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We look at huge markets where there are large incumbents that might not be incented to innovate or react to what they perceive as an insurgent. It allows him the opportunity to do what he does best, finding and motivating entrepreneurs then thinking through market strategy. I run Revolution’s VC investments.
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More recently, this trend has shifted a bit within the Bay Area, which today’s giants like Uber, Airbnb, and Stripe being built in San Francisco proper while incumbents down south have begun scooping up premium commercial real estate in the city. I have been reading Fred’s blog AVC for about a decade now. A blog entry for another day.
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And I helped him set up his blog, and I remember he wrote his first blog article. ” That was the early days of HubSpot, not only helping people set their blog up, but actually posting it and editing it. Use our template, put your blog out and put your site, you’re going to be happy. We lost that battle.
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