Week 1, October 21 – Weekly Wrap Up
1.) Ozy is Back?
2.) Facebook Goes Dark
3.) Axie Infinity & Beyond
4.) Tesla’s New HQ
1.) Ozy is Back?: Ozy Media, after shutting down last week, has…reopened? Chief Carlos Watson wants to get the band back together! The board quit so the investigation doesn’t necessarily need to go forward apparently? This story is so strange..
2.) Facebook Goes Dark: After a whistleblower (former FB PM Frances Haugen) aired her complaints on 60 Minutes Sunday night, Facebook’s apps disappeared from the Internet for much of Monday. There was another outage today, Friday. The company has come out firing and..what a week in Menlo Park
3.) Axie Infinity & Beyond: Everyone’s favorite crypto game dev Sky Mavis, maker of Axie Infinity, raised $150M led by a16z @ a $3B valuation. They have made $700M YTD, airdropped 800k tokens to early adopters, and the game is growing like gangbusters. A cool new crypto use case!
4.) Tesla’s New HQ: Tesla is moving their HQ from Palo Alto, CA to Austin, TX. Whether it was the lower taxes, the unfriendly biz enviro in the form of tweets, working restrictions, or other criticisms Elon is headed East to the Lone Star State. Singular event, trend, or otherwise??