Sam Lessin
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175 appearances
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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And you have you've built that trust over years.
You have the community because you were authentic.
You actually suggested the right things.
You you you've really built that personality.
There are so many products to build and such a deep market for that that you can then be that.
Person.
Whereas again, general entertainment, the Kardashians, where it's it's not that it doesn't happen, it will happen.
It's just very hard to underwrite.
Yeah, what we care about is the company building.
Like when we we're looking for entrepreneurs, like we're not looking to invest in the cash streams from advertising, et cetera.
The number one thing we care about, big picture, is alignment with creators.
We learned this from our seed practice.
You know, what when we do our seed investing in traditional companies, it's usually around 10%.
It's usually one to three million dollars, right?
And we don't do board seats.
We're looking for entrepreneurs that we can be their first text message, we can be deeply aligned.
Align with them.
And so the thing with creators is we want them to have the freedom to explore the best business models, period.
Right.
If it happens that's a highly cash generative business, but it isn't a company, so we don't want to get cross swords with them.
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