Matt Navarra and Martin SFP Bryant talk through the week's social media news as they explore the latest edition of their Geekout newsletter. This week: Facebook's apparent pivot to privacy, Snap losing creators as its payout…
Some of the headlines from Big Tech News this week: Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro, Google Tensor, YouTube Premium Lite, Windows 11, Windows 365, Apple's controversial photo scanning, and plenty in between. Subscribe to the BTN newsle…
All things metaverse! Why is it on everybody's lips at the moment? When will it arrive? Is it already (kinda) here? With @janineyorio from Republic.co.
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Plus, the Hyper fund from Product Hunt, Automattic's acquisition game, and Twitter tests downvotes?
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Boost VC has been backing blockchains since before anyone called the industry crypto: it was just bitcoin then. An early stage investor that also ran an incubator, Brayton Williams takes us back to the days when they decided…
Ash Egan has been investing in crypto for about 6 years, inspired in particular by the Ethereum whitepaper. He's been part of rounds with firms like Chainalysis, BlockFi and Circle, was prescient on decentralized finance and…
Matt Navarra and Martin SFP Bryant talk through the week's social media news as they explore the latest edition of their Geekout newsletter. This week: RIP fleets, Facebook's problem with admitting it has a problem, tackling…
Bloomberg's @Lucas_Shaw comes on to explain the math of that Black Widow stream release story from Monday. Then @alexeheath from the Verge explains the death of Fleets, the creator thirst at Facebook and then we all get into…
Mark Nadal is building the GUN Database, a vision of the web where the internet only has the data users give it for as long as applications really need it. He's a pioneer in a decentralized internet but is vocally not a bloc…
Julia Rosenberg is a co-founder of the Orca Protocol, a platform that will enable entrepreneurs in crypto's very non-hierarchical, democracy-first organizations to have some structure and accountability but still stay true t…
Matt Navarra and Martin SFP Bryant talk through the week's social media news as they explore the latest edition of their Geekout newsletter. This week: Trump's lawsuit: all heat and no light?, trouble a the top of Facebook, …
A live (and lively!) AMA with Chris Messina and @chddaniel for r/SaaS — a deep dive on community development, how to nail your launch on Product Hunt, and a teaser about Chris's new role at Republic. Recorded live on Twitter…
Samson Mow is the CEO of Pixelmatic, a company making Infinite Fleet, a game aiming at the triple-A market of online video games, where players run a fleet of ships battling an alien horde. It also happens to be a blockchain…
Alex Kantrowitz of the Big Technology newsletter comes on to try to help us work out what happened with that Facebook Antitrust case blowup. Also, what does this mean for regulating other companies?
Windows 11 requirements and removed features, Amazon destroying unsold items and unregretted attrition, Google CEO Sundar Pichai passing on a Shopify acquisition, FLoC's delay, and plenty in between.
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Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) are entities that run on blockchains, make decisions collectively and probably never meet face to face. It's like corporations run over Discord, or as if Facebook Groups had mone…
The great Sonal Chokshi of a16z comes on to discuss their Future plans. And the Information's Kaya Yurieff tells us all about the explosion in Social Audio Spaces.
Is one person's scam another person's legitimate enterprise. This is a hard question once you get into examples in regular life, but crypto makes it much more complicated. We discuss these questions with two people who have …
Oculus ads, new Facebook AI tools, Amazon shuns Google, Amazon cuts its Appstore tax, Windows 11, Satya Nadella's promotion, and plenty in between.
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Matt Navarra and Martin SFP Bryant talk through the week's social media news as they explore the latest edition of their Geekout newsletter. This week: Twitter looks to help the abused take control, Facebook puts ads in VR, …
Solana is a super-fast blockchain that is getting early interest from a lot of investors, and, our guests tell us, a lot of interest from folks in traditional finance as well. Chris McCann of Race Capital, an early investor;…
This is the longest and widest ranging Space we've ever done. From a16z's media play and why VC's market themselves to Stripe as the hottest startup in the land and the very idea of payment tech.
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Matt Navarra and Martin SFP Bryant talk through the week's social media news as they dissect the latest edition of their Geekout newsletter. This week: Instagram pays crreators, Biden gives TikTok a fresh headache, Facebook …