Sunday, March 14, 2021

NYU professor Scott Galloway's Section4, which offers two to three week business education online courses, raises $30M Series A led by General Catalyst (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

Connie Loizos / TechCrunch:
NYU professor Scott Galloway's Section4, which offers two to three week business education online courses, raises $30M Series A led by General Catalyst  —  Scott Galloway, the New York University professor, author, and tech entrepreneur, is taking the wraps off a $30 million Series A round …



Stripe raises $600M from Sequoia Capital and others at a valuation of $95B, becoming the most valuable private company in Silicon Valley (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
Stripe raises $600M from Sequoia Capital and others at a valuation of $95B, becoming the most valuable private company in Silicon Valley  —  Payments provider becomes Silicon Valley's most valuable private company  —  Stripe has become the most valuable private company Silicon Valley has produced …



Internal docs: a Facebook study about US users' vaccine hesitancy finds "substantial harm" from content that doesn't violate the company's rules (Elizabeth Dwoskin/Washington Post)

Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
Internal docs: a Facebook study about US users' vaccine hesitancy finds “substantial harm” from content that doesn't violate the company's rules  —  Internal study finds a QAnon connection and that content that doesn't break the rules may be causing ‘substantial’ harm



Clubhouse says it won't require access to users' phone contacts anymore, announces an accelerator program for creators and will initially accept 20 participants (Kim Lyons/The Verge)

Kim Lyons / The Verge:
Clubhouse says it won't require access to users' phone contacts anymore, announces an accelerator program for creators and will initially accept 20 participants  —  The voice chat app will provide users with resources and help them monetize their shows  —  During Clubhouse's weekly town hall …



10,000 workers now part of Facebook AR/VR division

In 2017, the Facebook Oculus VR division accounted for over 1,000 employees at a time when Facebook's headcount was 18,770. https://ift.tt/2Q5kXNN

In a postmortem, Indie.vc founder shares the reasons why the alternative VC financing experiment failed (Bryce Roberts)

Bryce Roberts:
In a postmortem, Indie.vc founder shares the reasons why the alternative VC financing experiment failed  —  Last week's post was designed to be a simple and direct announcement that our initial Indie.vc experiment was ending and would no longer be accepting applications.



Sources: amid the Iran war, Asian bankers say rising power prices and energy security are becoming a bigger consideration in data center financing decisions (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg : Sources: amid the Iran war, Asian bankers say rising power prices and energy security are becoming a bigger consideration in ...