Startup Digest Reading List - Selling to Large Enterprises, Silicon Valley, and Algorithmic Stablecoins

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Startup Digest Reading List

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

Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and CEO of FTX (one of our portfolio company founders for Race Capital), talked about what’s next for Crypto & Bitcoin on Yahoo Finance last week.

Always great to hear his perspectives including what tokenized stocks mean for traditional brokerage firms (ex. Robinhood) and the power of alternative fintech rails DeFi apps are building out, including instant settlement, 24/7 markets, and better user experiences.

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

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Tech news last week

Brave Browser launched a search engine focused on privacy.
The Supreme Court ruled universities cannot punish students for conduct on social media apps. This ruling will most likely have wide ranging consequences outside of this one case.
Blend Labs, the mortgage focused fintech app, filed their S-1 to go public with $96M in revenue.
Confluent, the commercial company behind Apache Kafka, filed their S-1 to go public with $236M in revenue

Deep Dive Posts

Despite the increasing decentralization of companies, Silicon Valley is still the far ahead leader of producing the most number of unicorns.
Here are some tactical tips for selling to large enterprises, very valuable for any b2b focused founders.
Haseeb Qureshi gives a visual explanation of “algorithmic stablecoins” - systems that create stablecoins without the reliance on cash held in a bank account.

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Startup Digest Reading List - Selling to Large Enterprises, Silicon Valley, and Algorithmic Stablecoins

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