Jan 31, 2022

Startups & Tech - Issue #188: Cloud Costs, Lightning Network, AMMs

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Startups & Tech

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

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Having been a long time listener of the Acquired podcast, I’m very excited to be on the show myself.

My partner at Race Capital, Edith Yeung, and I share more about Race Capital and our early seed investments into Solana & FTX. Have a listen here.

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

🗞️ Interesting Reads

In traditional fintech: Wealthfront was acquired for $1.4B, and Acros scraps its $2.2B merger.
Cloud costs are still very opaque and hard to manage from a developer perspective.
Square is integrating the lightning network into its Cash App to allow customers to send bitcoin to anyone for free. Huge win for Lightning Labs, one of our portfolio companies!
A more technical dissection of automated market makers (AMM) and their evolutions over time.

🔥 Startup Jobs

Lightning Labs: Head of Talent, Engineering Manager, Product Manager, Marketing (Remote)
Polysign: Software Engineer, Client Services (Remote)
Scarf: Head of Growth (Remote)
Zeet: Front End Engineer, Decentralized Engineer (SF, CA)
Zeta: Product Designer, Marketing Lead (Remote)
FTX: Full Stack Developer (Remote)
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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Techstars Startup Digest Startups & Tech is curated by:

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

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