiatives, and a number of AI projects, including the Semantic Kernel app building framework.