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Dave Morin, Jessica Lessin, Brit Morin, and Sam Lessin have debated the future of Silicon Valley and tech as the closest of friends for the last 15 years. Now six companies, two venture funds and more than a decade at Google, Apple and Facebook later, they are opening up the debate. From The Information, Offline Ventures, and Slow Ventures. Follow the crew: http://x.com/davemorin http://x.com/brit http://x.com/lessin http:/x.com/jessicalessin Follow the pod: https://moreorlesspod.com/ http://youtube.com/moreorlesspod https://x.com/moreorlesspod

Website ↗ Last published 30 October 2026 175 posts collected by Sputnik

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“The book, The Facebook Effect, was a promise that connecting on Facebook would allow you to move mountains socially. But then it turned out the money was clicks. And so Facebook never measured on the server how much friendship you were building.” — Bing Gordon, More or Less
Bing Gordon · 30 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Friction is what makes pearls. If you don't get a sand in the oyster, you just get an oyster. Now, sand in the oyster doesn't always make a pearl, but it is necessary to pearl building.” — Bing Gordon, More or Less
Bing Gordon · 30 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Unlike a human assistant, which is what you're all trying to proxy, everyone is a hairline trigger. If you screw me once, it's so easy to fire a digital assistant… If your human assistant screws up, which they do all the time, you don't instantly fire them… But if you turn into a service and say, we have a service for doing this stuff, the tolerance for mistakes goes to zero.” — Sam Lessin, More or Less
Sam Lessin · 16 Oct 2026 Listen →
“The problem with even OpenAI and Anthropic is if you sue them, it's not clear you'll ever get any money out from them… Whereas Meta is a highly legible, profitable, suable company with everything to lose and therefore can be trusted a lot more. Same with Google.” — Sam Lessin, More or Less
Sam Lessin · 16 Oct 2026 Listen →
“It's very, very hard to build important businesses for the long term when if it went away tomorrow, there's a perfect replacement and always will be… I'm not switching off of Claude. I think Claude's completely fine and does what I need, but it's a one-line change if I want to… I just think Silicon Valley is very bad at business. I think Silicon Valley is very good at technology.” — Sam Lessin, More or Less
Sam Lessin · 9 Oct 2026 Listen →
“It's basically businesses understanding correctly that if you get intermediated and become yet another way to clear a transaction at the back end, the market becomes too efficient. You'll have no relationship with the customers and your business is worthless.” — Sam Lessin, More or Less
Sam Lessin · 9 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I can tell you that after having been in like real rural America for the last like six weeks, no one gives a fuck about AI. No one uses AI. People don't care. They dislike it.” — Brit Morin, More or Less
Brit Morin · 21 Aug 2026 Listen →

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