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Jon Russell

@jonrussell
96 posts
2023-07-25
Musk and co are of course trying to build a super app right when every super app trying to emulate WeChat has failed...
2023-07-25 View on X
Platformer

Elon Musk's rebranding of Twitter to X shows his takeover is best understood not as a money-making endeavor, but as an extended act of cultural vandalism

RIP Twitter (2007-2023)  —  On Monday afternoon, a crane rolled up to Twitter's headquarters on Market Street.

Musk and co are of course trying to build a super app right when every super app trying to emulate WeChat has failed...
2023-07-25 View on X
TechCrunch

Twitter rolls out its updated “interim” X logo, replacing the iconic bird, following Elon Musk's weekend announcement; X.com now redirects to twitter.com

it's just an X that someone tweeted at him Sean Hollister / The Verge : Twitter removed half its HQ sign — then the police arrived Jon Porter / The Verge : RIP Twitter's iconic bir...

2023-07-24
Musk and co are of course trying to build a super app right when every super app trying to emulate WeChat has failed...
2023-07-24 View on X
TechCrunch

Twitter rolls out its updated “interim” X logo, replacing the iconic bird, following Elon Musk's weekend announcement; X.com now redirects to twitter.com

Twitter has removed the iconic bird logo and adopted ‘X’ as its official logo.  This move comes after Elon Musk announced the change over the weekend.

2023-07-10
Well that happened quicker than anyone expected... https://www.ft.com/... https://twitter.com/... [image]
2023-07-10 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: Sequoia's China unit HongShan set up an office in Singapore and may compete with Sequoia's India-based Peak XV Partners for Southeast Asia investments

2023-03-29
Might open the door to potential IPOs from Alibaba's six business units... something to watch https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-29 View on X
South China Morning Post

Alibaba plans its biggest restructuring ever, reorganizing its businesses into six independent entities and moving all operational decisions to each unit's CEO

announced a day after co-founder Jack Ma returned to mainland China after almost a year overseas. @hwclarence @raffaelehuang https://www.wsj.com/... Paul Page / @paulpage : Alibaba...

2023-03-28
Might open the door to potential IPOs from Alibaba's six business units... something to watch https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-28 View on X
South China Morning Post

Alibaba plans to reorganize its businesses into six independent entities and devolve operational decisions to each unit's CEO, in its biggest restructuring ever

Alibaba Group Holding will overhaul its sprawling operations, as China's largest technology conglomerate undertakes …

2022-06-02
RIP Tweetdeck for Mac—we always knew this day would come at some point, old friend Browser version is sadly a pale imitation https://www.macrumors.com/...
2022-06-02 View on X
MacRumors

Twitter plans to shut down TweetDeck for Mac on July 1 to “focus on making TweetDeck even better”, pointing users to the web version and an upcoming Preview

2022-05-10
Kucoin privately valued at $10B Coinbase publicly valued just below $15B 🤯 https://twitter.com/...
2022-05-10 View on X
TechCrunch

Crypto exchange KuCoin raises a $150M pre-Series B led by Jump Crypto at a $10B valuation, up from $100M in November 2018, and says it has 18M+ users

KuCoin's valuation has surged to $10 billion in its first financing round in four years as the global cryptocurrency exchange looks …

2022-05-05
Funny to raise free speech and take investment from Qatar which has a “vaguely-worded law which criminalizes a broad range of speech and publishing activities” https://www.amnesty.org/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-05-05 View on X
Financial Times

Filing: Elon Musk secures $7.14B for his Twitter bid from Larry Ellison, Binance, Sequoia, a16z, Saudi Prince Alwaleed, Fidelity, and others; Ellison gives $1B

Tesla chief raises $7bn from new investors for takeover of social media platform  —  Elon Musk has revealed that he has raised $7.14bn … Source: SEC.gov .

Funny to raise free speech and take investment from Qatar which has a “vaguely-worded law which criminalizes a broad range of speech and publishing activities” https://www.amnesty.org/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-05-05 View on X
Bloomberg

Filing: Elon Musk's new $7.14B in equity financing for Twitter, which includes investment from Qatar, reduces the margin loan from $12.5B to $6.25B

Elon Musk has secured about $7.1 billion of new financing commitments for his proposed $44 billion takeover of Twitter Inc., the company said in a filing Thursday.

2022-04-16
Epic thread from ex-Reddit CEO arguing why (sadly) censorship is inevitable for any large scale social network https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-16 View on X
New York Post

Sources: Elon Musk is speaking to investors, including Silver Lake, to partner with him on a Twitter bid; a plan with partners could be announced within days

Elon Musk is speaking to investors who could partner with him on a bid for Twitter, sources close to the matter told The Post.

Epic thread from ex-Reddit CEO arguing why (sadly) censorship is inevitable for any large scale social network https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-16 View on X
@yishan

[Thread] Ex-Reddit CEO warns Elon Musk that he doesn't understand current internet culture enough to handle the challenges of large social networks like Twitter

2022-03-30
$600 million stolen 🤯🤯🤯 https://twitter.com/...
2022-03-30 View on X
CoinDesk

The Ronin Network, which supports Sky Mavis' Axie Infinity game, says it was hacked, and 173,600 ETH and 25.5M USDC was stolen, worth $600M+; RON is down ~20%

It may be the largest exploit in DeFi history.  —  The latest crypto hack may be the largest yet.

2022-03-03
Music + metaverse isn't just a web3 concept—Epic Games is diving right in Epic, of course, made a big splash when Travis Scott performed inside Fornite back in 2020—Roblox also hosted a ‘virtual’ Lil Nas X gig https://blog.bandcamp.com/...
2022-03-03 View on X
Bandcamp Updates

Epic Games acquires Bandcamp, which will continue operating as a standalone marketplace and music community; Bandcamp has paid nearly $1B to artists and labels

I'm excited to announce that Bandcamp is joining Epic Games, who you may know as the makers of Fortnite and Unreal Engine, and champions for a fair and open Internet.

2022-02-18
Every ‘traditional’ VC fund on the planet is looking seriously at crypto and deciding whether (and how) to launch their own token fund Kudos to @sequoia for swinging big with US$500M-$600M https://www.sequoiacap.com/...
2022-02-18 View on X
Axios

Sequoia Capital to raise $500M to $600M for a fund focused on liquid crypto investments, along with a $900M-$950M Ecosystem Fund and $3.2B-$3.5B Expansion Fund

tokens that are already listed on crypto exchanges and those that are yet to be listed” he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now https://twitter.com/... @w...

2022-01-13
“https://checkout.com/ only had to hand out 2.5% of the company's shares in exchange for $1 billion.” 🤯🤯🤯 https://techcrunch.com/...
2022-01-13 View on X
Wall Street Journal

London-based Checkout.com, which offers payment processing tools, raises $1B in a share sale at a $40B valuation

2021-11-02
The Philippines now has its first unicorn: Mynt—the fintech backed by Alibaba's Ant Group BUT Mynt is really a corporate play since it span out of Globe Telecom Still, progress for a country that has lagged its peers with startup creation and investment https://www.dealstreetasia.com/ ...
2021-11-02 View on X
DealStreetAsia

Globe Telecom's Mynt, which operates mobile wallet app GCash, becomes the first tech unicorn in the Philippines after raising over $300M at a $2B+ valuation

the fintech backed by Alibaba's Ant Group BUT Mynt is really a corporate play since it span out of Globe Telecom Still, progress for a country that has lagged its peers with startu...

2021-09-27
You may read Thailand has its first fintech ‘startup’ unicorn but that's not accurate: Ascend Money is not a startup It span out of telco True, which is owned by CP Group—a massive conglomerate. CP's owner is Thailand's richest man with net worth of ~$5B So yeah not a startup
2021-09-27 View on X
TechCrunch

Thailand-based Ascend Money, which operates the TrueMoney e-wallet, raises $150M Series C at a valuation of $1.5B

a massive conglomerate. CP's owner is Thailand's richest man with net worth of ~$5B So yeah not a startup

2021-09-14
This is a wild exit: Hong Kong-based ExpressVPN bought for just shy of $1 billion (Technically a British Virgin Islands company, they'll say, but head office is in Hong Kong) https://www.ft.com/...
2021-09-14 View on X
The Record

Report: China and Russia are stepping up efforts to control or influence undersea internet cable routes, raising concerns of backdoors and traffic interception

particularly in Beijing and Moscow — are stepping up their efforts to buy or influence companies responsible for laying the undersea cables that shuttle online communications betwe...

2021-09-09
Sea is raising $6B (!) —your regular reminder that going public can be an absolute game-changer in SE Asia https://twitter.com/...
2021-09-09 View on X
Bloomberg

Singapore-based online gaming and e-commerce company Sea is seeking to raise about $6.28B in a secondary offering of stock and equity-linked debt

your regular reminder that going public can be an absolute game-changer in SE Asia https://twitter.com/...