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1/ Stadiums to capacity with screaming fans. Global audiences in the hundreds of millions. A multi-billion dollar economy. College scholarships for the top athletes. Talent agents.
2/ Professional leagues whose teams have dedicated scouts. Beloved celebrities. Doping scandals. Are we talking about pro sports? Well, of a sort. We're talking esports. 🎮
3/ Here's a visual for peeps who haven't been to one of the big events. This is from last year's League of Legends World Championship which reached nearly 100M unique viewers, slightly more than last year's Super Bowl.
4/ What's happening? Who's watching? Why now? How's the money flow? What are the startup opportunities?
5/ @andrewchen @DCoolican and I break it down, along with the "up to the right" data sets from Bennett Carroccio on the latest @a16z YouTube episode, "What's Next for Esports Startups". Enjoy! 🎮🕹👾💻⛹🏽‍♀️

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0/ "There is about as much need for a new university in California as that of an asylum for decayed sea-captains in Switzerland", opined the New York Mail and Express about the newly opened Stanford University in 1891
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2/ "The Establishment" turned out to be wrong, of course, but it took a long time for Stanford to become the @Stanford we know today. But the "chip on the shoulder" is a powerful motivator.
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1/ Have you ever wondered teams building self-driving vehicles design and test their code? Let's say you make a change to the way your car behaves around, say, school kids at intersections. After the fix, do you then drive around, hoping to encounter kids?
2/ Or let's say you're working on a lane-change algorithm. How can you evaluate whether the algorithm is safe given all the (crazy) ways drivers in the passing lane might behave?
3/ We think simulation will be a critical component of any AV company's effort to build safe, reliable, and comfortable software. And we couldn't be more thrilled to support @qasar and Peter and the team at Applied Intuition in their mission
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1/ As we hold our collective breaths until Apple cracks the $1T market cap milestone, I notice that there's been a recent bout of nostalgia about the early days of smartphones
2/ Back then, we called them "personal communicators" (Go) or "pen computers" (Microsoft) or “personal intelligent communicators” (General Magic) or “personal digital assistants” (Apple, Palm) or “tablet or slate computers” (IBM, GRiD)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablet_co…
3/ Some reporters and pundits called them “phablets” (phone + tablet computer), but most of us hoped the term wouldn’t stick

pcmag.com/feature/294004…
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