Jessica Lessin
67 statements across 51 episodes · 17 bullish · 28 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Aug 18, 2023 by Jessica Lessin · across every show →
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Aug 18, 2023 neutral
Aug 25, 2023 positive
Sep 15, 2023 negative
Jessica Lessin: Journalists cheering at Apple events is unusual and uncomfortable
“It always made me as a journalist somewhat uncomfortable to be part of like seeing like just journalists, like standing up and cheering. Not that people can't acknowledge the company, but it's very unusual. People don't cheer at press conferences.”
Oct 6, 2023 negative
Oct 13, 2023 negative
Jessica Lessin: Musk killed Twitter's misinformation tool to cut Google Cloud costs
“The information reported this week that Elon had killed a tool that had been involved, that Exit or Twitter had been using to spot fakes and misinformation, and he killed it because it was hosted on Google Cloud, and in his big cost-cutting efforts, he had wan…”
Oct 13, 2023 bearish
Sam Lessin: Subscription News Orgs Won't Be Trusted Mass-Distribution Sources
“I don't, so I don't think it's going to be news orgs as much as I adore my wife. And I'll tell you why. I think it's a business model problem. So the news orgs have moved into a subscription model, which is correct for them. Right. And if you look at kind of a…”
Oct 13, 2023 negative
Oct 13, 2023 negative
Jessica Lessin: Historical Section 230 protections are dead in the water
“Section two thirties dead. In, as section two 30 as it has existed, which is basically given, and really at the time it was the YouTube, you know, allowed YouTube to flourish with user generated content. And it says, as long as you have a mechanism for taking …”
Nov 10, 2023 bearish
Nov 17, 2023
Jessica Lessin: Big Tech agreed to alert government when training AI models
“Meanwhile, Secretary Raimondo is telling me that all the big tech companies, OpenAI, Meta, Google, and so forth, are cooperating, are, and down to the level of agreeing to tell the government when they're running their next model.”
Jan 12, 2024 bullish
Jessica Lessin: Copyright law will bend toward tech in AI disputes
“You know, what I also look to, if you look at last time there were major changes to copyright law and the DMCA and carving out section two 30 exemptions where tech companies were not liable, the law has definitely continued to bend to the will of the technolog…”
Jan 19, 2024
Jessica Lessin Introduced Yelp's Luther Lowe to FTC Commissioner at Cocktail Party
“And actually my best example of this was the information was having a cocktail party in DC. And I Introduced Luther Lowe, who at the time was working for Yelp and has been sort of the biggest antagonist trying to get Google sued and broken up on antitrust grou…”
Feb 2, 2024 neutral
Feb 16, 2024 bearish
Mar 29, 2024 positive
Apr 5, 2024 bullish
May 3, 2024 bearish
May 17, 2024
May 17, 2024 negative
Jessica Lessin: Media Companies Riding Tech Waves Create No Lasting Value
“We've seen a lot of media companies whose thesis has been to ride a tech wave, and that has, by definition, is not where value will be created. And that doesn't mean you don't leverage new tech waves, turbocharge your superpower as an organization, but it just…”
Jun 7, 2024 positive
Jessica Lessin: The Logic and Charter News Raised FT Financing
“A technology publication in Canada that I backed early on just raised a significant round of financing from the FT, which follows two weeks before when another publication I backed raised a significant round of financing for the FT, and these publications One …”
Jul 5, 2024
Jessica Lessin used Sun Valley tennis courts to bypass media pens
“Turned out, tennis courts, anyone could book. So Amir Afradi and I, of the information side, we were going to play as much tennis as we possibly could book. And we would run into all these interesting people and say hello and catch up.”
Aug 23, 2024 negative
Thiel Claimed Bill Gates Founded His Foundation to Pay Off Melinda
“The one thing that really pissed me off about the Peter Thiel, Joe Rogan interview was a long section where he Sort of claims in that Peter Thiel way that the only reason Bill Gates started the Gates Foundation was to pay off Melinda Gates instead of giving he…”
Sep 13, 2024 neutral
Nov 1, 2024
Lessin: Three famous tech CEOs pitched an anonymous anti-Trump op-ed
“Three very well-known tech CEOs reached out to me over the weekend with an op-ed arguing against a Trump presidency and what it would mean for tech. Well-known names. You know them all. Every, every listener of this pod will. And it was a very, it was almost t…”
Nov 15, 2024 bearish
Jessica Lessin: The historical playbook for reopening tech IPOs is permanently broken
“The market has to be up a certain amount for a certain period and the IPO window opens. And this time is just breaking that playbook. That's just not happening. And I think there are a lot of reasons that are much more structural in the markets that aren't goi…”
Dec 6, 2024 negative
Dec 6, 2024 bearish
Lessin: AI hype cooled in 2024 as costs and reality set in
“By my read, you know, it's been an interesting year, and I would say the year where maybe like, The reality of AI sunk in a little bit. The reality of the cost of AI sunk in a little bit. I don't know. I actually think we came down a little bit from the hype t…”
Jan 17, 2025 positive
Jessica Lessin: Systemic bias persists and single-sex spaces remain vital for girls
“I just like firmly, firmly believe that there's still systemic bias that exists in the world and that Not a hundred percent of the forums need to be single sex, but like the power of these young girls being together and being the leader in their class and gett…”
Feb 21, 2025 bearish
Mar 14, 2025 bullish
Mar 21, 2025
Mar 28, 2025 neutral
Ben Smith: Reporters landing major scoops rely on 'news luck'
“Don't you think, though, that as a reporter, there's something like, there's a kind of news, my only real superstition, that there's a kind of news luck, and some people have it. That was that I had it. Like, sometimes you just wind up in a room. Somebody invi…”
Apr 4, 2025 bearish
Jun 6, 2025 positive
Jun 27, 2025
Jun 27, 2025 positive
Jessica Lessin: The Information allows reporters to use AI for copyediting
“There is no reason, like AIs are excellent. And applying AP style when that's all you need. And so I'm announcing this new policy. I'm going to get so much shit at my all hands, which actually happens before this pod. So that's good. But like on the margin, li…”
Jul 4, 2025 neutral
Jul 18, 2025
Jessica Lessin: Zuckerberg livestream failed with control room audio in their ears
“We put it, yeah, I mean, we fixed with the viewers couldn't hear us, but our control room, we could hear the control room. So while I was interviewing Mark, the control room, which was melting down, was in both of our ears. So actually we both did that intervi…”
Aug 8, 2025 negative
Sep 6, 2025 bearish
Sep 12, 2025
Sep 12, 2025
Sep 19, 2025 bullish
Sep 19, 2025 negative
Oct 17, 2025
Nov 14, 2025 negative
Nov 21, 2025 positive
Nov 28, 2025 neutral
Nov 28, 2025 negative
Nov 28, 2025 neutral
Dec 19, 2025 negative
Jan 16, 2026 neutral
Feb 13, 2026 neutral
Feb 13, 2026 neutral
Feb 20, 2026 positive
Feb 20, 2026 bullish
Jessica Lessin: Recording and memory may be core to next hardware wave
“I think the concept of recording and memory might become core to this next. I mean, if you look at, if you consider health tracking as sort of the precursor to this wave, which I think it is, and it's the thing that's, Driving adoption. A lot of these things.”
Mar 20, 2026 negative
Apr 17, 2026 bearish
Apr 17, 2026 bearish
Apr 17, 2026 positive
Jessica Lessin: Waymo finds faster routes in the Bay Area than rideshares
“And the internet is skeptical of this claim, but as someone who's commuted to my office for a long time, twice a day, Waymo's find faster routes. Every day they are optimizing the Bay Area traffic with some AI stuff in ways that's faster.”
Apr 24, 2026 neutral
Upcoming op-ed proposes a new tax regime for AI displacement
“We probably, I don't think it will, it won't be published by the time this airs, but we have a very well-known figure in the tech industry who's writing an op-ed for us, laying out an entirely new tax regime, aiming to address this very issue, right? Aiming to…”
Apr 24, 2026 negative
Jul 3, 2026 bearish
Jul 10, 2026 positive
Jul 10, 2026 positive
Jul 31, 2026 negative