tectonic
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Matt Rhodes-Kropf, who is also a managing partner at Tectonic Ventures, often helps his students figure out how to tell their parents they’re taking a job at a startup.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026
Kaufman and Gronich met at NYU, and when he was founding Tectonic Theater Project she became a “proud early charter member.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2025
Tectonic plates shifted and the rapture came and went before I had time to come down from her simple yet utterly astounding observation.
From Salon • May 27, 2024
Tectonic plates constantly move against one another, and the crust in oceanic plates is more dense than continental plates, so oceanic plates get pushed under continental plates in a process called subduction and disappear.
From Scientific American • Oct. 17, 2023
“That’s it. Tectonic plates. It’s like when they go riding, when North America goes skidding into South America, you don’t want to be in the middle. You dig me?”
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
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