William "Sam" Sneed - Biography
Career Consulting
Sam focuses his career consulting practice on helping his clients conduct focused, effective job searches in the AI driven 2020’s. Sam gave his first talk on AI and the impact on our lives and particularly on career management at Yale in 2013. In 2014 he began his career consulting practice. He does not provide any mental health or legal services.
Sam has worked extensively with Yale's Office of Career Strategy (OCS) and the Yale Alumni Association (YAA) on developing career programming. In the spring of 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic was identified he developed a program with OCS on Career Management in the Time of COVID-19 for Yale students and alumni which was widely seen via live Zoom sessions and viewed in its recorded form.
In the summer of 2020 YAA turned to Sam to develop a way to engage with Yale alumni during Covid-19. Sam developed an idea for a series of "shows" utilizing Zoom and conducted a successful pilot show for YAA called "The Career Hour". Working closely with an amazing YAA team they developed a series of shows for the inaugural YAA Yale, Life and Careers network. He served as the anchor/moderator of season 1 of Career Pivots on the YAA Careers Life and Yale network - a monthly, live Zoom show on career management in the AI driven 2020's - from September 2020 to May of 2021. Watch a show Sam did with his classmate and friend, Bing Gordon of Kleiner Perkins and formerly on the Board at Amazon among other companies, including how he came up with the name "Amazon Prime" ( visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRerqQGpmr4 ).
Prior to his career consulting he was an Internet pioneer and visionary. In 1994, he co-founded his first venture-funded Internet company. There he created award-winning web brands and led them into the market and secured innovative, content provider agreements with industry leaders such as Microsoft and AOL.
Later, he co-founded a second venture-funded Internet company. There he oversaw the development and launch of one of the first blog technologies, political social networking sites and online giving sites. He secured innovative affinity agreements with industry leaders such as Amazon.
Sam produced some of the early political shows on the Internet including the first Internet show from the nation’s capitol on AOL, and one of President Clinton's first online appearances on MSN.
In each of Sam's roles he has been a sought-after program leader and speaker including at large events such as at Temple University's B. Batsheva Friedman Lecture Series in Philadelphia on AI and the Impact on Our Lives, at Internet World at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City on Government Regulation of the Internet, and at the Annual American Bar Association Meeting in Chicago on Cost Containment in Complex Litigation. He has delivered many other talks, for example, an assembly to some 800 students, faculty and staff at Phillips Exeter Academy's Exeter Summer on AI and the Impact on Our Lives and for YAA on various career topics.
Education & Law Practice
After graduating from Phillips Exeter Academy, Yale, NYU School of Law, and a judicial clerkship Sam quickly became a partner at a major, multinational, law firm where he concentrated his practice on complex litigation around the country, co-authored three legal books and many articles and was a sought-after program leader and speaker. Before leaving the active practice of law he had obtained the largest judgment on behalf of a client for the firm, over 40 million in today’s dollars in federal court in a commercial matter and brought to the firm a major engagement that was singled out as one of the firm's 10 most important engagements at the firm's 100th anniversary. He left the firm after some 17 years to co-found the first of two venture funded Internet companies, the second of which he co-founded with Pete du Pont, former governor of Delaware. After the second was sold he consulted for many years on all things “Internet”.
Contact Sam: sam@aijobsearchguru.com
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