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Startup Digest Reading List - FTX Speedrun, Stablecoins, and Why Investors Say No

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

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🗞️ Tech News Last Week
  • Square acquired AfterPay (a buy now pay later BNPL company) for $29B in an all stock deal, which was about 25% of the total value of Square. It’s a huge deal and Afterpay has 98K merchants in its network doing ~$21B in GMV.
  • Robinhood, the king of meme stock trading, has turned into a meme stock themselves, trading up 100% then down 50%. 
  • Apple, a major proponent of consumer privacy, announced a new photo identification feature which is a major violation of privacy principles. 
  • Inside the “infrastructure bill” set to pass in the US Senate includes new regulations for the crypto industry which are both poorly written and a huge overreach. Why crypto regulations are even inside an infrastructure bill to begin with is beyond me…
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Startup Digest Reading List: FTX, Cloud Provider Market Share, and Hype in Consumer Social

Monday, August 2, 2021

Last week, one of our portfolio companies, Saber, announced their $7.7M seed round where we at Race C Startup Digest Reading List Issue #165 — View online — Suggest a link Startup Digest Reading List A

Startup Digest Reading List - Metaverse, Creator Fund, M&A, Product Document Templates

Monday, July 26, 2021

Last week, one of our portfolio companies, FTX, raised the largest round for any crypto exchange. Her Startup Digest Reading List Issue #164 — View online — Suggest a link Startup Digest Reading List A

Startup Digest Reading List - How the Financial System Works and VC’s pitching DAOs

Monday, July 19, 2021

If you've ever wanted to work in venture capital, our firm Race Capital is hiring our first director Startup Digest Reading List Issue #163 — View online — Suggest a link Startup Digest Reading

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

Monday, June 28, 2021

Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and CEO of FTX (one of our portfolio company founders for Race Capital), t Startup Digest Reading List Issue #161 — View online — Suggest a link Startup Digest Reading List A

Startup Digest Reading List - DeFi Infrastructure, Dave Teardown, Kafka Explainer

Monday, June 21, 2021

I published a long form essay on the topic of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Infrastructure and how thi Startup Digest Reading List Issue #160 — View online — Suggest a link Startup Digest Reading List A

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