#66 - Black Celebs teaming up with a16z, YC's appetite in Nigeria & Netflix data infrastructure
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Trends in startups at Demo Day: More AI, more biotech, more companies from outside the US. Will the next Airbnb be in Nigeria? Could be.
Looks like PG wants Nigeria to build great products - I’m here for it.
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I'm excited to share the official launch of The Cultural Leadership Fund! https://t.co/tEpldZrYwh
Interesting to see this initiative.
From what I understand the cultural leaders are the LP’s, not actually leading the initiative. If this fund is closely guided by a16z, they get to create represenation and also get the marketing mojo that can hopefully see returns to build the funding ecosystem which I am betting will have the greatest impact.
The basic goals of the CLF are twofold:
1) Connect the greatest cultural leaders in the world to the best new tech companies.
2) Enable more young African Americans to enter the tech industry.
Netflix is on building up their data infrastructure
Heavy read I won’t lie but this goes to show you an example of a company that is investing in their infrastructure so they can experiment & innovate at scale.
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