2020-11-10
Excellent news in our portfolio: SoftBank jumps into e-scooters with $250m Tier Mobility deal. Phenomenal execution and obsession with unit economics. @tierscooters will make history!! https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
SoftBank's Vision Fund invests $250M in Berlin-based e-scooter rental service Tier Mobility, valuing the startup just below $1B
Latest investment values Berlin-based electric scooter start-up just below $1bn — SoftBank's Vision Fund has made its first investment into the fast-growing …
2020-08-25
Excellent piece to understand the three paths to go public:IPO, direct listing and the trendy SPACs. Spoiler: don't do IPOs because it is very expensive, don't do DL if you want to raise capital. SPAC are low cost, faster and allow to raise capital https://twitter.com/...
Above the Crowd
The rise in SPACs is leading to improved terms for targeted companies and an overall lower cost of capital, as company underpricing in traditional IPOs worsens
If you are looking past or through Covid — and why not, all of Wall Street is — the topic du jour in Silicon Valley is Special Purpose Acquisition Companies, or SPACs.
2019-11-11
Wonderful and frightening thread by @dhh His wife was given 5% of his credit limit. Why ? The algorithm! AI and algorithms will bring a new era of red tape that no one will be able to explain within customer service and organizations https://twitter.com/...
Bloomberg
NY regulator launches a probe into Goldman Sachs after a viral tweet alleges gender discrimination in the Apple Card's algorithms when determining credit limits
- Tech entrepreneur alleged inherent bias in algorithms for card — The card is part of Goldman's new main street business lines
2019-11-10
Wonderful and frightening thread by @dhh His wife was given 5% of his credit limit. Why ? The algorithm! AI and algorithms will bring a new era of red tape that no one will be able to explain within customer service and organizations https://twitter.com/...
Bloomberg
NY regulator launches a probe into Goldman Sachs after a viral tweet alleges gender discrimination in the Apple Card's algorithms when determining credit limits
- Tech entrepreneur alleged inherent bias in algorithms for card — The card is part of Goldman's new main street business lines