retail investor
also referred to as: retail investors
6 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Feb 7, 2025 by Sam Lessin · across every show →
Everything said about retail investor, oldest first
Feb 7, 2025 positive
Sam Lessin: Ridiculous meme coins intentionally keep institutional investors out
“Fartcoin is serious specifically because of what you said, right? Which is, it's an asset that is so ridiculous and named in such a way that institutions will never touch it. And what that means is that retail can play, right? And so there's this really intere…”
Feb 7, 2025 negative
Sam Lessin: Institutional investors stripped retail upside from Layer 1 crypto
“What happened in layer ones is that basically it became too obvious and all of a sudden all the fancy investors with lots of money figured it out and they started bidding up and taking all the value appreciation in the private markets pre-token launch. Right. …”
Apr 3, 2026 neutral
Apr 17, 2026
Lessin: Top tech hedge funds are actively targeting retail wealth
“I hear a lot of hedge funds targeting retail now, because they think that there's certain, I mean, I, the top tech hedge funds have all told me this. They think that the institutional or stubborn wealth is sort of fixed, and they'll, Fight for a slightly more …”
May 22, 2026 bearish
May 22, 2026 neutral
Lessin: Retail investors will hate-invest in Anthropic as job-displacement hedge
“What people are going to view is like, I might be out of a job, so I better own an anthropic stock, right? Like it's going to be the, and they're going to hate it, but they're going to do it. Cause it's like, that's their hedge. So it is a hate invest, but the…”