How the Democrats Can Lose Silicon Valley and their senses There is now a chat channel for That Was The Week on the Telegram App – Click here. Telegram is available on all platforms (Web, Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and iOS) here. All articles set to appear in the following week’sThat Was The Week are posted to the chat daily. Feel free to comment, post links you think we should consider for inclusion. That Was The Week, #39 Editorial Ben Thompson, in Stratechery, wrote an essay this week. Its title was great – “Facebook’s Missing Monopoly.” In the same week,
[read more]...There is now a chat channel for That Was The Week on the Telegram App – Click here. Telegram is available on all platforms (Web, Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and iOS) here. All articles set to appear in the following week’sThat Was The Week are posted to the chat daily. Feel free to comment, post links you think we should consider for inclusion. That Was The Week, #38 Editorial The Chinese economy is the world’s largest measured by Producer Price Parity (PPP). Its lead over the USA is accelerating. Source – IMF PPP is approximately comparing the buying power of
[read more]...Newsletter This week Chamath Palihapitiya announced that he has 3 more SPACs set up and ready to go. These SPACs are vehicles to enable a company to go public, and get cash, without an IPO. Instead of gifting cash to the friends of Morgan Stanley this method gifts cash to Chamath and his friends. A Week of IPOs with $ billions raised. There is now a chat channel for That Was The Week on the Telegram App – Click here. Telegram is available on all platforms (Web, Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and iOS) here. All articles set to appear in
[read more]...There is now a chat channel for That Was The Week on the Telegram App – Click here. Telegram is available on all platforms (Web, Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and iOS) here. All articles set to appear in the following week’s That Was The Week are posted to the chat daily. Feel free to comment, post links you think we should consider for inclusion. That Was The Week, #36 Editorial It seems as if the kitchen is getting too hot for some of Apple’s former friends, especially MG Siegler. While Fred Wilson, never really a friend, is pleading on behalf
[read more]...Confronting Advertising and Tracking Companies There is now a chat channel for That Was The Week on the Telegram App – Click here. Telegram is available on all platforms (Web, Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and iOS) here. All articles set to appear in next week’s That Was The Week are posted to the chat daily. Feel free to comment, post links you think we should consider for inclusion. That Was The Week, #35 None of us like being tracked I assume. And we like our iPhones and iPads. Apple has inserted itself into the emotional space that we inhabit between
[read more]...Newsletter The anti big-tech stance of DC is a replacement for any genuinely innovative or progressive outlook from either of the main political parties. Shame on both of them. Barr accuses Google of bad behavior (no irony intended) That Was The Week, #34 There is now a chat channel for That Was The Week on the Telegram App – Click here. Telegram is available on all platforms (Web, Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and iOS) here. All articles set to appear in next week’s That Was The Week are posted to the chat daily. Feel free to comment, post links you
[read more]...The race to own and cash in on the best private companies That Was The Week, #33 There is now a chat channel for That Was The Week on the Telegram App – Click here. Telegram is available on all platforms (Web, Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and iOS) here. All articles set to appear in next week’s That Was The Week are posted to the chat daily. Feel free to comment, post links you think we should consider for inclusion. Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital fame is as mad as hell – at bankers like Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs.
[read more]...Newsletter We live in strange times. Apple’s stock valued the company at over $2 Trillion this week. A reason to celebrate you might think. A company created, famously, in a garage by 2 young men, has grown to be a world leader. But in today’s world it appears that big is bad. In defence of Big Tech By Keith Teare There is now a chat channel for That Was The Week on the Telegram App – Click here. Telegram is available on all platforms (Web, Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and iOS) here. All articles set to appear in next week’s
[read more]...That Was The Week, Newsletter from Keith Teare. #31 How to raise funding This week’s talking points draw from a wide range of authors and topics. There really is no theme, so instead I want to draw attention to some of the most remarkable and interesting content. A few weeks ago I posted “How to Tell Your Startup Story“. This week Elizabeth Yin – a founder at Hustle VC – pointed to the story of how she and her partners raised their first $11.5m fund. Anybody raising funds – whether for a startup or to become an investor should read
[read more]...Do we care where a consumer internet company was founded? Lets start with the fact that I am British. Bear with me, it’s relevant. I can still remember my middle school geography when the teacher told the class that the pink parts of the world map were “ours”. There was a lot of pink. it was 1966 and I was 12. The £ was no longer the currency of world trade and the empire had been in decline since about 1870 (its peak). The $ was triumphant ,and the US was the center of the world, but the map was
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