| Website | sampurtill.com |
| Birthplace | Davis, CA |
| Birthdate | 12/6/88 |
| Stanford University, BA | |
| Philosophy |
Sam Purtill / YouNoodle
Sam Purtill is founder and CEO fo ClassOwl, a startup that helps students navigate their way through school.
Immediately after high school, he became one of the founding team members of YouNoodle, a service that lets users follow start-ups that they are interested in and predict success of start-up teams based on analysis of historical data about qualities of the team’s founders and other information. Purtill originally built the site with one other engineer, and has been with the company since September 2007.
He is also the co-founder and managing partner of Okapi Studio, a digital agency based in Bucharest, Romania. Purtill is now attending Stanford University.