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GP @a16z @a16zCLF | KΑΨ | @lyons .wine | Board of @yugalabs @beardfoundation | Advisor @blkeconalliance @newstorycharity @zegna @kauffmanfellows

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@ChrisLyons

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I am beyond excited to announce that @a16z crypto is leading the financing of @yugalabs and I'm joining the board. We look forward to helping the team continue to usher the next wave of creators and builders into web3 to define the future of culture and innovation. LFG! 🦍🦍🦍

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I’m super fired up to officially announce becoming a General Partner at @a16z . This firm is way more than a venture capital fund, it’s my extended family and has been the ecosystem where I’ve shaped my personal and professional career. 💼

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We're excited to announce @ChrisLyons as our newest general partner at a16z 👏 Read more from Scott Kupor 👇

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gm! I'm very excited to announce that @a16z crypto is leading a $50M round in @veefriends . We look forward to helping the team fuel expansion plans for its creative, technical and experiential operations that support the growing Web3 community!

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“All great achievements require time.” Maya Angelou

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"The secret to happiness is freedom. And the secret to freedom is courage." -... http://t.co/x1oMayOSoU

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I'm excited to share the official launch of The Cultural Leadership Fund!

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Introducing the Cultural Leadership Fund | Andreessen Horowitz

Yo, the sun don’t shine forever But as long as it’s here then we might as well shine together –Sean “Diddy” Combs, “Victory“ In the early days of the technology industry, there was no thought about...

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Enjoyed talking all things Punks and BAYC with the 🐐 @CryptoGarga

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Episode_11 of “Punks As Told By CryptoPunks” is out now. Join @ChrisLyons & @CryptoGarga as they dive into the intersection of culture and innovation in web3. Created in partnership with @cryptopunksnfts . WATCH:

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Martin Luther King Jr Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech (audio)

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Show, don’t tell.

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Congrats @john @sammy on the new update!

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. @justinbieber -backed Shots goes beyond selfies with links and comedy

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8 yrs ago today we were thinking about strategic ways for Ye to release the first Yeezy shoe⁩. Such a special day talking about the future of culture and innovation. The sketches are ⁦from @virgilabloh ⁩ 🙏🏾✨

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Protect our black owned businesses by any means. Black entrepreneurs work day in and out to pull us out of past conditions, and embody what Black excellence looks like in America. If you destroy their vision for making a better Black America, you destroy our hope for a future 🙏🏾

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Introducing the Talent x Opportunity Fund #tech via @a16z

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"5-4-3-2 we need fuel. Lift off" 👨🏾‍🚀🚀🚀 @BoredApeYC #BoredApeYC #spacesuitgang

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I'm excited to announce I'm officially joining Verizon Media's Global Advisory Board, led by Chairwoman, athlete, and entrepreneur @serenawilliams . @verizonmedia is the media and ad tech arm of @verizon , and includes iconic brands such as @yahoo , @techcrunch , @aol , and more.

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I’m excited to announce our official close of CLF II! With the support of our LPs, portfolio companies, and our extended network, we will continue to develop a growing ecosystem that bridges culture and innovation through @a16zclf and @a16z 🧑🏾‍💻👨🏾‍💻.

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CLF II | Andreessen Horowitz

When we launched the CLF three years ago, we decided to focus on two main missions: connecting the world’s greatest cultural leaders to the best new technology companies and bringing more African...

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Your legacy is left to these two questions: · What impact did I make on the lives of others? · Who did I serve and make better?

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Today I’m proud to share the group of nonprofits that the Cultural Leadership Fund will be supporting. Please meet the incredible organizations that we’ll be working with, who are helping bring more African Americans into the world of technology.

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Suited up and ready for business!🐒🧳 @SolanaMBS @MonkeDAO

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what you DO is who you are.

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Here are 12 incredible non-profit orgs backed by the Cultural Leadership Fund @clfcapital that are helping advance more young African Americans into tech. You can donate your $ and/or time to continue supporting their mission in developing our next generation of technologists👩🏾‍💻👨🏾‍💻

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“A Beautiful Mess” Awaits | W Magazine | Women's Fashion via @wmag

On Clubhouse, the Invite-Only Chatroom App, “A Beautiful Mess” Awaits

Ava DuVernay, Oprah, and a range of other creative industry heavyweights are members of the platform, which has been inspiring both ire and FOMO.

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Bored Ape Yacht Club @BoredApeYC

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☯️ @AzukiOfficial fam

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"You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good." —Jerry West

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If you create value, you’ll capture value.

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"No matter how bad or slow things go, you're still way ahead of everyone who isn't even trying." — @TonyRobbins

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Actions > words 💯

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Reed Hastings, Netflix's co-founder, and his wife, Patty Quillin, donated $120 million to the United Negro College Fund, Spelman College and Morehouse College. It was the largest-ever individual gift for scholarships at historically black U.S. colleges.

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My friends are dope ✊🏾 @DaveSalvant @rubenharris @delane @DiishanImira @ImanAbuzeid

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Is The First Black-Owned Tech Unicorn Finally Within Reach?

Update: Meet Five Black-Led Startups That Have Achieved Unicorn Status The term unicorn in the tech space is synonymous with hugely successful tech companies (think Uber, Airbnb, Stripe, Pinterest, &...

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The @BoredApeYC was a turning point for the NFT space, flipping historic power dynamics by providing a full commercial license without a royalty to all holders. This generated a creative explosion of community-directed IP, catapulting the BAYC deep in the cultural zeitgeist.

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"Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision." —Peter Drucker

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Mackenzie is Swag Surfin' on another level 🏄🏽‍♂️🏄🏼‍♀️ #HBCU

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A Milli‼️🆑 @joinClubhouse

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Community engagement is off the charts, and they’re building a stellar team of designers, engineers, and operators to help bring their grand vision to life—Disney 3.0

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See you on the Otherside in April. Powered by @apecoin

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Music is one of the most collaborative art forms, but properly crediting artists for their contributions has been a longtime challenge. That’s why we’re excited to lead the seed round in @arpeggi_labs to advance music creation and publishing with web3. 🎧

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Welcome to the future of concerts 🚀

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Did you catch the Travis Scott concert on #Fortnite ? You missed out!!

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Less words, more actions.

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This innovation led to the creation of communities like @jenkinsthevalet and entertainment brands like @KygoMusic and @Timbaland –brand new creative using Yuga Labs original art. Yuga is using web3 to turn “The Industry” upside down and put creatives on top.

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Prince's vision for lifting up black youths: Get them to code:

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Prince's vision for lifting up black youths: Get them to code

The late musician's commitment to helping young people of color inspired YesWeCode, which is working to build a generation of tech talent.

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Yuga gave BAYC + MAYC (and now Punks / Meebit ) holders an unlimited, worldwide license to use, copy + monetize each NFT. IP rights paired with incentivized word-of-mouth distribution has made the BAYC community unstoppable.

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Some big news to share today: Yuga has acquired the CryptoPunks and Meebits collections from @LarvaLabs , and the first thing we’re doing is giving full commercial rights to the NFT holders. Just like we did for BAYC and MAYC owners.

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The four visionary founders @CryptoGarga @GordonGoner @TomatoBAYC @SassBAYC plus @VStrangeYUGA captured lightning in a bottle with BAYC ⚡️. We’re thrilled to invest in this brilliant team and their vision and help forge the next frontier of community-owned entertainment.

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. @garyvee 's commitment to supporting his community members’ personal growth has been evident throughout his career. He’s been at the cutting edge of community and entrepreneurship since the early days of social media and has now unlocked the next chapter through @veefriends .

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Our first newsletter is live! 🎉We’ll amplify the voices of Black Builders, Shapers, and Collaborators from our @clfcapital Network and highlight tech & culture news, job listings, + more. Read + subscribe now:

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We're building the bridge between SF + LA with @andrewchen 👇🏾

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Something big is happening at the intersection of tech and entertainment - of SF and LA From LA, you see celebs angel investing, and promoting tech And SF startups are actively courting creators, both mainstream and digital native, as the anchors in their new social products

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Betelhem Dessie is a tech genius taking “Sheba Valley”—Ethiopia’s Silicon Valley—by storm. At only 19-years-old, she is leading programs at iCog Labs, Ethiopia’s first artificial intelligence lab, and has several software programs patents to her name.

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In order to build anything great, you have to be an optimist. You are trying to do something that most people would consider impossible.

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"People overestimate what they can do in a single day. And underestimate what they can do in their whole lives." —Unknown

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Just know when the culture wins, we all win and I’m just here to keep the door open for the next generation of builders. Let’s keep rocking and thank you for the love & support. "I DID IT WITHOUT AN ALBUM!" 💎💎💎

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BAYC has quickly become a web3 culture, gaming, and entertainment empire. And with the addition of @larvalabs Punks and Meebits, a new economy and creative universe is forming within the Yuga Labs ecosystem.

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You are powerful when you’re focused.

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See you in Paris 🥂 🇫🇷

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Speaker Announcement @ChrisLyons , General Partner at @a16z , will be speaking at NFT Paris 2024.

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Nina Chanel Abney's selection as the inaugural artist in residence for @cryptopunksnfts @yugalabs stands as a pivotal milestone in the ongoing intersection of culture and innovation within the ever-evolving crypto landscape. @ninachanel visionary embrace of blockchain technology…

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CryptoPunks is thrilled to announce the launch of Punk in Residence, with inaugural artist @NinaChanelAbney . 🧵

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“Whatever the mind can conceive and you can believe, you can achieve” - Dad

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Learn, earn, and return ♻️

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We are extremely excited to unite cultural and technology leaders to facilitate a better future for everyone. Special thank you to all of our limited partners involved, @bhorowitz @a16z and everyone inspired to enter the field of technology through this initiative ✊🏾

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Silicon Valley’s Secrets Are Hiding in @pmarca Library via @WIRED

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Silicon Valley’s Secrets Are Hiding in Marc Andreessen’s Library

What does the history of Hollywood have to do with Uber? A lot, as it turns out.

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Give us a call for your upcoming Series A 🏆 via @CBinsights

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Not only is @veefriends an exciting #NFT project, it also provides offline and in-person utility through curated experiences like @VeeCon , which brought over 7,000 NFT ticket holders together for a week of informative conversations on web3, live music, and networking.

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The basic goals of the CLF are twofold: 1) Connect the greatest cultural leaders in the world to the best new technology companies. 2) Enable more young African Americans to enter the technology industry.

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Next, 100% of the management fees and carry associated with the fund will be donated to a select number of non-profit organizations advancing African Americans into the technology industry.

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Rasa raises $26M led by A16Z for its open source conversational AI platform – “We decided to bring on the CLF in this round in early May as we always felt strongly that diversity is a key part of our mission to empower all makers to build AI for everyone”

Rasa raises $26M led by A16Z for its open source conversational AI platform | TechCrunch

As chatbots and other AI-based services like interactive voice apps continue to become more ubiquitous, a startup that's built software to help create and

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Welcoming Jay-Z and Will Smith to the Hipcamp Community

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#NewProfilePic

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To accomplish this, we created a new fund with Limited Partners who are exclusively cultural leaders including: @Diddy , @shondarhimes , @willsmith , @quicydjones , @KDTrey5 , @chancetherapper , @Nas , @cpinfor , Edith Cooper, Robin Washington, Shellye Archambeau, and more.

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VeeFriends represents the ethos of entrepreneurship, and we’re humbled by the opportunity to support @garyvee and the @veefriends community on this journey. LFG! None of the above should be taken as investment advice; please see for more information.

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Major shoutout to @dapperlabs @roham for Flow’s $1M commitment to building an on-ramp for the culture to join the future of Web 3 ✊🏾

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Announcing a Million Dollar FLOW Token Grant to bring More Diversity to Web3

Announcing a Million Dollar FLOW Token Grant to bring More Diversity to Web3

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Up next: a generation that grew up with technology as a cultural product, that doesn’t draw rigid lines between art + engineering.

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👩🏾‍💻👨🏾‍💻✨✨✨

Jay-Z, A16z Back $19M Funding Round for NFT Platform Bitski

Describing itself as the “Shopify for NFTs,” Bitski aims to provide an easy platform for brands to sell digital goods.

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#culture http://t.co/XN3LPQnF0B

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At the foundation of @veefriends IP are meaningful attributes for humanity - such as tolerance, patience, and authenticity—displayed through simple, hand drawn cartoon characters, which have inspired a community of creatives, entrepreneurs, storytellers, and technologists.

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I didn’t come from your traditional tech background (shoutout @sosodef ), but @bhorowitz believed in me 8 years ago and I wouldn’t be here without his ability to see my true potential. Hiz, thank you for being THE inspiration for my VC career and showing me the game of life. 🖤🤞🏾

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My community stands on the shoulders of giants and I’m extremely grateful to continue representing for Black founders, executives, investors, and hustlers who believes technology is the key to unlocking generational freedom for their future family. Hussle and Motivate #TMC 🏁

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The Future Looks Bright

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Can I Live...

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When you wake tomorrow morning you have two choices: go back to sleep, or wake up and chase those dreams.

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The evolution of historical characters like Mickey Mouse, Hello Kitty, The Getalong Gang, Snorks, and Wuzzles has inspired @garyvee to bring the next generation of digital IP onto the blockchain, encouraging audiences of all ages trying to make their online aspirations a reality

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Diversity on the cap table with @bankmercury

Chris Lyons: Diversity on the cap table

This is Series Tea, a podcast where we find the greatest entrepreneurs and investors and force them to have tea with us — live on air.

link.medium.com

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Thank you again for providing us the opportunity to share our story! 🙏🏾🥂

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We need more diverse leadership from the board room, congrats @Kaepernick7 ✊🏾

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Fired up to work alongside a great group of punks on the first @cryptopunksnfts coffee table book with @zakgroup . Stay tuned!

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The first book dedicated to archiving CryptoPunks is coming Fall 2023 published in partnership with @zakgroup . The book unveils untold stories of the collection by tapping the passionate community to contribute to the written record of Punks.

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Great breakdown on @doodles x @dapperlabs , congrats again and excited for Doodles 2 📈

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So why did we choose Flow for Doodles 2? We’re able to create a frictionless on-chain app that lets mainstream fans customize their Doodle without limits. a thread 🧵

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And special shoutout to everyone who supported me along this crazy, unconventional journey including @naitjones , @feliciahorowitz , @michaelovitz , @skupor , Ken Coleman, @pmarca , @abenton , my 2 brothers for life🦁🦁 and every single one of my CLF LPs.

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"An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less" - Melody Hobson + @bhorowitz

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None of the above should be taken as investment advice; please see for more information.

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#ProudMoment http://t.co/3ATcoOjiYd

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Apple is soft launching direct person-to-person payments in an iMessage with the Apple Pay Cash beta.P

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Apple Pay Cash launches in beta today, letting you send and receive cash in Messages | TechCrunch

Apple is soft-launching direct, person-to-person payments in an iMessage today with the Apple Pay Cash beta. The feature, which was announced earlier this

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23 years later and @pmarca is still leading the way. It’s wild how far ahead in the future he still is.

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It was in this day in 1994 23 year old Marc Andreessen @pmarca founded a new company called Netscape. In this rare video He predicted a simpler way to access information using a browser would bring just about everyone to the internet. He was right...

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Shoutout to @MorganStanley and @carlaharris for your support of my journey into tech and venture capital through @a16zclf . Check out our latest podcast discussing "Where Tech Meets Culture"

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Culture and innovation are moving together to create life changing opportunities for the next generation of creatives, and I’m excited to continue supporting the founders who have the courage to chase that dream through the @a16zclf 🧑🏾‍💻👨🏾‍💻

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Why Bitcoin Matters - The New York Times #throwback

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Ye is liberated.

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a16z Podcast: The Next Generation of Cultural Influencers in Tech #tech via @a16z

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The Next Generation of Cultural Influencers in Tech | Andreessen Horowitz

This episode—which originally took place as a live event—is a conversation between Seattle Seahawks linebacker Bobby Wagner and a16z Cultural Leadership Fund partner Chris Lyons. Wagner is known for...

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Chris Lyons: Diversity on the cap table with @BankMercury

Chris Lyons: Diversity on the cap table

This is Series Tea, a podcast where we find the greatest entrepreneurs and investors and force them to have tea with us — live on air.

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The #1 rule of #NFTs in a bull market cc @RealAllenHena @ROSGO21

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"The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something." —Barack Obama via @momentumdash

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In the spirit of Black History Month, the Cultural Leadership Fund and @a16z wanted to celebrate the first in class entrepreneurs who paved the way for our generation of leaders to believe anything is possible

Black History’s Impact on Entrepreneurship | Andreessen Horowitz

This month, we recognize the importance of black history and the leaders who paved the way for future generations. African American culture is a driving force behind global culture, a staggering...

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State of Play: Six Trends Revolutionizing Games #tech via @a16z @andrewchen @Tocelot

State of Play: Six Trends Revolutionizing Games | Andreessen Horowitz

Games have come a long way since Pong. Consisting of a single white pixel bouncing across the screen—a crude simulation of table tennis—the 1972 arcade classic was the nascent gaming industry’s first...

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2 years

very excited to support @dgreenstein1 and @soundxyz_ 🔉

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2 years

Today, I'm beyond excited to announce that @a16z is leading @soundxyz_ 's initial funding round. Music is the category for which the structural problems of web2 are at their very worst. @dgreenstein1 and team are building a web3 platform to change that.

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Setting aside time to think can often be your best meeting of the day.

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