Week 4, October 21 – Weekly Wrap Up
1.) Meta..World Peace?
2.) Tesla $1T Cap
3.) Apple Ads Fallout
1.) Meta..World Peace?
2.) Tesla $1T Cap
3.) Apple Ads Fallout
There’s nothing like that first day of school feeling. Or you know, as an adult, the first day of a new job. New surroundings, new people you’re excited to work with, and new problems to solve. It’s pretty easy to be enthusiastic and hit the ground running with all that newness. You make all sorts of promises to yourself about your preparation and new ideas!
1.) Bitcoin (is the) Futures
2.) A-Z Workforce Constraints
3.) Google Commission Cut
4.) PayPal/Pinterest Courtship
It is the trials, tribulations, and just plain stupid mistakes we go through as managers that create indelible lessons in leadership. The “how could I possibly be that dumb” moments we all share. Publicly and privately. To set the stage, I bring you two tweetstorms from Ali Partovi who had startup twitter madly liking and retweeting these last couple weeks with a couple painful career memories:
1.) Coinbase Enters NFT Ring 2.) GitLab’s Strong Debut 3.) LinkedIn Returns West 4.) Supply Chains Are Stuck 1.) Coinbase Enters NFT Ring: after the explosive revenue OpenSea, Dapper Labs, & others have captured was there any doubt Coinbase wouldn’t eventually enter the ring? Their waitlist is already 1M+ strong, their job board is […]
A healthy employee – manager relationship wants a thousand things, a sick employee – manager relationship only wants one. Or so the saying approximately goes. In conversations with many of you over these past few weeks it’s clear that we learn from our all our managers, both good and bad.
1.) Ozy is Back?
2.) Facebook Goes Dark
3.) Axie Infinity & Beyond
4.) Tesla’s New HQ
Dark clouds have rolled back in over Menlo Park and Facebook is in the eye of the storm of the tech universe yet again. Frances Haugen, a former Product Manager who worked for the company for ~2 years, had also been working alongside the WSJ & SEC to leak thousands of pages of internal documents dubbed The Facebook Files. She went public with her identity and complaints Sunday night on 60 Minutes. And then, as further proof of the simulation we live in, Facebook’s family of apps disappeared from the Internet Tuesday morning.
1.) Warby’s New View
2.) Wizards of Ozy
3.) No Insta Kids
4.) Streaming Showdown