Sam Hall
Founder of Wafer Systems, a startup building an AI-native operating system by integrating AI agents directly into Android; self-taught engineer who broke into software without a college degree.
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Sep 18, 2026
Arjay McCandlessHOST
Now, how do you land your first paying job and move to California and all that?
Sam HallGUEST
Yeah, there is a direct lineage here, which is that the unpaying drone job got me paid like videography, like photography jobs.
Sam HallGUEST
And it was basically I benefited heavily from from being in high school and not needing that much money.
Sam HallGUEST
Like this is where I learned like a little bit about sales and like how to find a customer because.
Sam HallGUEST
we do drone photography and videography and I'd call all these resorts and they'd be like, yeah, I'll be interested.
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