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Modest Conversations: Income Share Agreements

Modest Conversations: Income Share Agreements
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Sam Lessin
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In late December Erik Torenberg and I sat down to talk about the future of human capital and the long history of Income Share Agreements. I am glad we delayed releasing this episode, because the last few months have only made the topic of ISAs more relevant.  

Lambda School’s much-discussed January series B financing, and several other startups have brought the topic more and more directly into the light. You can be sure there will be many more companies working through ISAs in the coming years.

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Erik Torenberg and Sam Lessin Discuss Income Share Agreements

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Sam is currently a General Partner at Slow Ventures and an intern at The Information. He is also the co-founder of Fin Analytics. He was formerly a vice president of product management at Facebook from 2010 to 2014. Prior to joining Facebook Sam founded drop.io, a file-sharing platform that was acquired by Facebook in 2010. Before drop.io Sam was an associate at Bain and Company. In his spare time Sam enjoys skiing and kite-surfing. He is married to Jessica Lessin, founder of The Information.

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