Sam Lessin is a 🏷️#investor, 🏷️#founder, and 🏷️#operator best known as a founding General Partner at 📝Slow Ventures, a generalist early-stage venture capital firm he co-founded in 2011. He is also a columnist and self-described "intern" at The Information, and co-hosts the More or Less podcast, a weekly show on tech and capital markets. A 📝Harvard University graduate (class of 2005), he began his career as an associate consultant at Bain & Company before founding the file-sharing startup Drop.io in 2007, which 📝Facebook acquired in 2010.

Following the acquisition, Lessin spent four years at Facebook as VP of Product Management, where he founded and led the Identity product group. He departed in 2014 to co-found Fin Analytics, an AI-powered work analytics company, while concurrently building out Slow Ventures into a firm that has now deployed approximately $1B across seed and pre-seed rounds. His early bets include 📝Venmo, 📝Airtable, Solana (a reported 2000x return), 📝Gusto, Teamshares, and 📝Clay. He has been a consistent public voice on the structural problems with the "factory model" of venture capital and has written extensively on AI, meaning, and technology — including a well-circulated framework arguing that AI renders traditional competitive moats obsolete. He is married to Jessica Lessin, founder of The Information.