Sam Lessin, Facebook's VP of product, will leave the company on August 29, he announced on his Facebook page Thursday evening. Lessin joined Facebook in 2010 when Facebook acquired his startup Drop.io ...

Today we’re checking in with early Solana investor Sam Lessin for lessons learned on backing the runaway-priced blockchain project; looking at a crypto-minded VC firm in Chicago with a new $350 ...

Alex Kantrowitz, founder of Big Technology, and Sam Lessin, co-founder of Slow Ventures, discuss a report that Sam Altman is ...

The Techonomy 2012 conference outside of Tucson, Ariz. wrapped up with a session featuring two Facebook team members: Sam Lessin, Project Manager, and David Fischer, VP of Business and Marketing ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg jumped into the fight over Harvard University’s future on Friday, the latest prominent business leader to do so at a moment of turmoil for the elite university. Zuckerberg ...

On Friday, Lessin, the founder of Brooklyn-based Drop.io, announced that he would be moving to Palo Alto to join his Harvard buddy Mark Zuckerberg, and that Drop.io’s service — which let users “drop” ...

Facebook VP of product management Sam Lessin just announced he’s leaving the social network. The announcement came as a post on Lessin’s personal Facebook page saying, “Esteemed colleagues, it is with ...

Facebook has bought the assets of New York-based Drop.io, which ran a cloud-based data storage service. Drop.io's founder, Sam Lessin, a member of this year's Silicon Alley 100, is headed to Facebook.

Because Facebook Timeline is rolling out to the public in the coming weeks, Facebook brought in press last week to do a “deep dive” on this new visual way of organizing our online social lives.

In a blog, Drop.io confirmed that they have “struck a deal with Facebook” and this gives Facebook much of the technology and assets of the website. Consequently, Sam Lessin will reunite with Facebook ...