by Adre's IT | 7 December, 2022 | Adre's IT Blog, Miley Cyrus
Meta employees were told that they should not discuss sensitive issues like abortion, gun control, pending legislation, and vaccine efficacy at work. Fortune reported on these changes, citing a leaked internal memo from Lori Goler, head of people at Meta. TechCrunch...
by Adre's IT | 7 December, 2022 | Adre's IT Blog, DNA testing, expectful, Pietro Bezza, real estate agents, startup prices, Startups, Virtual reality, Vision Fund
Fintech was hot in 2021, but looking back on it … maybe too hot? The sector exploded last year, seeing record investment — $132 billion globally, according to CB Insights — with many startups reaching lofty valuations, including Stripe at $95 billion, Klarna at...
by Adre's IT | 7 December, 2022 | Adre's IT Blog, Asana, chip shortage, clearview ai, Daimler AG, security cameras, Startups, The Nielsen Company
In 2018, appliance conglomerate Bosch created a startup, Security and Safety Things (or “SAST” for short), whose stated mission was to develop a platform to help developers create software for AI-equipped cameras. SAST was to host a moderated, vetted...
by Adre's IT | 7 December, 2022 | Adre's IT Blog, Asaf Meir, FiscalNote, real estate agents, Venture Capital
Nnamdi Okike and Aaron Holiday trust data over the kind of pattern matching that most VCs swear by. It’s not surprising, given their backgrounds. Before launching their venture firm, 645 Ventures, in 2014, Okike was a principal with the data-driven investment...
by Adre's IT | 7 December, 2022 | Adre's IT Blog, Advanced Ionics, Alameda Research, investors, Kik, lendingtree, Marty Walsh, Mojito
Reading the spreadsheet detailing the investment portfolio of Alameda Research, the investment arm of fallen crypto exchange FTX, you wonder how they had time to do anything other than invest given the sheer number of deals recorded. Perhaps that was part of the...
by Adre's IT | 7 December, 2022 | Adre's IT Blog, furloughs, Transportation, Vingroup
Vietnamese electric vehicle maker VinFast has filed for an initial public offering in the United States, the company said Tuesday. Shares will be listed on the Nasdaq under the ticker “VFS.” VinFast, which was founded in 2017 and began operations in 2019,...
