How David Sacks' AI and crypto policies in Trump's White House benefit his investments, those of his Silicon Valley friends, and the All-In podcast he co-hosts
Calls Conflict Claims “Nothing Burger” Mike Pearl / Gizmodo : 438 Reasons to Doubt that David Sacks Should Work for the Federal Government Mark Toon / Protos : David Sacks sends silly legal threat to ...
Perplexity, which offers an AI-based “answer engine” with ~10M MAUs to compete with Google, raised $74M at a $520M valuation from IVP, Jeff Bezos, and others
if they continue on their current trajectory, I bet Google buys them for $2B within the year. Talia Goldberg / @taliagold : In October 2022, I wrote a piece about a trillion dollar opportunity in sear...
Facebook's NPE division launches BARS, a TikTok-like app for rappers to create and share their raps using professionally created beats, in closed beta
Easily create and share raps — iPhone Screenshots Mitchell Clark / The Verge : Facebook's new app Bars will let you rap over premade beats Nehal Malik / iPhone in Canada Blog : Facebook BARS App Let...
An overview of the two narratives around crypto: crypto as money, and crypto as technology for decentralized control, and how these views differ but can coexist
Erik Torenberg / atrium : Tweets: @nickgrossman Tweets: Nick Grossman / @nickgrossman : Very well said. The truth is, both things are happening. Crypto is *both* money/finance 2.0 and web 3.0. that i...
Thoughts on cryptocurrencies for 2018, including prices and investing, people involved, taxes, ICOs and crypto funds, promising applications, and more
@twobitidiot https://medium.com/... Erik Torenberg / @eriktorenberg : “BTC = reserve currency for people that hate the fed; ETH = reserve currency for people that hate the SEC; XMR = reserve currency ...
Mattermark to shut down after being acquired by FullContact, source says for under $500K in cash plus stock; common stockholders will get nothing in the deal
and the risk https://twitter.com/... Erik Torenberg / @eriktorenberg : Congrats to the @Mattermark team for all they've accomplished over the years. I've always admired @DanielleMorrill @MisterMorrill...
Mattermark to shut down after being acquired by FullContact, source says for under $500K in cash plus stock; common stockholders will get nothing in the deal
Mattermark, the site for startup and company data, is shutting down its own business after selling in a disappointing outcome to FullContact. Tweets: @ceonyc , @eriktorenberg , @eghosao , @rafat , @ze...
Medium acquires rich media embedding API platform Embedly; financial terms not disclosed
Medium : A New Team Embeds — A well-timed image or video can really put a point on a paragraph. Sean Creeley : Embedly Medium — Today we announced that Embedly has been acquired by Medium. Ken Yeu...