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Despite remote work and the economic downturn, some companies look to London for expansion

TechCrunch

Compared to many other startups and scaleups, Proton has taken on very little venture capital (VC) funding in its nine-year history — aside from a small $2 million seed funding round back in 2015 and a $500,000 equity crowdfunder the previous year, Proton has managed to grow mostly through people paying money for its service.

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The Metaverse Is Not a Place

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

But it’s super hard to do from a technical standpoint and you give up a bunch of other things. We did an experiment back in 2014 or 2015, probably. Aaron [Koblin, the cofounder of Within] was living in San Francisco, and I was in Los Angeles. The audience feels present in the story with them.

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