Week 5, Apr 21 – Weekly Wrap Up
1.) Basecamp Bungle-oh
2.) Big Tech Earnings Ruled
3.) Equity Comp Changes
4.) Biden Plan
1.) Basecamp Bungle-oh
2.) Big Tech Earnings Ruled
3.) Equity Comp Changes
4.) Biden Plan
Founders must have been jealous with all the asset focused froth talk last week because the humans came out in full force right after to show us that asset performance doesn’t have diddly on founder performance. A wise man once said “the only difference between genius and insanity is that genius has its limits”. That man was Albert Einstein and we can safely file him in the genius category.
1.) It’s Audio Week!
2.) Netflix Ran Outta Subs
3.) Peloton Pressure
4.) Travis Kalanick is Back?
Maybe it’s the DOGE ripping to the moon. Could be the NFTs setting auction records. Or the red hot M&A market. The SPAC wave within an IPO tsunami? The point is it feels a little frothy out there. “Too much money chasing too few ideas” they have traditionally said. Does feel like there are a ton of ideas out there though?
1.) Katrina to Exec Chair
2.) Bezos Final Letter
3.) IPO + M&A Round Up
4.) J&J Halted
In the annals of internet history, this week may very well signal an important inflection point of the transition from human driven platforms to machine driven protocols. What happened? Coinbase went public with a debut market cap north of $75B. It is the beginning of a new internet age. Web 3.0 is here.
1.) Clubhouse Tips Out
2.) All Eyez on Coinbase
3.) LG Exits Stage Left
4.) Corporations Protest Too
Life beyond COVID is right around the bend. Can ya feel it? Things will be different, undoubtedly. We talked about a return to the office last week and the understandable bias of wanting to keep teams together. What will work look like in the decade ahead? How do you want it to look in the years A.C.?
1.) The Boat Floats!
2.) Creator Economy
3.) Return to Office
4.) IPO Demand Softens?
The majestic sun dropeth down over the horizon later, the weather is warming, and the vaccines are distributing! You know what that means? Return to office is almost upon us! Or…is it? Just this week San Francisco announced the city entered the “Orange Tier”. The Orange Tier, you see, is a new phase which no […]