Apr 5, 2021

Startup Digest Reading List: Viral Website, Open Monetary Policy, Facebook Messenger Ecosystem

Issue #149 — 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.

Final call > Tomorrow, April 5th, I’m hosting a Clubhouse chat about the fintech and crypto market sectors with my partner at Race Capital, Edith Yeung. Here’s the Clubhouse link and here’s an RSVP link on Eventbrite.

See you there tomorrow!

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

My BitClout Profile: https://bitclout.com/u/mccannatron

Big Tech News Last Week

533M users of Facebook’s private information was stolen and leaked for free, Facebook has still not acknowledged the hack.
The demand for semiconductors hasn’t subsided, TSMC is canceling price cuts and investing even more into their next set of chips.
Moderna’s MRNA vaccine researchers open sourced the MRNA and put on Github.

Deep Dive Posts

Last week we featured this website, which received over 50M views. This week the founder talks about all of the lousy options he had for monetization.
Rich Buton shares a primer on monetary policy (the decision to create new money) and how this applies within the crypto space.
A memo from 2014 by Mark Zuckerberg to his team on how the Facebook Messenger ecosystem will evolve and monetize through payments and ads.

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