Sam Walls

I'm building my first app ($1,000 challenge).

wow grateful for all your support 🙏 if you want to follow along, subscribe to my channel here: @samwallss" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@samwallss

I'm building my first app ($1,000 challenge).

@trifon_getsov means a lot! what do you want to see more of?

@samanthaawalls I like the video You must have spent hours on it

@geekpreneur_ thank you!! Just using iPhone and documenting when I feel like it, I’m a total noob haha

@samanthaawalls The format of the video is absolutely awesome congrats! How are you filming ? are you able to batch or something or just getting the camera on everytime you feel it ?

@JoshTalksBiz youtu.be/edxvHAhxDAw :)

@samanthaawalls I love this - keep cooking with this content - YT next 👀

@xdrewmiko thank you ❤️ and too many lol

@samanthaawalls The video is actually very cool, well done! I wonder how many hours you've put into making it.

@thepatwalls ❤️

This is my sister. She built Starter Story with me, and now she's building an app to $1,000 and documenting the whole process. Check it out!

@marcovbenny lets gooooooo. can't wait to follow along.

Day 1

hey @thepatwalls, I think those kids would be proud.

@gus_tiffer our jack of all trades!! thank you for getting us here @gus_tiffer

A few years ago I sent a cold email to Pat, hoping to play just a small role in helping Starter Story grow. For some reason he said sure and I became a jack of all trades at starter story: emails, tweets, editing. You name it, I probably did it. Eventually Pat asked me if I wanted to help run the YouTube channel. Hell yes. YouTube is a beast man. I have learned so much about storytelling, packaging, guests etc. It’s hard but it’s fun. And it all leads to now: Today, HubSpot acquired Starter Story. It’s been so awesome to play a small role in bringing this to life. And I can’t wait to continue telling founder stories and being as helpful as possible to the builder community. Proud of you @thepatwalls and @samanthaawalls Let’s keep this thing going!

starter story gets acquired by hubspot (a $12b company) not sure for how much but it doesn’t matter when you zoom out, it’s obvious what’s happening. media is becoming the base layer of software companies. as infrastructure not as marketing. the audience becomes your research lab, your distribution engine, your recruiting funnel, your feedback loop, and your launchpad all at once. in a world where ai compresses product cycles and models improve every few months, code alone stops being the moat. attention + trust becomes the leverage. the company that controls the narrative controls where demand flows. hubspot bought proximity to builders. it's kinda like real estate. they bought "location, location, location" they bought insight into what founders are thinking about before it shows up in product analytics. they bought cultural gravity. i think this pattern spreads. I bet frontier labs will want distribution closer to the core. owning the builders who experiment with their models. owning the developers who integrate their sdk. owning the story around what’s possible. ai lowers the cost of building. media lowers the cost of convincing this trend continues media is underpriced

HubSpot Media is acquiring @starter_story! Information is everywhere. Help is harder to come by. Starter Story doesn’t just interview founders. They help them by pulling out the details most people skip: tradeoffs, mistakes, playbooks, pricing, what actually worked, and why.

@thepatwalls @HubSpot i'm so proud of us ❤️

8 years ago, I started a side project inside of a tiny Starbucks. Today, Starter Story is being acquired by @HubSpot. Here’s how it happened.

I flew out to NYC to film the biggest YouTube video of my life 😭 I can't wait to share it with you.

RIP Starter Story YouTube Here is the video youtube claims violated their "dangerous content" policy.

@thepatwalls @TeamYouTube @YouTubeCreators @TeamYouTube this is clearly a massive overlook, and not the first time! Please do better!

WOW Youtube is BACK to ruin my holidays!! Using AI moderation to DELETE our content! And potentially getting our channel TERMINATED! @TeamYouTube @YouTubeCreators can you please look into this. Please see the quoted tweet as a reminder to what happened a few weeks ago. What's going on!?!? Please YouTube, I just wanna enjoy Christmas without having another heart attack.

The grand finale. 30 apps in 30 days. Day 30. The final test: Can you build AND sell on the same day? We spun up an AI app and picked up the phones to cold call local businesses 🥶 Here's how it went..

Your ideas → millions of views. We’re hiring a YouTube PRODUCER at Starter Story (700k+ subs) Why this role is special: - You get to own videos end-to-end (idea to published) - Shape the future of youtube with new formats, titles & thumbnails - Move fast: small team, no red tape, REAL impact - Surround yourself with successful founders all day If you’re obsessed with YouTube + storytelling, DM me. (or tag someone in the comments who might be perfect for this)