Sep 27, 2021

Startup Digest Reading List - Understanding Startup Compensation, BNPL Growth, Asymmetric Upside

Issue #173 — View online — Suggest a link

Startups & Tech

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

Two quick personal updates

We had a very successful launch of Playground Waves and was listed across multiple marketplaces. Pretty cool to see members use the artwork as their new banner images on Twitter.
The Inquisitive VC published a podcast interview about how I got into VC and DeFi, give it a listen.

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

🗞️ Tech News Last Week

Amazon is finally cracking down on Chinese vendors who were selling goods & buying fake reviews.
If you use Gmail, be careful about Google keeping records of all of your purchases via receipts.
Twitter is working to enable crypto tipping in app & authentication for NFT assets.
Coinbase is working to propose its own framework for the regulation of digital assets, after a clash with the SEC.

🤔 Deep Dive Posts

Here’s a guide to understand the basics of compensation from job offers by startups.
The emerging payment option of buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) is almost on par with credit cards in Australia.
An in-depth report on various benchmarks enterprise companies and how they are hitting on their way to $100M in ARR.
Jack Niewold took one of my old posts comparing the growth of the crypto space compared to the early internet adoption (written in 2018) and updated the numbers to what actually happened up until today. Was surprising to see the predicted growth was pretty close to real user growth in reality.
Michael Dempsey explores the concept of asymmetric upside and how it applies to investing.

🔥 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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