Sam Yagan

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Mr. Sam Yagan is a Co-Founder and serves as a Managing Partner at Corazon Capital. He served as Chief Executive Officer & Chairman at Corazon Capital V838 Monoceros. He serves as a Board Member at nVenue. He served as Entrepreneur Partner and Advisor at Chicago Ventures. He is a Trustee of the Yagan Family Foundation. He serves as a Board Member at StoicLane. He serves as a Board Member at Songfinch and CFX Labs. He served as Chairman Of The Board at SpotHero. He served as a Board Member at Pearachute. He co-founded Corazon Capital in 2013. He served as a Board Member at Builders VC. He served as an Advisor at Hyde Park Venture Partners. From 2016 to 2021, he served as the Chief Executive Officer of ShopRunner, a multi-product e-commerce platform enabling millions of members to transact billions of dollars worth of gross merchandise value. In 2020, he also served as a chief operating officer at the Matchett Group. He led the sale of ShopRunner to FedEx (NYSE: FDX). Prior to ShopRunner, he served as the Vice-Chairman of Match Group (NASDAQ: MTCH), a position he assumed in 2016 after leading the company as Chief Executive Officer through a period of explosive growth that culminated in its IPO in 2015. His prior entrepreneurial ventures in the consumer internet sector include SparkNotes, still the dominant brand of study guides, and MetaMachine, once the largest peer-to-peer file-sharing network in the world. He sold SparkNotes to Turf, and then to Barnes & Noble. He also co-founded OkCupid in 2003, which he led as its CEO through its sale to Match Group in 2011. In 2009, he co-founded Excelerate Labs (now Techstars Chicago), a start-up accelerator, and served as its first Managing Director. He sits on the board of several private companies, including The Duchossois Group, Brilliant, and Grindr. He serves as an Advisor at Monica + Andy. He also served as an Advisor at P&G Ventures. He previously served on the Digital Advisory Council at Target (NYSE: TGT), the Stanford Graduate School of Business Management Board, and as an advisor to Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG). He also sits on the boards of four non-profits: Start Early, Leaders in Tech, Illinois Mathematics & Science Academy Fund Board, and Rush University Medical Centre. He has earned recognition on TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World, Fortune Magazine's 40 Under 40, Crain's Chicago Tech 50 and 40 Under 40, Billboard Magazine's 30 Under 30, and ranked #19 on Silicon Alley Insider's Most Inspiring and Influential People. He holds a B.A. with honours in Applied Mathematics and Economics from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.