Sam Gardner

CEO & co-founder @happypillar_app | mom of 2 boys | into food & fiction | she/her/hers | Black Lives Matter

[Sam Gardner @FunSamGardner]

I asked Canva’s gen ai tool to change my husbands shirt from our child’s preschool graduation photos. See what it did…

[Jason Jacobs @jjacobs22]

New episode alert! This one with @madymantha, co-founder/CTO of @Happypillar_app. Trying a new experiment, and including the whole thing right here on X!

Mady comes from an AI background for years (various leadership roles in product, engineering, and marketing at multiple machine learning startups). As the Director of Conversational AI at Sirius, she led the team that developed Walmart’s conversational AI, which was featured in the Wall Street Journal.

Mady's co-worker at the company they worked at together before Happypillar, Sam Gardner, was inspired to create Happypillar after facing significant challenges with her older son’s behavior during the height of the pandemic and having a great experience with a professional that utilized a therapeutic approach that involves both parent and child.

It was a transformative experience, and she realized other families could benefit from it, partnered with Mady, and set out to develop a technology-driven solution to make behavioral therapy more accessible to a broader range of parents.

Some key learnings from this episode:
- how an AI expert can partner with a domain expert to define a more accessible AI offering that was previously human-delivered and $$$.
- in which ways the human expert needs to stay involved
- how they utilized AI internally to build an AI product, both on the product side and marketing ops
- how it has enabled them to go further with less funding
- how they think about the future of AI and its implications for startups like theirs

Really good one, I hope you learn as much from it as I did!

[Sam Gardner @FunSamGardner]

@Jeff_Baumgarten @Madisonkanna @sm @ericbahn @Jeff_Baumgarten I’m gonna cry 😭😭😭😭😭😭 thank you!!

[Sam Gardner @FunSamGardner]

@haleymbryant ahahaa i never log in to twitter anymore but of course i saw this. i bet its a power play. "I dont need good fonts, im beyond genius"

[Sam Gardner @FunSamGardner]

Sam Altman. From kindergarten to 8th grade, Sammy Altman.

[Sam Gardner @FunSamGardner]

@SolsticexFayemz revealed to me this weekend that he thought me going by Sam Altman Gardner was a joke. Just want to announce for all people that my birth name really is Sam Altman. Until 2014, that was literally all I responded to. PROOF in comments if you need it.

[Skippo La La, MBE @SolsticexFayemz]

@FunSamGardner is up next!

[Sam Gardner @FunSamGardner]

@madymantha I do disappoint but only if you’re one of my children and you want to buy out the toy aisle of target

[mady @madymantha]

@FunSamGardner irl does not disappoint

[Sam Gardner @FunSamGardner]

This is your chance to experience the fun of @FunSamGardner in person. Remind me who I know in LA? Private event with only a few spots left but I want them to be people I liiiiiike. Or people liked by people I liked. DMs are open (I think?) so hit me up Angelenos.

[Sam Gardner @FunSamGardner]

This is your chance to experience the fun of @FunSamGardner in person. Remind me who I know in LA? Private event with only a few spots left but I want them to be people I liiiiiike. Or people liked by people I liked. DMs are open (I think?) so hit me up Angelenos.

[happypillar @Happypillar_app]

ATTN LOS ANGELES:

Make an impact on early childhood mental health! Join us TOMORROW at 7 PM at a private home in LA for an inspiring evening on how we can shape the future of childhood mental health. Food and drinks will be served. DM us for more details!

[happypillar @Happypillar_app]

ATTN LOS ANGELES:

Make an impact on early childhood mental health! Join us TOMORROW at 7 PM at a private home in LA for an inspiring evening on how we can shape the future of childhood mental health. Food and drinks will be served. DM us for more details!

[Sam Gardner @FunSamGardner]

@haleymbryant @oluadedej @ericbahn @kevinleeme @immieats 💕💕

[Sam Gardner @FunSamGardner]

@oluadedej @ericbahn @kevinleeme @immieats ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

[Sam Gardner @FunSamGardner]

I love you, it’s ruining my life.
I touched you, for only a Sports Night.

[Sam Gardner @FunSamGardner]

@maiab My sample size is 2 but I’m loving 3+ sooooo much more with both kids. I love talking so it’s cool to talk to these crazies I do everything for.

[Sam Gardner @FunSamGardner]

@moll_conner @zedonarrival this is sweet but it's more likely that small children take fucking forever to do anything, all the time

[Sam Gardner @FunSamGardner]

@sm @kevingibbon Men can be CEOs ??

[Sam Gardner @FunSamGardner]

@krishnanrohit Just you know, view source

[Sam Gardner @FunSamGardner]

@rebekah_bastian Stopping myself from picking fights in the comments 🤬😭

[Sam Gardner @FunSamGardner]

@kaygoesoutside no sry

[Sam Gardner @FunSamGardner]

@anothercohen uh...someone told you otherwise? lol