| EBay founder and top VC firm invest confidence (and $8 million) in
Second Life’s future
Joining a roster of clients that includes AOL, Red Hat, and Palm, among
many other prestigious Internet/tech companies, Linden Lab today announced
$8 million in financing from Benchmark Capital, a leading Silicon Valley
investment firm; Benchmark partner and Internet guru Bill Gurley will also join
Linden Lab’s board of directors. If that wasn’t enough, legendary EBay founder Pierre Omidyar's new organization, the Omidyar Network, also got in on the fun, participating in the investment. Read the entire press release here.
What does all this money and all these famous names mean to the future of
Second Life? In a word, more: More support, more content, more updates
and fixes-- more *world*, to explore and shape. In another word,
validation: not just of Linden Lab or the technology behind Second Life,
but the residents who helped build the world with the tools we gave them.
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