Sam Park moved to Canada when he was 7 and grew up in a single parent family with his mum and two sisters in Vancouver. When he first moved, he lived in a 380sq ft one-bedroom apartment with his family of 4. His early days growing up really seeded the ambition and passion for him to live a life where he can take care of the ones that he loves. In grade 11, Sam was first introduced to entrepreneurship by his friend but that was not the first time he knew about business. He actually despised business given that his dad went bankrupt and lost everything at an early age. Instead of going to school, Sam decided to his entrepreneurship journey. He started multiple media companies including CrunchMedia, InstinctX and more. He would also document his journey on Linkedin - allowing him to expand his network and grow his personal brand. At some point, Sam almost even worked with his role models at the time - Garyvee who tweeted his resume after how impressed he was by his efforts. As part of his journey, Sam was also selected to be part of Canada’s most prestigious entrepreneurship programs in Canada including being part of the first batch of League of Innovators (LOI) and Next 36. These experiences really gave Sam the toolkit to grow as an entrepreneur. At this point, he also made enough money to buy his mum her first house which was his biggest team growing up. But it was only until the end of 2019, when Sam was at his mum’s hair salon, where a customer asked him about TikTok where Joybox was born. With his co-founder Kamar Burke (KB), Sam grew Joybox with short-form content to garner millions of views across the platform. Just like any service-based company, it was difficult for that to results in recurring revenue given it was the early days of TikTok. This led to an incident, where they were at the verge of quitting and were left with only $4000 in their bank account. Sam decided to split that with KB and they decided to give it one final shot. Joybox ended up getting multiple clients and eventually got acquired by Gamelancer - the fastest and largest growing social networks in the gaming space garnering over 1.8 billion monthly views across their platforms. Sam now splits his time serving as the CEO of JoyBox, while also helping to grow the Gamelancer network as the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO).
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