Scotland tracks all their snow plows and gives them incredible names.
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Look, AirBnB, Stripe, DoorDash and all the recent media darlings are cool. I really mean that. But there's nothing cooler than building an interplanetary logistics company.
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Let's take a little break from the tech news and talk about something you probably don't know much about: the environmental impact of a leaf blower.
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Fintech is all the rage these days but with each new major product release it seems as if the entire ecosystem is being disrupted (ie powered) by Stripe.
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Patrick Collison -- the CEO of $36B fintech startup Stripe -- is obsessed with how fast ambitious projects can get done.
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Roblox, a San Mateo, Calif.-based social gaming platform for tweens and teens, filed for a $1 billion initial public offering.
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Guitar Center, a 61 year-old musical instrument retailer owned by Ares Management, plans to file for prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, per the New York Times.
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Aphria (TSX: APHA), a Canadian cannabis company, agreed to buy Atlanta-based craft brewer SweetWater Brewing Co. for $300 million. Sellers include TSG Consumer Partners.
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Patrick Campbell penned a fantastic guest post on Lenny Rachitsky's blog on pricing SaaS products you can find here, but here's the skinny.
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The Ant Financial IPO was put on hold this week and the cause appears to be a big mouth.
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Jack Ma’s Ant Group is seeking around $34.4 billion in a pair of IPOs in Hong Kong and Shanghai that could edge out Saudi Aramco’s $25.6 billion haul in 2019 to become the largest public offering of all time.
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Dallas-based stylist and salon marketplace (and Malartu Funds portfolio company), ShearShare, announced this week they have raised $2.3M in funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners Scouts Program, Jaylon Smith of the Dallas Cowboys, the Bumble Fund, Notley Ventures, and more.
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Yesterday, Insider Inc., parent of Business Insider, said it’s buying a controlling stake in digital media startup Morning Brew at a reported valuation of up to $75 million.
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WeWork’s Adam Neumann is back in real estate and not in a small way. The former WeWork CEO just invested $30M into Alfred Club Inc., a startup that provides apartment buildings with services such as concierge-like staff and software to manage maintenance requests and other paperwork.
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In the summer of 2001, Jim Cantrell received a phone call while he was driving around Logan, Utah.
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Roblox, a San Mateo, Calif.-based gaming platform for tweens and teens, is prepping an early 2021 IPO or direct listing at what could be double the $4 billion valuation it secured earlier this year, per Reuters.
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Former Zillow Group CEO Spencer Rascoff and dotloop founder Austin Allison are teaming up on a new startup called Pacaso that aims to make it easier for more people to own a vacation home.
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The dating and networking app Bumble is readying to go public as soon as early 2021, according to Bloomberg.
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