TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

CEO Adam Schwartz founded the company with his life savings in 2002 and hasn’t taken a dime of outside investment since. He says that the company started back in 2002 as a plug-in for PowerPoint. Coursera set to roughly double its private valuation in impending IPO.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

I took the opportunity this past week to publish summary notes of some of the VCs and entrepreneurs I had interviewed on This Week in VC. One of my goals in doing the show was not only to educate entrepreneurs but also to put a human face on many of the VCs in our industry as VCs can be hard to get to know. How did you get into VC? (9:30

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Past (1985-2002). But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others. Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. AOL was closed, the Internet was open. The Present Era.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Domestika has been around for years — it was founded back in 2002 — but its focus and the attention it is getting right now taps into a couple of areas that have proven to be especially popular recently with users, and in turn, investors. (In You are with your people, Cotorruelo said: “A home sweet home.”).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

I started having my own psychedelic experiences many years ago, the first one was in 2002 I think. To explore that career transition, I figured I should try to get a couple of volunteer opportunities to see if I actually liked providing emotional support to other people. But psychedelics became a bigger part of my life around 2010.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Shleifer focused on China; Fixel focused on India, and the rest of the firm’s support team (it now has 22 investing professionals on staff) helped find deals in Brazil and Russia before beginning to focus more aggressively on opportunities in the U.S. Every investing decision was made by the three. million Series D round.

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