Social Capital
4 statements across 3 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 4, 2023 by Sam Lessin · across every show →
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Aug 4, 2023
Sam Lessin: Rich and poor choose identity over money, only middle class hesitates
“Pretend a devil came to you and said, you can either give up all of your cash, like all the money you have or your identity, which do you give up? Right. And what's interesting is very poor people, right and very rich people generally say they'd give up all th…”
Dec 1, 2023
Lessin: New social platforms emerge because older networks' social capital gets stratified
“One of the reasons there's always, like, a new social product historically that comes out for a new generation is because the social capital structures of the old products get stratified and stuck, and so the new people don't want to play the rigged game”
Dec 1, 2023
Lessin: Platforms introduce Stories to reset stagnant social capital
“They actually introduce new features, right. In a way that opens up new distribution to allow effectively new economic growth. It's like a game. You have to keep playing and adapting. Like you might've been really big when Instagram was about posting, but like…”
Jul 17, 2026 negative