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Michael Ma
@MichaelandMa
Founder @districtxyz | Partner @ Liquid 2 Ventures - investor (GitLab, Rippling, Mercury, Whatnot, 32 🦄s) | prev Founder @ TalkBin YC (acq. by Google)
Joined September 2013
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    @myprasanna was in my batch in YC W11 and we invested in Rippling. One of the nicest and most intelligent guys I've gotten to know. Although I don't have the full context, an incredibly sad story about a father trying to do the best for his son.
    My name is Prasanna, who previously founded Rippling (worth $10B); I'm going through a divorce. I'm now on the run from the Chennai police hiding outside of Tamil Nadu. This is my story.
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    1/ GM, I’m so excited to be a founder again, working with @ManVsWald on @joincreatordao. We're finally coming out of stealth and announcing our $20MM round led by @a16z and @Initialized. creatordao.com fortune.com/2022/08/09/cre…
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    1/ I was talking to a friend who just got into @ycombinator S22 batch. Finally gave me the push to finish a post I've been writing slowly for some time now. What Happened to the Class of W11? —  YC 11 Years Later.
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    Day 1/ Trying something new on my Twitter for the month of November, where I'll share something every day about how I raised a $20MM seed round by @a16z and @Initialized; and fundraising tips in general. 🧵
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    Congrats @AppliedInt on raising $250MM at $6B today. I started TalkBin with Applied's founder @qasar over a decade ago and dug out this picture from when we raised $20K from @ycombinator in 2011. Hope $250MM feels just as good as the first $20K :)
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    Replying to @halfmeasures12 and @anoushkavaswani
    Hmm can’t speak for her. But I read it as private company valuation of $1B implies some VC invested because they believe it has 10x upside. But given the number of public $10B companies that type of bet is looking less likely than ever before of panning out.
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    Just checked my Twitter and saw I got a lot more followers suddenly. Realized it was because @MacConwell tweeted about me! I reached out to him a few weeks back based on his awesome article - link.medium.com/mLN89B4Jgqb, and made a new friend. The Twitter community is amazing.
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    Love how @Peter_Nemesis is building community here. Just brought a ticket personally and giving it away to commenter who follows me, @districtxyz and @Nemesisdottrade.
    I have personally bought 3 tickets from OpenSea (nft.nemesis.trade), and will give them away to the first three Bards. Community first. Nemesis.
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    YC Alumni Demo Day is probably the best bellwether for what early-stage founders are working on. Empirically, between the W25 batch and catching up with alumni friends, 4 out of 5 convos I had about what people were starting were about AI. Another amazing batch by @ycombinator
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    🚀Our beta is here! After quietly building in stealth, I’m thrilled to launch District’s @join_district.
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    Congrats @immad and the entire @BankMercury on the Series B today. Couldn't have happened to a better founder. And a blast from the past when I called this in 2017 ;)
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    1/ Today we're announcing @BankMercury's Series B We raised $120m @ $1.62b led by Coatue @a16z, @CRV, @SapphireVC participated as did incredible entrepreneurs like @typesfast, @MathildeCollin, @jaltma +we are including a $5m crowdfund for our customers x.com/BankMercury/st…
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    ❤️ @garrytan; the biggest supporter of founders I know; and @cdixon giving back to founders by sharing the future of Web3.
    Chris Dixon and I hung out Monday at our new secret social club @MichaelandMa won’t let us say anything more than that though
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    YC Demo Day! Back in person :) @ycombinator
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