TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

China’s e-commerce and industrial ecosystem is as different from the Western world as its culture. Creative use of the country’s networked manufacturing and logistics hubs make mass production both cheap and easy. And it’s definitely not just for making crop tops.

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Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

It felt like my whole life was consumed by this industry, when really, there’s more dimensions to me as a person, and also, what I wanted to do creatively. There was kind of a culture of glorifying that a little bit, where everybody’s wearing company swag, and then it becomes a thing that everybody wants.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Any area that needs to compete both with incumbents and also a set of already successful “new age” companies that made the first step of meaningful disruption. Definitely see changes in evolution of young startups given the behavioral changes caused by COVID. Interestingly, valuation trends seem to trail the U.S.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

Adam: If you’re a large model creator and you have tens of employees that you can allocate to building a consumer product, and you have the culture to do that, then you can go direct to consumer, and you can build a good product. I think when you go six months behind the frontier, or definitely one year, it’s brutal.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

Subbing in for Walter today as he’s enjoying a well-deserved break and definitely not still checking the site.). There is no cybersecurity skills gap, but CISOs must think creatively. There is no cybersecurity skills gap, but CISOs must think creatively. Eric Eldon. Managing Editor, Extra Crunch. are all testament to this.

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