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The internet isn’t just like real life, a top VC says — it is real life. For a16z, that’s not philosophy, it’s an investment

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The internet isn’t just like real life, a top VC says — it is real life. For a16z, that’s not philosophy, it’s an investment
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The phrase “touch grass” has become the internet’s way of telling someone to log off and rejoin the real world. Erik Torenberg, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, thinks the phrase has it exactly backward — and that getting the philosophy right has enormous economic consequences.



In a new essay published through a16z, Torenberg makes a sweeping argument: the internet isn’t encroaching on real life. It has become real life. And what looks like a cultura

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