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Jessica Lessin: SoftBank is suing the founder of IRL
“SoftBank is now suing the founder of IRL after the information reported its user numbers were suspect and the SEC investigated and so on.”
Jessica Lessin: Musk confirmed he is building natural gas turbine blades
“Elon confirmed, he like re-shared or confirmed a story we wrote that he's getting into building his own blades for like natural gas turbines.”
Jessica Lessin built a live, password-protected app in 20 minutes using AI
“And in, I don't know, I didn't check my phone again for 20 minutes. I have a full on app that is live password protected.”
Jessica Lessin: Half of The Information's subscribers are using GLP-1 drugs
“Well, all I know to the GLP one point and most recent survey of information subscribers is now a year plus old, had like, 50% of respondents on them.”
Lessin: The Information received four conflicting leaked drafts of AI policy
“In recent weeks, there have been like four different drafts of this thing that we've been leaked, and they're all different, and they're all from different factions.”
Upcoming op-ed proposes a new tax regime for AI displacement
“We probably, I don't think it will, it won't be published by the time this airs, but we have a very well-known figure in the tech industry who's writing an op-ed for us, laying out an entirely new tax regime, aiming to address this very issue, right? Aiming to…”
Jessica Lessin: 67 percent of surveyed subscribers wouldn't relocate over wealth tax
“So the information we surveyed our subscribers, which is always fun, because it's a specific crew, to say the least, but so, 67% would not move.”
Jessica Lessin: Time spent defending The Information from legal threats has quadrupled
“I probably used to spend two hours a month defending our journalism from legal threats, and I probably spend two hours a week defending our journalism from legal threats.”
Jessica Lessin: The Information reports Apple's thin iPhone is suffering weak sales
“Turns out this thing isn't selling as reported in information, delaying next versions, et cetera.”
Perplexity AI generated $34 million in revenue in 2024
“Thirty four million dollars in revenue, according to the information, last year.”
Morin: Top 9 VC firms spent $27.5B on AI rounds in past year
“Just in the last year of the top nine investors who led or co-led funding rounds, they spent 27 and a half billion dollars, average deal size of three hundred and seventy two million. In contrast, from like 22 to 24, the top nine firms spent 10.8 billion for a…”
Sam Lessin: Grok 3 Gives The Information a Glowing Review Despite Musk Post
“I just did it again on Model Three. What Model Three? The information is a respected technology business news outlet founded by Jessica Lawson. It's known for its in-depth investigative reporting about the tech industry, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's glow…”
Jessica Lessin: The Information reported TikTok plans to pull US service
“The information reported last night that TikTok will pull it for US users if that day comes.”
Lessin: OpenAI and Anthropic have hit roadblocks in training models
“We've also done a series of stories recently, the information that have shown Roadbox, OpenAI and Anthropoc have hit in training. Not that they can't get through them, they work and, you know, but there are things that aren't working that we're working, right?”
Jessica Lessin: Biden's Withdrawal Sparked Internal Meta Debate Over Threads
“The Threads No Politics policy hitting some internal debate, so we don't have to go deep into Threads, but we've talked at length about both how it kind of emerged as this breath of fresh air from the fierce debates on X, Especially around politics, and its wh…”
Jessica Lessin: The Information's reporting substantially moved Oracle's stock
“By the way, we moved Oracle stock substantially this week over at the information.”
Jessica Lessin: Brex laid off 20% of workforce, replaced key executives
“So the news this week was Brex, 20% layoff, replaced, I think CTO and COO, two members of the management team, all broken in the information.”
Lessin: Apple once rejected The Information's app over font color choices
“There's something about getting that email from Apple saying your price can't be in the color red. It has to be in the color blue. That just makes you realize how beholden you, like they were commenting on the colors of the fonts in our app, right?”
The Information Reports Boston VC Firm OpenView Is Shutting Down
“Information reported this week that OpenView, a Boston-based firm, is essentially shutting its doors for a variety of issues.”
Jessica Lessin: Coatue is raising a venture fund without management fees
“As we report in the information, COTU doesn't have management fees on this fund, right?”
The Information: Meta Resumes Plans to Develop a Smartwatch
“Information reported today that Meta's smartwatch plans are back on, so we can do a wonderful poll about who is going to buy a Meta smartwatch, considering I still don't have any smartwatches.”
Lessin: Average session time on The Information is about 19 minutes
“Our, yeah, our average session time on the information is about 19 minutes, which is long.”
Lessin: App penetration among The Information subscribers is under 50%
“So our app penetration as part of our subscriber base is still like under half, but it was one of those things that you can look at time spent before lunch and you can look at time spent after lunch and you can, I don't remember the numbers now, but you can sa…”
Jessica Lessin says The Information's business team rejected print edition idea
“I actually ran this by my business team that said hell no, so I'm going to need to improve my pitch.”
Lessin spends tens of millions annually operating The Information
“I spent tens of millions of dollars a year to give you better emails.”
Jessica Lessin: Zuckerberg livestream failed with control room audio in their ears
“We put it, yeah, I mean, we fixed with the viewers couldn't hear us, but our control room, we could hear the control room. So while I was interviewing Mark, the control room, which was melting down, was in both of our ears. So actually we both did that intervi…”
Lessin: A top-20 tech CEO is the first to open The Information's evening email
“Actually there's one CEO of a top 10, 20 market cap tech company who's basically the first person to open our evening briefing every night.”
Lessin: The Information transitioned its internal search function to GPT
“Yeah, the information search function already, we moved over to like using some GPT based stuff.”
Lessin: Meta shut down all of its expensive celebrity AI chatbots
“They also just shut down all their like super expensive celebrity bots. I think I read that in the information.”
Jessica Lessin used Sun Valley tennis courts to bypass media pens
“Turned out, tennis courts, anyone could book. So Amir Afradi and I, of the information side, we were going to play as much tennis as we possibly could book. And we would run into all these interesting people and say hello and catch up.”
Lessin: Apple used the Vision Pro T-Rex demo to pitch Bob Iger
“I didn't watch it yet, but I knew about that because we reported in the information that that was the moment when they demoed it to Bob Iger.”
Jessica Lessin: Google is the top-performing paid ad channel for The Information
“They perform really well for us, by the way, the best part of our small paid advertising budget is Google by a long shot.”
Jessica Lessin: The Information leaked Vision Pro renders two years early
“Two years ago, we published the render of, and it looks the same, so that tells you how long it takes to make artwork.”
Jessica Lessin Introduced Yelp's Luther Lowe to FTC Commissioner at Cocktail Party
“And actually my best example of this was the information was having a cocktail party in DC. And I Introduced Luther Lowe, who at the time was working for Yelp and has been sort of the biggest antagonist trying to get Google sued and broken up on antitrust grou…”