Wall Street
4 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 15, 2023 by Sam Lessin · across every show →
Everything said about Wall Street, oldest first
Dec 15, 2023 positive
Sam Lessin: The world's most scalable organizations are metric-optimizing machines
“The most scalable successful orgs in the world largely are number go up machines. Wall Street is a number go up machine. Social media, or like I said, media in general. One of the nice parts about it, like, is you just A, B, test your way, and a number go up, …”
Aug 1, 2025 negative
Sam Lessin calls VCs the least sophisticated financiers on the planet
“I actually think that venture capitalists are probably the least sophisticated financiers, like on the planet. They just have hope, right? Like it's the only hopeful version of finance, right? Because it is like, you know, you're basically investing in people …”
Aug 8, 2025 bearish
Sam Lessin: AI disruption makes Silicon Valley feel one move from irrelevance
“And I think that's actually what's going on in the Valley right now is like, things are moving so quickly. AI is so disruptive. There's all this stuff going on. You know, there's super empowered individuals coming out. It's just crazy. And so I think everyone …”