2023-08-26
I was wondering when someone would do a Bay Area Irvine Company
New York Times
Sources: a company spending $800M+ to buy thousands of acres to build a new Bay Area city is backed by Michael Moritz, Reid Hoffman, Marc Andreessen, and others
A mysterious company has spent $800 million in an effort to buy thousands of acres of San Francisco Bay Area land.
2021-12-23
this press release about lending practices is weirdly obsessed with VCs https://www.consumerfinance.gov/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Reuters
The US CFPB orders online payday lender LendUp to shutter lending operations after finding it repeatedly lied to and illegally cheated its customers
it has been a long time coming. In other news, anyone looking to buy my shares of LendUp? Rohit Chopra / @chopracfpb : We will be working to provide redress to borrowers cheated by...
2020-02-23
Apparently CK free taxes was that much of a threat to TurboTax https://twitter.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Sources: Intuit is nearing a deal to buy personal finance portal Credit Karma for about $7B in cash and stock; the deal could be announced as soon as Monday
Acquisition would be Intuit's largest ever and the first sizable transaction under CEO Sasan Goodarzi Tweets: @cararlombardo , @carnage4life , @bsteverman , @chriszeoli , @cararlom...
2019-12-19
This is either signaling a strategic change or will be strangled in the crib. Spotify has been removing all its social features... they achieve lock-in if The Algorithm is your only source of new music https://twitter.com/...
TechCrunch
Spotify is prototyping Tastebuds, a social feature that allows users to interact with and discover music by searching the people they follow
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
2019-12-05
Skipping past the sexual harassment... The startup designed for regulatory arbitrage of mortgage lending laws with a failed ICO is now a unicorn Lots of lessons here https://twitter.com/...
Axios
Figure, the lending platform led by Mike Cagney, who resigned as CEO of SoFi due to sexual harassment allegations, raises $103M Series C at a $1.2B valuation
Figure, a San Francisco-based consumer lending platform, raised $103 million in Series C funding led by Morgan Creek Digital at a $1.2 billion valuation.