CM Weekly: Collision of DeFi and FinTech, Working in VR, ML Company Landscape
Gm ☀️ Two quick personal updates:
Printed a life sized Degen Ape for my partner at Race Capital.
I updated my personal NFT collection page.
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Written by Chris McCann, General Partner @ Race Capital, former Greylock Partners. More about me.
🗞️ Tech News Last Week
Facebook did internal research and found out its own products are harmful to teenagers.
Compound accidentally sent $90M to their users, and asked for it back.
Imgur was acquired by MediaLab, the startup incubator. Odd choice for the one high flying startup.
Five9 rejected Zoom's $14.7B acquisition offer.
🤔 Deep Dive Posts
FinTech and DeFi companies are on an obvious collision course, and Simon Taylor theorizes how this may play out.
A huge market landscape covering the Machine Learning and Data ecosystems.
An in depth AMA with the founder of Amplitude after he took his company public.
A firsthand account of what it's like to work inside Virtual Reality for 40-50 hours a week.
🔥 Race Capital - Portfolio Jobs
Polysign: Senior BSA Analyst (New York, NY)
FTX: Full Stack Developer (Miami, FL)
Opaque: Technical Recruiter (Berkeley, CA)
Opaque: Product Designer (Berkeley, CA)
Opaque: Developer Evangelist (Berkeley, CA)
SocialChat: Operations manager (San Francisco, CA)
GoodNotes: Back-End Team Lead (London, UK)
Browse more open roles across our portfolio at Race Capital's Portfolio Job Board
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