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I’m Excited to Welcome Aaron Batalion to Lightspeed!

Lightspeed Venture Partners

He said yes, so I found myself in Los Angeles during the first internet boom. It was 1996, so within 6 months anyone working in the internet was a relative expert, and I’ve been working in consumer tech ever since. So we didn’t invest but kept in touch and I tried to be helpful.

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I’m Exited to Welcome Aaron Batalion to Lightspeed!

Lightspeed Venture Partners

He said yes, so I found myself in Los Angeles during the first internet boom. It was 1996, so within 6 months anyone working in the internet was a relative expert, and I’ve been working in consumer tech ever since. So we didn’t invest but kept in touch and I tried to be helpful.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

Both Sides of the Table

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. Back then there were “email forwards.”

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