14 Silicon Valley Startups Raised $677.4M - Week of September 2, 2024
14 Silicon Valley Startups Raised $677.4M - Week of September 2, 2024📺 Solana vs Ethereum is like Android vs iOS 💪 Founder’s Mode by Paul Graham 💰 Magnificent 7 are Distorting VC market 🤼♂️ Clash of the Tech Titans ⛓️ Pavel Durov’s DeclarationHappy Monday! Here are a few great things to read/watch this week:💪 Founder’s Mode by Paul Graham — VC’s who haven't been founders themselves don't really know how founders should run their companies. C-level execs, as a class, include some of the most skillful liars in the world. There are things founders can do that managers can't, and not doing them feels wrong to founders, because it is. Read more on PG’s blog. 📺 Solana vs Ethereum is like Android vs iOS — Thank you Bloomberg for having me on the show! Solana vs Ethereum, is like Android vs iOS: It’s not a zero sum game. iOS developers focus on building on iOS and vice versa. I want to see all L1 ecosystems flourish. SOL and ETH both need to thrive! Watch my segment on Bloomberg. 💰 Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet and Nvidia are Distorting VC market — The Magnificent 7 have been pouring billions of dollars to fuel the growth of capital-intensive companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Scale AI and CoreWeave. With some of the most well-capitalized companies on the planet flinging open their wallets to fund the generative AI craze, the normal pressures to go public don’t apply. And even if they did, this batch of startups is nowhere near showing off the profitability metrics that public investors need to see before taking the plunge. Read more on CNBC. ⛓️ Pavel Durov’s Declaration — Last month founder of Telegram was arrested and was interviewed by the police for 4 days after arriving in Paris. He was told he may be personally responsible for other people’s illegal use of Telegram, because the French authorities didn’t receive responses from Telegram. Here is his public announcement on Telegram. 🤼♂️ Clash of the Tech Titans: Silicon Valley Fractures Over Harris vs. Trump — An extraordinary public “war of words” is brewing in Silicon Valley, as some of the biggest names in technology take shots at former friends and colleagues in the run-up to the presidential election. This kind of infighting has been rare in previous presidential elections as the tech industry has historically leaned left. We are seeing tension between Silicon Valley billionaires because, for the first election cycle in my memory, some of them are leaving the herd and thinking and acting for themselves. Read more on WSJ. This week a total of 14 startups raised $677.4M in funding, 1 M&As:
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14 Silicon Valley Startups Raised $369.4M - Week of August 26, 2024
Monday, September 2, 2024
👨👦👦 Unit 8200 is the Silicon Valley's Hot Talent Pipeline 💰 Are NFTs Securities? 🖥️ Keep Code Behind AI Open 🇺🇸 Tech for America 👮 Pavel's Arrest Boosted Telegram Downloads ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
14 Silicon Valley Startups Raised $393M - Week of August 19, 2024
Monday, August 26, 2024
💰 Microsoft's $260 Billion in ARR 🔪 Kill Switch' for $100M Millionaires 💰 Enterprise Sales Tips for Founders 🍔 The Adoption of ChatGPT 🇨🇳 Six “Little Artificial-Intelligence Dragons” of China ͏
8 Silicon Valley Startups Raised $295M - Week of August 12, 2024
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😮 The Next President Needs Social Media to Win 💰 Co-Founder Equity Mistakes to Avoid 🤛 Databricks & Snowflake Both Fear Microsoft 🎤 Eric Schmidt Walks Back His Google Claim Google ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
13 Silicon Valley Startups Raised $1.98B - Week of August 5, 2024
Monday, August 12, 2024
😢 RIP Susan Wojcicki 🚫 Google's Default Search Deal is Now Illegal 💰 Good Luck Selling Your AI Startup 💱 Understanding Carry Trade 🎉 Congrats to Placer.ai team for raising $75M at $1.5 Billion ͏ ͏
13 Silicon Valley Startups Raised $183.3M - Week of July 29, 2024
Monday, August 5, 2024
👨💻 Race Capital is Hiring Engineers 🌲 Sequoia Capital History and Profile on Roelof Botha 💰 The Risk of Underinvesting 🇨🇳 The US Wanted to Knock Down Huawei ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
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