Version One Ventures

JULY 20, 2017

Intrigued, Boris reached out to Mike Murchison and learned that he and his co-founder David Hariri were building a social network to help others solves problems online. . Needless to say, Boris and I were super excited when Mike and David received a term sheet from Bessemer. We led the Volley pre-Seed round.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

This also appears as a guest post at Fortune’s Term Sheet. Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). May 26, 2011.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 15, 2020

You’ve convinced an entire community to jump off the cliff with you. But even more terrifying is the fact that you’ve convinced an entire community of people you care about to throw themselves off the cliff with you. It affected the rest of my life, and my situation became even lonelier when I broke up with my girlfriend at the time.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Friendster’s valuation set the tone for the entire social networking space. Then, spend the rest of the pitch backing up those claims and increasing investors’ confidence in your investment thesis. Since David and the partnership at Greylock knew I had an offer, they gave me a term sheet the day after I pitched them.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2009

Reply steveblank , on April 16, 2009 at 10:36 am Said: Jerry, As Domino’s and Amazon found out this week, social networks can quickly disseminate information faster than most traditional marketing organizations can react. It may happen, but its not there yet. (As Why do you think you were able to avoid this?

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 10, 2021

More women and the BIPOC community will use social networks if they’re not being harassed on them. Don’t let someone who could give you a term sheet scare you into thinking that de-platforming violence and hate is censorship. More advertisers will feel comfortable spending money on it.

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