Full Name: Samuel Waldman
Age: 19
Homebase: Springfield, Virginia, now resides in Los Angeles
1. What was the line that an agent/scout said to you that convinced you that modeling was your next career move?
What’s the line that got me to model for? Does “Hello” count? I wasn’t a hard sell, Ford turned me down when I was younger so when I came back two years later and they wanted represent me, I was elated !
2. I was told that you travel quite a bit. Could you tell me the places you have traveled to?
I’ve traveled to England, France, Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary, the Netherlands, Cyprus, Greece, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, and Jordan, along with most of America. My favorite cities in the world, from what I’ve seen so far, are London, Tel Aviv, and Petra.
London is special to me because, as a 14 year old, it was my first foreign city I was bale to explore by myself. Last summer I traveled to Tel Aviv with my two friends David and Dan, we paid 15 dollars a night to sleep on mats on the roof of this hostel two blocks from the beach. The roof was packed with people from all over the world. I wouldn’t have traded that experience for a five-star hotel room. Petra was by far the most spectacular sight: an entire ancient city carved out of a mountainside. At nightfall, the locals would line miles and miles of lit candle along to city path. I’ll never forget that sight.
3. You created some new business ventures with your friends when you were in school. Could you tell me about some of these ventures? How did you get started?
Almost two years ago I moved to Boston to work with my friend David with his company TheCollegeParty, which threw weekly 18+ parties and used these events to introduce college students to new products.
Shortly after my arrival a new client, Honest Tea, had contacted David, wanting to give David and me the opportunity to market for a product seven days a week. Since I was the only permanent employee of this start-up marketing firm and the CEO was in the midst of graduating from college, it was up to me to do the required work so that Honest Tea would take us on as a client the next fall. My job was simple: pass out the bottled tea beverage to as many people on the street as possible. After one month and 5,000 bottles of tea, I had gotten our company its first client. By the start of the next school year, College Marketing Solutions was the new name, and we had 15 team members and two new clients. Read the rest of this entry »
Full Name: Samuel Waldman
Age: 19
Homebase: Springfield, Virginia, now resides in Los Angeles
1. What was the line that an agent/scout said to you that convinced you that modeling was your next career move?
What’s the line that got me to model for? Does “Hello” count? I wasn’t a hard sell, Ford turned me down [...]