Startups & Tech - Issue #186: Web2 VCs NGMI, Telegram Origin, Why People Have Quit Jobs

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Gm. Two personal updates this week:

Excited to announce we led the seed round for Allbridge. Allbridge has bridged over $5B across all of the web3 ecosystems & bridges will increasingly be an important infrastructure area in our multi-chain future.
I’ll be speaking on a panel with CoinGecko about the state of crypto in 2022 on January 20th at 8am EST.

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

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🗞️ Interesting Reads

8 reasons why Web2 VCs are NGMI
Paypal is exploring its own stablecoin 👀
The behind the scenes story about Telegram, which is now the fastest growing app in the world.
The best investors are the ones that have your back, during the good and bad times.
An informal poll on why tech people have quit their jobs TLDR: Compensation, culture, and finding new challenges.
NFT sales have increased more than 26x fold over the last year.
An attempt at explaining what Web3 is.

🔥 Startup Jobs

Scarf: Head of Growth (Remote, US)
Zeet: Front End Engineer, Decentralized Engineer (SF, CA)
Zeta: Marketing Lead (Remote)
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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