big companies

also referred to as: the big companies

4 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 23, 2023 by Sam Lessin · across every show →

Everything said about big companies, oldest first

Jun 23, 2023 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sam Lessin: Big tech will win AI and most startups will die
“I think the whole AI space is gonna be a very YOLO space, where, like, almost everyone dies, and, like, the big companies win almost everything, and there's gonna be some exception. Someone's gonna make a fucking fortune somewhere, that's gonna be super hard t…”
Sam Lessin Jun 23, 2023 ▶ 12:39 #3: Mr. Beast's burger bust and will M&A ever return? · More or Less Podcast
Jan 12, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sam Lessin: Big tech outperformance will disperse wealth across markets
“It's like the big companies are going to crush it. That will make people a bunch of money, which then they'll like disperse into other things.”
Sam Lessin Jan 12, 2024 ▶ 16:16 #29: Is the Year of Startup Austerity Over? What Can Save the News Business? · More or Less Podcast
Dec 6, 2024 bearish
Insight
Lessin: Most Big Tech acquisitions fail and end up shut down
“A lot of the big companies that did a lot of these acquisitions, they kind of all ended up shutting most of them down. Most of them don't work. Sure. You get it every once in a while you get like an Instagram, but like most of them are kind of nothings.”
Sam Lessin Dec 6, 2024 ▶ 31:47 #76: In a World with 99.99% Accurate AI… (feat. Aaron Levie) · More or Less Podcast
Aug 1, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Sam Lessin predicts big tech wins AI by cash-hoarding elite researchers
“The big companies win, which has been my talk track on this forever, which is like, you know, again, it's like playing Warcraft, too. As long as your cash balance keeps going up, and even better, when you hire super fancy researchers, the market rewards you an…”
Sam Lessin Aug 1, 2025 ▶ 42:09 #110 Meta's Billion-Dollar Hires: Bubble or Genius? · More or Less Podcast
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