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JUNE 18, 2010

To see the video of This Week in VC click on this link. We spent the first 45 minutes or so talking about industry trends (in this order): The history and background of True Ventures, one of my favorite early-stage VC’s (and the one with whom Om is a venture partner). We talked about Facebook. But it’s a real phenomenon.

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APRIL 15, 2010

He’s behind IdeaLab and has created many interesting companies including innovating in solar energy ( eSolar ) and electric cars ( Aptera ). That said I worry that V1 of the strategy isn’t a home run. I know you could argue that YouTube was much broader but it was really popularized in the social networks.

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AUGUST 11, 2009

My goal is to bring in informative speakers who stretch our collectively thinking on topics that will influence our investment strategies and use it as a way for us to share our experiences in ways that I hope benefit the Southern California technology ecosystem. Motorola gave us in the US the RAZR (before they stopped innovating).

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MAY 7, 2011

I asked him if he’d be willing to allow me to interview him for This Week in VC and we filmed it in the offices of Stack Overflow – his new company. This ended up developing into Visual Basic for Applications , the strategy for programmability in Microsoft Office. Social currency. WoW and social gaming addiction.

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