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Welcome to the exponential view podcast where multi-disciplinary conversations

about the near future happen every week.

I'm your host, Azim Azar.

Now, my guest today is Andrew Chen, a partner at Venture Capital firm and recent

Harvard, a specializing in consumer internet startups.

We do talk about that in this podcast, but we also talk about something else like me,

Andrew released his first book this year and had to get to grips with transforming

years worth of experience as an insider in the tech industry into a coherent thesis

and a long-form book.

Both here and I have written in blogs and tweets for some time,

a book was a different beast for the two of us.

It was fascinating to hear about his experience of writing a book,

how his experience of startups translated to the world of publishing

and what he learnt about his day job while moonlighting as an author.

It's a little different, but I do hope you enjoy it.

Andrew Chen, welcome to exponential view.

Hi, Azim. It's really nice to be here.

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