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Meet the 6 latest Pioneer companies building products spanning AI phone agents, legal co-pilots, automated cold-video outreach, and more:
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Introducing Pioneer:
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.
@zoink
pitching
@figmadesign
in 2013 wasn't anything like what you'd expect today. No slides titled "Problem" and "Solution." No total addressable market breakdown. Just 10 minutes of mind-bending WebGL and JS demos.
Watch him reenact the pitch here:
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Introducing the winners of the first Pioneer Tournament:
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A $1,000 brain scanner. A crypto key you can’t lose. Settling new cities in Africa. This is The Frontier. Meet the winners of our latest tournament:
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The next era for Pioneer begins today! We're refreshing our offer to include a $20k investment and a monthlong trip to Silicon Valley with fellow Pioneers.
Read more about Pioneer 3.0 in Forbes:
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Big news: winners of our upcoming October tournament will receive $6,000 in Stellar lumens (in addition to $5,000 in USD).
It's a cryptocurrency air-drop to the creative outsiders of the world. Apply today:
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A $5k winners bounty, over $150,000 in developer credits, virtual hangout rooms, mini-games with prizes, live streamed finalist presentations, and more.
We’re running a global 24hr remote
#PioneerHackathon
next weekend. Sign up here:
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Just over 2 years ago, Pioneer launched as a home for the ambitious outsiders of the world.
A progress update:
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We’re hosting our first-ever Pioneer meetup. If you’re in India, join us!
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Shopify for Africa. Gamified money management. No code ML. 11 new Pioneers from 7 countries this April - innovators and tinkerers from four continents around the world.
Read more about them here:
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We used to host tournaments monthly. No more. We're now hosting a tournament... all the time. The gates are always open.
Introducing The Infinite Tournament. Press play anytime you're ready:
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Thanks to
@TheEconomist
for featuring us this week's print issue! We're honored to be partners. In addition to $5,000 and a ticket to Silicon Valley, Pioneers get a magazine subscription.
Take your project to the next level. Applications close tonight:
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We've made Pioneer's terms significantly more flexible:
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An API for augmented reality. A virtual office for remote teams. A mobile app for building simple websites.
Meet our 7 newest Pioneers, from Estonia, Ireland, Colombia, Russia, and the US:
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We launched one year ago and have since funded 58 creative outsiders from 20 countries.
We think the next Steve Jobs or Marie Curie is out there, hidden on this list: .
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Micro-satellites. Engineered miracle food. Software that translates natural language into code. And more. Pioneer winners continue to build at The Frontier. Read about the latest cohort:
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20 Pioneers from around the world are in SF for a month!
We kicked off the Pioneer Summit with the inspiring
@natfriedman
,
@samchaudhary_
from
@classdojo
&
@christinacaci
from
@TrustVanta
.
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Almost all founders struggle with hiring. “But I don’t have a network.”
But in the Internet of 2020, “hiring” is less about your collegiate network, more about recruiting promising strangers you meet on the web.
Good discussion in last week’s Pioneer Camp:
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Revenue. DAUs. MAUs. MOOs. There's so much advice on what to focus on after launch. But there's no tool for shaping your progress pre-launch.
Introducing Launcher: .
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Introducing Pioneer Codex, a collection of the best writings & videos on taking a project from Idea to Seed: .
Codex directly answers 100 of the most common questions we've heard across thousands of conversations with early founders.
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Today, we've funded our 100th Pioneer. Better e-commerce search, an easier way to publish a blog, Fitbit for productivity, and more. Check out the latest Pioneer projects:
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Preview of Pioneers showcasing next week:
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@mishkaorakzai
🇵🇰
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@Arkadiy_Baltser
🇺🇸
3/
@andriosr1
🇧🇷
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@colmdotcom
🇺🇸
5/
@nickcarmont
&
@ashishtelang1
🇬🇧
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@kirillzzy
🇷🇺🇺🇸
7/
@sharontlin
@mrland99
Victor Hua & Son Do 🇺🇸
8/
@ben_eluan
&
@Uncensored_dev
🇳🇬
9/
@michaelaubry
🇺🇸
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.
@thiscodeworks
just won the Pioneer Tournament. She's in Pakistan, making an online repository for code snippets. A social network for GitHub Gists! Learn more about our latest winners here:
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.
@elzibs
and Ose Orukpe from Nigeria joined the Pioneer Tournament in January 2020 with 0 users and an SMS payment MVP.
A year later: 5,000 users and over $750,000 total payment volume. Thrilled for their progress. Read more in TechCrunch:
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Introducing the winners of the latest Pioneer Tournament, spanning everything from nuclear fusion materials to a distributed WhatsApp:
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A peek at Pioneers presenting next week:
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@tushgeek
@TeeJaY_Codes
🇳🇬
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@OmarKamali
🇩🇪
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@hannah_1e
🇨🇦
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@sidgarimella
🇺🇸
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@nachoalvarez_l
@gerardoacuna
🇲🇽
6/
@zwadzinski
Dakota & Harrison 🇺🇸
7/
@krystiangebis
& Mateusz 🇺🇸🇵🇱
8/ Luke Barwikowski 🇺🇸
9/
@michaelaubry
🇺🇸
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“Dude, if we nail this, this could be a $10 million company!”
This is the story of how
@intercom
became a $1.6B company 👇
Before Intercom,
@destraynor
,
@eoghan
,
@ciaran_lee
and
@davebarrett
built web apps for non-technical founders.
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We're humbled to have won 3rd best Product of the Year on
@ProductHunt
's Golden Kitty Awards!
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"It pushed me to work harder than ever and make my project not just something I did in my free time, but something I made free time for."
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First look at Pioneers presenting work next Wednesday –
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@keyserfaty
🇦🇷
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@FusorFusion
🇮🇪
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@morajabi
&
@benrajabi
🇪🇪
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@arsalanbashir
🇦🇪🇺🇸
5/
@cambaughn
🇺🇸
6/
@SamAbrika
🇬🇧
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@anshchopra_
,
@rishabhmin
and Sam Mendel 🇨🇦🇺🇸
8/
@theshevalex
🇨🇦
9/ Inna P. &
@shnuroc
🇧🇾
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Netflix for doctoral education. ML Model Marketplace. Roam Research for Real Estate. 7 Pioneer teams from 6 countries quietly humming away at the tools and platforms that'll shape the future.
Meet our December Tournament winners: .
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Next Wednesday, 9 Pioneer companies from around the world will present their companies live to
@stripe
COO
@chughesjohnson
,
@NotionHQ
CEO & co-founder
@ivanhzhao
and
@paystack
CEO & co-founder
@shollsman
.
For a front-row seat, grab your ticket here:
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Stripe Atlas for Government forms. Heroku for GPUs. Figma meets Final Cut Pro. Pioneers around the world building software for the future.
Meet our June Tournament winners:
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We've extended the deadline of our December Tournament. Get $100,000 in Google Credits, a ticket to Silicon Valley and more. Applications close in 5 days:
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"I showed up in a panic to office hours with
@DanielGross
, wanting to take the deal but being afraid to give up too soon on my dreams."
Read our interview with
@erikdoingthings
, founder of
@BananaDev_
, who just raised $1.6M to build GitHub for ML:
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As a special feature, Instagram co-founder and former CTO
@mikeyk
will dust off the archives and “retro-pitch” 2010 Instagram to
@danielgross
.
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Social web browsing. Effortless cryptocurrencies for creators. AI-powered green screens. 5 new Pioneer teams chipping away at the next set of formidable Internet companies.
Meet our June Tournament winners:
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New year, new Pioneers! Here’s the latest cohort of Pioneer companies:
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Fun fact:
@tylercowen
decided to become an economist when he was 13 years old. Read his Pioneer interview:
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In 4 days, 20 Pioneers from 8 countries will present their projects to Instagram co-founder
@mikeyk
, Stripe co-founder
@patrickc
, Earn co-founder
@balajis
, and Longevity Fund founder
@LauraDeming
.
Register to watch Livestream Day 2: .
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Paypal for Africa. Remote co-browsing. Better Livestreaming. Nine Pioneers creating and reshaping industries around the world.
Meet our May Tournament winners:
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"If there's literally only one thing you get right: please describe your product to a layman."
Watch excerpts from last week's Office Hours with
@danielgross
here:
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@thejuliawu
is making a kind of crypto-kitties for renewable energy. It's a game where one collects and trades elements of renewable energy on the Ethereum blockchain.The values of the tokens fluctuate with the performance of clean energy in public markets.
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AI-generated content for social. ML to reduce employee burnout. Better search tools for finding people, and for cheaper groceries.
Meet our latest cohort:
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.
@stephen_wolfram
has joined Pioneer as an Expert!
Get $5,000 to work on whatever you want. Meet other researchers and creative outsiders. Showcase your work to experts. Applications close in 4 days:
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Congrats to Pioneers
@PrimalNick
, Austin Kahn and the
@buildatmos
team on their raise led by Khosla!
From VR headsets in our March ’19 Tournament to a full-fledged custom homebuilding business. Read more in Forbes below:
Announcing our latest raise from
@khoslaventures
,
@bedrock
@adamnash
@kevinhartz
@JLLSpark
@JoshRichards
@BryceHall
and more.
“Atmos enables significantly more people to build the homes they want.” -
@evancharles
of Khosla
Excited for what's next!
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Introducing the first 12 Pioneers of 2020. Credit card points for sustainability, Twitter as a CRM, Minecraft-meets-notes, and more:
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Meet the 9 latest Pioneer companies spanning time-series predictions in the cloud, automated ETL pipeline creation, audio feedback insights at scale, and more:
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Next Wednesday, 10 Pioneers from 8 countries will present their companies and get interviewed live by
@SendBird
founder
@doshkim
,
@Superhuman
founder
@rahulvohra
,
@eventbrite
founder
@kevinhartz
and
@LatticeHQ
founder
@jaltma
.
Grab your ticket here: .
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“When I was 16 the most ambitious thing I could picture myself doing was to go study abroad.”
Read our interview with
@justinglibert
announcing
@0xPARC
, a new grant-giving research lab for application-level tech built on Ethereum:
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Netflix for animated shorts. An AI-powered app to find friends. Solving residency for remote workers.
Meet our 6 new Pioneer teams:
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Finding product-market fit can take years, and many teams never get there. But as all founders know, it's the only thing that matters for a new startup.
Introducing our second course, Find Product-Market Fit: .
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Browser-based carbon offsetting. Slack meets Google Docs. Mixpanel for personal productivity. Pioneers around the globe charting the next generation of companies.
Meet our July Tournament winners:
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.
@rememberlenny
is building a digital genealogy of street art. He’s scraping Instagram and making a searchable database of street art around the world. This project might amplify the voice of “protest art” against the constraints of censorship from autocratic governments.
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First look at Pioneers presenting their work next week:
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@johnmcelhone8
@micheal_mcl_
🇮🇪
2/ Dylan Fay & Zack Saadioui 🇺🇸
3/
@erikdoingthings
🇺🇸
4/ Saj Arora 🇨🇦
5/
@stanrym
🇵🇱
6/
@brianwaterstone
🇺🇸
7/
@sachaker
🇺🇸
8/
@justvibesncode
🇰🇪
9/
@CryogenicPlanet
🇮🇳
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Airbnb for parking. Zapier for farming. Personal CFO for freelancers. 12 Pioneers from 7 countries building new and innovative tools for the next generation.
Meet our October Tournament winners:
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“I'm Brad, I'm from Des Moines Iowa, and I like making things.”
The first words of
@braddwyer
's Pioneer Tournament application, June 2019.
Today, he and
@josephofiowa
announce
@roboflow
’s $20M Series A, led by
@craft_ventures
:
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Pioneer winner
@rememberlenny
just launched! Check out Public Art, the worlds first street art genealogy.
Like visiting a museum with all of the street art in the world:
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.
@JustinGlibert
won crowd favorite during our October Demo Livestream.
Watch him present the first factory on the Moon to
@avichal
: .
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A look at our Pioneers for next Wednesday-
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@DaveJ
🇮🇪
2/
@prestonattebery
🇺🇸
3/
@shyamady
🇺🇸🇯🇵
4/
@stas_kulesh
🇳🇿
5/ Thomas Uhlenbreck 🇨🇦
6/
@jzlegion
🇺🇸
7/
@adityarao310
🇮🇳
8/
@OmarKamali
🇩🇪
9/
@tscepo
🇺🇸🇿🇦
10/ Kinana, Reema and Muath 🇵🇸
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Meet our latest Pioneer companies working on companies ranging from no-code tools for e-commerce & Web3 to a marketplace for influencers.
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Multiplayer AR game engine. Fiat payments in Africa. Autocorrect for engineers. 9 new Pioneers pedaling away at the future.
Meet our first Tournament winners of 2022:
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One week into the Infinite Tournament, Pioneer's top 10 spans 5 continents.
Start playing today, climb to the top: .
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Introducing Advisor Chat: Interactive, live Q&A from Pioneer’s Advisors to our players. Like getting advice over a cup of coffee, but on the Internet:
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.
@hunterscott
is making engineered plants and microbes optimized for growth on Mars as a sustainable food source for the first astronauts there.
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Side-projects that could get big:
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“Homes will be digital, controllable and customizable, and that will revolutionize the definition of the home that has remained stagnant for generations.” Read about
@buildatmos
, headed by Pioneers
@PrimalNick
and Austin Kahn, in
@TechCrunch
this week:
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Our 4th Summit in San Francisco is over! Thank you to
@olofster
,
@reinpk
, and
@ivanhzhao
for making this a special experience.
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In less than an hour,
@tylercowen
@zsims
@LauraDeming
and
@patio11
will interview 16 Pioneers live. Grab a ticket to our Pioneer Livestream here:
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CozyRoom, voice chat in simulated physical spaces, is finally live! Built by
@azlenelza
.
We’ve been waiting to try this ourselves since their demo at our April Hackathon. Check it out: .
Excited to finally release —a more fun way to talk and spend time with friends over the internet
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Fully automated freight shipping. Efficient ML model deployment. Ocean-faring drone ships. Pioneers around the world tinkering away at the next generation of formidable businesses.
Meet our September Tournament winners:
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Strong group of Pioneers take the stage next week:
1/
@0xjenil
🇮🇳
2/
@localghost
🇺🇸
3/
@nachoalvarez_l
🇲🇽
4/
@johnmcelhone8
&
@micheal_mcl_
🇮🇪
5/
@pranaygp
🇨🇦
6/
@tushgeek
&
@TeeJay_Codes
🇳🇬
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"Seems crazy when I remember that I started alone in my living room."
Read our interview with
@keyserfaty
– Pioneer since April 2020; leading a team of nine in Argentina; recently raised $1M to build :
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A look at Pioneers taking the stage next week:
1/
@tushgeek
@TeeJaY_Codes
🇳🇬
2/
@LuckyDogALYS
🇪🇬
3/
@___________chen
& Austa 🇨🇦
4/
@tscepo
🇿🇦
5/
@johnny_makes
🇬🇧
6/ Daniel Getman 🇺🇸
7/
@mattcrail
@TomKrakowiak
🇺🇸🇵🇱
8/
@codefreechris
@Hazme1ster
& Lewis 🇬🇧🇳🇱
9/
@JustinGlibert
🇧🇪
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Before
@braddwyer
and
@josephofiowa
landed on end-to-end computer vision with
@roboflowAI
, they built a Sudoku-solver, NLP-to-code Q&A and Stack Overflow multi-language translator.
Read about their $2.1M raise and path through the Pioneer Tournament here:
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One week from now, 16 Pioneers from 11 countries take the stage in our first virtual demo day of 2020. Grab your ticket here:
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Venmo for LatAm. Shopify for restaurants. 3D computer vision storage. Pioneer teams from 6 countries on 4 continents peddling away at the next era of innovative businesses.
Meet our August Tournament winners:
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Curious about what the
#PioneerHackathon
entails? Here’s a rundown.
1/ Virtual conference center
2/ Feedback sessions
3/ Hacker meals
4/ RPS tournament
5/ Livestream presentations
6/ Prizes
7/ Mini hacks
8/ Minecraft @ Midnight
9/ Expert AMAs
10/ Glory
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We know how to build new apps. But what would it take to build a new city?
@MarkLutter
and
@_TamaraWinter
of the Charter Cities Institute are figuring out the answer. Check out our interview with them:
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How do you decide it's time to move on to a fresh idea? Check out Segment CEO's answer on Pioneer TV (featuring
@zsims
&
@ryanbubinski
of Codecademy):
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Pioneer joins the
@Stripe
@Atlas
Clubhouse today to discuss our recent Tournament winners, trends in crypto and entrepreneurship, and Israel's vaccination progress.
Live at 12:30 PM PT with
@danielgross
and Stripe's
@_TamaraWinter
and
@edwinwee
.
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In case you're curious, this is a taste of what Pioneer looks like on the inside. It's a game. Get enough points and you'll unlock funding, mentorship and more. You might even make some friends along the way.
Let's go:
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.
@MarkLutter
and
@_TamaraWinter
are constructing the ecosystem for charter cities, starting with Zambia and Nigeria.
"How do you make sure this isn't colonialism?" -
@zoink
on last week's Livestream:
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Congrats to the
@hyperonline_
team on raising $3.6M!
@localghost
’s Demo Day pitch *done entirely via his avatar* remains one of the most memorable pitches we’ve seen.
Read more about the round by Two Sigma, Amazon, and others here: .
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