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Making the Internet Smarter at Helping Us

Both Sides of the Table

We need them for every vertical. In fact, this data set is probably totally different by vertical. I kept asking the guys who are like me but way more hip musically (like Ian Rogers ) than I what to listen to. I need a better system of music discovery. But music IS probably the leading category at providing these types of services.

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Go Anywhere, Get Anything

Reid Hoffman

I was born in Iran and I grew up there. Then in 1978, the Iranian Revolution happened, and you know, it was a religious revolution, and the folks who were associated with the Shah or the wealthy families et cetera were not safe and not welcome in Iran. I’ll start with my dad: he went back to Iran to be at his father’s deathbed.

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