Gm. The biggest news last week was Adobe’s $20B acquisition of Figma last week. I had the pleasure of working with Dylan Field in the early days at Greylock, helping to build its early customers and design community.

Some companies take a long time to mature, and I was always in awe with Dylan & John Lilly’s endurance to grind it out for years to become the company that it is today. A huge congrats to you both! 

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Written by Chris McCann, General Partner @ Race Capital. More about me.

• Banking as a Service & fintech partner banks are going to be under a lot more scrutiny  after the Blue Ridge Bank & OCC agreement.
• Sam Bankman (founder of FTX) on crypto regulation in the US. Also a huge congrats for FTX getting regulatory approval to operate in the EU. 
• What internal engineering tools look like. 
• The metaverse company might turn out to be Roblox, not Meta. 
• Market data on network availability. Interesting tidbit: Worldwide users spend ~6% of time with no cellular signal.
• Three trillion photos were taken with iPhones last year, that's a lot of pictures! 
• I wrote some tips on pitching. TLDR: Know your product & weave your story into your company.

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