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Sam Lessin

San Francisco
As seen in: The Information, Globes, The Harvard Crimson
Intern @theinformation. GP @slow. Fmr VP Product FB. co-founder dropio & fin. Seed investor solana, venmo, openphone, teamshares, sublime. wless.in ¶.
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Sam Lessin: Pritzker’s Presidential Mulligan and How to Secure Harvard’s Future

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By Sam Lessin
| The Harvard Crimson Verified
After the shortest presidential search in at least 70 years, the Harvard Corporation, led by Senior Fellow Penny S. Pritzker, selected Claudine Gay to be Harvard’s next president. Somewhat poetically, this short search led to the shortest tenure of any Harvard president in the 400-year history of the University.
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Silicon Valley investor Sam Lessin: Ban TikTok

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By Sam Lessin, Assaf Gilead
| Globes Verified
Since the outbreak of the war in Gaza, Sam Lessin, the former Facebook VP product management and today a serial tech investor, has become an unofficial ambassador for Israel. From his point of view, the Silicon Valley based Jewish-American investor believes that Israel is on the right side of history and is defending itself against the threat of a massacre and represents western democracy in the battle against terrorist organizations.
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What To Do About Misinformation in the Upcoming Election Cycle?

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By Sam Lessin
| The Information Verified
We are 14 months out from our first ‘AI’ presidential election. Everyone knows that this is going to be a misinformation disaster. How bad will it be? This cycle is going to make 2016’s issues with “Russian bot farms” look downright quaint. Unlike the techno-fever-dream of the risk posed by Artificial General Intelligence, even today’s “crude” AI is a clear and present danger in its ability to destroy trust in the system and create chaos. The question is what to do about it.
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