Sam Hamadeh

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Hussam "Sam" Hamadeh (1971 – December 10, 2015){{Cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/sam-hamadeh-founder-of-privco-and-vault-com-is-dead-at-44-1452727939|title=Sam Hamadeh, Founder of PrivCo and Vault.com, Dead at 44|first=Beckey|last=Bright|date=January 14, 2016|via=www.wsj.com}} was a media entrepreneur based in New York with business interests in digital media, publishing, and film.

Hamadeh co-founded Vault.com in 1997{{Cite web|url=http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1623|title = Dos and Don'ts for Entrepreneurs, from Those Who Have Actually Done It}} with his brother, Samer Hamadeh, and Mark Oldman. and served as the company's President through its successful sale in 2007 to private equity firm VSS, reportedly for nearly $100 million.{{cite web| url = http://www.bizjournals.com/newyork/news/2013/02/14/sam-hamadehs-privco-can-get-private.html?page=all| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150119114242/http://www.bizjournals.com/newyork/news/2013/02/14/sam-hamadehs-privco-can-get-private.html?page=all| archive-date = 2015-01-19| title = Conversation with Sam Hamadeh, founder of PrivCo, a leading source of info on private companies - New York Business Journal}} In 2009, Hamadeh founded PrivCo, which provides data to subscribers on more than 500,000 private companies. Hamadeh was chief executive of PrivCo, and also a frequent commentator on private companies for mass media, until his death in December 2015.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2014/04/14/weibo-will-blow-away-its-numbers-privco-ceo-sam-hamadeh.html|title='Weibo will blow away its numbers': Pro|first=Leanne|last=Miller|date=April 14, 2014|website=CNBC}}{{Cite web|url=https://money.cnn.com/2015/11/23/technology/tech-bust-private-market/index.html|title=We're witnessing a slow motion tech wreck|first=Sara Ashley|last=O'Brien|date=November 23, 2015|website=CNNMoney}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ipo-pullback-20151114-story.html|title=Door might be closed on firms' IPOs|date=November 14, 2015|website=Los Angeles Times}}

Hamadeh was a graduate of UCLA, the University of Pennsylvania Law School with a JD, and the Wharton School of Business with an MBA. He spoke and wrote frequently about entrepreneurship, including serving as the Keynote Speaker at Wharton's Annual Entrepreneurship Conference.{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/2006/12/15/shopzilla-adozu-vonage-ent-fin-cx_kw_1215wharton.html|title=What Really Makes A Great Entrepreneur?|website=Forbes}}

Honors and awards have included Crain's Top Entrepreneur's Award,{{cite web | url=http://mycrains.crainsnewyork.com/small_business_awards/years/2005 | title=2005 - Top Entrepreneurs | Crain's New York Business }} the Harvard Business School Club's Entrepreneur of the Year{{Cite web|url=https://www.whartondc.com/article.html?aid=790|title=start small, FINISH BIG: Wharton Entrepreneurial Conf, 11/17|website=www.whartondc.com}} Silicon Alley Reporter's "100 Most Important Internet Executives"{{Cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/2008/9/last-call-for-silicon-alley-100-submissions-vote-now|title=LAST CALL For Silicon Alley 100 Submissions: Vote Now|first=Peter|last=Kafka|website=Business Insider}} Deloitte & Touche's 50 Fastest Growing Companies,http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-65535477.html {{Dead link|date=February 2022}} and the University of Pennsylvania Law School's Young Alumnus of the Year award.http://edict.law.upenn.edu/alumni/alumnijournal/fall2002/department5/page03.html {{dead link|date=March 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}]

He served as an Executive Producer of films Home Movie starring Adrian Pasdar, and Made For Each Other starring Chris Masterson, Danny Masterson, and Bijou Phillips.{{cn|date=August 2023}}

Hamadeh co-hosted a fundraiser for a Democratic congressional candidate with Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey in January 2010.{{cite news |last1=Hope |first1=Patrick |title=Jack Dorsey, billionaire with quick feet |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2012/07/jack-dorsey-billionaire-with-quick-feet.html |access-date=21 July 2021 |work=Business Journals |date=25 July 2012}}

He died in 2015.