Sam Lessin

Sam Lessin is a founding partner at Slow Ventures and a columnist at The Information, where he writes regularly on technology and society. He is best known for his thesis that AI represents a meaning crisis rather than a labor crisis, arguing that even solving the income problem leaves people without purpose — defaulting to video games, pornography, and nihilism in place of meaningful work. Lessin previously served as Vice President of Product at Facebook and founded the file-sharing platform drop.io, which Facebook acquired in 2010. He also co-hosts the More or Less podcast and co-founded Fin, an AI company.