A look at drone delivery startup Zipline, which has raised $500M+, made 1.4M+ deliveries in seven countries, and delivers packages for Walmart in two US cities
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal : LinkedIn: Costa Samaras , Danielle Meister Lurie , and Christopher Mims LinkedIn: Costa Samaras : I led a multi-year research project where we built and flew ...
The FDIC says SVB clients with deposits above $250K will get “an advance dividend within the next week”; many SVB clients need to meet their payroll on March 15
Exit Fuel 🛢️ exists because of the support of people like you. Dalmas Ngetich / NewsBTC : Long Queues Seen At Silicon Valley Bank-Owned Boston Private - A Bank Run? Tweets: Dan Primack / @danprimack :...
MakeMyMove: at least 71 US cities and towns now offer cash grants and other perks to attract remote workers, mostly in tech, up from at least 24 in October 2021
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Apple misses with Q4 revenue of $83.4B, up 29% YoY, vs $84.85B est., iPhone revenue of $38.87B, up 47% YoY, services revenue of $18.3B, up 25.6%; stock down 3%+
its fastest year of growth since 2012. Net income for the year: $94.7bn. @parikpatelcfa : Microsoft has just overtaken Apple to become the largest company in the world by market cap. This makes sense ...
Non-VC funds invested in a record 42% of tech startup funding deals in Q2 2021; H1 '21 US startup funding was $150B, with FY 2021 on pace to double 2020's total
Hedge, mutual and pension funds are investing heavily, leading to higher valuations and more leverage for company founders Tweets: @mims , @heathersomervil , @timcohn , @jontreble , @amyssorrells , @s...
Robinhood closes down 8% on its first day of trading, after raising $2.1B in its IPO at a valuation of around $32B
will users ‘age out’ of the app? Finextra : Robinhood prices IPO at $32bn valuation Timothy Craig / Crypto Briefing : Robinhood IPOs Amid Uniswap Partnership Rumors Crunchbase News : Throw The Confett...
Pinterest beats with Q2 revenue of $261M, up 62% YoY, global MAUs of 300M, up 30% YoY, and an EBITDA loss of $26M, vs. $39M est.; stock is up 17%+
Annie Palmer / CNBC : Tweets: @mims and @levynews Tweets: Christopher Mims / @mims : Pinterest is bigger than Twitter and Snapchat (but gets maybe 1% of the press) https://twitter.com/... Ari Levy / ...
Apple reports Q3 revenue of $53.8B, up 1% YoY, record Services revenue of $11.5B, up from $10.2B YoY, iPhone revenue of $26B, down from $29.5B YoY; stock up 4%+
One thing that Apple has always been good at is being doomed. Chris Barylick / O'Grady's PowerPage : Apple announces Q3 2019 revenue of $53.8 billion, net quarterly profit of $10 billion MacRumors : A...
Source: Lyft has hired JP Morgan to lead its IPO, scheduled for early 2019, which could value company at more than $15B
$120 billion sounds nuts but isn't. —even a successful IPO at that stratospheric valuation doesn't answer whether Uber is a viable, lasting business. https://www.bloomberg.com/... Greg Bensinger / @gr...
Profile of Olaf Carlson-Wee, who turned $14K into $150M by betting on cryptocurrency, and his fund Polychain Capital, which earned investors 2,303% last year
Now running the world's largest crypto hedge fund, the 29-year-old says he is undeterred by recent losses Tweets: @mims , @whalepanda , @sqeeqee , @wsj , @gzuckerman , and @coindesk Tweets: Christophe...