Chris Dixon Is Sitting In His Lofty office in New York's Silicon Alley, trying to persuade an 18-year-old to take his money. The young man is in town from California, and the word on the street is he's poised to become one of Silicon Valley's hottest entrepreneurs. His name is Dan Gross, and he's developed a method for allowing people to easily search all the data they store in the "cloud"- music, bank statements, Twitter feeds, Facebook wall posts. All he needs now is the cash to get his fledgling company, Greplin, aloft. And Dixon, a 38-year-old millionaire who runs an investment firm called Founder Collective, is ready with his checkbook.
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