Startups & Tech Reading List - Cloud Disruption, Global Fintech, Democratized Tech

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Startups & Tech

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

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Instead of picking both big tech news + interesting articles, I decided to simplify the format a bit and include just interesting things I find on a weekly basis. Lmk what you all think.

On a personal note, for Playground, we announced our new featured collection, Epoch, is a generative artwork created by the renowned generative artist @Eko33 (featuring this December at Art Basel Miami 2021) + we are doing a public drop with Magic Eden on December 10th. Check it out!

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

🗞️ Interesting Things from Last Week

Square changed its overall name to Block, to tie in all of their products.
Why is Docusign a $50B company? TLDR - Its signatures are known and accepted in court.
The abilities “big tech” offers are democratizing to everyone, which could be their downfall.
Credit card fraud is a business, just like any other business with specialties and their own supply chains.
The cloud infrastructure stack is fractionalizing across multiple layers.
The usage of fintech is global, but the underlying infrastructure is not yet. IMO crypto truly disrupts our current financial infrastructure from an international perspective.
David Marcus, the head of Facebook Libra/Novi has left. Here were my own personal thoughts of Libra when it launched and predicted accurately that Libra/Novi wouldn’t launch on schedule.

🔥 Race Capital - Portfolio Jobs

Scarf: Head of Growth (Remote, US)
Zeet: Front End Engineer, Decentralized Engineer (SF, CA)
Polysign: VP of Finance (New York, NY)
FTX: Full Stack Developer (Miami, FL)
Opaque: Technical Recruiter, Product Designer, Developer Evangelist (Berkeley, CA)
SocialChat: Operations Manager (San Francisco, CA)
GoodNotes: Back-End Team Lead (London, UK)

Browse more open roles across our portfolio at Race Capital’s Portfolio Job Board

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