Morning Summary

Friday! [Thwacks the ball.]  Hope you have a stellar weekend! If you haven’t signed up for our upcoming event on November 13th, don’t wait too long. Featuring former Facebook CTO Alex Stamos in conversation with NYTimes reporter Sheera Frenkel; Jim Collins of the GV-backed dark kitchen company Kitchen United in conversation with CNBC reporter Lora Kolodny; and renowned angel […]

Hope you’ve had a happy Thursday, all. 🙂 Top News  Facebook doesn’t believe in stopping misinformation, CEO Mark Zuckerberg suggested today in a 35-minute-long speech at Georgetown University that evoked Martin Luther King Jr., to the apparent chagrin of King’s daughter. Sponsored By …   Fun fact: Amazon went public in 1997 with $16 million in revenue and a market cap of $438 million. […]

Wednesday! Top News  Huh. Shares of Netflix soared more than 10 percent in extended trading today after the company reported mixed results, with earnings that beat expectations, a miss on domestic subscriber adds, and revenue that slightly missed analysts’ expectations. CNBC has more here.  OGs, take note: Yahoo announced today that it will stop allowing users to post new content to any […]

Tuesday! Happy birthday to our beloved first subscriber! Also, thanks to those of you who let us know that Russell Wilson is very much the current, not former, Seattle Seahawks quarterback. We really *fumbled* that one. (You collectively know about a million times more about the NFL than we do, and we appreciate the help.)   Also! Carta, the seven-year-old ownership and equity management […]

Friday! [Backs out of driveway.] Hope you have a terrific weekend, everyone! See you in a few days.:) Top News  EBay, Stripe, Mastercard and Visa are all dropping out of Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency project, the companies announced Friday. The news comes one week after PayPal announced its withdrawal as government regulators continue to scrutinize the plans. CNBC has more here.  The […]

Thursday! Hope yours went very well.:) Top News  Sheesh. A day after Apple pulled an app associated with Hong Kong’s anti-government protests, Google has removed from its Google Play store a mobile game after it was flagged by Hong Kong authorities. The game allowed players to role-play as a Hong Kong protester. According to the […]

Hi, all! Hope you’ve had a stellar Wednesday. 🙂 Ours flew by, though a definite highlight was a visit earlier in the day with renowned investor and hip hop connoisseur Ben Horowitz. More on our chat soon. Top News  Ugh. Apple has just removed an app, HKmap.live, that crowdsources the location of police and anti-government protesters in Hong Kong and that was approved by Apple late last week after it […]

Tuesday! No column today (we have a post-event plague). More tomorrow. 🙂 Top News  Kiss your perishables goodbye, local readers. PG&E, the California utility giant forced into bankruptcy by two years of devastating wildfires, is “orchestrating the biggest planned blackout yet to keep power lines from sparking more blazes,” as notes Bloomberg. The plan is to cut electricity to […]

Monday! Hope yours was a fine one.  Before we dive into things, we are *thrilled* to say that our third and last StrictlyVC event of this yearnow includes Cyan Banister, a partner with Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, as well as one of the most successful angel investors in the U.S., having written early checks to Uber, SpaceX, DeepMind and Niantic, among […]

Friday! Thank God.  Hope you have a wonderful weekend, everyone!  Quick mentions: If you’re looking for weekend reading, we sat down today at TC Disrupt with Ann Miura-Ko of Floodgate and Theresia Gouw of aCrew Capital to talk about SoftBank, dual-class shares and how to break into VC (among other things).  We also talked cannabis with former Pax CEO Bharat Vasan and Keith McCarty (founder of […]