Startup Digest Reading List: Leadership, DeFi, and No Code Applications

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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.

It was an action-packed week last week, here is a recap of some of the biggest tech stories and a few posts from operators and investors to deep dive into.

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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

Tesla buys $1.5B in bitcoin to put on its company balance sheet. It’s a huge move and the first time a Fortune 500 has digital assets on their balance sheet.
SpaceX launched their newest Starlink satellite internet service.
To increase privacy, Apple redirected search traffic through its own proxy servers, to prevent disclosing users’ IP addresses to Google.
Samsung will build a new silicon Foundry in the US in 2023.

Deep Dive Posts

Ark Invest released their annual Big Ideas Report. It’s long but in particular I thought the section on digital wallets was worth highlighting > “In the US, digital wallets are surpassing the number of bank account holders at the largest financial institutions.”
While it’s easy to be skeptical of all of these “no code” applications, the big use case for them all could be streamlining and automating internal processes.
Decentralized finance (DeFi) and non-fungible tokens is where a lot of the bleeding edge innovation in the digital asset space is currently. Here is a good primer on the DeFi space by none other than the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Missouri.
[Podcast] Interview with Ali Ghodsi, the CEO of Databricks, on leadership, management, and running a high-growth company.

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