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Investing in Run The World | Andreessen Horowitz
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Gen Z and Millennials are seeking more IRL. High end social clubs are on the rise. Flip phones are back in. We want to spend more on experiences, less on stuff. Remote work is forcing everyone to seek in-person connection and community elsewhere.
Despite this, existing social clubs are struggling to survive and not e
... See moreWe’re now observing that consumer social experiences are starting to look and feel like games at every level. Remote networking events in Roomkey are not a panel of Zoom screens; instead, attendees create virtual avatars and can navigate around a virtual conference room on their phones. On the education platform Koala, teachers can create virtual c... See more
Alexandra Sukin • Why the next big consumer platforms are social games
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We’ve been exploring tech-enabled IRL, both on the “online to offline” origination side and using tech to make IRL experiences more impactful. Pre-COVID, IRL was definitely experiencing a comeback, and we expect this to resume in the future. Localization is a big theme for us, as we believe that local relationships have far greater potential to dri... See more
Arman Tabatabai • Investor survey results: Upcoming trends in social startups
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Don't Just Throw Together a Webinar — The Virtual Events Crash Course You Need
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Special Edition of Temp Check: Recorded Live @websummit Nov 2, 2021
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- Connect local communities. “If you have local organizers who were hosting local events, we’re seeing that many of those local organizers can switch to virtual events as well.
First Round Capital • Don't Just Throw Together a Webinar — The Virtual Events Crash Course You Need
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The final edge we have over language models is that we can prove we're real humans by showing up IRL with our real human bodies. We can arrange to meet Twitter mutuals offline over coffee. We can organise meetups and events and conferences and unconferences and hangouts and pub nights.
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