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5 top investors in Dutch startups discuss trends, hopes and 2020 opportunities

TechCrunch

Booking.com started in 1996 and was later acquired by Priceline Group (now called Booking Holdings) in 2005. Elastic, the provider of subscription-based data search software used by Dell, Netflix, The New York Times and others, was another gangbuster IPO in 2018. Digital health, education, B2B SaaS.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

In contrast to America, he points out how Sweden is among the most successful societies in the world from a social mobility perspective — referencing its free education and free health care, which sets up as many people as possible for success. “We didn’t have a lot of money,” he tells me. Pitch perfect, you might think.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

In contrast to America, he points out how Sweden is among the most successful societies in the world from a social mobility perspective — referencing its free education and free health care, which sets up as many people as possible for success. “We didn’t have a lot of money,” he tells me. Pitch perfect, you might think.

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Transcript of Redpoint Office Hours with Stripe’s Chief Corporate Advisor and former COO, Claire Hughes Johnson and Redpoint Managing Director, Tomasz Tunguz

Tomasz Tunguz

I imagine everyone at this point has used a Zoom Webinar, so we don’t need a full demo, but just so you know, please use the chat to connect with your fellow attendees. I joined Google in 2005, a little after Claire. So I definitely used it with the self-driving cars team, and got feedback like, was this accurate?

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Ryan Holmes: Tapping Social Media to Predict the Next Big Thing

WSJ - The Accelerators

RYAN HOLMES: Last year, I read an article that listed the health problems that stem from sitting too much — from obesity to cancer — and advocated standing desks as a fix. The smart kids have been using Google for years to suss out product demand. It was time to see if I could crank up traffic by using social media.