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Vivek Sodera, cofounder of Superhuman, was also one of the cofounders of Rapleaf acording to (1):

Also see: https://money.cnn.com/2010/10/21/technology/rapleaf/index.ht...

From the article (10/21/2010): "Rapleaf knows your name, your age and where you live. It knows your e-mail address, your income and what social networks you use. It knows your likes and dislikes. And it makes money by selling much of that personal information to advertisers."

(Reference 1):

https://dataweekapiworld2014.sched.com/speaker/vivek_sodera....

"..Previously he(Vivek Sodera) co-founded Rapleaf, a consumer data company that was acquired in 2013, and spun out LiveRamp, a data onboarding platform."

It would be great to hear what A16Z's position on consumer privacy is, as I am sure this is just a misunderstanding.



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