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Jun 12, 2023 • 27 tweets • 11 min read • Read on X
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Andreessen Horowitz ? 😅😂🤡
What's their connection to Softbank , Rishi?

And what's YOUR's and Tony Blair's? #Softbank

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"Andreessen Horowitz, SoftBank Lead $150M Raise for Metaverse Startup Improbable
The multiplayer services provider is accelerating its push into the metaverse."..

coindesk.com/business/2022/…
"Metaverse technology firm Improbable has raised $150 million led by Andreessen Horowitz and SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 to build a "network of interoperable Web 3 metaverses," dubbed M² "

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"Digital Currency Group – CoinDesk's parent company – Mirana Ventures, SIG, Ethereal Ventures and CMT Digital, the crypto division of trading firm CMT Group, also participated in the round.".. 🤔
"Improbable describes itself as a provider of technology and services to support multiplayer virtual worlds to more than 60 global game publishers. Its large scale simulation platform also supports the U.K.'s defense mission.."..👀👀
M² will use Improbable's Morpheus Technology, Image
"Video gaming startup Improbable scores $150M to establish M² – bridging metaverse and blockchain"
techfundingnews.com/video-gaming-s…

Founded in 2012 by Herman Narula , Peter Lipka , and Rob Whitehead
"“M²’s technology enables developers to build and scale composable metaverses, solving a core need for our founders within the Alliance accelerator”, said Imran Khan, contributor at AllianceDAO ..."..
coindesk.com/business/2022/…
"Among the investors supporting M² are also Saranac partners, a private office for entrepreneurs and family capital, notably including Round13 DAF, Zinal Growth, the tech investment vehicle of Guillaume Pousaz, David E. Rutter." 🤔 Image
Just putting this here for later🤫

R3 at the PGA Image
"Geneva-born entrepreneur Guillaume Pousaz and founder of the start-up Checkout.com has a net worth of $23 billion (CHF22 billion). His company, which is headquartered in London, has the highest market capitalization in the global fintech sector." Image
"Pousaz founded Checkout.com, a start-up specialised in payment transactions, in London in 2012.  Since then, the company’s growth has been phenomenal. It provides services to the likes of Netflix , Pizza Hut, Adidas and Sony..".. 🍿🍿🍿
"In January 2022, it raised $1 billion in capital from big-name investors such as Franklin Resources and Tiger Global Management, bringing the start-up’s valuation to around $40 billion."..
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"In addition to retailers, the company’s client base includes leading fintechs such as Sweden’s Klarna and Britain’s Revolut [I just knew it🤡😂🤦]

as well as the cryptocurrency trading platforms Coinbase (U.S.) and Crypto.com (Singapore)..".. Image
"The start-up’s origins can be traced back to an earlier company, Opus Payments, founded by Pousaz in Singapore in 2009 to process payments for businesses in Hong Kong. ."..

swissinfo.ch/eng/business/s…
"The firm became profitable in 2011 following an agreement with the Chinese website Dealextreme .. In 2012, Opus Payments was rebranded as Checkout.com and registered in the United Kingdom.."..
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"Another breakthrough came about in 2013, when the company gained Visa and Mastercard membership."..

#Wirecard ? 🤫

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"It then secured a leading position globally thanks to partnerships with the Chinese payment giants Alipay and WeChat ."..

WeChat ? 🤡

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"By now, aiming for a stock market listing, the company had distanced itself from the pornography and gambling customers present at the beginning of its history."

Wait , what?
"in its early days, Checkout worked with clients that provide adults-only services including pornography and gambling, which at one point accounted for a significant amount of business, according to people familiar with the matter." - Bloomberg
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"The clients included companies like MindGeek SARL, the owner of websites like Pornhub.com, OnlyFans Ltd. and MondoCamGirls, a website that allows users to pay for live feeds of sexual content, the people said."

Qatar Investment Authority is another client of Checkout

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Interesting 🧵on Checkout here👇

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Binance and Checkout? Image

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Let's revisit this Age of Autism article in the light of the recent Nicole Shanahan crew "revelations"🎶 Image
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John Stone
"This is part of evidence I presented to  the United Kingdom House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Inquiry into Research Integrity in 2017. It was never published by the Committee"🎶
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1971 , United Way of Pinellas :
Cark Vignali (group vice president of Honeywell) Image
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Honeywell Memories :

"Here was a company that worked on the
cutting edge of technology in its products, but had no closed circuit TV system for internal communications.
Then, in early 1981, I was called to Carl Vignali’s office.".. 🎶 Image
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Mar 28
The owner of the LA Times , Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, said quite a lot in that nugget of a little speech I'm going to go look it up then break this down. Image
Hmm.. time to revisit
Dr PSS : "I'm excited about this next 4 years.... we could lead the world in our innovation, and using healthcare as a foreign policy around the world."
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Mar 27
WaPo , 2023
"Famous Kenyan orphanage allegedly hid dark secrets" Image
"Former vice president Mike Pence praised the nun who ran it by name on World Aids Day in 2018 and hosted her at the White House. Congressional tours were frequent." 🤔🎶
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Strange 🎶
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Mar 27
In today's Daily Mail?

Interesting. Image
Baroness Chalker is the founder and president of Africa Matters Limited, an independent consultancy providing advice and assistance to companies initiating, developing or growing their activities in Africa.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynda_Cha…Image
Lynda Baroness Chalker of Wallasey, Non-Executive Director Unilever Chairman for Africa Matters attends the Business Action for Africa Summit on July 5, 2005 in London The Business Action for Africa Summit held on the eve of the Gleneagles G8 Summit Image
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"The ex-wife of Google’s Sergey Brin poured divorce money into Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign and became his running mate, with potentially cataclysmic consequences."

That's a bit dramatic , Daily Beast. Isn't it? Image
"When Google co-founder Sergey Brin began openly dating Nicole Shanahan,in 2015,some members of his circle assumed it was a fling. Fresh out of law school, she was 12 years his junior,with few of the qualifications that might level the power dynamic .."
thedailybeast.com/is-nicole-shan…
"By the time they married, in 2018, Shanahan had slingshotted into Silicon Valley stardom. She socialized with other billionaires’ plus-ones, ..and worked to distance Brin from his ex-wife, 23andMe co-founder Anne Wojcicki, who had remained close with the billionaire,".. Image
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