Startup Digest Reading List: How Databases Work, Primer on the Semi Industry, Developer Experience Teams

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Startup Digest Reading List

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

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

Hope everyone is having an awesome week so far.

My two partners at Race Capital - Alfred Chuang (Founder of BEA systems, early seed investor of Slack & Databricks) and Edith Yeung (former GP at 500 Startups, early seed investor at Agora (NASDAQ:API) and Solana - are doing a fireside chat about the investment landscape for 2021 especially for LP’s and capital allocators.

Event is private but Startup Digest subscribers are welcome to join and listen in.

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

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Calling Startups in Supply Chain Innovation

The Techstars Sustainability Challenge is an equity-free challenge that brings together founders with industry leaders in sustainability. Top Supply Chain solutions in the areas of Data & Automation and Materials & End-of-life Impact will have access to potential commercial opportunities with our corporate partners. We are looking for proven technologies that are able to be pilotable in 2021.
Applications are now open and close March 1, 2021.

Big Tech News Last Week

Visa calls off its $5.3B acquisition of Plaid (with no break-up fee to be paid) after an antitrust suit was filed.
Intel CEO steps down, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger replaces him.
DuckDuckGo reaches 100M daily search queries.

Deep Dive Posts

Chet Corcos of Notion wrote an amazing long form post about databases & understanding how they work (especially for non-technical readers)
If you ever wanted to learn more about the semiconductor industry, this is one of the best reports/primer about the industry at large.
Bakkt (the institutional crypto exchange)is going public via a SPAC. Here is their investor presentation and here is some commentary on their deck by Sam-Bankman Fried of FTX, the leading crypto derivative exchange.
Sarah Drasner of Netlify shares the responsibilities and structure of their developer experience team and how it functions within their company.

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Building A Sustainable Supply Chain Ask Me Anything Series

Join Techstars on January 28 at 11am ET as we chat with sustainability startups Ixon Food Technology and Big Wheelbarrow, along with industry leaders Cargill and EcoLab to learn how they’re applying startup technology to help reduce food waste throughout the food supply chain. This event will provide you with actionable insights you can apply to your own sustainable supply chain initiatives. Register now!

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Chris McCann - General Partner @ Race Capital, former Greylock Partners
chris@startupdigest.com

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