An inside look at technology, business, and culture with @davemorin @brit @lessin and @jessicalessin every Friday.
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Meta is paying $17B over child safety, parents are officially outgunned by the algorithm, and Tim Cook's real legacy might be a chip.
Full quad tomorrow, 8am ET / 5am PT with @lessin poolside and @Jessicalessin in her agentic era.
Catch it wherever you get your podcasts.🎙️
Topics:
-Meta's $17B child safety settlement
-Should social media be illegal for kids? @brit posits.
-Should every platform play by the same rules?
-Is YouTube worse than Instagram? @davemorin says yes.
-Are parents completely outgunned?
-Is the settlement mostly policy theater?
-Could AI finally make parental controls useful?
-Tim Cook's Apple farewell
-Was the Tim Cook era just… boring?
-Apple Silicon might have been Cook's masterstroke
-Long or short Apple?
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Zuckerberg says AI is for everyone, his rivals are begging Washington to slow it down, and Lilian Weng went from a mental-health essay to OpenAI.
Recorded partially from @davemorin's parked Tesla during a rainstorm while @lessin dials in from the beach.
Full quad tomorrow at 8am ET / 5am PT. Catch it wherever you get your podcasts, even if it's in a car during the rain. 🌧️
Topics:
-Meta's ad campaign rejects the doomers
-Zuckerberg's optimism blitz actually lands
-1,000+ frontier researchers ask Washington to slow AI down
-Anthropic runs on spite for OpenAI
-China cracks DUV, ASML takes the hit
-The compute debate Gavin Baker started
-X is the tech town square now
-Lilian Weng quits Thinking Machines for OpenAI
-Sam's bot read 4GB of his dad's journals
-Silicon Valley's Oppenheimer complex
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Improved automatic continuous more or less chat. turns out we can do our podcast 100% automatically at this point with the right traning set. just need to up the snark and add some pop culture.
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Great article in the Washington Post today about etiquette school & evolving tech culture as it isn't cute little side show anymore... link below.
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Forget SEO. It’s all about AEO.
@tonyconrad breaks down the shift + why startups, VCs, and even personal brands need to own their own press.
🎧 More or Less: open.spotify.com/episode/0eD…
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This week we did 'Less and Toli' for our podcast... of course with the founder of solana we have to do a full crypto deep dive... the most interesting part? I think talking about whether the future is USD stable, or local stable dominance & implications for the power of the US.
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Airbnb is Dropbox. Booking is Box. One chased the cool, high-design future. The other just sold what people actually wanted. Being uncool but relentless still wins.
Watch @Jessicalessin, @davemorin, and @brit disagree with @lessin on this week's episdoe of @MoreorLessPod
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The only healthy polyamorous relationship? You and your AIs.
When one AI controls what you know—and its “personality” shapes how you experience it—that “bug” or feature update won’t be as easy to roll back as OpenAI’s last tweak. The consequences will stick.
More on today's @MoreorLessPod with @lessin, @davemorin, @Jessicalessin, and @brit.
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The content economy runs on two fuels: entertainment and information.
AI will devour the entertainment side—either hyper-personalized or painfully generic.
In a fragmented future, information reigns supreme, especially when it’s backed by a community built on trust.
Don't miss today's episode of @MoreorLessPod with @lessin, @Jessicalessin, @brit, and @davemorin
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The @MoreorLessPod theme song gets stuck in your head. Well done.
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$5k for having a baby? Try a 20% tax cut instead... After three boys, @Jessicalessin might even try for a fourth.
Something everyone can agree with @lessin on the latest @MoreorLessPod with @brit and @davemorin
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If I had a dollar for every founder claiming they’re “AI-first,” I’d have enough to accidentally raise a $2B seed round.
With Jess on spring break and Sam on dad duty, I hosted this week’s @MoreorLessPod alongside @davemorin—and brought in two of our favorite operators turned investors: @BenjLerer (Managing Partner, @LererHippeau) and Morgan @beller (General Partner, @NFX; co-creator of Libra).
We got into OpenAI’s rumored social network, Figma’s $12.5B IPO trial balloon, and whether OpenAI’s $50B burn should come with investor accountability.
Tune in to episode #95 of More or Less on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or YouTube.
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Early FB employees (our GP's included), you’ll relate: Everyone is jumping ship to AI just desperately trying to chase the next startup high. But let’s not forget, FB had a fundamentally good business… so what’s the real business with AI?
@lessin on @MoreorLessPod with @davemorin, @brit, and @Jessicalessin
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Elon is the king of cheap money—of course he’s going to loop X.AI into yet another easy ZIRP scheme.
@lessin on @tbpn with @johncoogan and @jordihays
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@Jessicalessin and I have done the unthinkable — we turned our husbands, @davemorin and @lessin, into AIs. Check out the latest @MoreorLessPod to hear it. Special thanks to @MattHartman tipping me on @huggingface for the help 🎧🤖 open.spotify.com/episode/1Rv…
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🟡Here is @semafor EIC @semaforben with @Jessicalessin, @brit and @nichcarlson on @MoreorLessPod.
Listen as they break down the Signal group chat scandal, Silicon Valley's embrace of DOGE's drive for efficiency, BYD overtaking Tesla and more.
youtube.com/watch?v=yJHf4fU_…
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For all the normies out there, raising a billion dollars is lunch money for Elon. Take your net worth, divide it by 400, and that’s the equivalent of what he raised for X.
@MoreorLessPod with @lessin, @brit, @davemorin, and @Jessicalessin
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If you want to know what went wrong with the Solana ad: hiring actors to say ‘fuck being woke’ completely canceled out the audience insight of being authentic.
@lessin on @MoreorLessPod with @davemorin, @brit, @Jessicalessin
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@Apple couldn’t perfect their own AI in time. Does that leave room in the budget for acquiring overpriced AI system instead to keep up with their roadmap?
On today's episode of @MoreorLessPod with @lessin, @brit, @davemorin, and @Jessicalessin
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Fun Lessin fact of the day: @lessin’s dad built iParty.com, which eventually became Party City. Moral of the story? Don’t be in the Christmas tree business.
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