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Sam Lessin - General Partner at Slow Ventures. He has co-founded two companies, Fin and Drop.io (acquired by Facebook in 2010). Between 2010 and 2014 Sam 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 as part of the graduating class of 2005.
Things we cover:
- Starting Slow Ventures and working with notable companies early on in their creation such as Birchbox, Venmo, and many more
- Sam's unique funding ideology and the importance of building a thesis
- The new Human Potential Initiative, in which Slow Ventures invests directly into individuals rather than their businesses
- The passion factor that is needed when working with founders and startups
- Sam's opinion on investing in friends and working closely with people that you trust and respect
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