Sam Lessin
GP Slow Ventures. Intern The Information
Subscriber since 2013
About
Sam is currently an intern at The Information and a General Partner at Slow Ventures. He has co-founded two companies, Fin and drop.io (acquired by Facebook in 2010). Between 2010 and 2014 he was a VP of product management at Facebook, where he managed the People, Places, and Things product group and the Identity product group. Sam started his career at Bain and Company, and attended Harvard ('05). In his spare time Sam enjoys skiing and kite-surfing. He is married to Jessica Lessin, founder of The Information.
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Looking to invest in startups / private companies
I have been an early investor in many notable companies and projects including (solana, venmo, birchbox, makerbot, teamshares, tonkean, blockdaemon, airtable, etc.) At slow we look to back ideally things that are a bit crazy but important.
Looking to hire team members
TI is very much looking for engineers, product, design folks. Slow doesn't really have many opportunities but always open to hearing from folks.
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The Irony is that FTX Collapse is about centralized finance - not crypto / DEFI… but regulators aren’t gonna understand this which is going to create a lot of pain!
Posted bySam Lessin
Having SBF, who built up a brand as the white-night spokesperson for crypto in Washington, go down this spectacularly is NOT good. In fact, it probably couldn’t be worse regulatory narrative wise — because a lot of fancy people are gonna feel like he made them look very stupid and aren’t gonna be very happy about that. Pain ahead - no question… The deep irony, of cours...Slow Ventures
Tech has gone full Medieval this month & SBF / CZ- Binance is a Red Wedding
Posted bySam Lessin
Silicon Valley generally is now following plot lines from GoT vs. quaint old “Silicon Valley” — There is no Magna Carta in sight -- we are gonna be in an era of strong men and fiefdoms for a long time… I just can’t get over how wild this month is ... for a long time now it has felt that tech / the internet is tending towards a medieval phase of cults and strong men… but I t...Slow Ventures
Can a social media revolution be accomplished as a public company?
Posted bySam Lessin
After a decade were the social media banquet seemed relatively set, we are now seemingly over-night in a moment where the two most iconic social networking platforms in history are conducting the biggest pivots in the history of the space (thx ATT). The interesting part is how nearly completely opposite their pivots are: > TWITTER IS A FAILED PUBLIC COMPANY DOING RUNNIN...Slow Ventures
Dear Jerome Powell, you win… I will stop buying so many ebikes
Posted bySam Lessin
Jerome, I like millions of Americans upped my spending through covid and in to the last year. Let me explain why, and why I am fully willing to back off a bit now (if you will for please stop killing all my equities!) ;) As you know - the COVID period was historic / the party was ON… and now the party is OFF We all know it started with stimmi which directly gave milli...Slow Ventures