Mar 22, 2021

Startup Digest Reading List: Food Delivery, Infrastructure Moderation, and NFT's

Issue #147 — View online — Suggest a link

Startup Digest Reading List

A curated list of the top stories in technology, startups, and venture capital.

Welcome back to this week’s edition of Startup Digest’s Reading List, a curated list of the top stories in technology, startups, and venture capital.

I was quoted in an article about Bitclout, one of the most wild experiments I have seen. It allows creators to be directly tokenized and people to trade their favorites. If you’re in, check out my profile > https://bitclout.com/u/mccannatron, definitely worth playing around with even just for learning’s sake. If you need the password send me a message and happy to send you one too.

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Written by Chris McCann, General Partner @ Race Capital, former Greylock Partners. More about me.

Big Tech News Last Week

Google is officially lowering their fees for Google Play to 15% for the first $1M in revenue.
Rivals Uber and Lyft are working together on driver safety.
Visa is reportedly working on allowing Bitcoin transactions across its network.
Telegram is growing fast but needs to pay off $700M in debt it has accumulated.

Deep Dive Posts

An analysis of the food delivery business, particularly its impact on the restaurants themselves. TLDR - It’s not pretty.
A look at some of the decisions infrastructure providers (ex. Stripe, Azure, Cloudflare, etc.) in terms of modering their upstream users. Valuable for all founders building companies in the infrastructure layers.
Non-fungible tokens (NFT) have blown up in popularity but they are still hard to understand. This is one of the best explanations I have read so far.
My partner Alfred Chuang (former CEO of BEA Systems) did a podcast about venture capital, our firm, and our investment thesis.

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Chris McCann - General Partner @ Race Capital, former Greylock Partners
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