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Still, I found it staggering that there were 414 companies in the recent batch. When we went through 13 years ago (crazy that it's been that long) we knew pretty much everyone in our batch. It was like 50 people. I had conversations with most of the speakers. A batch of 414 companies (or even 250) sounds like a completely different beast.

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We went through S21, which was a large batch (400 or so). While we made great connections with folks in our little corner of the world, we definitely did not make a ton of connections broadly across the batch. In fact, we still meet people who are in our batch and we had no idea. Same for conversations with speakers - just not feasible given the size of the program.

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