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- Sam Yagan is a lifelong entrepreneur and exec.
- He is the cofounder of OkCupid, and was head of the dating site conglomerate the Match Group for seven years. His first company was SparkNotes, which he founded while at Harvard.
- Yagan told Business Insider that when SparkNotes first launched, the team got a flood of hate mail, but it was “the best kind of hate mail to get.”
Sam Yagan cofounded his first company when he was an undergrad at Harvard.
That company was SparkNotes, the book summary site beloved by time-crunched students across the US. See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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