Dec 20, 2021

Startups & Tech - Issue #183: Coding for Kids, Failed Startups, DST

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Startups & Tech

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

GM. Three quick personal updates:

1) Race Capital and I are excited to lead the $5.3M seed round for Scarf 🎉. Scarf helps developers measure and commercialize open source software.

2) One of our portfolio companies for Race, FTX, is the fastest company in history to reach a $25B in valuation just 2 years after starting. Check out this awesome Acquired Podcast on The Complete History & Strategy of FTX 📈

3) Updated my personal NFT collection page 🎨

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

🗞️ Interesting Things Last Week

Facebook/Meta is the most hated company of 2021.
TikTok live video product is an illegal fork of OBS :(
Reddit filed to go public (confidential filing).
Discussion on good “coding for kids” books. Personally I’ve had a lot of fun with MIT’s Scratch with our kids.
Lessons learned from when a startup does not go as planned.
Profile of DST global - one of the biggest international investors who keeps a low profile.

🔥 Startup Jobs

Scarf: Head of Growth (Remote, US)
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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