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  "id": 10922660,
  "title": "Pioneering Silicon Valley VC Bill Draper died on September 8 at age 98; he began investing in the 1960s, with successful bets like Activision, Skype, and Qume (Alex Williams/New York Times)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/pioneering-silicon-valley-vc-bill-draper-died-on-september-8-at-age",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-30T10:45:04.000Z",
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    "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/technology/william-draper-dead.html"
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  "summary": "Bill Draper began funding start-ups in the early 1960s, when the Santa Clara Valley was better known for apricot orchards than microchips.",
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        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "A profile of Travis Kalanick, CEO of Atoms, whom Silicon Valley has welcomed back with VC support despite his unapologetic stance on his 2017 ouster from Uber (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/a-profile-of-travis-kalanick-ceo-of-atoms-whom-silicon-valley-has",
        "published": "2026-09-30T02:15:00.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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