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Darshan Shankar

Now:

  Bigscreen, a new Virtual Reality startup building collaboration software. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz. Read more: https://blog.bigscreenvr.com/bigscreen-raises-11-million-in-series-a-financing-led-by-true-ventures-a2d49da40e
Previously:

  Founder & CEO of Flotype
  Y Combinator alum (Winter 2011)
  UC Berkeley EECS (dropped out 2010)
Contact:

  Twitter: @dshankar
  Email: dnshankar at gmail
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  1. Tested reviews the Bigscreen Beyond, the smallest VR headset [video] (youtube.com)
    2 points 3
  2. Virtual reality startup Bigscreen raises $11M Series A (blog.bigscreenvr.com)
    2 points 0
  3. What pro computing could be (medium.com)
    3 points 0
  4. Investor Day (blog.ycombinator.com)
    257 points 91
  5. LIVE: Solar Impulse Airplane – Landing in Mountain View, CA (youtube.com)
    4 points 0
  6. Amazon Lumberyard: free AAA game engine with Oculus and AWS integration (aws.amazon.com)
    441 points 186
  7. Unreal Engine in VR – Early Preview Announcement
    2 points 0
  8. Ant Simulator cancelled after team spends crowdfunded money on booze and strippers (news.softpedia.com)
    4 points 0
  9. YC Open Office Hours (blog.ycombinator.com)
    200 points 92
  10. Google Buys Enough Clean Energy to Power Two San Franciscos (wired.com)
    2 points 0
  11. Bridging the “Reality Gap” (medium.com)
    1 points 0
  12. CCP Games, creators of EVE Valkyrie, raise $30M to build more VR games (vrfocus.com)
    1 points 0
  13. YC Continuity (blog.ycombinator.com)
    316 points 70
  14. Interstellar radio links enhanced by exploiting the Sun as a Gravitational Lens (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
    3 points 0
  15. How We Uncovered the Real Identity Behind “Startup L. Jackson” (syrah.co)
    238 points 107
  16. More Startup Metrics (a16z.com)
    96 points 2
  17. More Startup Metrics (a16z.com)
    6 points 1
  18. John Carmack discusses the art and science of software engineering (2012) (blogs.uw.edu)
    145 points 25
  19. An AI that writes your autobiography (medium.com)
    1 points 0
  20. ZeniMax lawsuit against Oculus moves forward (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
    1 points 0
  21. What to know about encodings and character sets (kunststube.net)
    83 points 30
  22. Quantum Random Number Generator using a smartphone camera (physicsworld.com)
    2 points 0
  23. Monument Valley was released one year ago today (monumentvalleygame.squarespace.com)
    2 points 0
  24. Improbable Lands $20M from Andreessen Horowitz for Distributed Simulation Tech (techcrunch.com)
    3 points 0
  25. Blinn’s Law and the paradox of increasing performance (boxxblogs.blogspot.com)
    1 points 0