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Ep25: Danielle Strachman | Founder and General Partner at 1517

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How Do You Handle This as an 18 Year Old?

At the time it was 19 and under, now the program, I believe, is 22 and under. People like Teshua Agua, Vitalik Bouderin were in the second class with Figma. The first year of the program, we were kind of saying, hey, marathon's are really cool. You're probably going to really like running one. We're here to pay you to run a marathon. But then people also came from the first group who were feeling out what was going to happen next. They already wanted to work on Figma; they didn't want to wait for grant money.

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