Startup Digest Reading List: 2020 Breakout Companies, Guide to Stock Options, Automating a VC analyst

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Startup Digest Reading List

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

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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.

This will be my last edition for 2020 as we head into the holidays. Hope everyone will have a wonderful break celebrating with their loved ones.

See you in the new year, and hope 2021 will be a much better year than 2020!

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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

One of the largest security hacks took place on the vendor SolarWinds which affects all of their downstream customers including: Microsoft, Cisco, FireEye and practically every single major federal agency including the Department of Defense, State, Treasury, Homeland Security and many others.
Coinbase confidentially filed their draft S-1 filing to go public.
Facebook is hypocritically attacking Apple regarding privacy concerns.
Apple’s newest phone is fast, mostly due to their own custom M1 chipset. Does this foreshadow the rise of a new era of custom chips including RISC-V?

Deep Dive Posts

The most talked about high-growth tech companies in 2020 (pulled from social data) include OnlyFans, Zoom, Discord, TikTok, and Shopify.
Here are some tactical tips for improving your websites’ homepage, most notably within the “above the fold” section.
Here is an engineer’s guide to stock options, a good refresh if you are considering joining a new company in the new year.
The process of a VC analyst is an opaque one, but here is one person’s attempt at explaining and automating the process of what a VC analyst does.

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