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8/ Sequencing a human genome went from costing $100 million twenty years ago to under $1,000 today, making it broad… https://t.co/yq8PhlUcIv — PolitiTweet.org

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7/ In addition to getting cheaper, hardware gets better. A modern iPhone has over 12 billion transistors, roughly 3… https://t.co/HsYvS4vqg3 — PolitiTweet.org

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6/ “It’s too expensive.” 💰 We hear this today about electric vehicles, space travel, virtual reality headsets, and… https://t.co/9o8ZiiFJuD — PolitiTweet.org

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5/ Social media was a technology for creating global media networks that arrived disguised as a way to share what you had for lunch. — PolitiTweet.org

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4/ Early on, blogs and services like Twitter were mostly used to discuss niche tech topics and share mundane person… https://t.co/nmgtPs5GL2 — PolitiTweet.org

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3/ When the telephone was first invented, incumbents like Western Union dismissed it, as the sound quality was poor… https://t.co/GnFetzHkP0 — PolitiTweet.org

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2/ “It’s just a toy.” 🚂 This was the mistake made early on about breakthrough technologies like the telephone, per… https://t.co/4Gw1fZBLsq — PolitiTweet.org

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1/ New technologies often arrive with flaws: toy-like, expensive, janky, lacking clear applications, etc. To pred… https://t.co/66SYVdg0cr — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AriannaSimpson: 1/ Today I’m thrilled to share that a16z crypto is leading a $20 million Series A in @ValoraApp, a mobile-first crypto… — PolitiTweet.org

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Just backed :) https://t.co/WqgbJdyick — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AriannaSimpson: 1. Couldn't be more pleased to be partnering with the amazing team at @V_H_Studio building @zed_run on their Series A! — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @dfinzer: Super excited to have @katie_haun join our board. She's been a fantastic partner in scaling OpenSea's business and team. https… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @katie_haun: 1/ Today, I’m thrilled to announce that @a16z crypto is leading @opensea’s $100 million Series B financing with participati… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @katie_haun: 1/ Today I couldn’t be more pleased to announce that we are promoting @AriannaSimpson as our newest General Partner in the… — PolitiTweet.org

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5/ I’ve really enjoyed working with and learning from Arianna since she joined a16z, and appreciate the energy and… https://t.co/Y3xPwR6RKd — PolitiTweet.org

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4/ She’s also a veteran of several crypto cycles which makes her hugely valuable to teams learning how to operate a… https://t.co/3vBwyKFPzQ — PolitiTweet.org

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3/ Arianna has been writing and video blogging about crypto for over seven years—long before most people were paying attention. — PolitiTweet.org

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2/ We got to know Arianna through her fund Autonomous, and we continued running into Arianna as a co-investor in pr… https://t.co/fww8XuS3mv — PolitiTweet.org

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1/ Today we’re announcing that we are promoting @AriannaSimpson as our newest General Partner in the a16z crypto fu… https://t.co/2EBmuRt80R — PolitiTweet.org

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@migueldeicaza The argument is music only seems to be inflexibility because the industry has stuck with a very narr… https://t.co/d125DPX5CF — PolitiTweet.org

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@nabeel Great points. I’d argue it’s a combo including business model and your points. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ballmatthew @LawrenceHecht I’d argue we don’t know that until we run proper experiments to explore the possibiliti… https://t.co/vDjar5qxWC — PolitiTweet.org

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@gonzalosanzana Music is very naturally community-based in the offline world. Should be the same in the online world. — PolitiTweet.org

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17/ Creators can now choose to route around institutions that have been holding them back, embracing the forward pr… https://t.co/QLqh7Q8fB7 — PolitiTweet.org

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16/ There is nothing magical about video games that makes them more monetizable than other forms of media. People l… https://t.co/SfoIsooQDa — PolitiTweet.org

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15/ A filmmaker or writer can sell NFTs to crowdfund their creations instead of pitching traditional financing sour… https://t.co/iqZdbsWUby — PolitiTweet.org

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14/ A musician can now choose to give away new music to maximize distribution and charge for scarce complementary N… https://t.co/9azUDaUisx — PolitiTweet.org

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13/ Even if publishers and studios, along with web 2 incumbents, resist the new model, individual creators can rout… https://t.co/v0H5MnnIIT — PolitiTweet.org

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12/ NFTs are an important recent example of the internet routing around broken business models. Like open source, N… https://t.co/j7T1sCcLUk — PolitiTweet.org

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11/ A classic example is open source vs proprietary software in the 90s/00s. Proprietary software vendors stuck to… https://t.co/r7Zltg64ok — PolitiTweet.org