Travis Kalanick on the regulatory fight entrepreneurs face today and faced 150 years ago:
"Once the bits start controlling atoms in the physical world, the regulators are in the game big time."
"When in the past have we seen something like this?"
"If you start studying the Second Industrial Revolution, there are so many parallels between the Carnegies, the Rockefellers, the Fricks, the Fords."
"What those guys had to deal with in that massive rapid change."
"There's a very interesting parallel to what's happening, slash about to happen now."
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a16z. Unfinished Business.
Today, ATOMS is announcing a $1.7B equity investment with lead investor a16z and Ben Horowitz joining the board. As part of this investment we have merged our various businesses into one Atoms equity
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