Sam Szuchan

Founder @ Soleo. LinkedIn strategy for industry leaders. Clients work w/ Apple, Amazon, Google + published in FT, Bloomberg, etc.

Creator of influence. Nice things folks have said about me:

"Recently, a lot of Sam's posts have been taking off. Last week, he helped me reach 400K+ enterprise professionals with a single post. A third of them from companies with 10,000+ employees. When recruiting teams start sharing your content internally, you know you're doing something right."
—Very major recruiting tech CEO

"Each time that I post [a post Sam made], 100+ people enroll in a course that changes their lives, and my business does twelve or thirteen grand in revenue in that day. A total win-win."
—B2B educator you 100% definitely follow

"Sam helped me clarify my goals and think strategically to reach 150K people in my target demographic – largely founders, CEOs, and senior execs. Prospects frequently mention my LinkedIn content."
—CEO of very cool agency working with Google and many other big tech co's!

"Sam's ability to understand who you are and become an extension of you online is second to none. He provides strategic direction, insightful research, and a relentless desire to bring your strengths and knowledge to light."
—Forbes 30u30 founder who basically invented consumer-facing recruiting tech

You have probably read a few dozen posts I've written without realizing it. Thanks for stopping by :)

Founder

Formerly Saga. Leveraging the world's largest B2B platform to create overwhelming lead pipelines for B2B firms.

"As long as the history books get it right, take some pride in letting the newspapers get it wrong."

Sam Altman wrote that in 2020. A year earlier, he walked away from Y Combinator's presidency to bet everything on OpenAI. 

Everyone thought he was insane.

YC was the most powerful platform in startup land. Direct access to hundreds of founders per year. The ability to shape how an entire generation thinks about building companies. A reputation machine that had already minted Airbnb, Dropbox, and Stripe.

Remember, this was 2019 - way before OpenAI’s rise. He left YC for (what was then) a nonprofit-controlled AI lab that still looked more like a research shop than a product company.

Looking back, EVERY move he made throughout his career was the maximum leverage option available to build influence, way before anyone realized:

- Chose computer science at Stanford in the early 2000s when finance was the prestige path
- Dropped out to do YC and build Loopt when he could have gone straight to Google or Facebook
- After Loopt, launched Hydrazine Capital to invest in YC companies, making himself essential infrastructure for the next generation of founders
- Became YC president at 28 and turned it into a distribution network across hundreds of startups
- Left YC to become CEO of OpenAI's new "capped-profit" structure

Throughout his entire career, he's been 5-10 years early on the most influential position possible. It's happened too many times to be a coincidence.

His pattern works because he understands how influence compounds. Every YC batch, he met dozens of founders at their most malleable stage.

He saw the raw decks, the dysfunctional teams, the early flashes of product-market fit. Some became Instacart, DoorDash, and Coinbase.

Each founder he helped became a future allocator of equity, attention, and introductions.

Their founders remembered who took them seriously when they were pitching half-finished slides.

"The question isn't 'How do I stop caring what people think?'" Altman wrote. "It's 'Whose opinions should I care about and on what timescale?'"

November 2023 proved the pattern works. When OpenAI's board tried to oust him, hundreds of employees threatened to walk. Microsoft made it clear the partnership was with Altman, not the corporate shell.

He didn’t survive through maneuvering.

He survived because of the protective layer of influence he built.

Because influence isn't a cooler job title—

It's pure leverage.

It's a 15-year bet on who and what matters later, and how you can own it before anyone realizes it’s the next big thing.

“The newspapers will get it wrong. The history books will get it right.”

That's the bet he's made his entire career - and he's making it again.

What could you build by choosing history books over newspapers?

P.S. Full breakdown of Altman's 15-year playbook in the comments

Sam Altman Chose Influence Over Billions (And Got Both)

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Founder & CEO

Shift4 Europe (formerly Finaro)

Director Of Sales & Business Development

• Leading the technical engagement with customers and partners to ensure that the functionality, performance, services, and technical infrastructure are clearly understood and executed.
• Identify & build customized solutions for strategic customers and managing their delivery
• Actively involved in analysis, solution design, client communication, and implementation
• Close collaboration with different internal teams (such as Product, R&D, sales, marketing, operations & support)

Solution Architect

Hey-CPA

Hey-CPA offers a CPA as-a-service platform, automating Bookkeeping work.
• As a CTO I was responsible for all technology aspects: software development, specification, design, architecture, infrastructure, and implementation.
• Built the code and the product from the ground up to be scalable and user-friendly.
• Product presentation, Sales & Recruitment of new businesses.
• Engaging customers, to continuously collect feedback and improve the product.

Co-founder & CTO

Isracard

• Project leader and coordinator, achieving success through collaboration with multiple departments, including R&D, Product Managers, Sales & Marketing.
• Responsible for Business Development, partner success, and Go-to-Market strategy.
• Maintaining positive relationships with business partners and customers to ensure adoption success.

Technology Project Leader (Product Owner)

Wix.com

• Working with the most cutting edge methodologies and technologies to develop ground-breaking web platforms, optimized for performance and scale - Wix platform - which is used by millions of people around the globe every day to build websites. 
• Understand and leverage customers business challenges to expand revenue and increase usage rate.
• Worked in a small team, that follows agile work methods and use continuous integration/deployment methodologies to run quickly as a startup while maintaining the high-end quality of the product.

Web Developer at Wix.com

Touche

• Work in a cross-functional team to deliver a complete user experience.
• Development of full projects, client and server-side - from specification and UI to the stage deployment on the servers.
• Expert in JavaScript and Web development.
• Presented the company and its technology at conventions and trade shows all over the world.

Full Stack Developer

ClickSoftware

• Helped enterprises and SMBs solve workforce management obstacles using ClickSoftware products
• Worked closely with customers and partners, onsite and remotely, to ensure the successful launch of new products.

Solution Specialist

Ness Technologies

Software Development Instructor

RE4MA Group SL

Direct Retail in shopping centers
• Extensive experience in frontal sales, Retail activities, brands development.
• Managed the sales organization (120 employees) in 27 locations globally.
• Responsibility for the Go-To-Market strategy and sales plan.

Sales and Product Line Manager

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