This week we breakdown the upcoming Confluent IPO and rank the announcements from Apple’s WWDC. Plus, some thoughts on picking up kids from school.
Rundown
Confluent IPO
Everything you need to know about the Confluent IPO (https://www.protocol.com/confluent-ipo)
Confluent - Benchmarking the S-1 Data (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/confluent-benchmarking-the-s-1-data)
Confluent (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1699838/000119312521178773/d63025ds1.htm) S1 (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1699838/000119312521178773/d63025ds1.htm)
Analysis of Confluent’s S1, Jesse Anderson (https://www.jesse-anderson.com/2021/06/analysis-of-confluents-s1/)
Apple WWDC 2021: the 15 biggest announcements (https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/7/22461782/apple-wwdc-2021-recap-biggest-announcements-ios-15-macos-monterey-ipados)
Relevant to your interests
Gong going gangbusters, grabs $250M Series E on $7.25B valuation – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/03/gong-going-gangbusters-grabs-250m-series-e-on-7-25b-valuation/)
Outreach lands $200 million, pushing valuation of sales software startup to $4.4 billion (https://www.geekwire.com/2021/outreach-lands-200-million-pushing-valuation-sales-software-startup-4-4-billion/)
FireEye Announces Sale of FireEye Products Business to Symphony Technology Group for $1.2 Billion (https://www.fireeye.com/company/press-releases/2021/fireeye-announces-sale-of-fireeye-products-business-to-symphony-technology-group.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Why Every Cloud Customer Needs FinOps (https://www.eweek.com/enterprise-apps/why-every-cloud-customer-needs-finops/)
Passport (https://stratechery.com/2021/passport/)
Twitter debuts "Super Follows," other subscription products to help double revenue by 2023 (https://www.axios.com/twitter-subscription-products-revenue-366893aa-4638-4dab-b4d4-8f506106934f.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
The Supreme Court hands down very good news for pretty much everyone who uses a computer (https://www.vox.com/2021/6/4/22507896/supreme-court-computer-crime-amy-coney-barrett-van-buren-hacking-fraud-abuse-clarence-thomas)
Medium sees more employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture memo’ – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/03/medium-exodus-culture-memo)
Blackstone to Acquire International Data Group, a Leading Market Intelligence and Data Platform for the Technology Industry (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210603005559/en/Blackstone-to-Acquire-International-Data-Group-a-Leading-Market-Intelligence-and-Data-Platform-for-the-Technology-Industry)
Your next laptop may come with a cryptominer, courtesy of Norton (https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2021/6/2/22465862/norton-360-crypto-mining-ethereum-coinbase)
Underworld figures nabbed in massive sting involving AFP and FBI using encrypted app (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/fbi-afp-underworld-crime-bust-an0m-cash-drugs-murder/100197246)
Twitch, Pinterest, Reddit and more go down in Fastly CDN outage (Update: Outage resolved after 1 hour) (https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/08/numerous-popular-websites-are-facing-an-outage/)
Snowflake announces new data marketplace and ‘powered’ collaborations (https://www.zdnet.com/article/snowflake-announces-new-data-marketplace-and-powered-collaborations/)
Google is moving parts of YouTube to its cloud service (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/04/google-is-moving-parts-of-youtube-to-its-cloud-service.html)
The biggest announcements from Apple’s WWDC keynote (https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/7/22461782/apple-wwdc-2021-recap-biggest-announcements-ios-15-macos-monterey-ipados)
The Oncoming Ransomware Storm (https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/ransomware.html)
Department of Justice Seizes $2.3 Million in Cryptocurrency Paid to the Ransomware Extortionists Darkside (https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-seizes-23-million-cryptocurrency-paid-ransomware-extortionists-darkside)
Who is Hacking the U.S. Economy? (https://overcast.fm/+oIe_QB4LY)
Justice Dept. Claws Back $2.3M Paid by Colonial Pipeline to Ransomware Gang (https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/06/justice-dept-claws-back-2-3m-paid-by-colonial-pipeline-to-ransomware-gang/)
Nonsense
MoviePass Deceived Users So They’d Use It Less, F.T.C. Says (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/08/business/moviepass-settlement-ftc.html)
The Great Wings Rush (https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/1/22456930/chicken-wings-delivery-virtual-brands)
AMC is the new meme stock posterchild. (https://twitter.com/axios/status/1400578540601450497?s=21)
Introducing the United supersonic fleet. (https://twitter.com/boomaero/status/1400406948546220036?s=21)
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Listener Feedback
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Come work on Coté’s team, doing k8s/DevOps/etc. devrel: job listing (https://careers.vmware.com/main/jobs/R2106437).
Conferences
RabbitMQ Summit (https://rabbitmqsummit.com), July 13-14, 2021.
SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1st to 2nd.
THAT July 26,- July 29, in Wisconsin, Submissions Open Through June 14 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/wi/2021)
Free Knative Eventing Training (http://bit.ly/learnknative) - June 30
SpringOne Tour, EMEA (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/springone-tour/0017/) - June 15th.
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Recommendations
Brandon: NYT Games Subscription (https://www.nytimes.com/subscription/games)
Matt: Secrets of the Whales (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOySOlB78dM) documentary
Magnetic USB charging cables (https://amzn.to/3gn4eyT) (recommended by Mykel Alvis)
Coté: The Hidden Palace (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/36300633-the-hidden-palace).
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