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.
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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!)
May 13th, 2007 at 10:00 pm
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
May 14th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
Go Sam! It took me a while to realize that you had stopped out, but I never knew you founded Loopt. That rocks!
June 9th, 2008 at 10:35 am
Heh, Loopt isn’t dead if it’s in an Apple WWDC keynote! :p
October 22nd, 2012 at 7:19 am
Cool Stuff man !!
liked it ,though it Passe Now