👨💻 The return-to-office existential crisis
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The return-to-office existential crisis. In 2019, Steven Spielberg called for a ban on Oscar eligibility for streaming films, claiming that “movie theaters need to be around forever” and that audiences had to be given “the motion picture theatrical experience” (Ed Zitron via The Atlantic)
Meet Paragon: an American-funded, super-secretive Israeli surveillance startup that 'hacks WhatsApp and Signal' . Paragon Solutions doesn't have a website. There's very little information at all about them online, even if the Tel Aviv-based smartphone surveillance startup's employees are all over LinkedIn, more than 50 of them. (Thomas Brewster via Forbes)
She risked everything to expose Facebook. Now she's telling her story. “I know that I have blood on my hands by now,” she wrote. On the eve of her departure, Zhang was still debating whether to write the memo at all. It was perhaps her last chance to create enough internal pressure on leadership to start…(Karen Hao via MIT Technology Review)
MyPillow to pull ads from Fox News in disagreement with Network. The chief executive of MyPillow Inc., one of Fox News's big advertisers, said he is pulling his ads from the network after a disagreement over a proposed commercial. Mike Lindell said he made the decision after Fox News declined to run a commercial… (Alexa Corse via Wall Street Journal)
Space start-up Varda, founded by SpaceX and Founders Fund veterans, aims to build factories in orbit. Varda Space Industries, a start-up founded less than a year ago by a pair with experience at Elon Musk's SpaceX and Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, has now raised more than $50 million. (Michael Sheetz via CNBC)
Where the smart money in crypto investing is going next. It wasn’t long ago that cryptocurrency investing could be (and often was) dismissed as “niche.” In the summer of 2016, the value of all the crypto in the world was barely $10 billion, and in the popular imagination the technology was associated as much with online drug dealing as with venture capital dealmaking. (Rey Mashayekhi via Fortune)
Acrew Capital, Jeff Bezos back Colombia-based proptech La Haus' $100M debt, equity round. La Haus, which has developed an online real estate marketplace operating in Mexico and Colombia, has secured $100… (Mary Ann Azevedo via TechCrunch)
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