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Exclusive: OnlyFans Investor James Sagan Sits Down with The Information’s CEO Jessica Lessin

2026-08-12 · 9 company · 6 thematic

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Founder of Architect Capital, a San Francisco-based investment firm focused on complex, mission-driven private market opportunities. Previously invested in Juul (harm reduction) and recently acquired ~16% of OnlyFans at a $3B valuation with plans to increase to a majority stake. Describes himself as a value investor at core who structures LP bases to avoid principal-agent problems.

james sagan

Founder of San Francisco-based multi-strategy firm Architect Capital; previously invested in Juul; focuses on complex, misunderstood harm-reduction businesses with incentive-aligned LP base.

matt murphy

Matt Murphy is a partner at Menlo Ventures who led the firm's seed investment in Anthropic and focuses on AI infrastructure, applications, and frontier model companies.

jackson ader

Covers ~100 software companies; analyzes Q2 earnings, M&A landscape (sharks and minnows), and Salesforce's Agentforce trajectory.

phoebe lou

Phoebe Lou is a reporter at The Information covering Nvidia and the semiconductor industry. She broke the story about Nvidia testing reduced-memory versions of its Rubin Ultra GPU due to HBM supply constraints.

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“Um you call it a harm reduction platform. >> Yep. I think it's that would be you know it's much more than a harm reduction platform but today it could be you know I think that's one of the best ways to look at it. um you know adult content…”

—james sean

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