This is going to be BIG.
OCTOBER 12, 2020
2020: “Hold my beer.” Turns out 2020 was a new year and a new budget—and that budget had been severely cut back on venture because of the pandemic. I was there for the first Etsy VC pitch meeting in a Fort Greene apartment. You cannot die today. Give me six months. Give me two months. Whatever, just not today.”
Transformify
SEPTEMBER 12, 2017
Nairobi, the capital of Nigeria, is often pointed out as the birth place of the so-called Silicon Savanah which gave the rise to the Africa’s tech scene between 2007 and 2010. To diversify its economy and provide more jobs for the youth, in 2014 the country adopted the 2016-2020 Country Strategy Paper. With a population of 11.4
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Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. So along come companies like Slide, RockYou & Zynga who wanted to build apps across all the social networks but were green-lighted the hardest by Mark Zuckerberg. Enter Facebook.
Reid Hoffman
JUNE 8, 2021
Obviously, the challenges of 2020 were next level. And it was 2007. And I think one of the things that we’ve learned is, when I came to Silicon Valley in 2007, we were starting Airbnb in 2008, it was a marketplace. How did the foundation of being a design-led company help you respond to the crises of 2020?
Reid Hoffman
JUNE 8, 2021
Obviously, the challenges of 2020 were next level. And it was 2007. And I think one of the things that we’ve learned is, when I came to Silicon Valley in 2007, we were starting Airbnb in 2008, it was a marketplace. How did the foundation of being a design-led company help you respond to the crises of 2020?
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