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People-First Capitalism

Reid Hoffman

Greylock Partners · Brian Chesky | People-First Capitalism. So we have to think of ourselves as partners. The burden [should] just be that we care; that if we learn something, we improve it, and that we don’t only use single output metrics and its growth at all costs. And most companies have a partner, group and then society.

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On the Road to Recap:

abovethecrowd.com

All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. Their own ego is also a factor – will a down round signal weakness? A down round is nothing.

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People-First Capitalism

Reid Hoffman

Greylock Partners · Brian Chesky | People-First Capitalism. So we have to think of ourselves as partners. The burden [should] just be that we care; that if we learn something, we improve it, and that we don’t only use single output metrics and its growth at all costs. And most companies have a partner, group and then society.

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How NZ entrepreneurs can up their capital raising game

NZ Entrepreneur

The situation I see time and again is an over-valuation on a markedly smaller-than-anticipated business, revenue numbers not achieved, and then needing to do another raise on a lower valuation (a ‘down-round’). Who does this investor know in the customer, partner and executive space they can introduce you to? The Rolodex.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

And then medium-size businesses start to use it, and then large businesses start to use it, and then eventually the government starts to use it. Alexia Tsotsis: It’s grassroots versus trickle-down. Marc Andreessen: Versus trickle-down. Alexia Tsotsis: Are you seeing down rounds because the NASDAQ is down?