CM Weekly: Web3, Dark Patterns, ML Architecture
Chris McCann's weekly newsletter on technology, startups, and venture capital.
Two quick personal updates:
One of our portfolio companies for Race Capital, Zeta, just open sourced all of their core contracts.
For Playground we announced our next collection made by a renowned generative artist (featured at the upcoming Art Basel in Miami).
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Written by Chris McCann, General Partner @ Race Capital, former Greylock Partners. More about me.
🗞️ Tech News Last Week
Netflix is now releasing games on both Android and iOS (coming soon).
An overview on why there is a silicon chip shortage.
There’s a common scam going around on Zelle (the banking payment network).
A DAO setup to purchase a copy of the constitution lost the bid.
Amazon will stop accepting Visa credit cards in the UK, due to fees.
🤔 Deep Dive Posts
SaaS/Enterprise founders - Don’t do these dark patterns for your billion and subscription services.
Web3 is still a toy (although the best things start as toys).
How machine learning works from an infrastructure/architecture perspective.
Think different by thinking of the user first.
🔥 Race Capital - Portfolio Jobs
Zeet: Front End Engineer, Decentralized Engineer (SF, CA)
Polysign: VP of Finance (New York, NY)
FTX: Full Stack Developer (Miami, FL)
Opaque: Technical Recruiter, Product Designer, 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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