Friday! [Opens front door; falls, exhausted, into hot dog sofa.] Wishing you a terrific weekend, everyone. See you in a couple of days.:) Top News Facebook announced today that it has suspended tens of thousands of apps for improperly hoarding users’ personal information, which is way up from the 400 apps flagged a year ago by […]
Morning Summary
September 19, 2019
Thursday! We’ve been buried up to our *eyeballs* in news today. So much happened; let’s zip through it. Top News Donald Trump met Mark Zuckerberg in the White House today, in an apparent effort to address lawmakers’ concerns over everything from privacy to Facebook’s plans to launch a cryptocurrency, and the meeting was, er, “constructive,” according to a […]
September 18, 2019
Wednesday! Before we jump into things, a note that our November 13 event at NextWorld Capital in San Francisco is starting to come together and it’s going to be great. Among our featured guests, Alex Stamos, the former chief security officer of Facebook and currently an adjunct professor at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, is joining […]
September 17, 2019
Tuesday! Holy smokes, it’s late! Top News Donald Trump was in the Bay Area today for the first time since his election, and despite the covert fundraiser that his host, former Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy, tried organizing because of past protests around Trumps visits, things didn’t go quite as planned. To wit, a neighbor […]
September 16, 2019
Hello!:) Top News WeWork is very likely postponing its IPO, says the WSJ, which suggests the shared-workspace company might instead launch its roadshow in October or . . . not. In related news: the two anchor investors in SoftBank’s Vision Fund are reconsidering how much to commit to a second Vision Fund as its $10 billion investment in WeWork […]
StrictlyVC: August 16, 2018
Hi, happy Thursday, all. We have to zoom off sort of abruptly today so we may be missing something juicy in today’s newsletter. If so, we’ll get you caught up tomorrow morning. Top News In a company email earlier today, Twitter cited “technical and business constraints” as the reason behind a new shutdown of third-party APIs. The move […]
StrictlyVC: August 15, 2018
Happy Wednesday! Top News Y Combinator is expanding to China after a year or two of dropping hints about such plans. Toward that end, it announced the hiring last night of former Microsoft and Baidu executive Qi Lu, who will develop a standalone startup program that runs on Chinese soil. TechCrunch has more here. Uber just reported its second quarter financials, […]
StrictlyVC: August 14, 2018
Tuesday! We’re keeping things on the (slightly) shorter side today as we’re very under the weather — the product, no doubt, of spending time last week in a variety of germ-infested venues, including one giant amusement park. Below, you can see us having the bejeebers scared out of us at said park, along with one […]
StrictlyVC: August 13, 2018
Hello, happy Monday! We’re back from our quick break and already insanely busy, so no column today, *but* a quick programming note about our September 25th event in San Francisco before we jump into things. In addition to interviews with James Monsees and Adam Bowen,the founders who designed the Juul vaporizer that’s taking over the world; and founder David Rogier of MasterClass, which has fast become the […]
StrictlyVC: August 3, 2018
Friday. Looks like we made it. Hope you have a most wonderful weekend, everyone, and week. We’ll see you Monday, August 13th, when we’re back from a quick vacation from our computer screen.:) Top News Peloton, a six-year-old, New York-based company that makes a $2,000 stationary bicycle and charges its sticky customer base $39 a month […]