Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Many assume it was a cakewalk, based on the success LinkedIn has enjoyed over time and the current stature of our founder/CEO Reid Hoffman (now Chairman). Facebook doesn’t exist, even as a walled-garden college social network (Mark Zuckerberg was part way through his freshman year at Harvard). Thanks Lee.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

Co-founder and CEO Nicolas Brusson spoke to me about BlaBlaCar’s early ambitions to be a European rather than local country winner and its progression to global player. But the Valley in 1999 was a new world of startups, venture capital, and stock options. How did you go from VC to founder? We were very proactive though.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

In the summer of 1999, I started working on a startup from my college dorm. Id been on the internet since I was playing MUDs as a kid, but by 1999 I felt Id already missed the boat. Could we have built the first college-based social network five years before Facebook ? I pretty much missed all the trends.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 94

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Then from a bottoms-up standpoint what you said is exactly right, I think, which is that the new generation of employees grew up on smartphones and tablets and touch and everything, social networking and Twitter and everything else. Previously, Andreessen developed Mosaic and co-founded Netscape. Netscape Navigator…

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