A fun article, though it doesn’t go very deep. “Historically, angel investors have been high-net-worth individuals. But with loosened regulations and the advent of crowdfunding platforms, now almost anybody can invest small amounts of their own money in individual startups […]
“Since Y Combinator was founded by Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, Robert Tappan Morris, and Trevor Blackwell in March 2005, over 2000 companies have been launched out of the accelerator. The combined valuation of YC-backed companies was more than $300B by […]
“A magnifying glass on the relationship between curation and commerce.” | learn more
“How once upon a time the government wanted to put a backdoor in your phone.” | learn more
“Nvidia scanned its CEO, Jensen Huang, and trained an AI to mimic his gestures, creating a virtual replica of Huang, which the company used as part of its April keynote. In a blog post, Nvidia revealed that Huang did not […]
“Is the pace of today’s fundraising environment actually in the best interest of founders?” | learn more
“I think I’ve finally found one part of the economy where I’m already seeing a kind of stagflationary dynamic play out—Facebook ads.” | learn more
“You received this email because my big data team analyzed your activities in Jira, Confluence, Gmail, chats, documents, dashboards and tagged you as unengaged and unproductive employees.” | learn more
The Chinese coffee startup (founded 2017) was a high-flyer until April 2020 when it came out they had fabricated sales figures. I stopped paying attention then, but China really wants a domestic alternative to Starbucks. | learn more
For years I’ve heard rumors of glucose sensors coming to the Apple Watch. I’ve largely ignored them because they’ve been detached from any detail about the necessary technology. Then I saw this deck, now I’m a believer. Not only glucose, […]