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Aug 2018
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a16z Podcast: Crypto and the Evolution o...

Andreessen Horowitz
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with Devon Zuegel (@devonzuegel), Denis Nazarov (@iiterature), and Jesse Walden (@jessewldn) The open source movement enabled so much in computing, including the collaborative building of libraries -- that is, building blocks of code that developers... 
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