Background
Sam Meek, Veteran Marine, Co-Founder / CEO Sandboxx
Sam Meek is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sandboxx. Sam grew up in Sun Valley, Idaho in a family of Marines. He enlisted in the Marine Corps in 2002 after graduation from High School. After 5 years, and two deployments to Iraq, Sam left the Marine Corps as a Sergeant. His first role out of the Marine was working in a Hedge Fund.
Entrepreneurship
The idea for Sandboxx started after Sam was introduced to Major General Ray Smith who was building a family readiness platform for the Marine Corps. The idea was to build a platform to connect the military community. The first version of Sandboxx was built with an outside partner to prove the concept. Sandboxx is focused on being a mobile first platform, and launched initially on the Apple iOS platform. It is now available on both Android and Apple.
Quotes
…although the problem sets were are drastically different, the processes in which you would look to solve problems were not to dissimilar to what I found in the Marine Corps
One of the things that holds a lot of people back is that they just don’t ship their code. You have got to ship your app to the App Store, and you have got to start marketing it
Resources
- Eastern Foundry
- Hooked – How To Build Habit Forming-Products by Nir Eyal
- Growth Hacker Marketing by Ryan Holiday
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