Sep 20, 2021

Startup Digest Reading List - B2B Payments, New Interfaces, and Play to Earn

Issue #172 — View online — Suggest a link

Startups & Tech

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

Two quick personal updates:

Playground, an NFT project I’m working on is officially launching on the 24th in partnership with Raydium.
I created a page to better display my ever growing NFT collection and artistic projects.

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Written by Chris McCann, General Partner @ Race Capital, former Greylock Partners. More about me.

🗞️ Tech News Last Week

Gitlab filed to go public via their S-1. The company is doing $233M in revenue, growing 69% with over 3,600 customers. Their overall revenue is low (compared to benchmarks) but their net revenue retention is best in class.
Mailchimp was acquired by Intuit for $12B, but controversially none of its employees had any equity.
Amazon is bringing its cashierless payments (just walk out and pay later) to Whole Foods next year.
Apple lost $85B in value, because of the (potential) ramifications of Apple needing to open its App Store to other payment providers.

🤔 Deep Dive Posts

An overview into the less sexy (but potentially larger) market space of B2B payments.
The evolving financial infrastrastructure layer will more likely than not lead to new interface designs not experienced yet.
An overview into the potentially new model of gaming called “play to earn”.
A deep dive into the tradeoffs of homomorphic encryption vs. hardware enclaves for secure computation.

🔥 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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Techstars Startup Digest Startups & Tech is curated by:

Chris McCann - General Partner @ Race Capital, former Greylock Partners
chris@startupdigest.com

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