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Sam Lessin: Platforms will lock down app stores to extract value from AI
“I do think there's gonna be all sorts of weird business development games that start getting played with locked down app stores, locked down code bases, who has access to what. All of a sudden, Garmin is going to be like, Hey, guess what? We had a whole busine…”
Sam Lessin Jan 16, 2026 ▶ 33:03 SaaS Companies Beware: AI Is The New UI (Anthropic's Claude Code and Cowork) · More or Less Podcast
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Sam Lessin: Cursor's store split from VS Code creates app store lock-in issues
“Cursor split the store from VS code because they want to, like, create their own ecosystem that's independent, etc. And the way it all plays out Is VS code is like, no, like the package you need to install to do Garmin watch faces. We're going to control that.…”
Sam Lessin Jan 16, 2026 ▶ 32:10 SaaS Companies Beware: AI Is The New UI (Anthropic's Claude Code and Cowork) · More or Less Podcast
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Sam Lessin: Biological age testing methods show a 10-year variance
“My biological age is like a variance of 10 years based on whether you Dexa or Garmin or whatever the hell, like they're all different. It's all bullshit.”
Sam Lessin Jul 17, 2026 ▶ 48:05 Open Source AI Wins. Now Labs Are Running to Washington |Thinking Machines, Johnny Ive, Realtime API · More or Less Podcast
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