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A Minute With Twitter's Top Investor

Meet one of Twitter's biggest investors: Jeff Horing, co-founder of Insight Venture Partners, a private-equity firm that was the lead investor in last week's $100 million round of financing. He really likes taking startups public, but he's promising take it slow with Twitter. He believes Twitter's brand might be its most valuable asset. His biggest worry is alienating the micro-blogging community's users with intrusive advertising. Also of note, he says Google monetizes at $30 a user and Facebook is about $2 a user -- which, if true, is just extraordinary to consider.

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