Startups & Tech - Issue #210 - Apple Ads, FTX Growth, Median VC

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A curated list of the top stories in technology, startups, and venture capital.

Gm. I’ll be at the Stanford Blockchain Conference this week, feel free to ping me if you’ll be around. 
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Written by Chris McCann, General Partner @ Race Capital. More about me.

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🗞️ Interesting Reads
  • Despite Apple being a privacy first company, they are generating $4B per year on advertising.
  • FTX grew revenues by over 1,000% last year 👀 (Disclosure, Race Capital is a seed investor in FTX).
  • The median capital raised in a seed round is $3M, Series A is $9M, and Series B is $20M.
  • “Free stock trading” costs consumers ~$34B per year, or between 0.07%-0.45% per trade.
  • Different models of NFT lending.
  • Ethereum is finally merging from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake, greatly reducing the energy consumption of the network, although not making much impact on cost per transaction or throughput.
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