The Ledger

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Insight
Lessin: Late-stage VCs only accept steep discounts if spinouts retain AI upside
“The reason this never happens is because big fancy investors, not us lowly seed investors, but big fancy ones, have no interest in the write down, right? It's a massive write down, right, for them. And they'd rather just stick it on their books and pretend lik…”
Sam Lessin Aug 7, 2026 ▶ 23:49 Jeff Dean Leaves Google, Airtable Sells, and the Bag-Securing Era · More or Less Podcast
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lessin: Bending Spoons will milk enterprise contracts and cut support to zero
“These things have big enterprise contracts. They're going to like milk those. They're going to Like, hack the CS, the customer support teams to zero because they can consolidate it.”
Sam Lessin Aug 7, 2026 ▶ 27:34 Jeff Dean Leaves Google, Airtable Sells, and the Bag-Securing Era · More or Less Podcast
Opinion
Lessin: Bending Spoons is well positioned to buy struggling SaaS cheaply
“I think Bending Spoons is, like, so well positioned with a public currency to pick all this shit up for cents on the dollar.”
Sam Lessin Aug 7, 2026 ▶ 25:27 Jeff Dean Leaves Google, Airtable Sells, and the Bag-Securing Era · More or Less Podcast
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