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Sam Bondy

Early & Growth Investor at Bessemer Venture Partners
📍 San Francisco, California, United States

Sam Bondy is a San Francisco-based investor at Bessemer Venture Partners, focusing on early and growth-stage cloud and AI companies. A summa cum laude Economics graduate from Binghamton University, he previously worked in investment banking at J. P. Morgan and as an investor at Soma Capital. He has co-authored influential SaaS valuation frameworks.

Originally from New York City, Sam is an aspiring outdoorsman who enjoys a variety of activities including skiing, surfing, running, and playing golf. His other interests include traveling, reading, and listening to podcasts.

He co-authored a new metric for valuing cloud businesses, "The Rule of X, " intended to be a successor to the well-known "Rule of 40. "

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Experience
2 Years
Current Role
Early & Growth Investor
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
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Priorities

Topics Sam cares about

Vertical AI
He co-authored Bessemer's multi-part investment thesis on Vertical AI, which he predicts will be a market at least 10 times larger than legacy Vertical SaaS.
Cloud Business Valuation
He co-developed and wrote about "The Rule of X, " a new framework for valuing cloud businesses that weights growth more heavily than profitability.
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Career

Work history

7-2023
Early & Growth Investor
Bessemer Venture Partners
10-2025
Investor
Legora
4-2024
Investor
Canva
1-2024
Board Observer
MaintainX
4-2024
Investor
Anthropic
In the press

Media appearances

Rule of X – with the co‑author Sam Bondy, Bessemer Venture Partners. Featured in Apple Podcasts
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Education
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
Binghamton University
Semester at Sea
University of Virginia
Social presence
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