Sam Sabeti

I'm a product manager. I led growth at AllTrails, where I joined as an early employee. Before that, I was an investor.

Now I help consumer startups grow.

Sam Sabeti, outdoors in the mountains

About

I've spent the last 7 years scaling consumer products.

I joined AllTrails as the 30th employee. I built and led the product growth team responsible for the full funnel, from onboarding to monetization and retention. Before that, I was a growth-stage software investor at Spectrum Equity.

We scaled AllTrails to 80M+ global users, grew paying subscribers >5x into the millions, and won Apple's 2023 App of the Year.

Now I'm an advisor and fractional product manager for consumer startups. I'm hands-on: designing and prototyping flows, running pricing and packaging studies, shipping experiments alongside the team.

Off the desk

You'll find me playing tennis, watching tennis, sailing, skiing, mountain biking, and visiting my family in Europe and Asia.

2017

Undergrad at Berkeley

2017 — 2019

Investor at Spectrum Equity

Invested in AllTrails.

2019 — 2024

Product at AllTrails

Employee #30, scaled to 250+ people and $100M ARR.

2024 — now

Independent

Fractional product lead and advisor.

Work

Teams I've helped

Seed-stage to growth - marketplaces, subscriptions, hardware, and AI.

  • AI exam prep platform
  • The app for exploring the outdoors
  • Noninvasive pediatric kidney diagnostics
  • Largest digital advocacy platform
  • Online chess platform
  • Subscription platform for sports creators
  • Personal nutrition coaching app
  • Video LLM
  • Smart displays that keep families organized
  • Marketplace for private dog parks
  • An AI companion app
  • AI notes and memory assistant
  • VR training for baseball and softball

Working together

Start small or go deep. Everything begins with a short call.

Live Session

Diagnose and redesign in one sitting

We zero in on one area, like a conversion surface or MAU growth, and map where it goes next. You get a high-fidelity future state I design myself, plus hypotheses to test. Best in person, works virtually.

Time
Half or full day
Fee
Flat fee

Sprint

Deep work on your biggest problems

One or two problems define the focus, like onboarding and pricing. I work asynchronously, with working sessions as needed. You walk away with a clear current state, ranked opportunities, hypotheses and high-fidelity prototypes to test immediately.

Time
3-week sprint
Fee
Flat fee

Embedded

A part-time member of your team

I join your standups, Slack and weekly priorities. I run audits and roadmaps, build high-fidelity prototypes, ship experiments and help you launch. I own a slice of product and growth week to week.

Time
1–3 months
Fee
Monthly retainer