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    NEW @BW caper about the Microsoft engineer who stole 152,000 Xbox gift cards + was living off the proceeds in a $1.6 million home with plans to buy a ski chalet, yacht, and seaplane
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    RT @RichardHanania: Profile of Marc Andreessen, who seems to be driven by grievance and anger, which are fuelled by stories that are completely made up according to those who knew him and those who witnessed alleged events.
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    RT @BradStone: Here's the most insightful story yet on Marc Andreesen aka @pmarca - his legendary career as an investor and entrepreneur, and his long strange history of concocted grudges. by @AustinCarr in @BW. gift link:
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    RT @MeghanBobrowsky: "Once, a magazine intern haplessly emailed a fact-checking request to a16z's communications team asking for confirmation that Andreessen's head was indeed shaped like an egg." From the excellent @AustinCarr profile of Marc Andreessen
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    RT @nmasc_: Every word of this @AustinCarr profile on Marc Andreessen (and his anger) is important. He scoured bar bathrooms in Wisconsin and got inside secretive meetings in Jackson Hole and D.C. to explain the political evolution of Silicon Valley’s most famous dealmaker Read his @BW story here
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    In trying to decode Marc for this story, I ended up stumbling across some of the earliest BASIC code from a 14-year-old @pmarca I punched the string into a TRS-80 simulator, and voila, one of the first Andreeessen-backed apps:
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    Here's the most insightful story yet on Marc Andreesen aka @pmarca - his legendary career as an investor and entrepreneur, and his long strange history of concocted grudges. by @AustinCarr in @BW. gift link:
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    I find it fascinating that Marc recently called for the National Science Foundation to receive the "bureaucratic death penalty," despite that same @NSF enabling Andreessen to study mathematical modeling as a kid in rural Wisconsin
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    My fave part of this @AustinCarr story is the evidently complicated relationship Marc Andreessen has with being from Wisconsin (gift link)
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    My fave part of this @AustinCarr story is the evidently complicated relationship Marc Andreessen has with being from Wisconsin (gift link)
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    h/t @nitashatiku for her WaPo scoop on Marc's leaked texts last year about how his people from Wisconsin "are furious and not going to take it anymore"
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    RT @Techmeme: A profile of Marc Andreessen, who sources say is close to White House COS Susie Wiles and has publicly described a fallout with Biden officials over AI policy (@austincarr / Bloomberg) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
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    Spent a long time on this @pmarca profile for @BW, especially where he grew up in Wisconsin. Marc Andreessen has a complicated relationship with his hometown, but I discovered another (touching) side of his childhood that has never been told:
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    RT @business: The famous investor Marc Andreessen has said the Biden administration pushed him to the political right, but sources say his grievances don't always match reality.
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    RT @business: Can smart torpedoes be as important in the Straight of Hormuz as small drones have been in Ukraine?
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    RT @business: Julian Hoenig helped design the Apple Watch and worked on that company’s car project. Now he’s reimagining the golf cart
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    Just after Jony Ive unveiled his Ferrari Luce, another top ex-Apple designer is setting out to reinvent a very different kind of EV: the golf cart. Fun look at the new Amble One, designed by veterans of Audi, Aston Martin and even F1
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    RT @cecianasta: New -- Valve: anticorporate hero or big tech, but small? Gamers know Valve as a freewheeling enterprise, but previously unreported docs show controversial business practices that, critics say, restrict both gamers and game-makers. Feature w/ @AustinCarr:
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    RT @business: Game developers are suing Valve for abusing the power its Steam store has over the PC games market, in litigation with echoes of antitrust suits against Apple and Google
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    RT @TheStalwart: Interesting. Boston is a making a play to lure AI tech talent that doesn't want to pay California taxes
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    RT @netflix: LOVE IS BLIND: BOSTON 🥂 Coming this Fall
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    RT @business: Why are Mac minis suddenly hard to find? A boom in Claude-powered AI agents has turned Apple’s smallest desktop into essential hardware
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    RT @ZekeFaux: new book from @MattCampbell coming this summer. the evil Indiana Jones behind the Khmer artifacts that fill the world's museums. i've read it and it kicks ass. get your pre-orders in, book him on your podcasts, put him in your celebrity book club, etc
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