Okay, we've got an amazing episode for you today on this week and start up.

Sam Lesson of Slow Ventures is on the pod.

He worked at Facebook and he's an investor in great companies.

You know, like Roman and air table.

He recently turned $500,000 into almost two billion dollars

by directly investing in Solana seed round.

The cryptocurrency that is taking the world by storm.

And he did that seed round back in 2017.

It's going to make one of those slow ventures funds.

One of the best performing venture funds of the last decade, of course.

But he's making a new style venture bet that I saw covered in the press

in the fake news and people were dunking on him a little bit.

But I thought it was one of the most creative and interesting concepts

I've seen in a long time.

Sam recently gave, I kid you not, $1.7 million to a YouTube creator,

Marina McGilco.

And he did that in exchange for 5% of her future earnings for 30 years.

Now, of course, people said, oh my god,

is this indentured servitude, which is a bit insulting and crazy.

No, this is an investment in a new style of business,

obviously a YouTube creator.

And what's brilliant about it is it takes into account

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