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Welcoming Bijan and Jeff

(Posted on  Twitter Blog  28 days ago)

We're happy to announce two new members of our investment team: Bijan Sabet with Spark Capital in Boston and Jeff Bezos of Bezos Expeditions in Seattle. Bijan has also accepted a seat on our board of directors. We're looking forward to the gu… (visit source article)
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caro:brianvan:bijan:Today Twitter announced a new round of investment.Cool! Put some more quarters into the webserver.HA.  Perfect, Brian.

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