Week 4, Feb 21 – Weekly Wrap Up
1.) Chip Shortage
2.) Coinbase S-1
3.) NFTs
4.) Spotify Launches Podvertising
Month: February 2021
How Good Are You?
It was Plato who said “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.” More or less those were his words. Plato did not know English though. He also appreciated that he did not know how good of a philosopher he was. He knew he didn’t […]
Week 3, Feb 21 – Weekly Wrap Up
1.) I Am Not A Cat
2.) Bitcoin, Baby
3.) fLyin’ Ted
Get Off My Adjoining Lawn
There was an internet war of words. Not necessarily a memorable one. One of the many that occurs on the digital battlefield each week. It might have been between VCs and the media and their coverage of some startup. One can’t be too sure. The specific tweet with the observation couldn’t be located, ok? Still, […]
Week 2, Feb 21 – Weekly Wrap Up
1.) Tesla Buys Bitcoin
2.) Social Resurgence
3.) Bumble IPO
4.) Salesforce Goes Hybrid
Fostering A Desperate Sense of Urgency
We’re approaching the mid point of February in the year of our lord 2021 / 1 A.C. and we’ve vaccinated approximately 10% of the U.S. population with an initial Covid vaccine. If you think that opening line is boring, life is pretty boring now isn’t it? 3% of the population stands fully vaccinated. We’ve had emergency FDA authorization for the Pfizer & Moderna vaccines for about two months and America stands 5th worldwide in vaccinations per citizen.
…Is that any good? We’re at war with a virus. But it really doesn’t feel like it.
Week 1, Feb 21 – Weekly Wrap Up
1.) Bezos Steps Aside
2.) Drizly Gulped by Uber
3.) Adjust Attributed to Applovin
4.) Zuck Breaks Clubhouse
Robinhood’s Silver Screen Moment
By now you know the story. Or at least a lot of it. An army of Redditors from the wallstreetbets forum, for the briefest of moments, brought Wall Street hedge funds to their knees. They engineered a decentralized yet coordinated short squeeze of brick & mortar stocks from a bygone era like GameStop, AMC, and others.