Lenny Rachitsky: belief

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…So here's the thing, I think people ... It's kind of a weird podcast in some ways because honestly, I don't think any of us are highly filtered and it's kind of just like talking to your friends for an hour a week, which I want to do. I love the Morins. We don't live that close to them. So it's kind of fun to just have that time set aside and then cut it up and post on the internet pretty raw. Here's the funny thing about it. It serves our purposes way more than I actually expected it to, which is we enjoy doing it, which is the most important part. We would do it if no one was listening. And weirdly, a lot of our friends and people we care about in the industry seem to pick up the pieces they like from it and talk to us about it. And so it's like a great conversation starter. So it's like weird. It's not a huge podcast. It's big enough, but I actually think the thing that's been most surprising to me about it is that even though we don't really have growth strategies and we're not trying to blow it up and we don't get paid for it, it's like weirdly useful is what I would say. Even the fact that it's like ... I don't know. I'm not sure if that's your experience too, and I think your podcast is probably much larger than ours, but it's weirdly listened to and useful by the people that we care about and it's fun despite the fact that it's not like a ... I don't know, it's not all in or something yet. I don't think it ever will be. It's like way too niche, but we have fun. I would happily do it with my friends if no one was listening and then it's like, that's kind of wild that a bunch of people that we actually do care about find the pieces that are interesting. And it actually is helpful from a business perspective because you bullshit about something and then some entrepreneur shows up and is like, "Hey, by the way, here's a better idea." You're like, "That's great." Sam, you were awesome. This was such a fun chat. Very different from my regular podcast. I think people will find this extremely interesting and useful, as I thought, and also fun. Two followup questions, where can folks find you online if they want to reach out, check out your find, what should people know? Look, our venture firm is called Slow Ventures, slow.co. I'm Sam Lessin. I'm kind of Lessin everywhere, whether it's like Twitter or Instagram or whatever you used or just lessin@gmail is my last name, is my email address and I do read it. So I don't know. I appreciate you having me on. It's always fun to see you. It's been too long and I don't know. Come hang out in the pool house sometime.…

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