2021-03-30
Whoa! @stripe is on a roll, things are heating up in #FinTech! https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
The Information
Sources: Ramp, a Brex rival offering corporate cards and tools to manage staff expenses, is close to raising two rounds, one led by Stripe valuing it at $1.6B
The Information :
2020-09-19
The incredible team @Chime are crushing it everyday, such an amazing ride to watch https://www.cnbc.com/...
CNBC
Neobank Chime raises $485M Series F at a $14.5B valuation; CEO says the startup will be IPO-ready within the next 12 months
2020-08-04
This is going to be extremely interesting ... I sort of look at this as solving a different kind of “last-mile” (getting in the home IRL) problem for Google https://techcrunch.com/...
TechCrunch
Google says it will invest $450M in smart home security company ADT, which will sell and install Nest smart home products, for a 6.6% stake
the fact that it already has so much of our data allows it to develop more accurate home security systems. Of course, that lets Google see even more of our lives. What is the endpo...
2020-02-21
Wow, @LambdaSchool is really getting beat up in the press lately ... I have to assume this is destroying enrollment numbers https://nymag.com/...
New York Magazine
Internal documents and interviews with former staff and students detail Lambda coding school's misleading claims about graduate outcomes and curriculum quality
One of the more popular pieces to hit … Tweets: @jason : I'm going to reserve judgement on this one, as I think the world is much better off with MORE educational options like ISAs...
2020-02-16
Whoa! There was a moment just two years ago where we all thought @hqtrivia was the future ... and yesterday was the end https://techcrunch.com/...
CNN
HQ Trivia, the company behind the once popular live mobile trivia game, is shutting down
New York (CNN Business)It's over for HQ Trivia. — The company behind the once popular live mobile trivia game is shutting down, CNN Business has learned. HQ will part ways with ...