Wed. 04/07 – TLDR: Coinbase Is A Helluva Business
Coinbase has revealed the number behind their business, and they are brain exploding emoji. A big Patreon raise shows the moneybags are serious about this creator economy thing. Nobody is crying at Plaid over that failed Visa merger. There’s a new king of the gaming laptop hill. And I try my best to unravel the twisted tale of the latest Facebook data scandal.
Sponsors:Kiwico.com, Promocode ride for 30 percent offBlockchain.com
Links:Coinbase Posts Blowout Q1 Profit of $730-$800 Million, Days Before Public Listing (Decrypt)Patreon’s Valuation Triples to $4 Billion as Platform Draws Creators, Fans (WSJ)Clubhouse Discusses Funding at About $4 Billion Value (Bloomberg)Plaid raises $425M Series D from Altimeter as it charts a post-Visa future (TechCrunch)Global Venture Funding Hits All-Time Record High $125B In Q1 2021 (Crunchbase News)Alienware’s M15 R5 is its first AMD-based gaming laptop in over a decade (The Verge)What Really Caused Facebook's 500M-User Data Leak? (Wired)
Coinbase has revealed the number behind their business, and they are brain exploding emoji. A big Patreon raise shows the moneybags are serious about this creator economy thing. Nobody is crying at Plaid over that failed Visa merger. There’s a new king of the gaming laptop hill. And I try my best to unravel the twisted tale of the latest Facebook data scandal.
Sponsors:
- Kiwico.com, Promocode ride for 30 percent off
- Blockchain.com
Links:
- Coinbase Posts Blowout Q1 Profit of $730-$800 Million, Days Before Public Listing (Decrypt)
- Patreon’s Valuation Triples to $4 Billion as Platform Draws Creators, Fans (WSJ)
- Clubhouse Discusses Funding at About $4 Billion Value (Bloomberg)
- Plaid raises $425M Series D from Altimeter as it charts a post-Visa future (TechCrunch)
- Global Venture Funding Hits All-Time Record High $125B In Q1 2021 (Crunchbase News)
- Alienware’s M15 R5 is its first AMD-based gaming laptop in over a decade (The Verge)
- What Really Caused Facebook's 500M-User Data Leak? (Wired)
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