Founders Fund or Techstars?

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Y-combinators are in the running for that four spot I guess and then who else would you put in there? Masa? Well you're in LZ. "I was trying to figure out when we were doing the bench break episode research which will be out by the time this comes out," says Navalle of 2480 Sand Hill Road, where Microsoft once had an office. The venture capital industry is like Mount Rushmore because it takes three successful generational transitions before a firm can reach its peak. It's gonna be a long ass time before your firm hits Mount Rushmore so let's just do the venture capital Hall of Fame rather than Mount Rushmore.

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