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No images? Click here Apologies for the error in yesterday's note, I said the M1 ran on Apple's A15 architecture when I meant it was A14 based. Appreciate the emails of those who brought it to my attention.

You’re one among millions, not one in a million.

It started as a measure of efficiency for the production of goods and services. Somehow, along the way, many of us have become addicted to productivity.

A step back to assess the spend trends going forward.

Our startup ecosystem, like all markets, goes through regular ups and downs. Sometimes we go through a period of unusually high highs, like the back half of 2020 and most of 2021. Sometimes we go t…

The consumer subscription business model is certainly not a new concept. And as we’ve been investing in more B2C companies recently, we’re reminded just how popular this strategy to monetization continues to be. Even marketplaces, which traditionally just took a piece of each transaction, are now looking to charge monthly or annual fees. For example […]

Modern software’s uniformity has fueled a craving for more interesting, opinionated tools — turning inanimate pixels into something with soul.

An explainer on the debate surrounding overpaid CEOs and underpaid employees

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A Delhi-based startup is trying to solve the cleantech sector’s energy storage problem. With EV batteries Read this edition online Wednesday, 01 June 2022 Staggering insights about climate change and its impact on business, tech, finance and politics.

Last week I was asked about some of my current goals and I replied that I’m more focused on systems and processes to achieve desired outcomes. Goals are important insomuch as you need to deci…

"I’m trying to look at it as leveling up"

If you could properly replace an iPhone battery with a couple of simple tools, Apple would surely just send you the simple tools. But if that were the case there’d be no need for this program.

"the whole thing is a metaphor"

"Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked", says Warren Buffett, and now we're indeed seeing just how many tech companies have been indecently exposed as the investment mood snaps from greed to fear. Bolt, for example, just announced a brutal 1/3 cut of all staff, after touching the sun with a $11 billion v...

Fixing Netflix with less (and more) flix

Singapore-based Nature’s Vault hopes to sell tokens backed by mining rights for about 4,200 kilograms of gold Read this edition online Wednesday, 25 May 2022 Tokenised is your weekly read to navigate and mine the rich vein of crypto developments that flow through India and Southeast Asia.

With a CDN that's about much more than speeding downloads, Joshua Bixby sees an opportunity on the edge.

It is the act of omission, of saying no to a subset of customers or investors or potential hires, that gives depth to a company’s narrative. Read this edition online Friday, 20 May 2022

"A cross between GPT-x + DALL-E-X + the TikTok algorithm"