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Dave McClure
Dave uses his uncanny ability to function without sleep and frequent flyer miles to uncover geeks around the world. His ominous past includes work at Founders Fund, Facebook fbFund, PayPal, Mint.com, & Simply Hired.
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500 Startups Announces $500M WinterFund™ to Invest in Broken Unicorns
EDITOR'S WARNING: this was an April Fool's joke... if you actually believed this was a real story, we have a bridge in Brooklyn for sale we'd love to show you...
Today, 500 Startups announces WinterFund, a new investment vehicle focused on the fa...

500 STARTUPS ANNOUNCES NEW $5 BILLION “FIVE UNICORNS” FUND
Today, 500 Startups announced the filing of its latest fund, a $5 billion "Five Unicorns" mega-fund. The new fund plans to make five investments in just five startups, at one billion dollars each, over a period of five years.
The five "Unicorn"...

500 Startups Achieves Target Quota of Less Than 25% White Males From Stanford
500 Startups announced today the promotion of two new managing partners*, Bedy Yang and Khailee Ng. The company is now even more AWESOME than ever before and currently has over 35 team members across 10 countries who speak 20+ languages. 500 also ...