This week we give our hot takes on GameStop, Clubhouse and Calendly. Plus, is Austin really a bad place to move?
Rundown
Matt Ray finds a snake…? (https://twitter.com/mattray/status/1353461981248806912?s=21)
The Battle of GameStop (https://paranoidenough.com/2021/01/25/The-Battle-of-Gamestop.html)
VC
Clubhouse Gets Investment Interest at $1 Billion Valuation (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/clubhouse-gets-investment-interest-at-1-billion-valuation)
How Atlanta’s Calendly turned a scheduling nightmare into a $3B startup (https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/26/how-atlantas-calendly-turned-a-scheduling-nightmare-into-a-3b-startup/)
Bitcoin Follow up
Graham says we were close to getting Crypto but missed it. (https://twitter.com/GrahamJenson/status/1353120527183794177)
Nathan from Slack says: “The problem with Bitcoin is that people treat it as an investment rather than a currency. “
Central bank digital currency (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_bank_digital_currency)
Bitcoin | Acquired Podcast (https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/bitcoin)
Earnings
IBM revenue slide continues in Q4 2020 (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/20/ibm-earnings-q4-2020.html)
Microsoft reports 17% revenue growth as cloud business accelerates (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/26/microsoft-msft-earnings-q2-2021.html)
Relevant to your interests
https://open.engineer (rating engineers by public GitHub, what could go wrong?)
Stepping up for a truly open source Elasticsearch | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/stepping-up-for-a-truly-open-source-elasticsearch/)
Vagrant First Commit (https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/1352302672578154496)
Google threatens to shut off search engine in Australia over news law (https://nypost.com/2021/01/22/google-threatens-to-block-search-engine-in-australiagoogle-threatens-to-shut-off-search-engine-in-australia-over-news-law/)
Otter.ai’s new Chrome extension can transcribe Google Meet calls in real time (https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/21/22242936/otter-ai-google-meet-chrome-extension-transcriptions-closed-captions)
Tucows closes its once-popular software download site (https://www.engadget.com/tucows-downloads-has-finally-been-shut-down-103036388.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIYHiHrsIv_lVu8RNqY46BjFzlgU4pFDBXmk1gQxq2wlQOz02b5tuepColb1KJFoYYwQVWy2SjTUKWVY2oAEMzfkYXlXs97_PE0gpwNUA4RjnDwE_YEm7FB323M9oOBQJNHboj1t77QC9HriDL8cJP-VcplJ5UlJvvwHZRzMn9PC)
Advice on Lambda (https://rockyj.in/2021/01/15/aws-lambda-usecases.html)
End-to-end operators are the next generation of consumer business (https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/22/end-to-end-operators-are-the-next-generation-of-consumer-business/)
Google employees have formed another union, this one international (https://www.inputmag.com/culture/google-employees-have-formed-another-union-this-one-international)
Twitter acquiring newsletter publishing company Revue (https://www.axios.com/twitter-newsletter-publishing-revue-8a74f20d-61c9-4095-9b3c-202c3b3fe77c.html)
Discord looks to grow beyond its gaming roots (https://www.axios.com/discord-online-chat-expansion-slack-non-work-aee1d240-64d2-4128-98d0-810a5c977ee3.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi Foundation launches $4 microcontroller with custom chip – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/21/raspberry-pi-foundation-launches-4-microcontroller-with-custom-chip)
I bought 200+ Raspberry Pi Model B's and I'm going to fix them! Part 1 - James Dawson (https://blog.jmdawson.co.uk/i-bought-200-raspberry-pi-model-bs-and-im-going-to-fix-them-part-1/)
How a Linux migration led to the creation of Amazon Web Services (https://www.networkworld.com/article/3604370/how-a-linux-migration-led-to-the-creation-of-amazon-web-services.html)
Four security vendors disclose SolarWinds-related incidents | ZDNet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/four-security-vendors-disclose-solarwinds-related-incidents/)
Nonsense
Costco Prices (https://i.redd.it/52eqad6tcqc61.jpg)
California man blasts Texas 'dystopia' in Op-Ed after moving to Austin (https://www.mysanantonio.com/lifestyle/travel-outdoors/article/California-man-blasts-Texas-dystopia-in-Op-Ed-15887614.php) (originally from a 2016 Quora answer (https://www.quora.com/Has-anyone-moved-from-the-Bay-Area-to-Austin-What-were-your-reasons-What-would-you-advise-anyone-looking-to-make-the-move-to-consider-before-making-a-decision/answer/Brett-Alder?ch=10&share=a7d9612f&srid=XxIvD)).
Tom Morello impressed with this Guitarist (https://twitter.com/caswellcharles/status/1352797534536667136)
US Man Installs Crypto Mining Rig in Hybrid BMW Sportscar (https://www.coindesk.com/us-man-installs-crypto-mining-rig-in-hybrid-bmw-sportscar)
Sponsors
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Listener Recommend Jobs
Dan wants you to work at Gymshark as a Platform Reliability Engineer (https://apply.gymshark.com/vacancies/511/platform-reliability-engineering-manager.html) in the U.K.
Michael Neale wants to work at CloudBees as a Senior Ops Engineer (https://boards.greenhouse.io/cloudbees/jobs/2604750) in U.S. East or EMEA
Prash wants to work at CDK as a Software Architect (https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2367093751/?refId=202998151611739274761) in the U.K.
Conferences
Call for Papers (https://sessionize.com/devopsdays-texas-2021/) ends on Jan. 31st for DevOpsDay Texas on March 2nd. (https://devopsdays.org/events/2021-texas/welcome/)
SpringOne.io (https://springone.io)
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