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Lessin: Slow Ventures launches $65M vehicle investing in seed creators

“We just announced this sixty five million dollar vehicle, which is pretty groundbreaking, right? What we invest in is not C corps. We invest in seed creators.”

Sam Lessin Mar 12, 2025 ▶ 22:40 Sam Lessin on Meta, Artificial Intelligence, and Investing in Creators.

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Lessin is building a new company called Merit First with Joe Lonsdale

“I'm working on a new company with Joe Lonsdale and their team, which is called Merit First.”

Sam Lessin Mar 12, 2025 ▶ 4:37 Sam Lessin on Meta, Artificial Intelligence, and Investing in Creators.

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Lessin: Slow Ventures invested $400k for 10% in Teamshares at inception

“One is team shares. We see that from zero. I bought four, I bought tempers on the company originally for 400,000 dollars, right? We've kind of bought up from there. They've acquired well over a hundred small businesses.”

Sam Lessin Mar 12, 2025 ▶ 20:26 Sam Lessin on Meta, Artificial Intelligence, and Investing in Creators.

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