Lessin: Consumer internet growth requires helping users get laid or get paid
Sam Lessin · #71: Big Tech Earnings and the AI Revolution · More or Less Podcast · Nov 1, 2024 · at 35:11
Sam Lessin argues that enduring consumer tech products succeed by fulfilling basic human motivations rather than complex user experiences.
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“I just think humans are pretty simple. Like we want to get laid and get paid. The internet is pretty simple. You can like watch video on it. You can read shit on it. Like you can talk to people on it. Like, they're just like, it's just not that complicated. Right. And so I just think we get all in the weeds of like all these things you can do and new experiences. And like, it's just get late or get paid, and the apps that are the closest to that consistently just will just grow and grow and grow and grow and grow, you know?”
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