Sam Lessin is a venture investor and co-founder who serves as a founding partner at Slow Ventures and previously served as vice president of product at Facebook. Sam Lessin's Twitter Score is 403 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #563 (top 0.5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Sam Lessin co-founded Drop.io, a file-sharing service that raised a Series A led by RRE Ventures and a follow-on round led by DFJ Gotham and RRE Ventures before being acquired by Facebook in October 2010, after which Drop.io was shut down. He also co-founded Fin, and went on to spend several years as vice president of product at Facebook before moving into venture investing.
Sam Lessin is a founding partner at Slow Ventures and also holds an intern role at The Information. As a seed investor, he has backed projects including Solana, Venmo, OpenPhone, Teamshares, and Sublime. Sam Lessin's account has published 14,799 posts and has 122,711 followers as of August 2026. Sam Lessin has been mentioned by 389 accounts a total of 1,323 times.
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