Sam has long been an active member of the Agile and Lean Startup communities of practice in the Bay Area. He has helped numerous technology product teams to be successful and deliver meaningfully for their business, both at large organizations and startups. He participated directly in six startups (working on his seventh), and has coached and advised countless others. He has significant hands-on experience developing a wide variety of software products, and still writes code every day. He's the author of the up-coming "Startup Patterns" book.