Redbox founder Gregg Kaplan resurrected this email he wrote to his team in 2006 about expenses to share with the world. It’s excellent! It reminds me of Memos from the Chairman (affiliate link) and the famed Paperclip Memo. | learn more
For the founders among us, check out this article by Dave Bailey that does a wonderful job of explaining how to write your investor updates for maximum results. If you’re a founder who isn’t writing investor updates, maybe start now […]
“That opening to biotech startups in 2014 was controversial at the time.” Looks good in hindsight! | learn more
BoxGroup, run by David Tisch and fueled (presumably) by his family money, has made investments into firms like GroupMe, Flatiron Health, Glossier, Harry’s, Oscar, Vine and Warby Parker. Now they’re taking outside capital for the first time. | learn more
“The test satellites, essentially just sensors, were deployed in a batch in March. They captured data, communicated with one another, and then after a couple of days in orbit, as was planned, burned up as they reentered the atmosphere.” | learn more
Last year, betaworks had a discussion session about so-called Synthetic media, “… the term we use at betaworks to describe algorithmically created or modified media — the nefarious version of this are deepfakes.” The write-up is interesting, as is the […]
Ben Thompson of Stratechery takes us on a tour of tech companies over the decades to build a framework to classify whether a company fits the description. His framework is a great one (IMHO). Then he applies it to WeWork […]
This author, Scott Sumner, is skeptical. “One would think that there are public policies that would substantially accelerate the pace of innovation. I’m not so sure.” | learn more
Another case of fake it ‘till you make it going wrong. “[Ellie] Cachette had said publicly that her firm had already committed over $100 million to various funds, but so far hardly anyone had received any money.” | learn more
Neil Constable is the new Chief Investment Officer of a firm that’s pioneering quant investing in private markets. They started as a marketplace for venture fundraising, but eventually developed such a great dataset that they closed the marketplace and started […]