Description

Uber’s big IPO had some issues, smartphone shipments are at a 5 year low, do you need an app for unsubscribing to things and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.

Sponsors:

• MacStadium.com/ridehome
• Metalab.co

Links:

• Uber Jackpot: Inside One of the Greatest Startup Investments of All Time (WSJ)
• Americans Have So Many Subscriptions They Need Apps to Track and Cancel Them (Bloomberg)
• Blue Origin: Bezos company aims to take people to moon by 2024 (The Guardian)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• How Much Is an Idea Worth? In Uber’s Case, $3.7 Billion (Bloomberg)
• The VC Who Engineered the 2017 Uber CEO Coup Just Got Very Rich (Bloomberg)
• The dangers of in-game data collection (Polygon)
• How Unions Are Pushing Back Against the Rise of Workplace Technology (Fortune)
• Three years in, Google’s hardware honcho is just getting started (FastCompany)