by Adre's IT | 31 July, 2021 | Adre's IT Blog, Apps, career advice, computing, contacts tracing, Crypto Startup School, Cryptocurrency, decentralization, driver, Earnings, Facebook, fenwick & west, hearts, helpling, Jennifer Holmgren, Judge, Katie Haun, popsql, sololearn, spamming, Startups
I learned about Yat in April, when a friend sent our group chat a link to a story about how the key emoji sold as an “internet identity” for $425,000. “I hate the universe,” she texted. Sure, the universe would be better if people with a spare...
by Adre's IT | 31 July, 2021 | Adre's IT Blog, bug bounty, Canapi Ventures, corporate finance, driver, Equity Management, fenwick & west, Finance, food, George Whitesides, Persefoni, Platform, TC, tripactions
It all seems so simple. Instead of the dreaded back-and-forth on email, what if there was a solution that helped two parties (or multiple parties) schedule a call or a hangout? Calendly was born out of that question. Today, the company is worth more than $3 billion,...
by Adre's IT | 29 July, 2021 | Adre's IT Blog, AI fund, Aileen Lee, class action lawsuit, Compass, Decrypted, driver, Earnings, EC AI, enterprise software, fenwick & west, Google.com, human landing system program, Josh Williams, kinsa, Meatable, Pangea, parcast, Platform, Rory, Seth Bannon, TC, TSG Consumer Partners, vaccination, Windows 95
It’s hard to argue that any technology company has had a greater impact in the past decade than BioNTech, the mRNA-based therapeutics pioneer behind the world’s most widely-used COVID-19 vaccine. Developed in record time in partnership with Pfizer, thanks...
by Adre's IT | 29 July, 2021 | Adre's IT Blog, anomaly detection, AppFollow, Apps, capitalism, Comcast, discord, driver, Earnings, gong, internet service, Johannes Schildt, MIT Solve, Payments, podcast advertising, streaming audio, streaming video, Tracy Chan
In the minutes before its quarterly earnings call this morning, Spotify played advertisements for its originals and exclusives, like the true crime show “Deathbed Confessions,” and the sex and relationships podcast “Call Her Daddy,” which...
by Adre's IT | 26 July, 2021 | Adre's IT Blog, app developers, Dow Jones Industrial Average, driver, Felicia Jackson, food, Google.com, Grail, human landing system program, Pangea, Rory, Seth Bannon, Target Global, TC, tripactions, Ugur Sahin
Tick tock, early-stage startup fans: If you plan to attend TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 (September 21-23), time is running out to score a pass to the world’s leading conference dedicated to tech startups — for less than $100. The early bird sale ends this week, so buy...
by Adre's IT | 20 July, 2021 | Adre's IT Blog, AI fund, Aileen Lee, Crypto Startup School, david pakman, decentralization, driver, Five9, Judge, Katie Haun, liability, NBA, NBA TopShot, Startups, super bowl, TC, Uniswap, Velvet Sea Ventures, Yusaku Maezawa
If you spent any time this year desperately trying to figure out what the heck NFTs are, you probably have Dapper Labs CEO Roham Gharegozlou to thank for that. His startup’s crypto trading card marketplace NBA Top Shot went viral earlier this year with users...
