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Dharmesh Thakker  |  September 11, 2024
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This post originally appeared on our Condensing the Cloud Substack, read it in full here.

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Dharmesh Thakker is a general partner at Battery Ventures, where he invests in early- and growth-stage companies in the cloud infrastructure, big data, security and next-generation enterprise applications markets.

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