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Why Was Winter in Venture Capital Funding so Short?

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Perhaps this is why the Kuwait Investment Authority put $165 million into Jawbone and Saudi’s PIF put $3.5 https://medium.com/media/a9623767f56815010e95fe3083dcb161/href Huge note of appreciation to Chang Xu of Upfront Ventures who tirelessly helped me track down data, verify hypothesis, shape narrative and debate conclusions.

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Snapchat 101 for VCs and Old Folks

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The fourth part is “ discover ” and this is the professional media part of Snapchat that you barely knew existed but your younger peers certainly know about. It takes a while to figure out the nav of Discover but once you do it’s a fun way to consume media. It really was the best place on the Internet to get a sense.

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Confessions of a Privileged White Male and Former Conservative

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What I didn't know at the time was how much the media reinforced that. Kicking Saddam's ass out of Kuwait made us feel good and patriotic. I was socialized to think of crime as the kind of thing where whites were the victim and people of color were the perpetrators. I didn't know either that most people get killed by their own race.

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