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Snap's Big Winners: Spiegel, Murphy, Lasky, Benchmark, Lightspeed

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Obviously, co-founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy both have instantly been catapulted into the ranks of billionaires, with a net worth of $3.58 Lasky joined Snapchat's board in 2013. Who are the big winners after the IPO pricing of Venice, California-based Snap Inc. on Wednesday afternoon? billion in stock. billion in stock.

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Snap's Big Winners: Spiegel, Murphy, Laskey, Benchmark, Lightspeed

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Obviously, co-founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy both have instantly been catapulted into the ranks of billionaires, with a net worth of $3.58 Who are the big winners after the IPO pricing of Venice, California-based Snap Inc. on Wednesday afternoon? billion each in SNAP's publicly traded stock. billion in stock. billion in stock.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated. But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area. In the last month alone (ie not captures in the $1.5

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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

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Currencies only began in earnest about 2,500 years ago and ever since have been a great enabler of democracy and social mobility, not the other way around. For example, distribution to find new apps in a mobile Internet is tightly locked down by the oligopoly of Apple and Google. So Where Do I Personally Net Out?

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