sam lessin 🏴‍☠️

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Intern @theinformation. GP @slow. Fmr VP Product FB. co-founder dropio & fin. Seed investor solana, venmo, openphone, teamshares, sublime. https://t.co/N6JqjBvF1o ¶.

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sam lessin 🏴‍☠️

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Caviar and vodka to appropriately toast the conclusion of our first etiquette finishing school for YC founders. A smashing success. thank you to all the speakers and congrats on your certificates of completion graduates!

Someday making financial models in excel will be a leisure activity for the privileged. let me explain...

What do we do with all the young men in an AI age?

First week MeritFirst update: First group of partner companies is connecting to talent, with 660+ candidates starting their journey with us. And the bar is high - only 32 test takers earned an "A" so far. No grade inflation here. Top performers will hear from us this week.

Videos

Watch Anya Live

S is for Superintelligence

"what time is the debate" query on google is a deep commentary on state of internet .. most obvious one box ever answer, but instead pages and pages of SEO optimized crap that hides the answer you obviously want

I am wildly impressed with Alex Karp's claimed 5 min dead hang... tried it post run at 180lbs and got 1:45 -- 2:30 seems doable, 5 min is insane. (i do want video proof of him doing it tho... video or hard to believe)

If we want American kids to care about science we need them to be able to gamble on it … Playing cards for researchers, unboxing on YouTube, one of ones, jersey cards, the whole shebang - gambling is the way. And they will know all the stats and care.

Personal assistant + context + credential vault + voice &amp; photo interface + task multi-threading... introducing Fin... 10 years ago. nailed the story :) let's see if it happens now.

As a self styled unpaid @waymo influencer … I was very excited to get me first ojai - excellent!

Before launching jelly jelly earlier in the day we discussed a lot about memes on more or less... episode is out tomorrow... but will be fun to share whole thing!

The spectrum between pure-memes and memes with real world liability -- messiah vs. mars vs. AGI vs. GAAP --

Played a lot of Starcraft growing up? Well then you know how to understand who is gonna win AI wars ... on this weeks more or less.

Cheap therapy becoming the number one use case for ChatGPT is a big big red old flag.... the infinite patience friend to talk thru your crazy person trauma is not a good business, nor does it expand productivity in any way... almost by definition if Tristan likes it, run.

Elon turns out to be both the best marketer and best financier of our generation.

Anthropic is killing it at marketing...

What is really going on with crypto meme coins.. a 🧵 from more or less: .. (1/7) 'Fartcoin' is not a joke - it is an important example of an 'instituional' resistant asset for retail that has been cut out of societal upside...

Discussing our new creator fund on CNBC with Kelly Evans

It is fun to re-watch the Fin ads from ~2016/17 era -- the dream is still the same... debateable how much closer we are.

Personal assistant + context + credential vault + voice & photo interface + task multi-threading... introducing Fin... 10 years ago. nailed the story :) let's see if it happens now.