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Garry Kasparov launches a community-first chess platform

TechCrunch

The platform, produced by Vivendi, includes documentaries, podcasts, articles and interviews between experts and known players in the chess community. In many ways, it’s a vertical-specific version of the chess MasterClass he did years ago, with a big focus on community and variety. Kasparovchess is significantly more expensive.

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The Twenty Year Itch: My Last VC Investment Out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures

This is going to be BIG.

To put that timeframe in perspective, here’s a picture of analyst me taken at USV’s first office in 2005, dressed in khakis and a button-down shirt versus a picture of me, a GP at my own firm, over 100 deals later, now on my latest Zoom board call from my couch at home with my junior analyst of about a year and a half.

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I'm Running for the New York Tech Meetup Board

This is going to be BIG.

I was one of the first 100 members, dating back to February 2005. I was also part of the original New York Tech Meetup board and participated on it until last year. I offered to step aside to bring a few more faces onto the board last year. For the last two years, it has also included promoting community through this newsletter.

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Rachelle Suissa is Breaking Barriers, Empowering Women to Rise and Lead in the Modern World

Jason Malki

She also currently sits on the Junior Advisory Board for the Leopold Schepp Scholarship Foundation Event Planning Committee. Suissa served on the Board of the Brooklyn-Queens Chapter National Organization, both as President (2006–2013) and as Vice President (2005–2007). Prior to founding Dare to Run, Ms. In addition, Ms.

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Garry Tan is the next president and CEO of Y Combinator

TechCrunch

“ My goal has been to cement YC as an institution that will endure for decades – not only through organizational changes but by leading a team that has scaled the community we bring together, the products and capital we provide to startups, and the software we build. Ralston continued. — Garry Tan ??? garrytan) August 29, 2022.

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Meet Tatiana Glad, our New Global Executive Director

Impact Hub

Our collective strategy Ambition 2030 represents the promise of Impact Hub when I first joined as a member (Impact Hub Islington, 2005). Also, it’s why I started an Impact Hub (Amsterdam, 2008), why I served on the global Board (2015-2018) and contributed through other roles, and why I want to continue to serve the network.

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SoTecIn: Connecting people

Impact Hub

SoTecIn: Connecting people How does technology intersect with community collaboration to tackle pressing societal and environmental issues? Its innovative approach hinges on the integration of green and circular technologies into a novel framework that places community collaboration at its very heart. And with good reason: there is €3.3

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