BUILDING SINCE 2010 · NOT REVIEWED BY SAMUEL
Samuel
Clay
“bio": "Building conversational video AI at Tavus. Founder of NewsBlur and Turn Touch”in their words · github.com
5
products
2010
building since
Career
Every main product, who ran it, and when it changed hands.
Crabigator2026 →
NOW
Turn Touch2017 →
NOW
Hacker Smacker2012 →
NOW
NewsBlur2010 →
NOW
Side projects1
201020122014201620182020202220242026
Samuel runs ita new owner runs itsold, with the stated priceshut downside project
Turn TouchRUNNINGsince Jan 2017
$50K
Mar 2017
Figures Samuel stated, each measuring something different. We don’t draw a line between them.
The journey
NewsBlur (Y Combinator 2012), then Turn Touch (Kickstarter 2017)
Milestones
$50K
· Turn Touch
Mar 2017 · stated
Latest
2026Launched Crabigator
2022Worked on Sol Reader, a wearable e-reader
Jul 2018NewsBlur: Raised the premium price to $36 a year
Mar 2017Turn Touch: Kickstarter campaign in March 2017: nearly a thousand remotes sold to 645 backers
2017Launched Turn Touch
How sure are we?
9 verified by someone other than Samuel46 stated by Samuel in public5 outdated, older than our limits
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