Oracle Platform Social Network Summary 
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MARCH 17, 2010
It’s not uncommon for incredibly smart and talented Phd’s or CS majors from Stanford to raise $10 million on an early-stage “platform&# that if it succeeds it will be huge. Summary – there is a lot of talent here. As a result many funds are OK with big bets. LA investors are more pragmatic.
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FEBRUARY 12, 2017
The 30-minute interview of Jonah Peretti is here but my summary in the notes below. Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005). Back then there were “email forwards.”
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