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
Insight
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, …”
Sam Lessin Dec 15, 2023 ▶ 35:57 #27: Make Number Go Up, and The Problem with Nonprofits · More or Less Podcast
Aug 1, 2025 negative
Opinion
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 …”
Sam Lessin Aug 1, 2025 ▶ 18:33 #110 Meta's Billion-Dollar Hires: Bubble or Genius? · More or Less Podcast
Aug 8, 2025 bearish
Insight
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 …”
Sam Lessin Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 22:53 #111 Figma, OpenAI, Canva: Meme Stock IPOs in Silicon Valley · More or Less Podcast
Jun 5, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Lessin: SpaceX's $1.75T IPO Valuation Makes No Financial Sense
“It is financially, if you look at it like with a Wall Street hat on, nonsense. Right? At a 1.75 trillion dollar valuation.”
Sam Lessin Jun 5, 2026 ▶ 6:15 Silicon Valley IPO Summer 2026: SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI Explained
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