Sam Altman '07 is the 22-year old co-founder of Loopt, a location-based social networking mobile application that allows users to see where their friends are. Sam gives us a peek into the fascinating and incubative world of a Silicon Valley startup that's gaining a lot of momentum.
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"Oh yea, it's enlightening" said Sam when reflecting on the process of creating Loopt. Loopt arose from a need to find where your friends are over the cellphone. The most common question asked in a conversation is, "Where are you?" Loopt addresses this and seeks to develop a cool mobile and online service that helps you connect with your friends.
In this interview, we talked to Sam in the Loopt Palo Alto office about how he and the Loopt co-founders developed the service, what's ticking in the mobile industry, how to not get a case of vitamin deficiency, and why working for a startup might be one of the most exciting propositions out there. He was recently named one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs in Technology by Businessweek.
- Min and JULIO.
Check out this video of Sam giving us a brief demo of Loopt (you can tag and comment right on the video, so play around and write some comments!)
And in this next video, Sam talks about what he wish he knew before getting started as well as gives some book recommendations (a question we threw in there by popular request from those of you writing in!)
Comments (3)
Isn't loopt pretty much dead at this point?
Twitter's got it down, loopt? not so much.
loopt is like the friendster of the mobile world, twitter the facebook/myspace way to dominate through mediated social performance.
~L
Posted by L | May 13, 2007 10:00 PM
Posted on May 13, 2007 22:00
Go Sam! It took me a while to realize that you had stopped out, but I never knew you founded Loopt. That rocks!
Posted by S | May 14, 2007 1:51 PM
Posted on May 14, 2007 13:51
Heh, Loopt isn't dead if it's in an Apple WWDC keynote! :p
Posted by Thom | June 9, 2008 10:35 AM
Posted on June 9, 2008 10:35