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Nick Sullivan @Firefaxmachine

I invest in people and ideas. Looking for big crazy bets.

Joined February 2015
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First On SoundCloud ow.ly/LhYv50gWWda
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Privacy and Facebook – The Non-Surprise ow.ly/Dpfo50gWJ1f
Jason Returns to the 313 for Startup Grind Detroit on April 5th ow.ly/RKNb50gVuQA
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The AT&T/Time Warner Trial ow.ly/lPJH50gV3pJ

The AT&T/Time Warner Trial - AVC

Trump’s Justice Department goes to court this week to block the merger of AT&T and Time Warner on “anti-competition concerns.” Like most of the things that come out of this administration, this is a...

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Your Data Is My Data ow.ly/PoD350gUaII

Your Data Is My Data - AVC

This piece in Recode explains that Cambridge Analytica built an app that 270,000 people used to amass profiles on 50 million people. That’s not very surprising because we are talking about networks...

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Slideshow Of The Week: Why Tokens Are Fundamental ow.ly/jYB150gTzRD
Funding Friday: Blockchain A-Z ow.ly/MDSx50gSVEG
Book: Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley ow.ly/11wi50gSJOX
The Coinbase Tax Center ow.ly/q8a050gS22n
AMA for the Techstars Sustainability Accelerator ow.ly/UcWW50gRmwS
The VC/Company Relationship ow.ly/jaoc50gR6PY

The VC/Company Relationship - AVC

When I got into the VC business in the early 80s, the VC/Company relationship was pretty different than it is now. Capital was hard to come by, VCs commanded terms that would be laughed at today, and...

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ICO Advertising On Google ow.ly/4ab250gQVi4
The Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2018 ow.ly/tGd350gQb5v

The Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2018 - AVC

Every year our portfolio company Stack Overflow surveys its developer community and publishes the results. This year Stack had over 100,000 respondents to its survey from all over the world, making...

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Glowforge is Shipping #whatmadethis ow.ly/yPDe50gPZmK
The Fifth Annual NYC Computer Science Fair ow.ly/yuMy50gPfXl

The Fifth Annual NYC Computer Science Fair - AVC

Once a year, tech companies in NYC run a fair for high school computer science students in NYC. This was last year: Tech companies set up booths and the students come by the booths learning about...

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Our Sexual Harassment Policy ow.ly/wZ3L50gP4MQ
Founder Vesting ow.ly/ovjK50gOqPv
Audio Of The Week: Skin In The Game ow.ly/hmMH50gNQIw

Audio Of The Week: Skin In The Game - AVC

I have been listening to Nassim Nicholas Taleb‘s new book, Skin In The Game, in audiobook form while driving around LA this past week. I’ve always been a fan of having skin in the game and others...

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Funding Friday: I Will Never Give Up ow.ly/6CCp50gNdO7

Funding Friday: I Will Never Give Up - AVC

I backed this project earlier this week. As the narrator says in the video “How is this guy, with this voice, still in the subway?” I’m a fan of busking. I always drop some change in the basket. A...

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Nothing Is “Standard” ow.ly/gk0050gMjvj
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