May 9, 2022

Startups & Tech - Issue #199: Cap Table of Twitter, Power Law Distributions, Web3 Security

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Startups & Tech

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

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Excited to share that we at Race Capital invested in the seed round of Bundlr, the key enabler of decentralized storage. Currently more than 90% of all the transactions of Arweave are processed through Bundlr with 200M transactions stored in just 9 months. 🤯

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

🗞️ Interesting Reads

A sneak peak behind the potential future cap table of Twitter.
Takeaways from Real World Crypto(graphy), with one of them being the vulnerabilities of trusted hardware.
Power law distributions are the norm in venture capital, but will they be the norm in Web3?
Many of the high profile “hacks” in Web3, weren’t a fault of the code itself but rather the incentives around the “supply chains” around the core smart contract.

🔥 Startup Jobs

Race Capital: Investment Associate, Head of Content (Remote)
Hedge: Product Design, DeFi Degen (Remote)
Solend: Engineer, Smart Contracts, Product Design (Remote)
OtterTune: Product Manager, Software Engineer, Designer (Remote)
Opaque: Business Development, Backend, Core Platform (Berkeley, CA)
SocialChat: Customer Support (San Francisco, CA)
GoodNotes: Campus Ambassador (London, UK)
Databricks: Infra Eng, Product Manager
Lightning Labs: Head of Talent, Engineering Manager, Product Manager, Marketing (Remote)
Citcon: VP Engineering, Lead Architect (Remote)
Polysign: Software Engineer, Client Services (Remote)
Scarf: Social Media, Head of Growth, Engineer, Data Analyst (Remote)
Zeet: Head of Growth, Dev Experience, Customer Success, Marketing (SF, CA)
Zeta: Product Designer, Marketing Lead (Remote)
FTX: Full Stack Developer (Remote)

Browse more open roles across our portfolio at Race Capital’s Portfolio Job Board

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

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