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This academy for promising high school grads is somewhere between a trade-school, Y Combinator and Peter Thiel's Fellowship Program.

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I didn't tell my Y Combinator batchmates I had a kid. I worried they'd think I wasn't hardcore enough.
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Subscription billing fintech Skio sold to its competitor Recharge in what was a healthy exit, according to its founder and former CEO.

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