A profile of Tether Chief Investment Officer Richard Heathcote, who manages a $150B asset portfolio and has helped deepen Tether's ties with Cantor Fitzgerald
the “41-year-old Brit based in the Bahamas who oversees an almost $150 billion portfolio of assets as chief investment officer” via @RyanJamesWeeks https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Meta appoints Joel Kaplan as Chief Global Affairs Officer, replacing Nick Clegg, who is leaving the company; Kaplan is Meta's most prominent Republican
www.semafor.com/article/01/0... [embedded post] Sam Jeffers / @worklesshard : Seems a bit backward for Clegg to leave now. Nothing will happen in the US for years, while EU DSA enforcement will gath...
All three founders of online trading service Pipe are stepping down as the company looks for a “veteran” CEO; Pipe raised $250M at a $2B valuation in May 2021
Setting the scene — The co-founders of revenue-based financing … Nancy Dahlberg / Refresh Miami : Pipe co-founders step down and search for ‘veteran’ CEO is launched Jeff Kauflin / Forbes : Three Co...
Profile of Nick Clegg, Facebook's VP of Global Affairs and Comms, who led the creation of its Oversight Board and is now shaping the company's COVID-19 response
Facebook's new “Oversight Board” will be based in London, not Silicon Valley. They're planning an additional office in D.C. at some point in the future. https://www.politico.com/... Marie Lamensch / @...
Profile of Nextdoor CEO Sarah Friar, as the social network becomes a hub to help neighbors during the pandemic with DAUs up 80% globally from February to March
Financial Times : Tweets: @daveleeft Tweets: Dave Lee / @daveleeft : I'm sorry, but how adorable is the FT's cartoon of Next Door's Sarah Friar? Great piece by @MsHannahMurphy about the woman who is ...
In Snowden interview, John Oliver makes surveillance debate relatable by avoiding civil liberty hypotheticals, focusing on NSA's ease of access to “dick pics”
Exposures — John Ellis (Jeb) … Nathaniel Mott / PandoDaily : John Oliver interviews Edward Snowden Andrew Desiderio / Mediaite : John Oliver Travels to Russia to Tell Edward Snowden It's All About t...
Private justice: How Hollywood money put a Brit behind bars
Anton Vickerman, 38-year old owner of the once popular link site surfthechannel.com (STC), was sentenced to four years in prison on Tuesday by a British judge. But the prosecutors sitting across the ...
Brit Morin Engages $1.25M From Marissa Mayer, Founders Fund And More To Launch Her First App, Weduary
Brit Morin, the Martha Stewart of tech, is today announcing a $1.25 million seed round for her technology and content company Brit. The list of investors is actually pretty sympatico with …
The Problem With Silicon Valley Is Itself
As a Brit who gave up cheerleading the European tech scene to make the pilgrimage to Silicon Valley to live, eat and breath the world's leading hub for technology startup innovation, I've been largely...
Google Mail is becoming Gmail in the UK
As a Brit, my friends and family often tell me they're miffed that they get an @googlemail.com address instead of @gmail.com. Today I have good news for them: Google Mail is soon becoming Gmail again...