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“The good case is just so unbelievably good that you sound like a really crazy person to start talking about it. And the bad case — and I think this is important to say — is, like, lights out for all of us.” youtube.com/watch?v=ebjkD1Om…
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“Hunter Walk, a partner at venture firm Homebrew who himself has publicly admitted some of his misses, called anti-portfolios 'performative BS.'” wsj.com/articles/venture-cap…
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4 Dec 2022
In a new interview with the WSJ, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried continues distancing himself from trading firm Alameda Research, even though he owned 90% of it wsj.com/articles/ftx-founder…
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3 Dec 2022
Always a pleasure catching up with @Cookie this time for the @StrictlyVC - great podcast for a cosy Saturday around egg freezing, the opportunity to build the womens health biotech & the past year at @GametoGen- which is “beginning to take shape”
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7 Oct 2022
Alex Wiltschko, an EIR at GV (Google's venture arm), is setting out to digitize scent. One benefit could be machines that sniff out diseases. Listen to his conversation with StrictlyVC here.
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Spoke with @cookie about how we evaluate whether ideas are big enough. Part of our Reactor program for students is to help them learn our process so they leave knowing what venture scale looks like: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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2 Sep 2022
A judge ruled in favor of Illumina in its $7.1 billion acquisition of cancer-testing developer Grail, dealing a defeat to a Federal Trade Commission challenge that signaled more-aggressive antitrust enforcement wsj.com/articles/illumina-wi…
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Instacart is acquiring AI-powered pricing and promotions platform Eversight tcrn.ch/3wNIl51
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Pear VC's Anand Iyer goes solo with new $20M fund for crypto developer tools tcrn.ch/3NOmW1t
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27 May 2022
"At top firms such as Andreessen Horowitz, salaries and bonuses alone for partners can stretch into the multimillions, according to people familiar with those firms." A deep dive into VC compensation:
theinformation.com/articles/… via @theinformation
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6 Apr 2022
China's Zhiyi Tech raises $100 million to help fashion brands predict bestsellers tcrn.ch/38qI8Lv
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4 Apr 2022
Journalist Eric Newcomer takes a look at who is managing how much, reporting Paradigm's assets have hit $13.2B, a16z's AUM has reached $54.6B, and Sequoia's holdings are now $85.5B(!). Much more here: newcomer.co/p/scoop-crypto-f…
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22 Mar 2022
Scoop: The controversial crypto startup @worldnetwork is raising $100 million from Andreessen Horowitz and Khosla Ventures to build more eyeball-scanning orbs. theinformation.com/articles/…
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16 Mar 2022
New data shows how far VCs are pulling back on U.S. Series A, B, and C valuations tcrn.ch/3ieFLNv
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15 Mar 2022
Tesla hikes car prices in the U.S., China after Elon Musk warns of inflation pressure cnb.cx/3q2r7NB
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15 Mar 2022
Ex-Meta employees raise $200M from a16z, Tiger, Multicoin to realize Facebook's crypto dreams tcrn.ch/3tf11JA
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15 Mar 2022
Oops. Apologies to Genies (and to prospective investors of Genies), which we included in "massive fundings" yesterday, stating it had newly raised $100M. The company has raised $100M to date, per a WSJ story to which we linked but misread. preview.mailerlite.com/y0z0b…
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14 Mar 2022
A woman burst onto Russia’s main live evening newscast today with a sign that says:
“Stop the war
Don’t believe propaganda
They’re lying to you”
And chanting: “Stop the war! No to war!”
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