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David Rosenthal: belief

10 Aug 2021 Acquired Andreessen Horowitz Part II

“I remember thinking that was ridiculous back in the day that all these people who were talking about how they invested in Twitter and blah-blah-blah had never actually participated on the platform. I think Fred Wilson was the only one who actually was active on the platform.”

— David Rosenthal

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Speaker
David Rosenthal
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Verified speaker
Claim type
belief
Recorded
10 Aug 2021
Publisher
Acquired

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…It’s over 100 times a day. Despite being an angel investor in Twitter, he had only tweeted twice before 2014. I remember thinking that was ridiculous back in the day that all these people who were talking about how they invested in Twitter and blah-blah-blah had never actually participated on the platform. I think Fred Wilson was the only one who actually was active on the platform. Then for whatever reason, in 2014, Marc decides, hey, I'm going to get really into this. He tweets like 20,000 times in six months. It's wild. He was the best person to follow because if you were interested in mental models and exploring wacky futuristic ideas, it was a buffet table of that.…

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