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Did Sam Pasupalak co-found Maluuba?
Yes. GeekWire reported on January 13, 2017 that Maluuba was co-founded in 2011 by CEO Sam Pasupalak and CTO Kaheer Suleman, classmates at the University of Waterloo, in its story on Microsoft agreeing to acquire the company, which by then was based in Montreal.
What did he do after the Microsoft sale?
A Communitech News profile, dated August 25, 2021 on its page, describes six years of 16-hour days building Maluuba in Waterloo and then Montreal, followed by travel through nine countries, including a climb of Kilimanjaro. It reported the Microsoft price was believed to be about $200 million (CAD).
Where is he from?
In the same Communitech profile, dated August 25, 2021, he said he grew up in a very conservative family in India, knew little beyond family and cricket, and that the University of Waterloo pushed him.
What does Sam Pasupalak do now?
He is co-founder and CEO of Skyfall AI. In a FullStack HR podcast episode published September 22, 2026, he discussed the company's work on an AI CEO and how he separates operational work from the human relationships of leading a company. Futurism reported on July 22, 2026 that Skyfall planned to buy a small e-commerce or B2B SaaS business and put an AI in charge of running it.