David Samuel

He’s a hustling entrepreneur at heart and has been running businesses since he was a kid. At nine years old, he started his first job, a paper route for Waterville Morning Sentinel newspaper in Maine. From there he went on to found Thriller Designs in 5th grade and Sounds Unlimited, a mobile DJ service, in 6th grade, where he DJ’d for 10yrs.  After graduating from MIT and working at Oracle for one year, he co-founded Spinner, the 1st internet radio service, in 1995 (acquired by AOL for $320 million in 1999) and Crackle, an internet video platform, in 2004 (acquired by Sony for $65 million in 2006).