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. […]
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October 16, 2019
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 […]
October 15, 2019
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 […]
October 11, 2019
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 […]
October 10, 2019
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 […]
October 9, 2019
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 […]
October 8, 2019
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 […]
October 7, 2019
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 […]
October 4, 2019
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 […]
October 3, 2019
Is it Thursday (still, we think)! Hope yours has gone well. 🙂 Top News The vaping illness outbreak just surpassed 1,000 cases and 18 deaths, with no sign of slowing, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Of the 578 cases where doctors know what patients were using, roughly 78 percent of the patients said they vaped THC, the active […]