tech, startups, internet
The metaverse primer.
This is an oft-cited 8-part series by Matthew Ball. “The purpose of this essay is to offer a way to think about the emergence of the Metaverse.” | learn more
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tech, startups, internet
Welcome to the era of angel investors.
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 […]
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Notable Y-combinator companies by year.
“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 […]
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Curators all the way down
“A magnifying glass on the relationship between curation and commerce.” | learn more
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The clipper chip
“How once upon a time the government wanted to put a backdoor in your phone.” | learn more
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Nvidia digitized its CEO
“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 […]
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How fast is too fast?
“Is the pace of today’s fundraising environment actually in the best interest of founders?” | learn more
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Advertising stagflation.
“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
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CEO fires 150 after AI analysis told him to.
“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
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Luckin Coffee stock jumps after financial restatement.
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