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Announcing the startups and judges onstage at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

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The Singularity Platform is essentially a combo of three tools that Koop built: Koop API, Portal By Koop, and Insurability Sufficiency Framework (ISF). “Gabriel is the Director of Innovation, focused on mobility and energy, for Elemental Excelerator, a climatetech accelerator founded in 2009 in Hawaii. He holds a B.A.

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Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley steps back from the company

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He’ll remain on the Board of Directors as co-chair with Factual founder Gil Elbaz. In 2009, Foursquare was better known for its location-based social network. He’s also been running the Foursquare Labs R&D group since then. Going forward, Crowley won’t be working full-time at the company. Foursquare merges with Factual.

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How to Miss By a Mile: An Alternative Look at Uber’s Potential Market Size

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As the Series A investor and board member at Uber, I was quite intrigued when I heard that there was a FiveThirtyEight article specifically focused on the company. Deep research and quantitative frameworks are sorely lacking in today’s short attention span news approach. I could hardly wait to dive in and see the approach.

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The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care

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Eventually, however, we gained our footing and developed a mental model for the industry and a framework for where opportunities do exist. I think it started with eBay, but then we got into more vertical specific ones, like Zillow, Grubhub, OpenTable and Uber that I’m on the board of. healthcare system is confusing and complex.

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