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Daniel Petkevich · Apr 23, 2026

Man's Search for Meaning with Sam Lessin

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I have a car show now! It’s called “Cars and Capitalists”. First episode is with Sam Lessin, who led my seed round at Fair Square.

Sam Lessin is a General Partner at Slow Ventures, where he wrote one of the first checks into Solana at four cents a coin. Before that he sold a company to Facebook and was VP of Product there during it’s fastest growing years. Sam wrote the seed check into Fair Square Medicare and I’m a big fan.

The car is a 997.2 Carrera. 2009. White on Sand Beige.

In this episode we cover:

  • Miata vs Porsche (00:00)

  • Frankl and Man’s Search for Meaning (1:32)

  • Thank you to USA, Capitalism and parents (11:07)

  • Will AI destroy personal meaning (12:15)

  • The probability that UFO’s exist (19:45)

  • Star Trek a case study for finding meaning in a world of AI (22:55)

  • The Catholic Church as the OG rocketship (27:00)

  • The virtue of ugliness in a world where everyone takes hot pills (30:00)

  • A little wisdom on parenting (31:45)

  • Pros and Cons of putting a robotically carved marble statue of your wife in your entryway (34:45)

  • Buying Solana at four cents a coin (36:42)

  • Being the only philosopher in a world of Stanford Grads (42:00)

  • Market timing science fiction (45:45)

Read the original on danpetkevich.substack.com

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