Startups & Tech - Issue #196: Elon on Twitter, NFT Art, and Lightning Labs.

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

Gm. Two personal updates to share:

One of our portfolio companies, Lightning Labs, just raised their series B with support from both Square’s Cash App and now Robinhood.
Race Capital is hiring an Associate to join our fast moving team. If you’re technical and interested in the intersection of Web3 and Web2, we’d love to hear from you. No prior VC experience necessary.

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

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🗞️ Interesting Reads

Elon Musk acquired 9.2% of Twitter and joined their board of directors (or not?). Is this a new form of activist investing? 🤔
WhatsApp just announced that 7B voice messages are being sent across the network on a daily basis.
Fast, the high flying ecommerce checkout startup, abruptly shut down.
Stripe’s 2021 report. TLDR: Stripe processed $640B in payments, with the majority of volume outside the US.
A longform report on the art market for 2022. TLDR: NFTs are a big part of the art market now (1/25th of the size), average sale of an NFT is $36K, NFTs grew 130x in 2021.
Tips for interviewing your first product manager hire.
Tips for doing new employee reference checks. Written for exec hires but can be more broadly applicable.

🔥 Startup Jobs

Race Capital: Investment Associate, Head of Content (Remote)
OtterTune: Product Manager, Software Engineer, Designer (Remote)
Opaque: Business Development, Backend, Core Platform (Berkeley, CA)
SocialChat: Marketing Manager (San Francisco, CA)
GoodNotes: Data Platform, Growth (London, UK)
Databricks: Infra Eng, Product Manager
Lightning Labs: Head of Talent, Engineering Manager, Product Manager, Marketing (Remote)
Citcon: VP Engineering, Lead Architect (Remote)
Polysign: Software Engineer, Client Services (Remote)
Scarf: Social Media, Head of Growth, Engineer, Data Analyst (Remote)
Zeet: Head of Growth, Dev Experience, Customer Success, Marketing (SF, CA)
Zeta: Product Designer, Marketing Lead (Remote)
FTX: Full Stack Developer (Remote)

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

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