This week we discuss tech’s rich valuations, Airtable vs. Excel and the Goldman Analysts’ Presentation. Plus, some advice on when to buy a house.
Rundown
VC
Stripe is now valued at $95 billion (https://www.axios.com/stripe-is-now-valued-at-95-billion-e04c5d89-ea62-4d75-8526-131735c28722.html)
Airtable Tops $5.7 Billion Valuation On Growing Enterprise Sales And A Soaring Cloud Market (https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2021/03/15/airtable-tops-57-billion-valuation-on-growing-enterprise-sales-and-a-soaring-cloud-market/)
Airtable is now valued at $5.77B with a fresh $270 million in Series E funding – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/15/airtable-is-now-valued-at-5-77b-with-a-fresh-270-million-in-series-e-funding/)
Docker Series B: More Fuel To Help Dev Teams Get Ship Done (https://www.docker.com/blog/helping-dev-teams-get-ship-done/)
Coinbase Backers Register 114.9 Million Shares for Listing (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-17/coinbase-backers-register-up-to-114-9-million-shares-for-listing)
Work Life
This Can’t Be Normal: The Tech Industry After a Year of Burnout (https://thenewstack.io/this-cant-be-normal-the-tech-industry-after-a-year-of-burnout/)
Tell Your Boss the Four-Day Week Is Coming Soon (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-02/four-day-work-week-gains-popularity-around-the-world)
Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now? (https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/03/can-we-stop-pretending-sms-is-secure-now/)
Goldman Analysts Work Too Hard (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-03-18/goldman-analysts-work-too-hard)
Relevant to your interests
Netflix cracking down on password sharing: ‘You need your own account to keep watching’ (https://wgntv.com/news/netflix-cracking-down-on-password-sharing-you-need-your-own-account-to-keep-watching/)
Why you should use pyenv + Pipenv for your Python projects | Hacker Noon (https://hackernoon.com/reaching-python-development-nirvana-bb5692adf30c)
Google’s plan to disrupt higher education (https://thehustle.co/03152021-Google-higher-education/)
Nokia and AWS to enable cloud-based 5G radio solutions (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nokia-aws-enable-cloud-based-120000051.html)
Gartner’s 2021 Magic Quadrant cites ‘glut of innovation’ in data science and ML (https://venturebeat.com/2021/03/14/gartners-2021-magic-quadrant-cites-glut-of-innovation-in-data-science-and-ml/)
Stop Talking About Multicloud and Hybrid Cloud and Start Talking About Integration (https://thenewstack.io/stop-talking-about-multicloud-and-hybrid-cloud-and-start-talking-about-integration/)
Swiss Police Raid Apartment of Verkada Hacker, Seize Devices (https://nz.news.yahoo.com/swiss-police-raid-apartment-verkada-161703433.html)
China’s tech giants test way around Apple’s new privacy rules (https://www.ft.com/content/520ccdae-202f-45f9-a516-5cbe08361c34)
Clubhouse promises its accelerator participants either brand deals or $5K per month during the program (https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/15/clubhouse-promises-its-accelerator-participants-either-brand-deals-or-5k-per-month-during-the-program/)
Open-source team details the complexities in bringing Linux to Apple's M1 Macs (https://9to5mac.com/2021/03/15/asahi-linux-project-port-m1-macs/)
Michael Dell: Public Cloud Isn’t More Secure Than On-Premise (https://www.crn.com/news/managed-services/michael-dell-public-cloud-isn-t-more-secure-than-on-premise)
CD Foundation Announces Industry Initiative to Standardize Events from CI/CD Systems - CD Foundation (https://cd.foundation/blog/2021/03/16/cd-foundation-announces-industry-initiative-to-standardize-events-from-ci-cd-systems/)
Microsoft Apologizes ‘Deeply’ For Worldwide Azure, Teams Outage (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/microsoft-apologizes-deeply-for-worldwide-azure-teams-outage)
Boosting developer success on Google Play (https://link.thehustle.co/click/23235305.126250/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmRyb2lkLWRldmVsb3BlcnMuZ29vZ2xlYmxvZy5jb20vMjAyMS8wMy9ib29zdGluZy1kZXYtc3VjY2Vzcy5odG1s/5f3be10f2c81bf6314610498Bdecac5b2)
IBM's CEO and outgoing exec chairman take home $38m in total for 2020 despite revenue shrinking by billions (https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/17/ibm_exec_payouts/)
AWS throws its home-grown Arm CPUs at new memory-intensive instance type (https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/17/ec2_graviton_x2gd_memory_intensive/)
Historical trends in the usage statistics of content management systems, March 2021 (https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/content_management/all)
Squarespace raises $300M at a staggering $10B valuation – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/16/squarespace-raises-300m-at-staggering-10b-valuation/)
Azure Active Directory issue takes down Teams, Office, Dynamics and more for some users (https://www.zdnet.com/article/azure-active-directory-issue-takes-down-teams-office-dynamics-and-more-for-some-users/)
Microsoft's latest cloud authentication outage: What went wrong (https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-latest-cloud-authentication-outage-what-went-wrong/)
Google Nest Hello, IQ cams go down in partial outage - 9to5Google (https://9to5google.com/2021/03/17/google-nest-outage-takes-down-live-video-history-on-some-devices/)
Oso announces $8.2M Series A to simplify authorization for developers (https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/17/oso-announces-8-2m-series-a-to-simplify-authorization-for-developers/)
Hackers Breach Thousands of Security Cameras, Exposing Tesla, Jails, Hospitals (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-09/hackers-expose-tesla-jails-in-breach-of-150-000-security-cams)
IAM Access Analyzer Update – Policy Validation | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/iam-access-analyzer-update-policy-validation/)
Nonsense
Air travel is picking up as TSA records highest passenger screenings in nearly a year (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/13/air-travel-tsa-records-highest-passenger-screenings-in-nearly-a-year.html)
Zoom Escaper lets you sabotage your own meetings with audio problems, crying babies, and more (https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/15/22331744/zoom-escaper-sabotage-meetings-fake-audio-problems)
Elon Musk crowns himself ‘Technoking’ of Tesla (https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/15/22331315/elon-musk-tesla-technoking-title-ceo)
IRS expected to delay filing deadline to May 15, as agency grapples with a backlog of 24 million unprocessed tax returns (https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/03/17/irs-deadline-delay-tax-backlog/)
So, When Will You Be Able To Get A PS5? (https://kotaku.com/so-when-will-you-be-able-to-get-a-ps5-1846495060?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=kotaku_twitter)
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Conferences
SpringOne.io (https://springone.io), Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th (https://springone.io/cfp).
Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/springone-tour/0014/), and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/springone-tour/0015/).
VMware Tanzu Up Close Virtual Event (https://connect.tanzu.vmware.com/EMEA_P5_FE_Q122_Event_VMware-Tanzu-Up-Close.html), April 27, 2021, 10:00am - 5:50pm CET
Cloud Native Rust Day (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloud-native-rust-day/program/schedule/)
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Recommendations
Matt: 1917 (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8579674/) & Thin Red Line (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120863/)
Coté: Patagonia (https://www.patagonia.com/product/mens-torrentshell-rain-pants/83812.html) Torrentshell Pants (https://www.patagonia.com/product/mens-torrentshell-rain-pants/83812.html). (Repeat?)
Brandon: What you do is who you are (https://www.audible.com/pd/What-You-Do-Is-Who-You-Are-Audiobook/0062967584) by Ben Horowitz, Companies & Culture (https://overcast.fm/+BlzFlM4dQ) a16z Podcast
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