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The reason the social-networking phenomenon is something that I invested in early and massively – I led the Series A financing for Friendster; I founded a company called Socialnet in 1997; I founded LinkedIn; and I was part of the first round of financing in Facebook – it sounds trivial, but people matter.

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I would have volunteered to work at Netscape. It was the center node of this new technology and the commercial ecosystem of the Internet.

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What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions.

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May 25, 2024

What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions.

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May 25, 2024

I would have volunteered to work at Netscape. It was the center node of this new technology and the commercial ecosystem of the Internet.

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