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My next journey: fund and empower 10,000 entrepreneurs per year

Hippoland

The truth is, we have 50+ folks on staff at 500 from all over the world (except Antarctica) with expertise in different verticals. We pull from knowledge of our diverse staff, which includes a team of in-house marketers, as well as our 1000 portfolio companies and hundreds of mentors. And, we don’t just invest.

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Go Anywhere, Get Anything

Reid Hoffman

A second learning for me with Expedia: Expedia was a holding company of a bunch of different operations – Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Travelscape – and Expedia.com was our biggest problem asset. Like Cornershop the grocery side: we thought grocery is a great vertical for us to go after, and it’s there in Latin America.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Many large companies will be built (Michael Wolfe, Point Nine Capital). Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta.