Los Angeles-based Merkle Manufactory, which is developing a “sufficiently decentralized” social network protocol called Farcaster, has raised $30M led by a16z
Two years ago, Varun and I started working together on an idea called RSS+. Wayne Jones / crypto.news : U.S. Inflation at 9.1%, Farcaster's Successful in a Funding Round, Crypto Market Bearish Spell C...
How Substack is trying to balance the constraints of its own ideology of putting authors and readers first with its commitment to growth via its new mobile app
In the Spring of 2018 I got invited by the CEO of Substack to come to Toronto for a couple days to hang out with the whole team … Tweets: @nbashaw , @shortformernie , @navalang , @faris , @marshallk ,...
Profile of Substack, whose founders insist it is a platform, not a media company, and say there is less need for moderation as readers opt in to newsletters
Did a newsletter company create a more equitable media system—or replicate the flaws of the old one? Tweets: @benthompson , @cliomiso , @asymmetricinfo , @can , @bdomenech , @maxwellstrachan , @dandre...
Current and former employees provide an inside look at Airbnb amid layoffs, as its warm and fuzzy office culture met with the business realities of a pandemic
Erin Griffith / New York Times : Tweets: @dpteran , @twadhwa , @nbashaw , @briangaar , @mdudas , @nytimes , @alex_peys , @eringriffith , @karaswisher , @roseveleth , and @chrisalbon Tweets: Dan Teran...
Profile of Lee Holloway, Cloudflare's third founder, widely considered a genius, who became distant and erratic due to a tragic case of frontotemporal dementia
for a long time, no one could make sense of it. https://www.wired.com/... @richardheartwin : If you read this, you will understand how desperately we need more progress in medicine. https://www.wired....
How angel investing for social status is a core part of Bay Area tech ecosystem, and is critically missing from other cities trying to grow their tech scenes
Michael Seibel of YC posted a short video the other day about a topic that's near and dear to my heart: Why Fundraising is Different in Silicon Valley. Tweets: @alex_danco , @giordanobc , @jposhaughne...