Free Post Newsletter Elections, Rejections & the FCC What is the alternative to this open approach? It can only be that some people designate themselves as more capable of truth than others and impose that truth on everybody. Such a 'benevolent', big brother, brave new world, approach goes against any sense of freedom and democracy.
Free Post Newsletter Don't Trust Anti-Trust Who stands for progress any more and human agency as the way to achieve it? Not the House Democrats it would seem.
Free Post Newsletter ChinAmerica - Two Nations, One World - Our Common Future The US and China are heavily interconnected economies. Their future is together in a connected World. TikTok is a false signal of the future.
Free Post Newsletter Snowflake, Sumo and 3 SPACs This week Chamath Palihapitiya announced that he has 3 more SPACs set up and ready to go. These SPACs are vehicles to enable a company to go public, and get cash, without an IPO. Instead of gifting cash to the friends of Morgan Stanley this method gifts cash to Chamath and his friends.
Free Post Newsletter Who Agrees with Apple? It seems as if the kitchen is getting too hot for some of Apple's former friends, especially MG Siegler. While Fred Wilson, never really a friend, is pleading on behalf of his portfolio for Apple to stop being so....well, capitalist.
Free Post Newsletter Apple's War on Facebook, Instagram and Google The war between Apple and advertising-led platforms is a war between business models. On the one hand, clickbait and ad revenue and on the other subscription and pay as you go.
Free Post Newsletter Two Tribes Go To War - DC versus Silicon Valley The anti big-tech stance of DC is a replacement for any genuinely innovative or progressive outlook from either of the main political parties. Shame on both of them.
Free Post Newsletter Andreessen to Gurley - "Spac-Off!" A very public fight between two Venture Capital titans over how a company should go to the public markets. Andreessen tells Gurley to SPAC Off!
Free Post Newsletter Epic Fail. Apple: Big But Not Bad. We live in strange times. Apple's stock valued the company at over $2 Trillion this week. A reason to celebrate you might think. A company created, famously, in a garage by 2 young men, has grown to be a world leader. But in today's world it appears that big is bad.
Free Post Newsletter Everybody's Hustling Elizabeth Yin is a founder at Hustle VC. 2 years ago she and her partners closed the first fund for the firm. This week she pointed to the story of how they did it. Anybody raising funds - whether for a startup or to become an investor should read it.
Free Post Newsletter The China Countdown - Tik-Tok, Tik-Tok Do we care where a consumer internet company was founded?
