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Startups & Tech

By Chris McCann

A curated list of the top stories in technology, startups, and venture capital.

Previous issues

Startups & Tech - Issue #187: Frameworks for Downturns, Realized Returns, and 2022 Crypto Trends

#187 Jan 24, 2022

Startups & Tech - Issue #186: Web2 VCs NGMI, Telegram Origin, Why People Have Quit Jobs

#186 Jan 17, 2022

Startups & Tech - Issue #185: Web3 Developers, Alexa As a Platform, Your Salary Data

#185 Jan 10, 2022

#184

Jan 3, 2022

Startups & Tech - Issue #184: Devtools, Pivoting, Solana Predictions, Web3 Discord – Happy New Year! Thanks for being a part of my newsletter community and I hope everyone had a wonderfu
#183

Dec 20, 2021

Startups & Tech - Issue #183: Coding for Kids, Failed Startups, DST – GM. Three quick personal updates:1) Race Capital and I are excited to lead the $5.3M seed round for S
#182

Dec 13, 2021

Startups & Tech - Issue #182: Corporate Venture, Composable Data, Better Open Source Business Models – GmOn a personal update, we had a hugely successful launch of Playground Epochs, with our friends at M
#181

Dec 6, 2021

Startups & Tech Reading List - Cloud Disruption, Global Fintech, Democratized Tech – GM ☀️Instead of picking both big tech news + interesting articles, I decided to simplify the format a
#180

Nov 22, 2021

Startup Digest Reading List - Web3, Dark Patterns, ML Architecture – Two quick personal updates: One of our portfolio companies for Race Capital, Zeta, just open sourced
#179

Nov 15, 2021

Startup Digest Reading List - Coinbase Earnings, How Credit Cards Make Money – Gm. Last week I was at the Solana Breakpoint Conference for the entire week in Lisbon, Portugal. It w
#178

Nov 1, 2021

Startup Digest Reading List - Skeptical Take on the Metaverse, Open Source GTM, DAOs – Happy belated Halloween! Two personal updates for this week:We announced our latest investment in Soc
#177

Oct 25, 2021

Startup Digest Reading List - Chief Product Officer, Asking Dumb Questions, U.S. Super Apps – Gm. One quick personal update this week: FTX, one of our portfolio companies at Race, raised $420M fr
#176

Oct 18, 2021

Startup Digest Reading List - Open Source Fintech, AI Report, News Feeds – One of our portfolio companies, Saber - the biggest DeFi app on Solana in terms of TVL - is looking t
#175

Oct 11, 2021

Startup Digest Reading List - Facebook’s Bad Week, Concentration Risk in Fintech, State of VC – Gm ☀️Two quick personal updates: I’ll be speaking at the upcoming Solana Breakpoint conference in Nov
#174

Oct 4, 2021

Startup Digest Reading List - 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 upd
#173

Sep 27, 2021

Startup Digest Reading List - Understanding Startup Compensation, BNPL Growth, Asymmetric Upside – Two quick personal updatesWe had a very successful launch of Playground Waves and was listed across m
#172

Sep 20, 2021

Startup Digest Reading List - B2B Payments, New Interfaces, and Play to Earn – Two quick personal updates: Playground, an NFT project I'm working on is officially launching on the
#171

Sep 13, 2021

Startup Digest Reading List - What PMs Do, History of TSMC, Facebook Glasses – Last week I recorded an interview with Taiki Maeda showing off the Solana ecosystem through a series
#170

Sep 7, 2021

Startup Digest Reading List - Saber, China Internet Report, Solana Ignition – A few rapid-fire highlights for last week: Our portfolio company Saber crossed $1.5B in TVL and is no
#169

Aug 30, 2021

Startup Digest Reading List - Solana, Punks, and Valuing DAOs – Hello from the smoky SF 😷-------------------------Written by Chris McCann, General Partner @ Race Cap
#168

Aug 23, 2021

Startup Digest Reading List - DeFi Eats CeFi, Evaluating Job Offerings, and FTX by the Numbers – A huge congrats to one of our portfolio companies Saber, who is building DeFi's cross-chain liquidity

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