Sam Lessin is leaving his role as VP of product management at Facebook, signing off with "[smiley face] feeling gratitude." Lessin came to Facebook through the Drop.io acqui-hire and plans to kite-surf, trouble-make, and help out his wife Jessin Lessin, founder of the tech news site The Information.

If you're considering a $400 subscription to The Information, the new tech reporting venture from star Wall Street Journal alum Jessica Lessin, you're buying more than news. As her Pacific Heights mansion launch party made clear, Lessin is still (uncomfortably) close with her Facebook husband's executive friends.

As we previously reported, WSJ alum Jessica Lessin's new site—"The Information"—is live, and it's behind a big ol' paywall. A $400 per year paywall. "We need to write articles that deliver value worth paying for," she says. Will you?

Ever since Jessica Lessin, the standout Wall Street Journal tech tech reporter, left the mothership to launch her own site, we've wondered how she'll pay for it. Now, we think we have an answer: you'll pay for it, at least in part. But is anyone going to shell out money for more tech articles?

Jessica Lessin, a San Francisco-based senior technology reporter at the Wall Street Journal of several years, is quitting (somewhat abruptly) to launch her own tech website. We'll always have Cyprus.