Startup Digest Reading List: Deep Tech, Developer Tools, and NFTs

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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.

One of the craziest things that happened last week was a non-fungible-token (NFT) sold for $69M last week through Christie’s. Has wild implications for the art world and here’s a podcast with the creator about the sale if you’d like to learn more.

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

Big Tech News Last Week

Stripe just raised a $600M Series-H round yesterday, valuing the company at $95B.
Applications are starting to build on top of Apple’s new M1 chipset, including Adobe Photoshop.
Roblox went public last week and its current market cap is $38B, here is their S-1 filing.
Beware that incognito mode on Google Chrome, might not be so “incognito.”

Deep Dive Posts

Michael Dempsey wrote a post 6 months ago on the relationship between SPACs and deep tech startups, where narative will be the primary driver of value. Interesting to look back and see how true many of this has been.
A post mortem on why RethinkDB failed (from 2017), namely the open source developer tool market was a terrible market to be in. So much of this dynamic has changed though with open source developer tools being one of the hottest markets in 2021.
With community being more and more valuable for today’s companies, here is a tactical guide to kickstarting your community.
Product launch - Bitwarden, a password manager that I use and recommend, recently launched “Bitwarden Send” a way to securely send information directly to anyone.

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