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Video: Marc Andreessen Talks About the New $650 Million Fund Burning a Hole in His Pocket

in News on November 3, 2010 at 5:23 am PT

As BoomTown wrote recently, Andreessen Horowitz finally officially announced a new investment fund it had been raising. The high-profile entrepreneur-led venture firm pulled in $650 million from its existing limited partners, as well as some new ones. Its last fund was $300 million. Here is partner Marc Andreessen in a video interview talking about what his firm is going to do with the new pile of moola.

The Sass of Kahn: Remembering Ricardo Montalban

in News on January 16, 2009 at 1:22 am PT

BoomTown’s favorite space villain, as well as an alum of two of the “Planet of the Apes” sci-fi movies, Ricardo Montalban, died earlier this week in Los Angeles. He was 88 years old. While he was also a movie star and helmed the always bizarre 1970s television show, “Fantasy Island,” those who love some serious scenery-chewing will never forget Montalban’s turn as the insane Khan Noonien Singh in the second “Star Trek” movie, “The Wrath of Khan.”