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In third grade, Grant LaFontaine sold a Pokemon card online. The buyer mailed a money order; Grant cashed it at the post office and shipped the card. Today he's co-founder and CEO of @Whatnot, where the largest businesses do over $100 million a year at up to 40% margins. In this conversation, Grant joins a16z's David George to discuss how that first transaction became a platform that did $8 billion in sales last year, why live commerce is a third of all commerce in China yet still emerging in…