Startup Digest Reading List: Airbnb, Remote Working, Remote Pitching

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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

Airbnb went public at an eye-popping $100B market cap. More on their humble beginnings.
The FTC is suing Facebook and wants them to divest both Instagram and WhatsApp.
Uber is selling off its self-driving car division.
In the gaming world, Cyberpunk 2077 finally made its public debut.

Deep Dive Posts

Paige Craig details the story of how he missed out on investing in Airbnb. Unlike many of the other superficial stories shared on VC twitter, this account has some great lessons on investing and what it takes to win deals.
The future of work is remote and we are never going back. Not sure if I agree this strongly but our remote working behaviors have certainly been normalized by now.
Even though Affirm is postponing their IPO, this is a great deep dive into the company and consumer financing space as a whole.
A great tactical guide for raising a seed round virtually by Brent Franson and Nick Frost.

Interesting Things

Not tech related but I wanted to share this fun read about how camera lenses work and optics in general. It’s very in-depth with lots of cool graphics and slides to help visually understand what is going on.

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