Sam Estrin

My name is Sam Estrin, and my career began at fifteen as a co-founder and original CTO of MotherNature.com, the world’s largest online vitamin and supplement supplier. The company went public in 1999, reaching a peak market cap of $600M.

At age nineteen, I co-founded MediaWebcast, a publicly traded trans-media company. As CTO, I oversaw the management of various TV show websites and infrastructure. I also spearheaded the development of innovative software products like MediaLimiter, contributing to the company’s valuation. MediaWebcast reached a peak market cap of $70M.

I founded Odin Metatech at twenty-one, offering boutique technology solutions, including Odin Organic Framework and Odin Assemble. The company rapidly expanded to provide consulting services in SEO/SEM, compliance, and security.

At twenty-eight, I joined TASER International (Now AXON) as CTO, leading development activities within the Evidence.com division and creating the Evidence.com SaaS product. In this role, I navigated complex architectural planning, developed robust security policies, managed UX and Solr search teams, and spearheaded ETM (Evidence Transfer Mechanism) software development, overcoming numerous technical challenges along the way.

In 2010, I worked in San Diego as interim CTO, SVP of Engineering, Advisor, and Board Member for businesses like Mindtouch, Inc., Chatmeter, MojoPages, and Geekli.st. This period allowed me to gain hands-on experience with additional languages and architectures, such as Java and Mono.

In 2013, I became an independent consultant and co-founded Drone Universities, a nationwide drone training school. At thirty-five, I co-founded TheraJoy, a CBD product company, where I developed METIS, an industry-specific asset-tracking software.

In 2016, I joined Sestra Systems as Director of Engineering, reporting directly to the CEO. I managed all software development and QA teams for the Sestra IoT product and contributed further by developing battery technologies that expanded market opportunities.

Currently, I consult and work on a stealth startup that utilizes AI. This project uses AI to solve several problems: entity extraction, categorization, topic grouping, and political bias detection. My involvement has deepened my expertise in AI and prompt engineering.