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    Aug 14
    "Cursor and SpaceXAI are a deep cultural fit with one another. They both work with a pace and intensity that borders on the absurd. And they’re both defined by iteration." "It doesn’t matter if you get it wrong the first time, or the second, or the third—even the tenth or the
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    Sarah Wang
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    Aug 14
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    Cursor + SpaceXAI: the fastest iterating team wins
    By @BornsteinMatt, @martin_casado, and myself. AI coding could be the biggest addressable market of our lives. And, unless you think we’ve fully addressed it (which no one thinks; we are more like 1%...
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    18h
    a16z GP Angela Strange on how Borderless Founders accelerate preferential attachment through talent and customer power laws: "I would argue Borderless Founders have more levers at their disposal." "So if you start with talent, this is the fiercest talent market I've seen in my
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    Gabriel Vasquez
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    Rise of the Borderless Founder
    Silicon Valley has always run on the magic of paying it forward. Everyone here has been helped by someone, at a critical moment - for no reason other than just to be helpful. There’s a special version...
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    19h
    Over 40% of the a16z Apps team's investments over the last two years went to international founders. Half are headquartered outside the US. Angela Strange and Gabriel Vasquez own the bet behind that number, a bet that the best founders can come from anywhere. In Poland,
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    Gabriel Vasquez
    @GEVS94
    22h
    Article cover image
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    Rise of the Borderless Founder
    Silicon Valley has always run on the magic of paying it forward. Everyone here has been helped by someone, at a critical moment - for no reason other than just to be helpful. There’s a special version...
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    a16z
    @a16z
    Aug 20
    Alex Atallah, OpenRouter co-founder and CEO, featured on the front page of The Stanford Daily in 2011 after releasing his campus social network "Dormlink"
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    Aug 19
    While competitors chased a trillion-dollar live shopping market, @Whatnot noticed its own customers turning livestreams into storefronts. Co-founder and CEO Grant LaFontaine on what users really care about: "They care about whether they're gonna enjoy the thing, whether it
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    Aug 19
    In third grade, Grant LaFontaine sold a Pokemon card online. The buyer mailed a money order; Grant cashed it at the post office and then shipped the card to the customer. Today he's co-founder and CEO of @Whatnot, where the largest businesses do over $100 million a year at up to

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