Startup Digest Reading List: Solo Capitalists vs..., Go to Market Plans, Airbnb’s S-1

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Welcome to this week’s edition of Startup Digest’s Reading List, a curated list of the top stories in technology, startups, and venture capital.

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

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Big Tech News Last Week

Salesforce acquired Slack for $27B. Huge congrats to my partner at Race Capital Alfred who was one of their earliest angel investors.
AWS hosted their Re:Invent Conference and made a lot of announcements including: S3 strong consistency, changes to lambda pricing, EC2 Mac Instances, and more.
Stripe announced their banking as a service product Stripe Treasury, with banking partners including: Goldman Sachs, Evolve Bank and Trust, Citi, and Barclays.

Deep Dive Posts

Lessons for early stage founders from Calvin French-Owen, the co-founder of Segment
Analysis of Stripe’s most recent banking as a service announcement and how they are becoming the platform of platforms.
The tradeoff between being a solo venture capitalist vs. having a venture partnership team by Nikhil Basu Trivedi.
Caroline Clark from Atlassian wrote one of the best guides on how to develop a go to market plan for startups.
A solid full stack analysis of the Airbnb S-1 and their upcoming IPO.

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Chris McCann - General Partner @ Race Capital, former Greylock Partners
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